Providing bearings

Usage examples of orienting.

In working with broad orienting generalizations, the trilogy delivers up a broad orienting map of the place of men and women in relation to Universe, Life, and Spirit, the details of which we can all fill in as we like, but the broad outlines of which really have an awful lot of supporting evidence, culled from the orienting generalizations, simple but sturdy, from the various branches of human knowledge.

In addition to being composed of broad orienting generalizations, I would say this is a book of a thousand hypotheses.

But when they compensated by orienting with another tracker, they had been unable to locate it.

They were orienting on each other, so as to overlap in space, so that they could exchange.

There was a violent jerk as it changed tracks, proceeding at an angle down a new tube, orienting on the spaceport.

They were orienting on her boarding pass, which was keyed to her identity.

But she tried a ploy of her own: after she moved aside, she moved back, orienting on him as he slowed at the top of his loop.

Somehow the act of orienting on his needs had made those needs unapproachable.

Had the machine really responded to a human voice-or was it merely orienting on a new object?

Had the machine really responded to a human voice—or was it merely orienting on a new object?

A stiletto appeared in her other hand, the needle-sharp point orienting on Clio's right eye.

Eyeless and formless, they nevertheless conducted themselves with a disquieting awareness, orienting on Bink----or seeming to.

The thing was now looming over them, orienting on its specific targets.

While they had been setting up the trap, he had been circling around, orienting on their sounds.

Melody saw the Knyfh laser cannoneer orienting on it, centering it on his crosshairs screen.