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[ noun ] a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
Examples "consider what follows from the positivist view" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Instead , the audience can sit_back at_ease and , from the perspective of an enlightened time which no_longer believes_in such things , enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Seen in perspective , many_of these releases have a genuine claim to be milestones . A contributing factor is the perspective , the uniform aesthetic distance which is maintained . (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)Foreign_policy now takes_on a different perspective and must become skilled not merely at response but also at projection . |
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[ noun ] the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Synonyms Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)These areas by_virtue_of their abrupt density of pattern , stated the literal surface with such new and superior force that the resulting contrast drove the simulated printing into a depth from which it could be rescued - and set to shuttling again - only by conventional perspective ; that_is , by being placed in such relation to the forms depicted within the illusion that these forms left no room for the typography except near the surface . Related terms |
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