Word: view
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...background. But there is no transitory material between. We are forever imagining what that distant vista would be like to experience for ourselves, but we must focus on the here and now, and how that may be able to help us in the immediate future, forever deferring the mountain view for the shrubs we are perched among. We fail to see the chasm that divides us from those views. In other words, by focusing so harshly on the immediate future and dreaming vaguely of the future, we fail to recognize that we can't get there from here...
Rudenstine. "In view of that, and because inevitably this project is an important signal of Harvard's larger presence in Boston in the years to come...I must request a redesign to occur...
...This was an unusual action, prompted by the view of his former colleagues that there was not...a scholar in the field of international relations whom the department would prefer to him," said James Q. Wilson, then chair of the government department, in a 1973 statement...
Weeks ago, when I wrote that I'd changed my mind, an irritatingly shrewd reader e-mailed me (I'm quoting from memory): "You have come to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons, and because of that, you will one day revert to your old, erroneous view...
Some weeks ago, after the state of Arkansas executed a woebegone, deeply depressed mother who had killed her children, I wrote that I had changed my view of the death penalty. While I had once favored it in certain cases, I had decided that capital punishment had lost its meaning amid the general moral squalor and should be abolished altogether...