He saw a bright glint on a distant rooftop.
The big windows, facing east, overlooked an expanse of rooftops, distant high-rises and a church steeple.
But even now, on certain fine Saturdays and Sundays, one can see men tautly poised on the city's rooftops, scanning the sky for a few distant specks winging home.
Watching the drama of "La Bohème" unfold in Zeffirelli's rooftop garret is like peering into a distant, cluttered dollhouse.
No rooftop is so high, no ledge so distant, no section of pipe so out of the way that you cannot reach it.
Great rooftop chase scene with a minimalist musical score, distant foghorns, the Brooklyn Bridge (I think) shrouded in a mist.
This allows him to attach to distant objects, be propelled into the air, and thus swing from the rooftops of Gotham City.
There, in a world that couldn't be more distant from their lives, possibly using an informant's bad tip, American snipers on rooftops killed an Afghan police officer ("head of intelligence in one of Paktia's most volatile districts"), his brother, and three women -- a pregnant mother of 10, a pregnant mother of six, and a teenager.
As I chewed, I imagined the roe sacs basking torpidly on the griddle-hot rooftop of a Oaxacan bus as it wound its way slowly from the distant shore to the mountain city.
Does she recognise the Shirin Ebadi who stood on the rooftop chanting in support of Khomeini's revolution in 1979, or is she a distant figure now? "She's not distant at all.
