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perspective as in: Look at it from her perspective
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A child who was abused with have a different perspective of family life than one raised in a nurturing home.
perspective = way of seeing or thinking about things
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Also, try to see it from her perspective before you make up your mind.
perspective = a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
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The story is written from the student's perspective--which is very different than that of the teacher.
perspective = way of seeing or thinking about things
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No one's ever written a book like this.... We'd be breaking new ground. It's a brand-new perspective.
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I try to think about it from their perspectives.
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Starr offers a unique perspective in this, one you don't get a lot with these cases,
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- —for that moment, perhaps the perspective was his, that of the brother I hated, and loved. (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- When Rehanna came in, we talked about the shooting from an Islamic perspective. (source)
- It changed my whole perspective on the Hunt for Halliday's Easter egg. (source)
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Dalton, however, has his own perspective on it.
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"Look at it from his perspective," Mom said.
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- And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well. Painlessly, that is, from McCandless's perspective, although not from the old man's. (source)
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What followed was a debate between father and daughter on the whys and wherefores, a contrasting of perspectives, a comparison of time horizons, and heartfelt expressions of conflicting hopes.
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In a few short months, the Marine Corps had already changed my perspective.
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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.
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perspective = a way of seeing and thinking about things
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You have the defense perspective, so you understand the litigants.
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Perspective is necessary.
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I bring a perspective born in the brutal reality of child abuse and nurtured in hope for a better tomorrow.
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- Tita saw the incident from a completely different perspective than the rebel soldiers. (source)
- I was suffering then (and still do) from moods that kept my head under water (figuratively speaking) and allowed me to see things only from my own perspective, without calmly considering what the others — those whom I, with my mercurial temperament, had hurt or offended — had said, and then acting as they would have done. (source)
- What happened in Harlan wouldn't become clear until you looked at the violence from a much broader perspective. (source)
- Their presence in the United States is deemed good or bad, depending on the perspective. ... Perhaps by looking at one immigrant -- his strengths, his courage, his flaws -- his humanity might help illuminate what too often has been a black-and-white discussion. (source)
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It's a matter of perspective.
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But even when I was late, everyone seemed happy to have me there—to provide the "feminine teen perspective" they called it.
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I had little interest in giving a discourse on, say, my insights into how I coped with the disease, or how it gave me new perspectives.
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Or possibly …. well, let's just say that the plot calculus is tricky and that much depends on the perspective of the reader.
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- From a kid's perspective, maybe the best thing that happened in 2005 was the release of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. (source)
- Many years before, when Nicholas and Perry had first discovered the secret of immortality, they had realized that their extra-long lives allowed them to view the world from a different perspective. (source)
- Of course, she had a different perspective: she was just happy that I was alive and home in one piece. (source)
- Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light. (source)
- It shaped his whole perspective. (source)
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On the field below, the two groups of boys watched the spectacle with craned necks, and from different perspectives.
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In the past all the investigations focused on Hedeby Island. Now I'm sure that the story, the sequence of events that ended in her disappearance, started in Hedestad. That shifts the perspective.
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- They were all Hitler majors, members of the only class I still taught, Advanced Nazism, three hours a week, restricted to qualified seniors, a course of study designed to cultivate historical perspective, theoretical rigor and mature insight into the continuing mass appeal of fascist tyranny, with special emphasis on parades, rallies and uniforms, three credits, written reports. (source)
- Clausen nodded in the background, either oozing sympathy or looking constipated, depending on the perspective. (source)
- He leaned back once more to inspect his chart admiringly from an objective perspective. (source)
- Then, as if a single, sudden blow to his brain blasted a moment's shift of perspective, he felt an immense astonishment at what he was doing here and why. (source)
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She lives in a world where all the old perspectives have altered.
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Mom, please. I've been sitting in this house for weeks. I know you're scared. I know you don't want anything to happen to me, but you have to see this from my perspective a little bit.
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- Then, to give Estha and Rahel a sense of Historical Perspective (though Perspective was something which, in the weeks to follow, Chacko himself would sorely lack), he told them about the Earth Woman.† (source)
- All I require is that you be willing to look at your subject from a personal perspective, that is, how the dilemma affects you.† (source)
- He needs to make his points and then back it all up with something other than his personal perspective or experiences.† (source)
- Perhaps we are as yet too close in time to the controversial elements in the career of Senator Taft to be able to measure his life with historical perspective.† (source)
- From her infancy, she had been surrounded with servants, who lived only to study her caprices; the idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her, even in distant perspective. (source)
- Apparently this consolatory perspective of a mother's prospects failed in producing its due effect. (source)
- No, I was just directly expressing how I felt back then from the perspective of the present.† (source)
- "When Nathan and Savannah are older," explains Kelley, "I want them to understand the war—not from the media or their school history books, but from the perspective of their daddy, who fought in it."† (source)
- As the Marines climbed, they beheld Iwo Jima for the first time from the perspective of the Japanese.† (source)
- How it must have looked from Peeta's perspective when I appeared in the arena having received burn medicine and bread when he, who was at death's door, had gotten nothing. (source)
- We want to show your perspective…so people might understand what it's like from your side. (source)
- I just tried to impart my perspective on life. (source)
- Maybe her transformation was merely a temporary shift in my perspective— (source)
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He just needs a moment alone to readjust his perspective on life.
