85 Metaphors for view

The view of Rome from this point is magnificent, the best that I have seen, though the view from the Pincio only just falls short of it.

From his windows he could look out over Paris, and he was wont to declare that the view he received in exchange was the most beautiful in the world.

The former view is relativism, the latter is absolutism, in the matter of truth.

Dad, too, could always imagine that a few miles farther on we would find a fine camping spot, and his views were law to us.

But expressing, as the statute did correctly, the views of fresh adventurers, it became, in arrogance and in the pretension to speak for the whole of Ireland, a model for their future legislation and policy.

Gradually, however, their personal observation convinced them that this view was a profound error.

I hope that my views may not be misunderstood; I have great respect for missionaries, and all whom I have known were honourable men, and good fathers; I am also convinced that there are many learned men among them, who make valuable contributions to history and philosophy, but whether they thus fulfil their proper object is another question.

The view from the Franciscan convent upon the brow of the hill, site of the ancient acropolis, is on the whole the very best which can be obtained of Florence and the Val d' Arno.

Even where his view was not the highest truth, it was always a refreshing and beneficent heresy.

The view was cheerless in the extreme.

" "Your views of life are entirely too tragic, Clara," the young man argued soothingly.

But, even upon the supposition that this view of Racine's philosophical outlook is the true oneand, in its most important sense, I believe that it is notdoes Mr. Bailey's conclusion really follow?

" A pleasant view of the new domesticity that had come into Wagner's life is an elaborate surprise he planned for his wife.

He seemed to think the view I took was the right, and that much of what I had written was very good, but that it might be shortened.

From the Drachenfels (1,066 feet high) the view is the most picturesque, and this one, about a mile from the village, I ascended.

Many teachers, however, make the mistake of thinking that the views and rules to which they are themselves accustomed are universal principles which everybody ought to accept.

"The view is exquisite here, n'est-ce pas?

The aesthetic view of the world held by the Greeks, the transcendental-religious view of Christianity, the intellectual view of Leibnitz and Hegel, the panthelistic views of Fichte I and Schopenhauer are vital forces, not doctrines, postulates, not results of thought.

It seems to be desirable for the Filipinos that the above-mentioned views should not speedily become accomplished facts, because their education and training hitherto have not been of a nature to prepare them successfully to compete with either of the other two energetic, creative, and progressive nations.

At a mile distant, the view to the right opens, and from a rise in the road is beheld the fine amphitheatre of Sheffield; the sun displaying its entire extent, and the town being surmounted by fine hills in the rear.

My first view of the hospital was rather a shock.

Indeed, it was not much in my thoughts that we could be able to recover the ship; but my view was, that if they went away without the boat, I did not much question to make her fit again to carry us to the Leeward Islands, and call upon our friends the Spaniards in my way; for I had them still in my thoughts.

Of these seven subjects of difference the most important were those relating to the League of Nations and the Covenant, though our opposite views as to Shantung were more generally known and more frequently the subject of public comment.

The views of the world which proceed from the spirits of different ages, as products of the general development of culture, are not so much thoughts as rhythms in thinking, not theories but modes of intuition saturated with feelings of worth.

'Having satisfied myself that it was no other than the same animal, my first impulse was at once to find out the jockey who was to ride him, and warn him of his danger by telling him his mount was devoid of feeling in both fore-feet; but the saddling-bell had already rung, and in a few moments more the jockey emerged from the weighing-room and the next view of the horse was his tearing up the course in the preliminary, and "pulling double."

85 Metaphors for  view