But the disconcerting thing about the North Sea barrage, from the viewpoint of the Germans, was that it could do its work so secretly that no one, friend or enemy, would necessarily know a thing about it.
It should be unnecessary to state that I have done everything within my ability to maintain a broad viewpoint with the above stated mission constantly in mind.
I also realize that my position here in England renders me open to suspicion that I may be unduly influenced by the British viewpoint of the war.
Pseudonymous commentators, pretending to speak from a viewpoint different from that of the German Government, but who were announced as being broadcast over the official German radio system.
Note that the propagandist tries to see things from the viewpoint of his audience.
Abruptly, with a startled shock to his senses, Lee's viewpoint changed.
Then with instant changing viewpoint he saw the true actuality.
Some likeness of thought or mood or some contrast of viewpoint usually accounts for if not justifies such literary mesalliances.
Perhaps its most valuable single asset from the human viewpoint is its topsoil.
He knows of many business deals wherein the cheerful advice of his wife changed his viewpoint and so changed failure into success.
He is unhappy and despondent, his viewpoint changes and the future looks uninviting and he loses his courage and his faith in himself.
They had given him his viewpoint on human relations, they had saved his character, in the formative period, from the distorting pressure of the struggle of man against man in the city.
Yet this viewpointwas the natural outcome of his life.
However different their viewpoint of life, old Mrs. Bradley and old Mr. Polk could agree heartily in that.
In life gambling it is merely the unsupported opinion or viewpoint of the individual that puts the odds against himself.
A right viewpoint must be your mental plumber to keep the connection open and free.
Just this radical change of thought, this transposition of mental attitude, the persistent holding of the prosperous viewpoint for a year would not only change their whole outlook on life, but would revolutionize their material conditions.
Francisco de Arango's liberal ideas should have been instrumental in securing for Cuba from the court at Madrid a privilege which the enlightened humane viewpointof his time began to consider a disgrace.
The British occupation had established a direct contact with the world outside of Spain, which was bound to broaden the narrowly provincial viewpoint of the residents of the colony.
From his present viewpoint Jimmie Kent was able to observe two figures not at a great distance away.
Frankly as a young girl Jean always had cared greatly for wealth, for social position and for fashionable people, a viewpoint which had not altered with the years, as Jean freely announced.
So from thatviewpoint he does not consider it makes any difference what methods he uses.
It was composed thus, so that if the master suspected the viewpoint of the slave hearers, the other viewpoint, intended for him, might be held out in strong relief.
The ideal in composition from an instrumental viewpoint might quite well remind one of the ideal in piano compositions, which consists of a theme with variations.
In explanation of the origin of these "stealing" Rhymes I would say that it was never the Negro slave's viewpoint that his hard-earned productions righteously belonged to another.
All these meanings were truly literally present but the meaning apparent depended upon the viewpoint of the listener.
And such comradeship is unaffected by outward circumstance or by diversities of viewpoint or of educational opportunity or of worldly possession.
Curious from the viewpoint of modern practice that nothing was said about the weekly or fortnightly hamper of goodies or the cushions shortly to follow,--to say nothing of the ceaselessly entreated remittance!
Mayer and Helmholtz, when chemists, had succeeded in artificially making urea and sugar and investigated living organisms from theviewpoint of mechanisms operated on the principle of the conservation of energy.
He signed wearily and shifted his viewpoint to a surrogate which overlooked the village itself.
Barra shifted his viewpoint to the central village surrogate.
I approached the situation from the viewpoint that I was her friend, not a friend of the house of Mecklenburg-Schwerein, but that, by knowing them and their ways, I could be of great assistance to her.
Of course from my viewpoint Cecelia Coursan was not a woman, she was simply the paid agent of another government and it was a case of her wits against mine; at least with this sophistry I quieted my doubts.
Which possibly accounts for the fact that engineers as a group seem to have a common-sense viewpoint of things, one that is frankly acknowledged and drawn upon when needed by men in other walks of life.
Surely it is not difficult to see this matter from theviewpoint of the Jew, which in this instance is also the viewpoint of every fair-minded non-Jew.
And it was from his viewpoint and from the viewpoint of the partisan spectators.
I would have liked to tell it from his viewpoint setting down what he thought of this unexpected stick thrown in his wheel, omitting most of the bad language for the censor's sake.
