spectator
noun
a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
spectatorial
-
a word derived from
spectator.
Example Sentences
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You’ve talked about how video has created additional “performative and spectatorial aspects” to our lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
It dispensed with start and end times, and with fixed spectatorial viewpoints.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
Taseer’s relationship to himself is distinctly spectatorial; he cannot stop looking at himself looking at himself.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
“Crisis in Six Scenes” starkly conveys the wistful—yet not regretful—sense that his sixties were secondhand and spectatorial.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 30, 2016
We must not glorify a mild spectatorial pleasure by the name of philosophy, or excuse our indolence under the name of contemplation.
From At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
