He wondered whether it was like, and looked on when the artist broke his pencil-point, and made another with his knife, as any idle spectator might have done.

The rest of the time they found themselves idle spectators as slowly the big machines took form.

"I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."

Checketts is no idle spectator; he is a master of being in it but not of it.

'We are not to be idle spectators, sure?'

I felt like an idle spectator.

Grumman itself is not an idle spectator in all the maneuvering.

A man in a hat with a cane bends his knee like an idle spectator.

"I would not have you an idle spectator," she exhorted her husband.

The charismatic Lundqvist, who faced 19 shots, was almost an idle spectator in the final period, when the Hurricanes appeared to sit on their lead.