And the 53-year-old Scot certainly sounds like a man reborn on his compelling, soulful new album, Understated, which receives a generous airing in these rarefied surroundings.
Good connections, a good location, a generous credit line and an open-ended tolerance for air travel are standard operating equipment.
Perhaps it was meant to be generous; it had the air, though, of comparison shopping, and list-making.
Mr. Milton also criticized Canadian authorities for providing less generous financial assistance to Air Canada than airlines south of the border have received from Washington.
They stretch arms open, generous, vulnerable, grasping at air; they spend their fire as if they might find something in the singed wick.
Four sea scallops took on a mildly smoky flavor from the ribbon of pancetta that wrapped them; and a generous portion of mild, air-dried beef (bresaola, a specialty of Lombardy) could have been cut in thinner slices, but thick or thin it made an elegant antipasti.
Unlike the networks, which paid their on-air talent generous salaries, CNN was to be a "video wire service" that would not waste money on big-name anchors, reporters, or producers.
Its many co-ops offer generous quantities of light and air at a fraction of Manhattan prices.
Yet it is a pleasant neighborhood bar (and restaurant) of high, mustard-yellow walls and generous skylights, with a casual air arising from civilized and knowledgeable regulars.
Carries as baggage: Bush administration officials who followed Ms. Garvey at the F.A.A. criticized her as being too generous in negotiations with the air traffic controllers' union.
