George Newton, the character Grodin portrays, does not have the sort of intelligence that might lend perspective to the situation.

To popular acclaim, he announced he was glad to lend his "average guy" perspective to a drunken driving trial.

This chronicle of past predictions lends historical perspective to today's rhetoric about Iran.

Interpret the news, lend perspective to the news.

The goal, colleagues said, was to lend perspective to a public alternately smitten and scared by scientific advances.

Yet Mr. Sheed manages to lend new perspective to whatever terrain he treads upon.

The program mixes standard repertoire with the finest works by lesser-known composers to lend perspective to major musical figures.

FOR every jeans commercial, television should show a slice of life in an old-age home, just to lend perspective.

The surface of the globe, being featureless silvery white, had nothing to lend it perspective.

Even the main question these days about I.B.M.'s future lends perspective.