At each step of his son's footballing career, a path he began late by Brazilian standards, having once dreamed of trying his hand at professional tennis instead, Bosco has been a source of advice, perspective and rock-solid support.
The source of this perspective, they said, is the fiction writer's ability to enter repeatedly and hopefully into the disheartening fray, an ability that stems from the special empathetic observer role of the novelist.
This response might have made sense when the Brotherhood was semi-underground, but, in a competitive political environment, former associates could have been a valuable source of information, perspective, and constructive criticism.
I got nothing from my tracking system until I used it as a source of critical perspective, not on my performance but on my assumptions about what was important to track.
The trans-disciplinary1 character of knowledge, generated this way, is believed to be a valuable source of prognostic perspectives, while overcoming the disciplinary narrow-mindedness of the specialist.
And blogs, of course, are becoming a widely available source of genuine perspectives of real people.
Criticized by modern biographers for its artistic license and highly subjective point of view, the book nevertheless remains an important source of information and perspective on Tubman's life.
This is strong stuff, but Shattuck saves it from lapsing into harangue by poking gentle fun at the source of this jaundiced perspective.
Genetic and evolutionary principles are of great importance to technology strategists, both directly (as in the forecasting of genetic engineering technologies) and as a source of metaphor and perspective on socio-technical change.
He saw philosophy as a source of insight and perspective relevant to politics, but after his early studies, devoted himself to it primarily when temporarily debarred from more active pursuits: one might say that philosophy became, beyond its intrinsic value, a form of alternative public service when the forum was too dangerous for him to enter (for further reflection, see Baraz 2012).
