He leaned further back in his seat to patiently observe the "event."

The Crown Prince kept well in the background, patiently observing.

Old Grendel observed patiently.

His wife, quick to learn German, played her cards shrewdly, too, steering clear of trouble and patiently observing with a perceptive but not unsympathetic eye.

"Making Grace" is a small, intimate documentary that patiently observes the highs and lows of a 30-something couple who want to become parents.

Little boys, naked and plump, with the legs of brown rats, sat in shadowed corners patiently observing.

While the humans ate, Hunter patiently observed their surroundings.

Last week, Colin Powell, biting his tongue, observed patiently that Ankara had yet to "operationalize" overflights.

And to observe patiently from a bench anywhere in the park is to be rewarded with a narrative, interpreted usually through the onlooker's own imagination.

"I can't help that either," the shipping agent observed patiently to a man whose predictable world had just disintegrated.