Burton always had a calm, lofty perspective on his work as an actor.

From a lofty perspective high above the plane extending out from the Sun's equator, the spacecraft will look down on the nine planets in their individual orbits.

But, in truth, the panorama sickened Wolf; he had had experience in the pyrrhic value of a lofty, dispassionate perspective of monstrous deeds.

Then, from his lofty perspective, Alemi saw on the beach the long column and what had to be the bell.

Then there's the less lofty, more cynical perspective.

It was a long evening, even without repeats in many of the movements' second sections, but Mr. Schepkin's lofty perspective held one mesmerized.

He argues, with the lofty perspective of a paleontologist, that Cubism carried the winning genes.

It is fascinating if ultimately futile to speculate about how this tortured century may look from that loftier perspective.

I learned," she recalls from a fifth grader's lofty perspective in "The Report Card," "that what seemed normal to me seemed strange to other people.

Luis had never observed the eve of battle like this, from the lofty perspective of a god.