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perspective = a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
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But my sense of Chris McCandless's intentions comes, too, from a more personal perspective.
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- For having fallen suddenly from grace, those in the Confederacy share a certain perspective. (source)
- Here's why this business of the reader's perspective matters. (source)
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What makes his name or our names any less normal than
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Perspectives on Child Abuse -- Dave Pelzer -- Survivor.
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- We were both right, from our perspectives. (source)
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But think of things from Marita's perspective.
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- Another high schooler with a perspective adored by the older poets. (source)
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That blond vampire you hate so much—I totally get her perspective.
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Although from Sofia's perspective, it was Mrs. Vanderwhile who was the beauty.
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It tastes fine. If you didn't think about it from a human perspective—
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It always gives me a whole new perspective on wherever it was I thought I was leaving.
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I shuddered, remembering that time from my own perspective.
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Of course, it was much different from this perspective, as a vampire myself.
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- Somehow, Ian was able to look at things from my perspective, (source)
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Then I, too, could consider their perspective.
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It didn't seem that way at the time, but when you become a parent, your perspective changes.
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- I suppose that depends on the perspective. (source)
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I wanted to know what he'd say too. Maybe he'd have a new perspective on the whole thing.
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Somehow, Ian was able to look at things from my perspective, my alien perspective.
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I have heard many reports from a variety of perspectives, and have gotten a sense for what is straightforward and what requires more investigation.
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From the perspective of the resettlement agencies, Clarkston, Georgia, was a textbook example of a community ripe for refugee resettlement.
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- Think of it simply as changing your perspective, accepting that the world is not precisely as you imagine. (source)
- The new perspective went both ways. (source)
- My final two years in the Marines flew by and were largely uneventful, though two incidents stand out, each of which speaks to the way the Marine Corps changed my perspective. (source)
- And from a historical perspective, as briefly mentioned earlier, SEALs trace their origins to the Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams, or UDTs. (source)
- "Robert," Peter whispered behind him, "sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light." (source)
- Mrs. Sheridan teaches Laura how to put on a garden party, but more to the point, she teaches the strategy to see the world from a loftier—though somewhat myopic—perspective. (source)
- Aibileen, don't you think it would be interesting if we could show a little of the husbands' perspective? (source)
- By meditating on the inevitability of death, a Mason gains a valuable perspective on the fleeting nature of life. (source)
- When people ask me how the war changed me, I tell them that the biggest thing has to do with my perspective. (source)
- If Laura cannot explain what life is to her brother, "Isn't life …. isn't life—" it is because as Mansfield writes, it is of "no matter" Laura has learned to look at it from a loftier perspective. (source)
- Hell Week has pretty much remained the most demanding physical test, and probably will continue to be one of the high points—or low points, depending on your perspective. (source)
- But ever since Sofia returned home that night in late December with word of the Conservatory's tour, the Count had had a very different perspective on the passage of time. (source)
- Solomon said he always considered the illusion a silent reminder that the mysteries of Freemasonry were perfectly visible to anyone and everyone if they were seen from the proper perspective. (source)
- Instead try to find a reading perspective that allows for sympathy with the historical moment of the story, that understands the text as having been written against its own social, historical, cultural, and personal background. (source)
- He sees the potential for a significant philosophical shift in the world …. and he came here to discuss the possible ramifications …. from a psychological perspective. (source)
- But as the day unfolded, hour by hour Emile's pessimism would slowly give way to the possibility that all was not lost. This rosier perspective would begin building quietly around noon, when he came into his kitchen and saw his copper pots. (source)
- Even the threat of annihilation couldn't change Emmett's perspective, his ability to thrill to a challenge. (source)
- In that way, she wasn't like the other blue bloods in town, but then losing a husband as a young mother of two tended to adjust your perspective. (source)
- If you look at this from my perspective, this is what I see: an intelligent, charming, beautiful woman, not yet thirty, witty, and passionate. (source)
- Luckily—or unluckily, he supposed, depending on the perspective—the girl had appeared, the deputy had panicked, and Thibault had seen where the camera had landed. (source)
- And what's your perspective? (source)
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But I'd never looked at the situation from the body's perspective before; no other planet had forced me to.
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The way you are valued here… Well, that don't make much sense when you look at it from humanity's perspective, either.
