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

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

But that doesn’t take away from the well-observed details, such as when Gunter notices Rachel’s “feet stuffed into the wide shearling boots whose name was short for ‘ugly.’

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2021

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

The French have well-defined regulations in the matter of sanitation, but these rules are not generally well-observed or strictly enforced.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher