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look beyond look beyond1. Literally, to try to see a point past someone or something. If you look beyond the monument, you can see the country's legislative building in the distance. The teacher looked beyond the student asking the question to the empty desk at the back of the classroom. 2. To anticipate, plan for, or look forward to a time in the future after some event or situation. We're already looking beyond this loss to the election in 2075. You need to look beyond this one decision and see the bigger picture of our company's future. 3. To ignore, disregard, or forgive something; to overlook something. We're willing to look beyond the incident this time, seeing as it was your first offense, but any future transgressions will result in an immediate termination from the company. What she said was insulting, but she apologized, so I'm going to look beyond it. 4. To accept, feel better about, move on from, or come to terms with something. Try to look beyond the short-term problems and realize the potential this project has for long-term benefits. If you can look beyond its goofy-looking exterior, this car is actually very well made and exceptionally fast. See also: beyond, look Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. look beyond someone or something 1. Lit. to try to see to a point farther than someone or something. Look beyond Claire at the forest in the distance. Look beyond the house and see what you can spot in the trees behind it. 2. Fig. to try to think or plan further than someone or something. Sally will be gone soon. Look beyond Sally and decide whom you want to hire. Look beyond Tom. Think about how you will deal with the next person who has Tom's job. See also: beyond, look McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also:- être
- literally
- explode with
- explode with (something)
- a pinch and a punch for the first of the month
- beat the pants off
- beat the pants off (of) (someone)
- beat the pants off someone
- beat the socks off (of) (someone)
- drift with
References in classic literature If you cannot look beyond the end you aim at, and seek the good which is not your own, all your sacrifice is to yourself and not of yourself, and you might as well be going into business. My Literary Passions But Orlando, though in tears himself (so Rosalind averred), had a higher sense of their duty to their ideal, and was able, though in tears, to beg her look beyond the moment, and realise what a little self-denial now might mean in the years to come. Quest of the Golden Girl Coming quite close up to her, he could from his height look beyond her, and he saw with his eyes what she was seeing with her nose. Anna Karenina He went for a fortnight--a fortnight of such dullness to the Miss Bertrams as ought to have put them both on their guard, and made even Julia admit, in her jealousy of her sister, the absolute necessity of distrusting his attentions, and wishing him not to return; and a fortnight of sufficient leisure, in the intervals of shooting and sleeping, to have convinced the gentleman that he ought to keep longer away, had he been more in the habit of examining his own motives, and of reflecting to what the indulgence of his idle vanity was tending; but, thoughtless and selfish from prosperity and bad example, he would not look beyond the present moment. Mansfield Park My first thought was to look beyond the draperies at the back of the throne, for there it was that I had seen Thurid. Warlord of Mars "Let's have a look beyond that door, David," he cried. At the Earths Core Canst thou truly look beyond even so vast a stretch of time as --" Connecticut Yankee I, too, whose duty, and pride, and pleasure, Kate, it is to have other claims upon me which I will never forget; and who have the means of a comfortable and happy life already, and have no right to look beyond it! The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby I have suffered greatly, and I am suffering still, but I look beyond this life to a happy future which can only be reached through sorrow. The Country Doctor To Ralph, the pleasure of these last yards of the walk with Katharine was so great that he could not look beyond the present moment to the time when she should have left him. Night and Day I look beyond, and others rise, and yet others, far and farther to the shores of the uttermost waters. The White Company I could have hugged that discerning and indulgent critic, able to look beyond the result to the intention, and appreciating the difficulties of every kind that had been in the way. Elizabeth and her German Garden The momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find the perfect future in the present. Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories As soon as a man is wonted to look beyond surfaces, and to see how this high will prevails without an exception or an interval, he settles himself into serenity. Essays Second Series We must look beyond the tomb and, in faith, focus on the surprises of the resurrection, and we, too, will have peace. Beyond the tomb |