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perspective as in: Keep it in perspective
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She loses perspective and continually wants to change the plan in a manner that depends on the most recent complaint.
perspective = a sensible view of a situation
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Attending a funeral helps me to put life into perspective and to separate the important things from those that are less important.
perspective = a sensible view
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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.
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perspective = with understanding of the big picture
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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.
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perspective = a sensible view
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Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
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perspective = a sensible view of a situation
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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."
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"Let's keep it in perspective," Hammond said.
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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.
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And when he awoke, he looked upon the events of the previous day with more perspective.
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Oh, I love mortals-they have absolutely no sense of perspective.
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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.
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The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
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On the other hand, tell the Average Joe that being married had the same effect on overall happiness as an additional $100,000 a year, and it put things into perspective.
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That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?
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- What I need is perspective. (source)
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To put that record in perspective, the "loss" rate for an airline like the American carrier United Airlines in the period 1988 to 1998 was .27 per million departures, which means that they lost a plane in an accident about once in every four million flights.
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...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.
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- And just to keep things in perspective, from the "Some-Things-Never-Change" department, an unrequited crush from high school wrote to wish me well and gently reminded me why I was way too nerdy for her back then (also letting slip that she'd gone on to marry a real doctor). (source)
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...and then we just head out to the countryside for a view of the green rolling hills. Of course you have to look the other way when the train goes by the townships, because those people don't have any perspective of what good scenery is, that's for sure. They will make their houses out of a piece of rusted tin or the side of a crate—and leave the writing part on the outside for all to see!
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It had been Jack's idea to separate for a while — to get perspective on the relationship, he said.
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Okay, Over the Last Few Years I may have gained a little perspective.
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Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness.
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- We know you're hurting, but let's keep it in perspective.† (source)
- There is a way of looking at life called "keeping things in perspective."† (source)
- And when things go badly, of course I'm upset, but at least I can feel I've done all I could and keep things in perspective.† (source)
- It would also be nice to have someone outside the whole vampire-werewolf mess to put things in perspective.† (source)
- Talking to her, and to other teen moms who opened up to me about their struggles, helped me put things in perspective.† (source)
- We do have time to put it in perspective.† (source)
- "If you think this water's cold now, try setting a few beaver traps around February," he added, thinking it would help the man put things in perspective.† (source)
- Let's put things in perspective.† (source)
- The Finnish corporation that was working on the crew quarters had managed to put it in perspective.† (source)
- But let us put it in perspective.† (source)
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He'll gain some perspective while he's away.
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- ...he didn't seem to have as much perspective as older, better-traveled souls. (source)
- Making sure you don't lose perspective. (source)
- She thought about the things that were worse, the black pictures in my head, while I tried to tune her out without much success. She was able to look at them with some distance, some perspective, and I had to admit that this was helpful. (source)
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They may be so deeply mired—or so happily ensconced—in their relationship that they have no perspective on how it works.
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Morrie had aging in better perspective.
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Just a little pick-me-up to put things in their true perspective — "Danny said he dreamed you had a car accident," she said abruptly.
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You're so good at all of this, I don't imagine it will take too long to put everything in perspective.
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- To put it in perspective, three Crays represent more computing power than any other privately held company in America. (source)
- There is a way of looking at life called "keeping things in perspective."† (source)
- X belched, which put things in perspective.† (source)
- You might compare your pimple situation to that of someone who was being eaten by a bear, and when you looked in the mirror at your ugly pimple, you could say to yourself, "Well, at least I'm not being eaten by a bean" You can see at once why keeping things in perspective rarely works very well, because it is hard to concentrate on somebody else being eaten by a bear when you are staring at your own ugly pimple.† (source)
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I got up and swayed as I regained my perspective.
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perspective = sensible view of things
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When he'd first arrived home he'd been struck all over again by its size; then, quickly enough, it had become ordinary in his eyes, the way it had been when he was growing up, making other people's barns look like miniatures. The volume of smoke belching off the roof put things into perspective again and...
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And Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective.
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perspective as in: perspective in art
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When train tracks are drawn with perspective, they appear to come together in the distance.
perspective = representing images so they are smaller when they are further away
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- The artist intentionally breaks the rules of perspective.
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The columns, the fountain, the arches were all realized in perfect perspective to perfect proportion, with every ornament in place.
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perspective = 3-dimensional appearance
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Perspective made the long rows of machines seem almost to meet.
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perspective = a view that makes things that are far away look smaller and closer to each other
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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….
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perspective = giving a 2-dimensional picture a 3-dimensional appearance
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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.
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perspective = 3-dimensional appearance
- 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)
- She didn't see the photograph as a photograph; she didn't interpret distance and perspective. (source)
- The gray dusty truck, in the yard before the door, stood out magically in this light, in the overdrawn perspective of a stereopticon. (source)
- 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)
- 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)
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perspective as in: a perspective of the entire block
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The penthouse window gives a perspective on half the city.
perspective = view
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The clouds and turns in the trail continually change the magnificent perspectives while hiking in the mountains.
perspectives = views
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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.
