All 9 Uses
perspective
in
A Hope in the Unseen
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- Their passionate, oh-so personal 'perspective.'†
Chpt 8perspective = way of seeing and thinking about things
- He spots Stephan Wheelock, his Richard Wright instructor, twenty-four and black and bursting with passionate personal perspective.†
Chpt 8
- While the more typical Brown students will need to master the models for smooth explication and elegant grammar to excel, Cedric can ride on his strong and unique "personal perspective."†
Chpt 10
- He needs to make his points and then back it all up with something other than his personal perspective or experiences.†
Chpt 14 *
- That perspective, that belief, Cedric, is admirable, but it also can set you up for disappointment.†
Chpt 4
- And when they get it, there's a subtle, though defining, change of perspective.†
Chpt 6
- And it's going on today, as black, Latino, and Asian kids try to match their cultural perspectives with rigid standards of merit that predate their arrival.†
Chpt 10
- Though Tom James's History of Education was a survey course, there were no tests; it was small enough that Professor James could take a special interest in Cedric, and, most important, it covered areas that allowed Cedric to indulge his passionate perspectives on race and education for credit.†
Chpt 11
- Nursing a beer, unable to summon enough energy to get drunk, Rob finds himself recalling the year that has been "sort of surreal," a first year in this safe, Disneyland version of tolerance where he could stretch his perspectives and do a bit of experimenting.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(perspective as in: Look at it from her perspective) a particular way of seeing or thinking about things
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(perspective as in: Keep it in perspective) a sensible view of a situation that considers its different parts in a balanced way
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(perspective as in: perspective in art) giving a 2-dimensional picture a 3-dimensional appearance by making parts that are farther away look smaller than things that are close; OR a picture drawn in such a manner
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(perspective as in: a perspective of the entire block) a view -- often stressing that the view is different from a view from another location
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, in classic literature, perspective glass or perspectives can refer to a small telescope. More specialized senses of perspective are found in geometry, sound engineering, and philosophy. Consult a comprehensive dictionary if you wish to see those. All the common senses have to do with the way something is viewed.