The phrase "a sideways view" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a perspective or opinion that is not straightforward or conventional, often implying a more nuanced or indirect approach.
Example: "In her analysis, she offered a sideways view of the issue, highlighting aspects that others had overlooked."
Alternatives: "an alternative perspective" or "a different angle".
They sat right there, next to the window with a sideways view down to the port.
While the conversation was general, he tried for a sideways view of her face, which was turned to Eliza on her other side.
"Memory Wall" and "Afterworld", which also takes a sideways view of an old woman's memories, are the stand-out pieces in the collection.
More enticing than all of these is Duncan Hamilton's Provided You Don't Kiss Me: Twenty Years with Brian Clough (Fourth Estate, £14.99), a sideways view of another legend.
A sideways view of life drives prose which Wetering himself translated into such nifty English as "crazy people carry the country's genius".
The higher you go in this four-storey hotel with no lift, the more you see of Notre Dame, which is just across the Seine, although the rooms only offer a sideways view.
By Charles Simic The New Yorker, May 27 , 1996P. 38 You must come to them sideways View Article Charles Simic is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the author, most recently, of "The Lunatic".
I like his sideways view of the city.
A 2010 survey by the software security company People Security of 800 attendees of an information technology conference found that only 13 percent used screen shields, which block the sideways view of curious onlookers without diminishing the user's view.
The show's best, visual moment: the sideways view of the wholesome nakedness of Mr. Ray's "Family Romance" seen through the kinky, curving forms of Mr. Barney's "Cabinet of Baby Fay La Foe".
For anyone who has read previous books by Kingsolver, this latest work will not entirely satisfy; but it absolutely will fascinate with its sideways view of critical events of the mid-twentieth century that are likely not part of most readers' consciousness.
