But "functional" from whose perspective?
From whose perspective is the narrative presented?
–From whose perspective is the presentation being delivered?
Each section is headlined "The Widow", "The Detective", "The Reporter" and so on, according to whose perspective is being examined.
Mr. Ai, based in Beijing, is an influential presence in contemporary Chinese art whose perspective is definitely internationalist.
Much of it hangs neither on Gen. George Pickett nor Longstreet, but Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose perspective this article examines.
By the standards of, say, the Harry Potter books, no character rises to the fore as the individual whose perspective or struggle matters most.
Such physical – and metaphysical – musings have been inspired by talking to Dr Andy Lockey of the Resuscitation Council, whose perspective and expertise have proved invaluable.
He and his wife, Julia, from whose perspective most of "New England White" is narrated, constitute "the most celebrated couple in African America's lonely Harbor County outpost".
Critics were also upset by how these figures were depicted in a harsh, impersonal light and placed in a woodland setting whose perspective is distinctly unrealistic.
"There was a large presence of veterans, but also of students whose perspective was that the U.S. was an imperial, war-monger, colonial oppressor".
