look beyond
Verb
Meaning
look beyond (third-person singular simple present looks beyond, present participle looking beyond, simple past and past participle looked beyond)
To see potential beyond obvious flaws; to consider something more than something else.
Examples
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
This is my prayer for all of us-"Lord, increase our faith." Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt.... Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future.... Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.