Yet the author doesn't provide a coherent point of view — or even an interesting argument.
Not only did they have unverified opinions, but some of them actually wove their opinions into a coherent point of view of their life and times.
Ms. Von Furstenberg and her design team seemed to have fun with the collection, caring less about a coherent point of view than about offering different things to wear next spring.
Pelé gets top spot over Diego Maradona, an aggregate of voting rather than a coherent point of view with a single clinching reason.
Yet even in the final passage of his life Malcolm failed to build a serious political movement or create a coherent point of view.
Even so, The List does require a discussion of premises and criteria to work best, and also close listening, a sense of history, and a coherent point of view.
Sophisticated people attacked it for lacking a coherent point of view, a governing aesthetic or any larger sense of purpose apart from Robert Moses' desire to create what would later become the world's most hideous park.
Whether the notion is accurate or not, it is, very much, a consistent and coherent point of view: under the guise of a free-spirited and generous look at quirky behavior, it embraces and endorses a populist conservative doctrine.
A. O. Scott, who wrote the perceptive introduction to the reissued essays, attempts gallantly to justify McCarthy's "witty savagery" by saying that underneath it lay "seriousness," the "confident articulation of a coherent point of view".
Dekkers, the Netherlands' most popular writer-biologist, is hardly profound -- he lacks the organizational ability to create a coherent point of view -- yet his is an entertaining book that offers up a concatenation of facts revealing that life is a fetid and rotting affair.
