Data is in many ways a successor to the original Star Treks Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), in that the character offers an " outsider's " perspective on humanity.

The character also offers an " outsider's " perspective on " the human condition ".

As a surrogate for the audience, she provides an outsider's perspective on the business of music.

It provides science fiction with a quality that science fiction critic Darko Suvin has called, " cognitive estrangement ", the recognition that what we are reading is not the world as we know it, but a world whose change forces us to reconsider our own with an outsider's perspective.

It provides science fiction with a quality that science fiction critic Darko Suvin has called " cognitive estrangement ": the recognition that what we are reading is not the world as we know it, but a world whose differences force us to reconsider our own with an outsider's perspective.

This and the following song " Outside the Wall " are the only two songs on the album which the story is seen from an outsider's perspective, most notably through the three antagonists of " The Trial ", even though it is all in Pink's mind.

* An outsider's perspective on the divide between liberal and conservative news media in America, focusing specifically on Bill O ' Reilly, Ann Coulter, and CNN's Crossfire: a full-length documentary by the fifth estate.

Through an outsider's perspective, she harshly criticized the sexism prevalent toward women in dine-out experiences, as well as the pretentious nature of the ritziest New York restaurants and restaurateurs alike.

Given that it was not part of any other larger network and was not being operated for profit, unlike GameSpy or many other competing sites, PlanetCrap was able to develop an outsider's perspective.

Deeply involved with the language and its culture, passionately committed to the best things in Welsh life, there is in his work-even at moments of high intensity-an element of detachment, an ability to step aside and see the wonder of Wales, its beauty and its tragedy, with an outsider's reflective, almost analytical gaze.

" A View from the Gallery " is a standalone episode in the sense that it doesn't advance the prevailing storyline of the season, but instead provides an outsider's look into how the station operates and how two civilians deal with issues commonly faced by the station's military and diplomatic personnel.

Salim observes the rapid changes in Africa with an outsider's distance.

Conceived at the beginning as a standard timekeeper in plastic, Franz Sprecher, a marketing consultant hired by Thomke to give the project an outsider's consideration, soon led the project into what it has become: a trendy line of watches with a full brand identity and marketing concept -- instead of developing just another watch collection, which could have soon been matched by the competition.

Todd McCarthy, a film critic for the Variety magazine, wrote: " Clearly enamored of the culture it examines while resolutely remaining an outsider's romanticization of it, yarn is disappointingly content to recycle familiar attitudes about the nobility of ancient cultures, Western despoilment of them, liberal historical guilt, the unrestrainable greed of capitalists and the irreducible primacy of Hollywood movie stars.

For example, Jan Shipps wrote on the outsider's interpretation of Mormonism, and Richard P. Howard, historian of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( now the Community of Christ ), wrote on his branch of the Latter Day Saint movement.

He cultivated the outsider's knack of seeing the illogic in familiar things.

To an outsider's ear the similarities far outweigh the differences between the dialects.

One of the roles of the alien sidekick is to act as a mouthpiece for social commentary on the human condition from an outsider's point of view.

One given by Kyriakidis ( 2007 ) is that Ritual is an outsider's or " etic " category for a set activity ( or set of actions ) which to the outsider seems irrational, non-contiguous, or illogical.

His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American society.

In Germany, he has been compared to Wolf Biermann, who — although more overtly political — came from a similar ethnic background and played a similar outsider's role.

The Epilogue shows that is not the case, instead from an outsider's viewpoint Glahn is beautiful, talented and desired.

However, this interpretation is based on comments Paul made before he officially started Eckankar, when he was promoting what he called his Cliff-Hanger philosophy, which was an outsider's view on modern society.

Roeg, a British filmmaker, brought an outsider's eye and interpretation to the Australian setting, and improvised greatly during filming.

Bell thought that it was her cheerleader looks and an outsider's attitude that set her apart from the other women who auditioned.

