When she had resolved to go down, she prepared herself by some little acts which might seem mere folly to a hard onlooker; they were her way of expressing to all spectators visible or invisible that she had begun a new life in which she embraced humiliation.
He is also alleged to have pepper-sprayed an onlooker who tried to intervene.
He had put his career on the line and I wasn't prepared to be an onlooker.
'A penetrating hissing and buzzing sound was audible to onlooker below.
"If I remain an onlooker with folded arms," thought Lv, "I will be in danger after Yuan defeats Liu.