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perspective = view (appearance from where looking)
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When your avatar gets killed, your screen doesn't fade to black right away. Instead, your point of view automatically shifts to a third-person perspective, treating you to a brief out-of-body replay of your avatar's final fate.
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- Since the others could only see their own battle perspective, he would sometimes give them orders that made no sense to them; but they, too, learned to trust Ender. (source)
- 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)
- "Sorry," he said, "but I never come by train and it all looks rather different from a Muggle perspective." (source)
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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.
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The images that appeared on the sword blade were surprisingly detailed. They were all from Hekate's perspective.
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Langdon had never seen the Capitol from this perspective—hovering 555 feet in the air atop America's great Egyptian obelisk.
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- Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue. (source)
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I constantly whipped my head around, searching for the fourth marker–a big dome-shaped peak with a missing piece, a curved absence scooped from its side that Melanie had only shown me this morning–as if the perspective would have changed from my last step.
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The new light set the room in an eerie, harsh perspective.
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- The tops of the sheer buildings slanted in weird, surrealistic perspective, and the street seemed tilted. (source)
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Rearden stood at the window of his office, his hand pressed to the pane; in the perspective of distance, his hand covered half a mile of structures, as if he were trying to hold them.
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For we were so deep under the hill whereon it was set that the angle of perspective of the Carpathian mountains was far below it.
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Thus sunken, and seen in remote perspective, they appeared far less formidable than the huge iron bulk in whose wake the steamer was pitching so helplessly.
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A perspective of little streets. On the right Roxane's house and the wall of her garden overhung with thick foliage.
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- To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (source)
- The Aged must have been stirring with the lark, for, glancing into the perspective of his bedroom, I observed that his bed was empty. (source)
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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.
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- 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)
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...and she was happy in having the two dances with Edmund still to look forward to, during the greatest part of the evening, her hand being so eagerly sought after that her indefinite engagement with him was in continual perspective.
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- I wondered if maybe that wasn't the right way to look at things after all, standing in the dump, smelling the wild roses, and taking the long perspective.† (source)
- The perspective was close to the enemy planet now, as the ship hurtled into its well of gravity. (source)
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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.
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But then I began to acclimate to playing the game in three dimensions (and from a first-person perspective).
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- He could still control the perspective and the degree of detail, but there were no ship's controls anymore. (source)
- A split second after we heard the thunderous boom, my perspective shifted, and I found myself looking at our three avatars, standing there frozen in front of the open gate. (source)
- The new levers on your control panel enable you to see from the perspective of any of your squadron leaders. (source)
- 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)
- Ender's fighters were among the first to go: their perspective suddenly vanished, and now the simulator could only display the perspective of the starships waiting beyond the edges of the battle. (source)
- The center point shifted, but it was obvious, after he looked long enough, that the eyes of the fleet, the I of the fleet, the perspective from which all decisions were being made, was one particular ship. (source)
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An open door afforded a perspective view of the Aged in bed.
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perspective = view (appearance from where looking)
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Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.
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perspective = view
- It was Stryver's grand peculiarity that he always seemed too big for any place, or space. He was so much too big for Tellson's, that old clerks in distant corners looked up with looks of remonstrance, as though he squeezed them against the wall. The House itself, magnificently reading the paper quite in the far-off perspective, lowered displeased, as if the Stryver head had been butted into its responsible waistcoat. (source)
- I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea. (source)
- She was not hungry, and had meant to go without luncheon; but she was too tired to return home, and the long perspective of white tables showed alluringly through the windows.† (source)
- And with a bright nod to the couple on whom she had intruded, Miss Bart strolled through the glass doors and carried her rustling grace down the long perspective of the garden walk.† (source)
- Then came the lamplighter, and two lengthening lines of light all down the long perspective of the street, until they were blended and lost in the distance.† (source)
- And a goodly show he makes, lying in a flush of crimson and gold in the midst of the great drawing-room before his favourite picture of my Lady, with broad strips of sunlight shining in, down the long perspective, through the long line of windows, and alternating with soft reliefs of shadow.† (source)
- Winking cousins, bat-like in the candle glare, crowd round to give it; Volumnia (always ready for something better if procurable) takes another, a very mild sip of which contents her; Lady Dedlock, graceful, self-possessed, looked after by admiring eyes, passes away slowly down the long perspective by the side of that nymph, not at all improving her as a question of contrast.† (source)
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One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons;
A natural perspective, that is, and is not. (source)
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- From a one-dimensional perspective, it's only a point—that's how ordinary people think of the particles.† (source)
- I thought of our group—Chuck and myself—as the providers, the protectors, but my perspective shifted over to their point of view.† (source)
- They give us perspective on things.† (source)
- Michael and I decided to spend more time looking into the Pittman murder; we thought it might give us some perspective on the coercion that was leveled against Myers.† (source)
- If they could put it into perspective, if they could just enjoy a sunny evening in a pub garden, then surely I should too.† (source)
- I'll give you one: perspective.† (source)
- Gotta adjust to the perspective and deal from there.† (source)
- He attempted to put the new developments in perspective for her.† (source)
- He could not help but possess this unhappy perspective, no matter how much he might not want it.† (source)
- I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective.† (source)
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- She stood on a stone, trying to get above it, to look down into it, but she couldn't position herself high enough to get any perspective.† (source)
- "Amazing perspective up here," he's saying.† (source)
- I would have said that certainly Rose and I had suffered, too, and Caroline and Mary Livingstone and all the women I knew, but there seemed to be a dumb, unknowing quality to the way the men had suffered, as if, like animals, it was not possible for them to gain perspective on their suffering.† (source)
- From my perspective, backstage, the faces in the audience were almost uniformly still, and the attention upon them was not directed toward me; the faces were, at least in part, strangers to me, and—especially in the back rows—smaller than the faces on baseball cards.† (source)
- In the last two years my perspective on things has changed.† (source)
- And hearing everything he just said to me puts into perspective just how serious things are becoming between us.† (source)
- Seen from this perspective, with the stone tower rising up just beyond the dormitory, the buildings gave the impression of a fortress rather than a school.† (source)
- From their perspective, she must look like a basketball.† (source)
- Closer still, and she grasped the perspectives; it was her mother's of course, and she would be waiting for the twins.† (source)
- For instance, if you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keeping your pimple in perspective.† (source)
- And then, to keep things grounded and in perspective, she muttered, "Seal blubber."† (source)
- These women would begin to see how fractured he was, they'd want to help him gain perspective on life and access the positive aspects of his own spirituality.† (source)
- Friedl taught her students about serious things like perspective and texture.† (source)
- 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)
- I was sure the king's idea of perspective meant getting me out of Maxon's head.† (source)
- You cannot always take such a dark perspective of life all the time, you know, it is very bad for you.† (source)
- I stop dead in my tracks and my perspective corrects itself.† (source)
- From your perspective today, Kathy, your bemusement is perfectly reasonable.† (source)
- Put things into perspective.† (source)
- Although Ramiro has gained a much more viable perspective on his place in the world, there are choices he has to make "not just once, but every time they come up."† (source)
- It is possible that the resulting persona could be human touched with a certain divine madness and meta-human perspective.† (source)
- Someday we would be able to see it all in perspective.† (source)
- Knowing Lanre's story might give you some perspective.† (source)
- It must differ from biography in that a memoirist can never achieve the perspective that a biographer possesses as a matter of course.† (source)
- There was a window in the waiting room — you would see the room from this perspective if you looked through it.† (source)
- Nor does he bother to open up the volume on perspective he's pulled out of his duffel.† (source)
- First, I find myself haunted by Nathaniel's long and rambling scribbles, and wonder if she can put them in perspective and suggest strategies I might try And second, March is the one person in Los Angeles who can best answer the absurd comments about mental illness that have just been made by actor Tom Cruise, of all people.† (source)
- I don't think I can muster much sympathy for their perspective.† (source)
- Burnham loved escorting friends and dignitaries through the grounds but sought always to orchestrate the journeys so that his friends saw the fair the way he believed it should be seen, with the buildings presented from a certain perspective, in a particular order, as if he were still back in his library showing drawings instead of real structures.† (source)
- We drew as many important details as we could, and drew in perspective: Nearby objects are larger than distant objects; horizontal parallel lines converge and vanish in the distance.† (source)
- They did not hold hands until Saeed's perspective had returned, hours later, not to normal, for he suspected it was possible he might never think of normal in the same way again, but to something closer to what it had been before they had eaten these shrooms, and when they held hands it was facing each other, sitting, their wrists resting on their knees, their knees almost touching, and then he leaned forward and she leaned forward, and she smiled, and they kissed, and they realized that it was dawn, and they were no longer hidden by darkness, and they might be seen from some other rooftop, so they went inside and ate the cold food, not much but some, and it was strong in flavor.† (source)
