Definition of "observantly" [ob•serv•ant•ly]

• In an observant manner. (adverb)

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• "He stands at the front of the kitchen—maybe waiting observantly at the pass, maybe pacing near the bar, and, upon hearing you enter, turns, smiles, and welcomes you to the restaurant."
• "Winterbottom conjures up the era and locale of 1950s Texas, and creates a film observantly derived from Hitchcock's Psycho and Capote's In Cold Blood, and perhaps the Coens 'Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men, with touches of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks."
• "Since making her debut in 1996 with the friendship comedy "Walking and Talking," and subsequently with "Lovely & Amazing" and "Friends With Money," Holofcener has earned a cult following for her observantly witty humor, frank depictions of female relationships and tone-perfect portraits of cultural creatives striving and stumbling their way through bourgeois urban habitats."