The protagonist is Ulster journalist Gaby McAslin, whose outsider's eye both observes the African landscape and sees very clearly what the ' UN quarantine zone ' is doing to Kenya and Kenyans.

When the outsider's public announcement ( a fact already known to all ) becomes common knowledge, the blue-eyed people on this island eventually deduce their status, and leave.

From a sociological and demographic perspective, the Big Brother franchise allows the opportunity for analysis of how people react when forced into close confinement with people who lie outside their comfort zone, since they may hold different opinions or ideals from other contestants, or simply belong to a different group of people than a contestant normally interacts with.

This approach also allows preserving the curve definition under all linear or perspective 2D and 3D transforms and projections.

) This allows a two point perspective projection, with several design limitations: for example, it is not possible for the Doom engine to render one room over another.

This third perspective allows the male audience to take the female character as his own personal sex object because he can relate himself, through looking, to the male character in the film.

This philosophy allows the Jains to accept the truth in other philosophies from their perspective and thus inculcating a tolerance for other viewpoints.

His findings show that taking in account brain lateralization allows an other perspective on the debate.

In each case, where general relativity fails as the curvature of space-time invokes singularities from its equations at t = 0, the statistically " gray " nature of quantum cosmology tends to allow a scientific rationale to account for each paradox, and in so doing allows for a scientific perspective on previously theistic terrain.

The low inclination ( 0. 47 °) of the orbit allows frequent transits, where the inner planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars can appear to cross the Sun as seen from the perspective of the asteroid.

Warcraft III, like Blizzard's previous title StarCraft, allows for single and multiplayer replays to be recorded and viewed, allowing a game to be played at slower and faster speeds and viewed from the perspective of all players.

This perspective of niche allows for the existence of ecological equivalents and also empty niches.

This perspective allows us to apply to subtraction all of the familiar rules and nomenclature of addition.

The recurring primitive formulas Frye noticed in his survey of the " greatest classics " provide literature with an order of words, a " skeleton " which allows the reader " to respond imaginatively to any literary work by seeing it in the larger perspective provided by its literary and social contexts " ( Hamilton 20 ).

Generally the term is used to describe breakthrough scientific, religious or philosophical discoveries, but it can apply in any situation in which an enlightening realization allows a problem or situation to be understood from a new and deeper perspective.

Thus the Alexiad allows the events of the First Crusade to be seen from the Byzantine elite's perspective.

The port also allows the player to tour their city from a car's perspective and has a full motion video intro.

She may in fact be raped from her perspective, but not from the perspective of D, but the negligence standard allows for little mercy -- and rightly so.

This allows the author to operate in a realm unfamiliar and otherworldly to the reader or to explore contentious issues and historical themes in an otherwise entirely alien environment, giving the work a radically different perspective.

To give perspective, the ambient air outside in a typical urban environment contains 35, 000, 000 particles per cubic meter in the size range 0. 5 μm and larger in diameter, corresponding to an ISO 9 cleanroom, while an ISO 1 cleanroom allows no particles in that size range and only 12 particles per cubic meter of 0. 3 μm and smaller.

This language gives us a new perspective on familiar themes and allows us to look at them without the personal or social conditioning that we unconsciously associate with them.

Placing the robotic camera in a perspective that allows intuitive control is a recent technique that although based in Science Fiction ( Robert A. Heinlein's Waldo 1942 ) has not been fruitful as the speed, resolution and bandwidth have only recently been adequate to the task of being able to control the robot camera in a meaningful way.

This allows the artist to duplicate key points of the scene on the drawing surface, thus aiding in the accurate rendering of perspective.

XMS allows extended memory to be copied anywhere in conventional memory, so the boundaries of the " banks " are not fixed, but in every other way it works like the bank switching of EMS, from the perspective of a program that uses it.

System F allows polymorphism by using universal quantification over all types ; from a logical perspective it can describe all functions which are provably total in second-order logic.

This allows the computer-generated characters, images and sets to have the same perspective as the video images from the camera.