Example Sentences

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Her narrative is leavened by a critical sympathy for her subject and well-observed accounts of her visits to the sites of Augustine’s career.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Fans of well-observed foibles will have a ball; class warriors might look elsewhere.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

If you haven’t seen them, keep an eye out for some less heralded gems like the well-observed backstage drama “Me and Orson Welles” and the black comedy “Bernie,” with a tour-de-force Jack Black.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2022

You could call the filmmaking “lyrical,” and you’d be doubly right: The music-infused movie is both beautifully expressed and based on one particularly well-observed song, “Just Like Old Times,” by Todd Snider.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2021

We are content with typical, and, as a rule, well-observed examples.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew