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1 —1 use as in:
Look at it from her perspective
Definition
a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
- I've got a phobia about crossed or jimmied or rustjammed or dirt-jammed threads that cause nuts to turn slow or hard; and when I find one, I take its dimensions with a thread gauge and calipers, get out the taps and dies, recut the threads on it, then examine it and oil it and I have a whole new perspective on patience.Part 3 (93% in)
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2 —1 use as in:
Keep it in perspective
Definition
a sensible view of a situation that considers its different parts in a balanced way
- This time he's little girl named Nell and our life is back in perspective again.Afterward (91% in)
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- But as time recedes ahead and the perspective surrounding the book grows larger, a somewhat more detailed answer becomes possible.Afterward (15% in)
- I've gone into this example in some detail, partly to show some of the high country in close perspective, but more to prepare for what Phaedrus did later.Part 2 (46% in)
- DeWeese always argued from this strange perspective that made it impossible to answer him.Part 2 (52% in)
- This was the perspective that gave Phaedrus the idea DeWeese was concealing something from him.Part 2 (52% in)
- It wasn't until the very end of his stay in Bozeman that he thought he saw, in his own analytic and methodical way, what that perspective was.Part 2 (52% in)
- The city closes in on him now, and in his strange perspective it becomes the antithesis of what he believes.Part 4 (80% in)
- Afterword This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek perspectives and their meaning but there is one perspective it misses.Afterward (0% in)
- Afterword This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek perspectives and their meaning but there is one perspective it misses.Afterward (1% in)
- Ten years after the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the Ancient Greek perspective is certainly appropriate.Afterward (5% in)
- The receding Ancient Greek perspective of the past ten years has a very dark side: Chris is dead.Afterward (39% in)
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