A synoptic view of Western philosophy in the 19th century reveals an interesting chronology.
Moreover, where other judges tended to take an instrumental view of constitutional issues, Scarman had the understanding and vision to take a principled and synoptic view.
They can in turn extrapolate information about the general circulation of the upper stratum of the ocean from a synoptic view of the surface pressure field.
The influential 3rd-century-bc Greek historian and statesman Polybius praised him as the first universal historian for his synoptic view of both Greek and Middle Eastern history.
The synoptic view across the barrier of death presented by the poet in these lines is both overshadowed and illuminated, however, by the memory of those to whom the greatest injustice was done.
As I discuss in this week's DVD of the week, Charlie Chaplin's 1940 film "The Great Dictator" is remarkable, not least, for providing a synoptic view of Hitler's dictatorship and of the resulting persecution of Jews.
But "Panorama" takes a synoptic view in which the camps are but a single moment: its peepholes are windows not only into Josef's life but also into the twentieth century.
Earlier in the book, she takes a similarly synoptic view, explaining that what affected these playwrights' lives was America's "enormous energy, strength, vitality, desire to grow, enormous everything, but not much tradition, not too much hanging on to fixed things.
The director, Joe Hill-Gibbins, keeps the numerous possibilities for innuendo gratefully in check, "the bedroom thing" in John's synoptic view of events widening in meaning to accommodate a loneliness that is never more acute than within a relationship.
Thus, the Discourse on Method, which provides a synoptic view of the Cartesian philosophy, shows it to be not a metaphysics founded upon physics (as was the case with Aristotle) but rather a physics founded upon metaphysics.
That said, "The Origins of Political Order" is a rigorous attempt to create a synoptic view of human history by means of a synthesis of research in many disciplines.
