point of vantage

The key confusion that has bedevilled discussion of this question is expressed in the statement—made by people who present themselves as opponents of Whig history—that ‘the historian’s point of vantage on the past must necessarily be in the present’ and that consequently the choice of what to study is ‘in the end...not simply historiographic, but political’.

This was the pattern of his behavior all day—he shadowed the Nurmis as they went about their chores, appearing silently on some point of vantage—the seat of the harrow, a sack of potatoes, the manger or the well platform—his eyes on them constantly.

A figure undoubtedly was moving from tree to tree, as if selecting a point of vantage, or restless from one of several conceivable causes.

Every day it cost us a race to get up to a point of vantage before the clouds should have come up and hidden everything.

He reached this point of vantage in time to behold the consummation of this tragedy, or epic--or whatever it may be.