Or it can be the light on a shoulder that strikes the looker-on and brings him or her in the right mood for 'reading' the drawing. |
When he arrived in Paris, in the seventeen-forties, at the age of thirty, he was a deracinated looker-on, struggling with complex feelings of envy, fascination, revulsion, and rejection provoked by a self-absorbed élite. |
Were it my nature to be other than a looker-on in life, I would attempt your rescue. |
One for the looker-on in the struggle who has no eyes for what lies still in shadow. |
The worst thing was that the farce of it all could only be detected by the looker-on. |
He would have seen, as only a looker-on could see, what was happening to them. |