- Let's put things into perspective.† (source)
- One of the pillars of Spinoza's philosophy was indeed to see things from the perspective of eternity.† (source)
- I saw my life in complete perspective " 'And the vampires of the Theatre ....: I asked softly.† (source)
- I see them as others do not; even their owners probably don't see them from this perspective.† (source)
- The bag collapsed so fast I got nauseated from the change in perspective.† (source)
- To put his width into perspective, Shaquille O'Neal, the Miami Heat center who is seven one and seemingly wide as a truck, weighs 330 pounds.† (source)
- From the KGB's perspective, outside instigation is the far more attractive alternative; it makes for a bigger operation.† (source)
- He gestured excitedly, eyes sparkling, as he guided us through the first few discussions on light, focus, perspective, and setting.† (source)
- So the first time Hiro saw Juanita, or any other girl like her, his perspectives were bent all out of shape.† (source)
- This stuff has got a sliding perspective!† (source)
- Aside from the racial matter, from my perspective I couldn't see that going to Australia for a year of residency would add anything in terms of my career, although it would certainly be interesting.† (source)
- From her perspective: She was a baby when Phillip took me from our family.† (source)
- It is important to put these two stickiness factors in perspective.† (source)
- We were transfixed; it was an insider's perspective that we could never have gotten at home in Toppenish.† (source)
- In the past he would have written a letter to Catherine to help him get it into perspective.† (source)
- Coupled with an inability to stop thinking about said interest, the disease [read more] PERSPECTIVES† (source)
- Seeing so many men fall and die around him had altered his perspective.† (source)
- It's because of both those extremes of others' opinions that I felt it the natural thing to do to tell my story, written from my perspective.† (source)
- That's an interesting perspective," Eleanor said.† (source)
- He organized only isolated and rough run-through tests to put their difficulties into perspective.† (source)
- But we're trying to look at this from a scholarly perspective.† (source)
- I had the unexplainable desire to drive to Bo's and defend my earlier behavior, but the thought was quickly put into perspective by the simple fact that I didn't have time.† (source)
- What up until this moment has felt like a random, disconnected series of unhappy events she now views as necessary steps in a journey toward ...enlightenment is perhaps too strong a word, but there are others, less lofty, like self-acceptance and perspective.† (source)
- I was thinking I might try to do some interviews around town, get a local perspective.† (source)
- it 61 gave me a fresh perspective on how much the Sherpas ordinarily did for us, and how little we truly appreciated it.† (source)
- She couldn't figure out what to do, and in the end she'd simply gone back inside and gotten ready for work, sliding the letter into the top desk drawer with the detritus of rubber bands and paper clips, waiting for Al to get home and help her gain perspective.† (source)
- I was seeing Sam's blank face, and she was gone, replaced by white-hot memories that didn't belong to me—a whiteboard at school filled with math problems, a golden retriever digging in a garden, the world rising and falling from the perspective of a swing, the roots of the vegetables in the Garden being pulled free, the brick wall at the back of the Mess Hall against my face as another fist swung down toward me—a quick assault from every side, like a series of camera flashes.† (source)
- They'd gone too soon, but in the right order—parent before child—though, not, I supposed, from the perspective of Mia's grandparents.† (source)
- There was no large city with a vaster torment we might use to see our own dilemma in some soothing perspective.† (source)
- But from my perspective, it doesn't seem like there's much to be upset about.† (source)
- From her present perspective, its main quality seemed to Annie to be oppression.† (source)
- During that period, women entered the workforce in record numbers, often motivated less by a feminist perspective than by a need to pay the bills.† (source)
- "This tends to put your life in perspective," stated the instructions.† (source)
- "In the beginning," Yo begins, inspired by perspective.† (source)
- Allan Rosenfield struggled to combine this public health perspective with practical medicine—and he became a social entrepreneur in the world of maternal health.† (source)
- I knew he'd probably freak out and call me a monster or something, but I really hadn't had a choice, and now that he knew he could put all of this in perspective and— His laughter interrupted my mental tirade.† (source)
- He had the kind of perspective that could only come from careful study of the literature of surgery and from living it for many years.† (source)
- I couldn't quite see Colin's face from this perspective, but I felt him smile.† (source)
- He seemed very old at that time, but since I was still in my teens, I may have had a faulty perspective.† (source)
- And when they get it, there's a subtle, though defining, change of perspective.† (source)
- He rode around all morning, trying to remember the last man he had tracked, just to give himself perspective.† (source)
- Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature.† (source)
- The perspective is interesting.† (source)
- From Feldman's perspective, an office worker who eats a bagel without paying is committing a crime; the office worker probably doesn't think so.† (source)
- It really gave me a different perspective about babies, especially since a big apartment-house deal came up for Mom and I had to do most of the care-giving.† (source)
- "I wanted a guy's perspective," Shari says with a shrug.† (source)
- Seeing Max's face, he added quickly, "Not his feelings about you—just his perspective about you staying here over the holidays.† (source)
- I liked the turban man very much, for he kept his religion in perspective.† (source)
- It looked like a toy, but from the Women's Place, everything was a matter of perspective.† (source)
- Some parts self-reliance, some parts self-protection, this belief offers a binary perspective—powerhouse or victim, complete responsibility or total divorcement, all in or out the door.† (source)
