noticer

Andrew, although he was only 15, had an occupation listed as noticer at spinning.

Being a noticer, Professor Stilgoe said, is a secret to success in many areas.

I am not by nature much of a noticer, yet here, now, my attention to everything around me, and deafness to everything else, is complete.

When the user goes to a covered area, the noticer ceases beeping.

The noticer, he said in a recent interview, "is the pussycat in the corner."

She is a noticer of other people.

"Weel, I consider myself to be an extraordinary noticer.

Iyer is a very good noticer.

A coverage noticer is a device that beeps (or vibrates) when in a zone that lacks coverage (white spot).

THE reporter Amy Wilentz is what Saul Bellow might have called a "first class noticer."

Saul Bellow is "a first-class noticer," in common with Harry Trellman, the protagonist of his new novella, "The Actual."

Call flinched, but Pea Eye didn't notice--Pea Eye was no noticer, as Augustus had often said.

He seems to have in abundance the storyteller's gifts: he is a fierce noticer, is undauntedly curious, is porous to gossip, and has a memory of childlike tenacity.

The Carver family had been too distraught and too focused on their captor to notice the dead dog hung from the welcome-to-town sign, but John Marinville was a trained noticer.

Grainier is not stoned, but he is a steady noticer of the natural world, and the prose follows his eye with frequent exhalations of beauty, for example, a cluster of butterflies, fluttering "magically like leaves without trees."

I thought he was merely curious to talk to someone in his late twenties about writing, and that the habits of a lifetime-the habits of the brilliant noticer, the committed world-gatherer-were asserting themselves almost automatically: he was working.

A steady hand and a good ear are required to dare the paradox of "all this garbage of light," in which the noticer is both enraptured and faintly alienated, and which accurately tracks the forked European perspective of the novel's narrator.

The narrator of "The Actual," one Harry Trellman, is a familiar Bellow figure - a "first-class noticer," an outsider who seems alternately baffled, repelled and fascinated by the calamitous world of fortune-hunters, tricksters, fixers and salesmen he sees around him.

But while these portraits become armatures for Mr. Bellow's ideas - for lofty philosophical speculation, for mordant political and social gripes - the people themselves remain wonderfully visceral creations, flesh-and-blood human beings, indelibly rendered through his exuberant language and gifts as a "genius noticer."