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"etymology_text": "By contrast to a bird's-eye view.",
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"ref": "1995, Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision, page 91",
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"ref": "2008, Aron Vinegar, I Am a Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas, page 57",
"text": "This contrast between the expressionism of Crawford Manor and the deliberate damming of expression in Guild House is “dramatized” by the strikingly different photographic perspectives of the two exteriors: a frog's-eye view of the undulating, striated, and chiaroscuro-lit balconies of the \"soaring tower\" is juxtaposed with a \"deadpan\" view of the tightly cropped, shadowless facade of Guild House (figure 3.4).",
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"ref": "2010, Kurt Pritzl, Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence, page 248",
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"word": "worm's-eye view"
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"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
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"word": "kikvorsperspectief"
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"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
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"word": "Froschperspektive"
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"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
"word": "békaperspektíva"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
"word": "z żabiej perspektywy"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
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"word": "plano contrapicado"
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"text": "This contrast between the expressionism of Crawford Manor and the deliberate damming of expression in Guild House is “dramatized” by the strikingly different photographic perspectives of the two exteriors: a frog's-eye view of the undulating, striated, and chiaroscuro-lit balconies of the \"soaring tower\" is juxtaposed with a \"deadpan\" view of the tightly cropped, shadowless facade of Guild House (figure 3.4).",
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"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
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"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
"word": "békaperspektíva"
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"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
"word": "z żabiej perspektywy"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "point of view from the ground or from within a system",
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"word": "žablja perspektiva"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "frog's-eye view"
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