point of observation
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
History comes with its very own Doppler effect: as our point of observation changes, so does our understanding of what we are seeing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every one has his own point of observation.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
A turn of the lever, and he, too, could sit down, and from his lofty point of observation leisurely watch the mile-a-minute special flash by.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen
Our previous experience was obtained on board—a position which, in some respects, does not afford so good a point of observation as when one is at some little distance from the boat.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
Suddenly it began to rise, boiling and spluttering, and sending out huge masses of steam, causing a general stampede of our company, driving us to some distance from our point of observation.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various
