The theology they are based on is a very linear view of history.

That linear, 19th-century view of history has fallen apart as a measure of urban architecture.

Another panelist agreed that this linear view of story writing mirrored life itself.

In the 19th century this notion morphed into the linear view of the past known as historicism.

We miss the coherence that the linear view of culture conferred on seemingly random events.

Today's postmodernism has abandoned a progressive, linear view of art, and the works of these women can once again be valued on their own terms.

Such ideas challenge the widespread, linear view that humans are inevitably progressing.

In a stroke, a neat, linear view of history was complicated and refreshed.

In the end, the class had traveled centuries and epochs to reach a linear view of time.