Sentence examples for lofty perspective from inspiring English sources

Because you have a lofty perspective on things, you know there are basically two ways to fix this mess.

"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.

To reconnect with the primal vastness of the earth, they decided to go only by pre-Wright Brothers transport, renouncing the jet's lofty perspective for the more sluggish and archaic ship, train, bicycle, motor scooter and automobile.

So in the interests of thorough research – and thorough research alone – I invited a gentleman friend of greater stature to stop by and give me the verdict from his rather more lofty perspective.

While Handy did not accompany the photographer on his aerial voyages, his meditations take a similarly lofty perspective on some of the important business and social issues of our time.

Instead of regarding these unfortunate men from the lofty perspective of a charming, cynical hatchet man logging frequent-flier miles -- George Clooney's character in "Up in the Air" -- "The Company Men" looks them straight in the eye from inside the trenches.

Yet 24 hours later, my old ego was back in uniform and on patrol, so what long-term good was that beguiling glimpse of a loftier perspective?

To look up elevates the soul; to watch a falcon take flight from the cornice of a building is to envy its freedom, to consider the world from a loftier perspective.

His tantrums send him spinning off into fantasy rendezvouses with relatives whose loftier perspective enables the youngster to get a handle on the cute calamity cramping his style: among them, teenage Mirai; his mother as a girl, whose unruliness is strangely familiar; and his Brando-esque great-grandfather, wounded in the war.

As relaxing as it is to sit on a Parisian cafe terrace and watch the world go by, it is breathtaking to sip an aperitif while watching the sun set over the French capital from a loftier perspective.

11), based on Alice Sebold's popular 2002 novel, isn't as alarming as the specters Mr. Jackson usually traffics in: she's a 14-year-old puzzled to have had her life ended abruptly by a neighborhood pervert, and she doesn't so much haunt her family as look after them, from the lofty, helpless perspective of the afterlife.