Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The herb clary.
  • noun The plant speedwell, Veronica Chamœdrys.

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Examples

  • 'People can get this god's-eye view of human behavior.'

    The Really Smart Phone Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • "People can get this god's-eye view of human behavior."

    The Really Smart Phone Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • Full of the grainy particulars of history and the god's-eye grandeur of economics, "Money" boasts equal parts empathy and majesty.

    Books on Money Jane Kamensky 2009

  • Applied Minds is also working on technology that affords warriors a "god's-eye view" of the terrain -- real-time information about what's around the corner or on the other side of the mountain.

    THE MIND OF AN INVENTOR 2007

  • In moments we had a god's-eye view of the glittering plain.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • The ridge had descended, but the company perched on Behemoth's back still had a god's-eye view of Firewoods Town.

    The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

  • Now he skimmed his god's-eye view "south" along the shoreline of the Map's largest continent.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • Now he skimmed his god's-eye view "south" along the shoreline of the Map's largest continent.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • It was only we, with our god's-eye view, who could see the brown boy lying as still as a cat along the branch of a carob-tree a few yards from where they stood.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • Here is the transparent, god's-eye view of people moving through time and space, the real life evocation of city planner Edmund Bacon's original vision for the "simultaneous movement systems" of Market East.

    The Clog 2010

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