He was a passionate traveller as well as an attentive observer and a good storyteller.

The attentive observer can answer: It thrives bravely; putting forth new buds; expanding the old buds into leaves, into boughs.

As a participant in the lively scene of the Scapigliatura movement, he was an attentive observer of the renewal in the plastic arts led by Giuseppe Grandi.

Jim turned to the girl, who had been a silent and attentive observer.

But Mr. Boltanski is a true poet, even if he doesn't happen to use words, and this piece will have its way with an attentive observer.

But only when the show began did the most fascinating currents of modern circus begin to show themselves to the attentive observer.

Aicardi was an attentive observer and influenced by European cultural trends at the beginning of his career.

Sassetti, an attentive observer of people and customs, was among the first European observers to study the ancient Indian language, Sanskrit.

Thomas More, writing when she was still alive, but very old, declared that even then an attentive observer might discern in her shriveled countenance traces of her former beauty.

Atlan, who had thus far not expressed himself, was an attentive observer.