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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.

Robert F. Bauer: Richard Rorty and the Riches of Progressive Argument 2008

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.

Robert F. Bauer: Richard Rorty and the Riches of Progressive Argument 2008

One of my great spectatorial regrets is not seeing her in Guys and Dolls.

Archive 2008-04-01 Becca 2008

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.

Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008

One of my great spectatorial regrets is not seeing her in Guys and Dolls.

Sunday Times Becca 2008

For example, a unit on Medieval cathedrals and tapestries will explore the theoretical ramifications of the “revered gaze”; we will consider the spectatorial and iconographical correspondences across representations of Christ ‚??

Oh … So this is what I’m up to this semester | Living the Liminal 2005

These days, I make more than I used to (twenty years ago) of the gender-marking of questioning and interpretation in the spectatorial drama of the Ode: a male poet, the female object he would ravish, the heightening of his aggression, and perhaps disdain, in relation to her refusals.

The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' - 2003

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.

A City's Shining Moment Helps Shape Our Heritag 2003

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.

Ionica

We must not glorify a mild spectatorial pleasure by the name of philosophy, or excuse our indolence under the name of contemplation.

At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893