But the drones proved to be too expensive and hard to fly, and the cameras mounted on the drones gave too tightly circumscribed a view of the waters below.
But Prochnik suspects that James, who had come under the sway of Laura Piper, a psychic who communicated with the dead, found Freud's (and Hall's) views too circumscribed.
The idea that God would be so circumscribed by our paltry view of morals that he has to be the god of love is to me astonishing, futile and idiotic".
Mr Weidmann's views are similarly circumscribed by the tenets of German economic thinking: a distrust of policy discretion; an emphasis on the long term; a deep-seated fear of inflation; and an obsession with moral hazard.
They also realize that their backgrounds inform and play into some of their most potent liabilities: in Mr. Gore's case, that his life and world view are utterly circumscribed by politics; in Mr. Bush's case, that his late-blooming political prominence is the result of his father's connections, not his own talents and toilings.
The view is further circumscribed by highlighting the most charismatic male leaders, political actors, and legislative achievements.
And Shoptaw's use of the video camera as an opportunity for intimate confessional is a clever substitute for Eliot's narrative technique of describing the inner life of her characters, and showing the ways in which their understanding of themselves and others is circumscribed by their restricted points of view.
His is a worldly view, but of a curiously circumscribed world.
The ACS considers central to the law, public policy, and the broader political debate, a view of justice that is circumscribed by respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality and access to justice.
"In our view and in the view of other delegations, this would have circumscribed NGO activity," said the senior U.S. official who briefed reporters traveling with Rice.
