Meaning of point of view | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A position from which something is seen.
2. An attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs.
3. The perspective from which a narrative is related.

Equivalents

Examples

“From the operator's point of view, there is a large blind spot on one side of the machine.”

“From an economist's point of view, business is all about money.”

“From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.”

“It has been suggested that Prothean data recording is highly dependent on a certain point of view, what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious. The 'cipher' needed to comprehend the images implanted in Shepard's mind is the cultural knowledge of a Prothean: the archetypes, biological instincts, and common experiences universal to the race.”

“Near-synonyms: slant, bias”

“His point of view is that there is only one true religion.”

“The storyline in the film “The Usual Suspects” is presented from the point of view of an unreliable narrator.”

“Therefore, there may be no overt indication of viewpoint, either because the speaker fails to mark his or her viewpoint, or because he or she takes a neutral point of view.”

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