The Left had turned from the politics of agency to a disaffected "spectatorial" politics which placed progressives outside the realm and the expectations of practical reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert F. Bauer: Richard Rorty and the Riches of Progressive Argument] Reference

It seems not to distinguish between the poet, the reciter of the poem, and the audience; no spectatorial distance is allowed to the audience; and the author is allowed little distance from the characters he is representing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry] Reference

While Smith's celebrated contemporaries in other countries were caught up in Gothicism, or refining the idea of the beautiful, wounded ego, Smith wrote about people looking at other people: For him, social life is spectatorial without being creepy or intrusive.    From Wordnik.com.  [A City's Shining Moment Helps Shape Our Heritag] Reference

He was a psychologist rather than a philosopher, and his interest and zest in life, in the relationships of simple people, the intermingling of personal emotions and happy comradeships, kept him from ever forming cynical or merely spectatorial views of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ionica] Reference

He called for a "party of hope," and hope, for Rorty, lay in eschewing grand theory -- spectatorial analysis of "power" and "systems" -- and concentrating on the hard business of making laws and seeing whether, by passing them, progress, some progress, could be made toward the realization of social justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert F. Bauer: Richard Rorty and the Riches of Progressive Argument] Reference

Petzold is able to turn our sympathies and our entire history of spectatorial identification inside out.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

Active intuition, rather than logical assemblage, was the primary spectatorial faculty these films requested.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

We must not glorify a mild spectatorial pleasure by the name of philosophy, or excuse our indolence under the name of contemplation.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Large] Reference

I recommend to your spectatorial wisdom to animadvert upon: and if you can be successful in it, I need not say how much you will deserve of the town; but new toasts will owe to you their beauty, and new wits their fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference

". .we are now in an era where spectatorial culture is giving way to participatory culture" director, Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT.    From Wordnik.com.  [p2pnet news] Reference

A heavy-handed, imperceptive, egotistical person, it becomes a terrible affliction to other people, unless indeed the onlooker possesses the humorous spectatorial curiosity; when it becomes a matter of delight to find a person behaving characteristically, striking the hour punctually, and being, as Mr. Bennet thought of.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Large] Reference

Anything short of that, she argues, amounts to adopting a spectatorial stance towards your own actions: if you identify a number of desires, notice that you could satisfy them by performing an action, but then don't arrive at an evaluative belief with roughly the content that that's good enough to go ahead, you will be doing no more than sitting back to see what happens ” to see whether the desires actuate your body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions] Reference

It appears to me as though the only part of the brain that is active in dreams is the spectatorial and dramatic part; and even so it is quite beyond me to solve the problem of how it comes about that my visualising faculty in dreams can bring upon the stage, as it often does, some personage who is perfectly well known to me in real life, and cause him to behave in so unaccountable and grotesque a fashion that I appear to be entirely bewildered and even shocked by the occurrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Isle] Reference

The kind of contentment that I should like to see on the increase is the contentment of a man who works hard and enjoys work, both in itself and in the contrast it supplies to his leisure hours; and, further, whose leisure is full of varied interests, not only definite pursuits, but an interest in his relations with others, not only of a spectatorial kind, but with the natural and instinctive desire to contribute to their happiness, not in a priggish way, but from a sense of cordial good-fellowship.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Large] Reference