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Also, try to see it from her perspective before you make up your mind.

The story is written from the student's perspective--which is very different than that of the teacher.

What makes his name or our names any less normal than yours? ... It's about perspective,  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

It changed my whole perspective on the Hunt for Halliday's Easter egg.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

I try to think about it from their perspectives.  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

But my sense of Chris McCandless's intentions comes, too, from a more personal perspective.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

She lives in a world where all the old perspectives have altered.  (source) John Wyndham, The Chrysalids, 1955

Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks than most people will in a lifetime.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

He took a sip of coffee and said, "I think I'm good at seeing wider perspectives, but mostly I'd like you to talk to me."†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

He'd been in the fight for almost six months when he ended up in France, where, at face value, a strange event saved his life. Another perspective would suggest that in the nonsense of war, it made perfect sense.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

After the exams had been passed out, the Old Man said, "You need not specifically discuss the perspectives of different religions in your essay, so no research is necessary.†  (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

The weapons give me an entirely new perspective on the Games. I know I have tough opponents left to face. But I am no longer merely prey that runs and hides or takes desperate measures.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

They worked from entirely different perspectives.†  (source) Nora Roberts, Summer Pleasures, 2002

Attending a funeral helps me to put life into perspective and to separate the important things from those that are less important.

"Let's keep it in perspective," Hammond said.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Although he castigated himself severely for this waste of a life he'd taken, a day later McCandless appeared to regain some perspective, for his journal notes, "henceforth will learn to accept my errors, however great they be."  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

And when he awoke, he looked upon the events of the previous day with more perspective.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

The young lady you introduced me to has mailed several letters to my home address since then, indicating that she would rather not put the event into the proper perspective.  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

Oh, I love mortals-they have absolutely no sense of perspective.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief, 2005

That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

To put it into perspective, the congressional district that included Beaufort covered the entire eastern part of the state-some twenty thousand square miles-and there wasn't a single town with more than twenty-five thousand people.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember, 1999

Just like what my sister said when I had been in the hospital for a while. She said that she was really worried about going to college, and considering what I was going through, she felt really dumb about it. ... Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.  (source) Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999

What I need is perspective.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

...immigrant children in U.S. schools who spent time separated from parents are often depressed, act up, have trouble trusting anyone, and don't respond to the authority of parents they weren't raised with. Los Angeles Unified School District psychologist Bradley Pilon believes only one in ten immigrant students ultimately accepts his or her parent and puts the rancor he or she feels toward the parent in perspective. Murillo's conclusion: "The parents say: I had to do it." But that's not enough for these children. All of them feel the resentment.  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

The artist intentionally breaks the rules of perspective.

The columns, the fountain, the arches were all realized in perfect perspective to perfect proportion, with every ornament in place.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Perspective made the long rows of machines seem almost to meet.  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

And then Mother went away and I drew a picture of a bus using perspective so that I didn't think about the pain in my chest and it looked like this….  (source) Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, 2003

So too with art: we decided to agree that perspective—the set of tricks artists use to provide the illusion of depth—was a good thing and vital to painting.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Ceylon floats on the Indian Ocean and holds its naive mountains, drawings of cassowary and boar who leap without perspective across imagined 'desertum' and plain.  (source) Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, 1982

She didn't see the photograph as a photograph; she didn't interpret distance and perspective.  (source) V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River, 1979

The gray dusty truck, in the yard before the door, stood out magically in this light, in the overdrawn perspective of a stereopticon.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939

A quarter of an hour later he stopped before a large cabin, adorned with several clusters of streamers, the exterior walls of which were designed to represent, in violent colours and without perspective, a company of jugglers.  (source) Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, 1873

This occurred during the Renaissance in Europe, but when Western and Oriental art encountered each other in the1700s, Japanese artists and their audiences were serenely untroubled by the lack of perspective in their painting.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

The clouds and turns in the trail continually change the magnificent perspectives while hiking in the mountains.

