I thought that was the job of the critic--without perspective, what is the point of a book of criticism?
By itself, it's just a number without perspective.
It is a place without perspective, where speed, time and distance seemingly cease to exist.
"Argo" is an undigested mass of information, thrown together with skill and care but without thought, without perspective.
Without perspective or sense of scale, the book's most eloquent statement is that of its own confused immensity.
The difficulty is for readers who presume they are being presented history without perspective, just a series of oral histories.
Too often, the film drifts into a kind of passive voyeurism, offering the unhappy spectacle of these wasted lives without perspective and without hope.
But Drexler's praise isn't without perspective, and he's been wary of Friedman's general overhaul of the brand.
"Exaggerated swings without perspective," the central bank president, Jean-Claude Trichet, said recently, "would delay the return of sustainable prosperity because they would undermine confidence, which is the most precious ingredient in the current circumstances".
It was here, on that soft morning, looking down across the valley, that I saw the world as the artists of the Middle Ages saw it, saw the landscape foreshortened, understood the compression of buildings and fields without perspective.