- The occupation of the apartment on Lundagatan was an uncomplicated procedure from a tactical perspective.† (source)
- From his perspective, the Russians must protect Castro's people against terrorist behavior by the United States.† (source)
- I sneak around one of the columns and get a different perspective on the room.† (source)
- We are indebted to the numerous writers and researchers whose works have been indispensable to our own perspective on the period.† (source)
- Years later, reflecting from the perspective of old age, he himself would call it the most exhausting case he ever undertook, but conclude with pardonable pride that his part in the defense was "one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested actions of my whole life, and one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country."† (source)
- Once in a while he gives a little lecture—" he leans back in the chair, hands on his thighs, in imitation: " 'Perspective, kiddo, that's the key word—' "† (source)
- A momentary shift in his perspective.† (source)
- To put that into perspective: The Marines were awarded eighty-four Medals of Honor in World War II.† (source)
- Noah, look at it from an outsider's perspective.† (source)
- The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.† (source)
- He'd strayed eight miles up a deserted valley from the trail, and in the failing light, even the contours of peaks that he knew well looked unfamiliar from this new perspective.† (source)
- Allan Wall, the teacher, said that living in Mexico had given him a different perspective on the inroads of Spanish in America.† (source)
- This time he's little girl named Nell and our life is back in perspective again.† (source)
- Perhaps from the shock of seeming to see my grandfather looking through Tarp's eyes, perhaps through the calmness of his voice alone, or perhaps through his story and his link of chain, he had restored my perspective.† (source)
- In fact, the inspector has begun to ask my thoughts on his cases, to have a woman's perspective.† (source)
- But a little time in jail and the prospects of having to mount a defense would give the Cubans a taste of their own sour medicine and offer a harsh counter-perspective to the rest of the country.† (source)
- As many as a quarter of them were political prisoners, and a handful of those men were put with us in Section B. We were isolated from the general prisoners for two reasons: we were considered risky from a security perspective, but even more dangerous from a political standpoint.† (source)
- If I fly back, it'll give us both time to put things back in perspective.† (source)
- But from the boys' perspective, it was luxurious.† (source)
- He'd been immersed in his new art project—copying a two-story house in order to learn perspective.† (source)
- I want to get the new girl's perspective.† (source)
- We get our idea of angels from the birds, and they are masters of direction not by accident but because they have a high perspective.† (source)
- The exercise, dubbed "Proud Phantom," gave me a different perspective on being part of a team.† (source)
- The horror she felt was only a brief stab, like the wrench of a switching perspective: she grasped that the objects she had thought to be human were not.† (source)
- We flag essays that stand out for their expressiveness, their perspective, or simply because we remember them.† (source)
- From this perspective, immigrants weren't here looking for work, they were poor, lazy families that would contribute less than they received to the country.† (source)
- Somehow they're screwing up your basic perspective, and the upshot is you sometimes get a little mixed up.† (source)
- "Sometimes, though, I do have a way of making someone view his surroundings from a different perspective," Regis admitted.† (source)
- Third, entire movies can be transmitted to the lenses over his eyes—and from such an intimate perspective, he seems to be virtually in the middle of the cinematic experience.† (source)
- Have some perspective.† (source)
- From a combat perspective there wasn't anything in the SAC's history worthy of note, not a Purple or valor device in sight.† (source)
- There were other thoughts, however, that occupied her on the ride to Kowloon, desperate thoughts that she tried to control and keep in perspective, pushing away the panic that could so easily engulf her, causing her to do the wrong thing, make a wrong move that could harm David — kill David.† (source)
- Even their moods seemed to meld together, so that when one of them was dispirited, the other also drooped; and if Helen grew philosophical, Ralph found himself stretching his neck and clearing his throat, as perspective and clarity irradiated his mind.† (source)
- Her beauty and vulnerability cloud your perspective:' "So you think she killed him?"† (source)
- and Paws provided sonic perspective.† (source)
- But these were pictures of women and men together, from a close-in perspective, patently engaging in sexual intercourse.† (source)
- We wanted to create an online magazine that offered two (very) different perspectives on fashion, beauty, boys, books, life.† (source)
- "And from the Saudi perspective," continued Natalie, "a Sunni caliphate is far preferable to a Shiite Crescent that stretches from Iran to Lebanon."† (source)
- It was a lesson in perspective for me to take the witness stand and face the same honor court on which I had served my entire senior year.† (source)
- If there is such a thing as a haunted place, that one was haunted, made so by dim light strained through the leaves and various tricks of perspective.† (source)
- Once viewed from this perspective, some startling facts became clear.† (source)
- I wanted a change of perspective.† (source)
- "One of the things I cannot grasp, though I have often written about them, trying to get them into some kind of bearable perspective," Steiner writes, "is the lime relation."† (source)
- Frame, proportion, perspective, the values of light and shade, all are determined by the distance of the observing eye.† (source)
- What mattered was that it might be that and it might not, because it was possible that stars, too, had happened to notice how the world stretched out from a broken bridge—had seen it all in ant's perspective—or that they knew beforehand, without ever having had to see from the bridge where Hodge had stood.† (source)
