The phrase "a narrow lens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe a limited perspective or viewpoint on a situation or topic.
Example: "When analyzing the issue, it's important to avoid viewing it through a narrow lens, as this can lead to incomplete conclusions."
Alternatives: "a limited perspective" or "a restricted viewpoint".
Why would you want to view literature through such a narrow lens?
"I'm not saying U.S. intelligence is myopic, but sometimes it can bear a narrow lens," he said.
The terrorist threat was viewed through a narrow lens because of the F.B.I.'s case-based approach.
A fresher, more realistic way to understand and appreciate television is to stop regarding it through a narrow lens, and instead to embrace its breadth.
According to a recent report commissioned by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and written by Jacky Lumby, professor at the University of Southampton, we don't, mainly because we are looking at the role of leadership through a narrow lens.
If the Historical Society uses a narrow lens, the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes the opposite approach with "Regarding Warhol: Fifty Years, Sixty Artists," which it bills as the first comprehensive look at Warhol's impact on contemporary art and culture.
He strains throughout to connect his interest in the horses with his knowledge of Italian artists of the Renaissance, and the book would have benefited from a narrower lens.
They discovered that their discipline had been measuring biodiversity with a very narrow lens: looking, for instance, at habitats only in a particular region of the ocean, or at the rise or decline of a particular species, and usually with respect to benchmarks that had been set just decades earlier.
Our natural human response after a crisis is to think in terms of what's already happened, but that's a very narrow lens.
"The best way to look at the settlement is through a fairly narrow lens," said David R. Ginsburg, the executive director of the entertainment and media law and policy program at the School of Law of the University of California, Los Angeles.
I'm worried that the United States looks at Colombia through a very narrow lens.