During scenes that didn't involve my character, the simulation cut to a passive third-person perspective, and all I had to do was sit back and watch things play out, sort of like watching a cut scene in an old videogame.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective inside the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face.  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

The perspective was close to the enemy planet now, as the ship hurtled into its well of gravity.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

Each of the rooms of the Metropol offered an entirely different perspective—one that was shaped not only by altitude and orientation, but by season and time of day.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The great glass over the mantelpiece, faced by the other great console glass at the opposite end of the room, increased and multiplied between them the brown Holland bag in which the chandelier hung, until you saw these brown Holland bags fading away in endless perspectives, and this apartment of Miss Osborne's seemed the centre of a system of drawing-rooms.  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

"Sorry," he said, "but I never come by train and it all looks rather different from a Muggle perspective."  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

The images that appeared on the sword blade were surprisingly detailed. They were all from Hekate's perspective.  (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

His firsthand perspective on the plight of people wrongfully convicted was deeply meaningful to students, who often seemed overwhelmed by Walter's testimony.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

Langdon had never seen the Capitol from this perspective—hovering 555 feet in the air atop America's great Egyptian obelisk.  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

The beach stretched away before them in a gentle curve till perspective drew it into one with the forest; for the day was not advanced enough to be obscured by the shifting veils of mirage.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass.†  (source) Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

I walked towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspective glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron.†  (source) Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 1726

But vain had it been, if through their perspective glasses they had not perceived me and shortened their sail to let me come up.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

So I found two or three compasses, some mathematical instruments, dials, perspective glasses, books of navigation, three English Bibles, and several other good books, which I carefully put up.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

Then wandering on this errand more to the west of the island than ever I had yet done, and casting my eyes towards the sea, methought I perceived a boat at a great distance; but could not possibly tell what it was for want of my perspective glass.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

Two hours after, impatient for intelligence, I set my ladder up to the side of the hill, where there was a flat place, and then pulling the ladder after me ascended to the top, where laying myself on my belly, with my perspective glass, I perceived no less than nine naked savages, sitting round a small fire, eating, as I supposed human flesh, with their two canoes haled on shore, waiting for the flood to carry them off again.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

Having waited for some time, my impatient temper would let me bear it no longer; I set my guns at the foot of my ladder, and, as usual, ascended up to the top of the hill at two stages, standing, however, in such a manner, that my head did not appear above the hill, so that they could easily perceive me; and here, by the assistance of my perspective glass, I observed no less than thirty in number around a fire, feasting upon what meat they had dressed: how they cooked it, or what it was, I could not then perfectly tell; but they were all dancing and capering about the flames, using many frightful and barbarous gestures.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

After this I conducted him to the top of the hill, to view if the rest of the savages were yet remaining there; but when I looked through my perspective glass, I could see no appearance of them, nor of their canoes; so that it was evident they never minded their deceased companions whom we had slain: which if they had, they would surely have searched for, or left one boat behind for them to follow, after they returned from their pursuit.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

I took my perspective glass and went up to the side of the hill, to see what I could discover; and I perceived very soon, by my glass, that there were one and twenty savages, three prisoners, and three canoes, and that their chief concern seemed to be the triumphant banquet upon the three poor human bodies, a thing which by this time I had observed was very common with them.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

I beheld they did not come from the side where the land lay on, but from the southerhmost end of the island: So these being none of the people we wanted, I ordered Friday to lie still, till such time as I came down from the mountain, which, with my ladder, I now ascended in order to discover more fully what they were; and now, with the help of my perspective glass, I plainly perceived an English ship, which I concluded it to be; by the fashion of its long boat; and which filled me with such uncommon transports of joy, that I cannot tell how to describe; and yet some secret doubts hang about me, proceeding from I know not what cause, as though I had reason to be upon my guard.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

see, we see there much men and there: which, though I could not perceive them with my perspective glass, was true, by what the men themselves told me the next day.†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719

Some hours after, we perceived the sea covered as it were with something very black, not easily at first to be discovered: upon which our chief mate ascending the shrouds a little way, and taking a view with a perspective glass, he cries out, An army!†  (source) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719