- Now the end of that vast, pencil-shaped lens seemed to be moving more slowly, but that was only due to perspective.† (source)
- This bit of paper tacked on peeling white paint abruptly enlarged his perspective, as if, stumbling through a black tunnel, he saw, or thought he saw, a chink of light.† (source)
- To regain your perspective and find out who you are.† (source)
- What had happened slid into perspective, an incident, almost funny.† (source)
- Between the shop and the left of the stage there is a little street in perspective.† (source)
- But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective, to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.† (source)
- Get a full perspective.† (source)
- Over dinner, we tried to put what we were now calling "the wilding" in perspective.† (source)
- Harry's heart attack had pushed everything suddenly into perspective for me.† (source)
- I pulled away quickly, laughing with him, but determined to put things back in perspective at once.† (source)
- For one ghastly moment, I was reminded of our afternoon in Italy, in the macabre tower room of the Volturi, where Jane had tortured Edward with her malignant gift, burning him with her thoughts alone...The memory snapped me out of my near hysteria and put everything in perspective.† (source)
- Alison was right about me in that regard, and though I haven't given up entirely on the idea of a career change, and have even talked to the head of a nonprofit organization about a possible job, I've decided to stick with the column for now One day in the Lamp courtyard, a client puts my limitations as an amateur social worker in perspective when he offers both a reality check and a critique.† (source)
- That snaps everything into perspective.† (source)
- The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.† (source)
- Listen—I brought you here for some perspective.† (source)
- "Just look at this from my perspective for a minute, okay?" she continued as if I hadn't said anything.† (source)
- But then she tried to add some perspective and levity to it, and to ensure that this revelation wouldn't dissuade others from exploring their personal history through PastPerfect.† (source)
- Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life, defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.† (source)
- But try to have some perspective.† (source)
- Okay, look at it from my perspective.† (source)
- I wish that everyone could see the world from my perspective; I believe that more people would be optimistic about our future.† (source)
- I know my father told you about me, but I think it's important that you know our history from my perspective.† (source)
- That really gave some perspective since the battle craft, as big as a skyscraper, looked just like the toy used for comparison in various Videos.† (source)
- Soon enough, my thoughts were focused on these notions, these heightened wonderings, and I fear I lost some perspective along the way for what my daughter Sunny may have needed, which was not necessarily a woman or a mother or anyone else.† (source)
- It is kind of crazy if you think about it from the perspective of a nine-year-old.† (source)
- I tell you this that you may see things in a broader — and I may add, a less selfish perspective.† (source)
- I could have had a new outlet, a new perspective this whole time.† (source)
- In fact, he has a godlike perspective on the whole mammal class.† (source)
- She hadn't realized that perspective would be so sudden, so dizzying and so bitter.† (source)
- He told his own version of the October Revolution from the thrilling perspective of an eyewitness.† (source)
- A giddy Cool Girl perspective will do that.† (source)
- But there are other perspectives, and I want to hear them.† (source)
- I tilt my head to one side for a better perspective.† (source)
- Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective.† (source)
- Now I have a different perspective on it.† (source)
- I can see I had the perspective wrong before," she murmured.† (source)
- "Just the wrong perspective," he explained.† (source)
- It put things in a new perspective for me.† (source)
- I think he felt like distance would do me good, give me perspective or something.† (source)
- The Goez Studio also assisted us with human figures, perspective and color schemes.† (source)
- From a two —or three-dimensional perspective, the particle begins to show internal structure.† (source)
- Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.† (source)
- In the end, both of these perspectives are defeatist.† (source)
- To see everything from the perspective of eternity.† (source)
- Forks has really changed my perspective on life.† (source)
- Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.† (source)
- That was, in her perspective, a simple testament to their making and delivering the best product.† (source)
- A philosopher must help people to see life in a new perspective.† (source)
- Perhaps you have a point about a fresh perspective!† (source)
- From an eight-dimensional perspective, a particle is a vast presence like the Milky Way.† (source)
- It put things in sharp perspective for me.† (source)
- Not a different perspective, the correct perspective.† (source)
- Wang looked up and felt his perspective shift.† (source)
- To really understand why, you have to look at the world from a different perspective.† (source)
- I followed her silently, appreciating the new perspective.† (source)
- It depends on the number of dimensions of your observation perspective.† (source)
- It's much easier to have the proper perspective when I have you safelyhere .† (source)
- "Jasper looks at things from a military perspective," Edward quietly defended his brother.† (source)
- But the perspective taken by the author shook Ye to the core.† (source)
- But from the perspective of aesthetics, I must be right and the universe must be wrong.† (source)
- It has a profound influence on the researcher's perspective on life.† (source)
- From a four-dimensional perspective, a fundamental particle is an immense world.† (source)
- They could use some new blood, some fresh perspective.† (source)
- But from a purely military perspective, our position is still weak.† (source)
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- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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- 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)
- 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)
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