Thank God for the mysterious way our own love, real care and protective empathy for others is sometimes exactly what our own broken hearts need -- to discover perspective, to bring us out of our own suffering, and call us to a fresh moment of love.
He also took pains to present many of the sites from different angles, "to break the perspective you normally get on Google maps".
I wrote a lot of the book from this broken or "outside" perspective, and much of the metaphoric stream in the narrative concerns itself with this new mode of looking, which I liken to looking through the lit windows of other people's houses from the darkness outside.
"I have my running in a better perspective than last year, when I got caught up in trying to break records".
"Video is both extremely exciting from a content standpoint and completely broken from a user perspective.
Once the chain of references is broken, once the hermeneutical perspective is altered, interpretation is free to pursue the deeper meaning of the "dark" and profound, which in the final analysis is what Xuanxue is all about.
In such paintings as The Magpie, one of Monet's early masterpieces, form dissolves under the combination of a greatly restricted color range, aerial perspective, and broken brushwork.
I too was attracted to the paintings of De Chirico and Delvaux, with their dreamplaces – empty, melancholy cities, abandoned temples, broken statues, shadows, exaggerated perspectives.
From this perspective, breaking up the big four would be to use a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.
The pull of precedent is powerful but scarcely all-powerful when a shift of personnel or perspective breaks the spell, allowing the forces of change to exert their counterpull.
