Spectator used in a sentence

Spectator in a sentence as a noun

--- Of course this won't happen, but a PR-spectator can dream. Tesla: you bungled this one.

For learning math, it is "not a spectator sport". Most of the work is between your ears as you think about the material.

But the one written work that really gets under my skin, in the vein of being a spectator vs. participant in life...

It's more exciting for the spectator. It was broadly held by many fans some years ago that F1 was becoming too robotic and taking all the fun and variety out of it.

Some people even consider watching the drama to be a spectator sport of sorts. There are entire subreddits dedicated to just observing this sort of drama.

> does not help them look like an impartial spectator in the political game Then it is just as well they don't claim to be an impartial spectator.

As a spectator -- watching the metagame evolve is exciting. Because the game is brand new every year, there's a fast-paced metagame that the clever contestants get to define.

Learning is not a spectator sport but an individual thing with hard work, done alone in a quiet room. You can blow a lot of time and money going to class when what you really need is just hard work, alone, in a quiet room, which, indeed, the courses won't much replace anyway.

It's a business tool like any other, and it's ridiculous to be sitting spectator to a very healthy business and condemning their choices.

I went from feeling like a spectator of internet technology to a participant at the leading edge -- in terms of the skills I had, the people I met, the sense of the industry's direction. The bay area is where people invent the next big thing, continuously.

Programming is not a spectator sport, but learning from the efforts of others is as close as we'll get without actually writing some code of our own, and possibly contributing it back to those we've been watching. I suspect at least some portion of the clones are merely people who said, "I can do that!"

I've been a spectator for quite a few years and after their first hack I was out of MtGox. It was tempting to go back, but time-and-time again they proved their incompetence to a degree that I was not going to risk my holdings. They are amateurs and I have my doubts as to whether they've properly applied any knowledge they've gained over the years.

I've quite enjoyed playing sports, and I don't begrudge the role of the spectator. But current circumstances have become extremely distorting; this extends to the IP lobbying that continues to hamstring technical developments around media and connectivity.

Flipping slide-to-slide and having bucket after bucket of information splashed out on the screen, perfectly planned and coordinated, makes you a spectator more than a participant. And preparing slides ahead of time also results in a professor's tendency to put way more information into a lesson than necessary.

By pure chance I was not at my usual spectator spot at the marathon yesterday for the first time in 4 years: in front of the storefront where the first bomb went off. It's all thanks to pure happenstance: for the first time in years I am no longer a remote worker; the company that acquired my startup last fall has offices in the suburbs and I am not yet past the 6 month moratorium on taking vacation days.

So, net, so far a student should still reach mostly for one of the best texts, on paper or PDF. Second, the situation will 'settle out': The professors will come to understand what minimum quality is needed, and the students will realize that the learning is not just a spectator sport, is not like watching a movie, and still requires nearly all the traditional work from a book or PDF file. Then the courses will get better; the students just looking to watch a movie won't sign up; and the course completion rates will increase.

And I always turn it off after a couple of minutes, because it is the most boring spectator sport I can think of. Even bowling, which is far emptier of visible strategy than fencing, is perhaps more fun to watch, because it makes pleasant sounds and has a soothing rhythm and you can immediately see the difference between a good frame and a bad frame. And I actually spent more time watching archery last week, which is really boring as a spectator, but again it has a hypnotic rhythm, and at least you can see where the arrows land.

School sports, especially the big, spectator friendly, fast-twitch muscle oriented sports of football, basketball, and baseball, send a big message to the student body: Athletic achievement is something that should be celebrated by all students, to the degree that it should be celebrated by the peers of the students on the field/court. As if a kid on the bleachers life has been improved because a fellow student succeeded in putting a ball through a metal ring.

I don't know how much truth there is to that, but as a general spectator I feel like wanting to remark that Bryan Cantrill only fanned the fire here in all of this. And so perhaps there should be some weight given to the fact that a worker of a company that's a competitor to Joyent just quit, arguably due to Joyent's rough play -- if Joyent had approached the matter differently, carefully, sensitively, there likely would have been a different conclusion to this.