Mr. Hellon countered, "I'd suggest that's a pretty narrow prism."

But the option of selling off assets like the New York City airports needs to be explored objectively and thoroughly, and not through a narrow ideological prism.

During the cold war, Washington viewed India through the narrow prism of the geopolitics of that era.

That President Clinton is more severe on drugs than Mr. Reagan shows the narrow prism of ideas that makes up the drug war.

But a chaos that evokes something of the kaleidoscopic range of an era too often seen through the narrow prism of Pollock and the other New York School artists.

A pair of spectacles, borrowed from Cook, sat precariously on the bridge of her nose, the narrow prisms dimming the brilliant blue of her eyes.

I referred to Spike Lee's comments about Jews and Hollywood only to show how many people these days are seeing the world through the narrow prism of race and ethnicity.

Many governments, though, viewed the election result through the narrower prism of bilateral relations.

Sonia Morrison, whose son also viewed the film, said too many district residents saw the controversy through the narrow prism of the abortion debate.

For me, however, this report falls within the same two-speed vision, the same narrow prism through which some fellow Members regrettably view human rights.