In his lyrics, the detachment of a privileged observer grapples with a sense of connection and complicity.

This epic drama wasn't happening to her--she was a privileged observer, not the star.

The foibles, triumphs and disasters that attend human lives, the secrets confided or inadvertently revealed, all accumulate in the psyche of the privileged clinical observer.

Such observers are the privileged ("inertial") observers Einstein described in his theory of special relativity: observers for whom light travels along straight lines at constant speed.

Like the silent teen-ager in the opening story, Brazaitis is the privileged observer hiding outside the villagers' shacks, tracking both the prosaic and the brutal with remarkable clarity.

More recently, the principle has been generalized to the relativistic concept that humans are not privileged observers of the universe.

A better shorthand is that there are no 'privileged observers in the universe.

No privileged observers.

While Floyd concentrated on the lift-off, van der Berg gave a quick report on the ship's condition from the viewpoint of a privileged observer.

At the bottom of the old Kuwenezi gold mine, Jimmy Suarez knew he was a privileged observer.