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  • noun Plural form of vantage.

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Examples

  • Prisoner Pair is not so much a consciously painterly move for one thing, the film is shot from several different vantages as an exploration of the metaphoric potential of its subject.

    Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011

  • Mr. Attlee won't be satisfied until he experiences pure, undiluted moonlight under the most perfect conditions and from the most remote vantages.

    Serious Moonlight Lee Sandlin 2011

  • The Senator had barely moved, but his petulant glower had grown deeper as I talked; Pinkerton had listened intently, nodding and sniffing now and then and occasionally prowling about to view me from different vantages.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • What is gained by presenting the episode from both men’s vantages?

    Fall of Frost by Brian Hall: Questions 2008

  • And it would be far more interesting to actually discuss the attitudes of these workers from their own vantages, instead of just assuming, apriori, that they are oppressed simply because part of their work involves commodified sexual appeal.

    What Warrants A Slide Show? » Sociological Images 2009

  • All that said, it's a fraction of the pressure I felt making "The Da Vinci Code," since the novel was already controversial and had been viewed from so many different vantages and perspectives.

    Code Warrior 2009

  • From certain vantages the city was all haunted silhouette, secrei and recessed, its neon ego shut down.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • From certain vantages the city was all haunted silhouette, secrei and recessed, its neon ego shut down.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I'm in a press room a few yards from the studio, which is crammed full of kids and has no real seating (thus has no good vantages from which to live-blog).

    Live Blog from the Final MTV/MySpace Dialogue Connery, Michael 2008

  • From certain vantages the city was all haunted silhouette, secrei and recessed, its neon ego shut down.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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