perspective

[pərˈspektɪv]

Definition:
1. A way of regarding situations or topics etc..
2. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer.

Use 'perspective' in a sentence:

1. Try to keep these issues in perspective.
2. Everyone should see himself in perspective.
3. There is an obvious lack of teachers with a multicultural perspective to meet the curriculum challenges in America.
4. We suggest that it is possible to reconcile these apparently opposing perspectives.
5. Poetry written from the perspective of the urban youth tends to reveal their anxiety over a lack of sense of belonging.
6. Clearly, from the schools' perspective, there's a lot of money to be saved.
7. This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects seem more likely to be a passing fad.
8. Pamela Harris, a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, has a similar perspective.
9. He was clear-sighted enough to keep a sense of perspective.
10. The Telegraph puts the union in a historical perspective.
11. "It's already a huge problem from a public expenditure perspective for the whole country," he says.
12. What they do is to look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected.
13. I let things get out of perspective.
14. She would be thinking mostly about herself and her own needs, and might not be able to see things from anyone else's perspective.
15. From an early-warning perspective, make sure the warnings go right down to the community level.
16. I am someone who has worked in both marketing and PR, so I can offer a different perspective than someone who only teaches.
17. If you can be a sympathetic listener, it may put your own problems in perspective.
18. I tried to put the matter into perspective.
19. From a societal perspective, phone checking is less like belching in public and more like another bad habit.
20. From a planning perspective, it's pretty simple.
21. I think that the important thing here is to actually understand what's happening from the consumer's perspective.
22. Most literature on the subject of immigrants in France has been written from the perspective of the French themselves.
23. Given this perspective, joblessness looms much larger.
24. Getting input from others not only offers a fresh perspective and thought process, it often also includes riskier choices.
25. I would like to offer a historical perspective.
26. Your perspective as a student, how the applicant teaches in the classroom, that's what's important to us.
27. Remember to keep things in perspective.
28. The school has been attempting to bring a multicultural perspective to its curriculum.
29. I think I have a very different perspective when it comes to the definition of what is beautiful.
30. So for several weeks like I said we'll be addressing geology from a wider perspective.
31. He says the death of his father 18 months ago has given him a new perspective on life.
32. Keeping a positive perspective can help her stabilize her emotions.
33. But most of all we need to keep the long-term perspective in mind.
34. You can lose your perspective. You know, get paranoid? Well, that's something I really try and avoid.
35. It helps to put their personal problems into perspective.
36. The three of them narrate the same events from three perspectives.
37. A balanced perspective is all you need.
38. This perspective makes sense if you simplify the workings of a complex brain, reducing it to an array of electrical pulses.
39. The prospective inspector prospected his prospect with his own perspective.
40. Looking down at the waterfall from the satellite's vertical perspective may not be the best perspective.
41. They'll give you a whole new perspective on your Minecraft worlds as you float around free as a bird.
42. Getting input from others not only omrs a fresh perspective and thought process, it often also includes riskier choices.
43. The Freudian perspective, in a sense: sees us as "steam engines".
44. She was aware that she was losing all sense of perspective.
45. We learnt how to draw buildings in perspective.
46. In his art he broke the laws of scientific linear perspective.
47. The tree on the left is out of perspective.
48. It is important not to let things get out of perspective.
49. Talking to others can often help to put your own problems into perspective.
50. This limitation derives from Nakane's methodology—that of oral history—which cannot substitute for a broader theoretical or comparative perspective.
51. Zhang attributes his success to his creativity and to his outsider perspective on technology.
52. The present world crisis should in principle be analysed from different temporal perspectives.
53. It's the collision of disparate ideas that alters one's perspective.
54. Labor economist Harley Shaekin argues the cost needs to be viewed in perspective.
55. Such a perspective fundamentally changes our view of biological evolution.