voyeur
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Horrible people acting horribly is always entertaining, to a point—the point being when the viewer recognizes he has become a voyeur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Rather, it’s a clever way for Soderbergh to make the viewer feel like a voyeur, listening in on increasingly intimate conversations that we wouldn’t otherwise be privy to.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025
The late Janet Malcolm memorably proclaimed that a biographer is like a “professional burglar” attempting to break into and enter a life — a busybody and voyeur masked in “an apparatus of scholarship.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
But I don’t want to be a voyeur either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
When she was done, Princesse got up and walked away, leaving the blank faces in the dirt for the next curious voyeur to add a stroke to.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
For many of the gawkers and voyeurs, this is pure fantasy, a kind of calming, momentary escape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
How to get past the conditioning we all have of being voyeurs?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
Beatniks, bikers, gear heads, voyeurs, outcasts and rebels — all had a place in Corman’s world, on both sides of the screen.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2024
This explains why turnaround time between whatever actions Joan takes in the real world and the heightened, more attractive version served up to Streamberry voyeurs is so short.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2023
All those people out there in the shadows, watching the actors in the light, all those silent voyeurs as Bruce calls them.
From No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber
