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
A band of mirrors lets you play voyeur from just about every table, and how thoughtful that the condiments extend to two kinds of hot sauce and three kinds of sweetener.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2022
But I don’t want to be a voyeur either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
I noticed that the inhabitants of this level were mostly couples and I felt something of a voyeur as I passed from table to table.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
As "voyeurs of morality", she adds, "we can't wait for the nice person to do something unexpectedly".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
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
Hundreds of millions of viewers and voyeurs plug in to take a peep, to intrude upon what Truman innocently and honestly believes to be his privacy.
From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Samuel Vaknin
