Behind her the life of Rochester stretched in a tranquil perspective of dull and colorless routine.
Men and women, who daily crowded by them unnoted on city streets, now loomed in the perspective as objective points of avid interest.
Against the dimmed perspective the flanks of the horses undulated under a sleek coating of moisture.
Susan found her thoughts trailing off into a perspective of questions that brought up against a wall of incomprehension above which Lucy's clear eyes looked at her with baffling secretiveness.
The frontispiece to the present volume illustrates how cleverly perspective is produced in Japanese art (Plate I).
This lesson in perspective he accepted, though grudgingly.
When I cast back my eye upon this narrative, through the long perspective of ages which it involves, I confess I feel incommoded by some misgivings of self-distrust.
Aërial and linear perspective are still imperfect, but the technical treatment of the figures is as finished as in Dürer's best pictures of the later period.
The composition of the scene is very picturesque; you see in perspective a long row of the brown or grey heads of senators of the most magisterial character.
The firmness of touch, the brilliancy of the key, the ease and breadth of execution without the slightest sign of hesitation or alteration, or the extraordinary perfection with which the perspective is rendered?
There is always perspective in Tolstoy; in Zola it is rare.
After critical perspective has been attained, it may be seen that the majority of composers fall into this category not a consoling notion, but an unavoidable.
The perspective of the houses is destroyed just as a boxer is bent double by receiving a blow in the wind (refined image!
Destroy the perspective and the stage is transformed into something that resembles staring post-Impressionist posters.
But not a house was to be seen, and not a human creature appeared on the visible perspective of any one of the three roads.
A perspective view of the machine is given in Fig.
Between these two gears is the clutch r, r, which is operated by the handle shown in the perspective view, Fig.
In such a perspective the salient point of the picture often lies in a foreground building; or, if the street be merely a setting for the representation of some incident, in a group of foreground figures.
Too obvious or positive a scheme, while possibly not unsuitable for a conventional decorative drawing, may not be well adapted to a perspective subject.
More than one century must pass before the place of either is finally determined in the perspective of history.
So far as I have reproduced the perspective for myself it has been a revival of sorrows such as this generation cannot understand; it has recalled the hours when it gave one a passion for death, a shame of life, to read our bulletins.
And the odd thing is that as I come to this nearer part of my story I find it much more difficult to tell than the clear littleperspective memories of the earlier days.
He shrank--for a little while he continued to shrink--in perspective until he was only a very small shabby little man in a dirty back street, sending off a few hundred bottles of rubbish to foolish buyers.
The entrance to the palace is about half a quarter of a mile from the railway, through arched gates, which give a long perspective into the several quadrangles.
It is the whole essence of perspective that it comes to a point.
The perspective of time was less clear because the synthesis of experience was more complete.
There are six of these openings, three of which comprehend perspective views of Monmouth, stretching between the Wye and the Monnow, in different positions.
Proportion changes, perspective changes; he grows to have a very different view of life from the woman's view.
The social perspective is entirely lost; and a million short-sighted homes, each seeing only its own interests, cannot singly or together grasp the common good which would benefit them all.
Mankind has never yet properly perceived historic events until time gave him the perspective his narrow present horizon denied.
Here I observed, by the help of my perspective glass, that they were no less than thirty in number; that they had a fire kindled, and that they had meat drest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perspective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
