He aspires to a smart, metropolitan life from whose vantage point the idea of anyone working in the motor trade is deeply funny.
Kaplan luxuriates in phrases of this kind: "Some years back I was in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, from whose vantage point Tehran and Mashad over the border in Iranian Khorasan have always loomed".
We sauntered over wooded trails up to the highest point of the island, the ruins of Fort Holmes, from whose vantage point the British had retaken Fort Mackinac during the War of 1812.
Without them it's hard to see how a modern masterwork like Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," which was released last year by Paramount Vantage — whose ranks were radically thinned this year — will be made.
At the junction of the old city and its ugly new neighbour is the Alaaddin mosque, the city's vantage point, whose beautiful ebony pulpit and delicate prayer-niche are from 1155 (the complex was completed in 1221).
Had her essay been from the unique vantage point of someone whose brother was deeply enmeshed in this financial disaster for 13,000 victims (I, unlike Ms. Merkin, use that word without reservation,) and had her "sibling's" identity been fully revealed to your readers, there might have been some justification for publishing her views, wacky as they are.
Breaking it down, you can start with the "villain": Ser Jaime Lannister, a man whose absolute defeat serves as the primary vantage point of the segment.
What we sometimes call rising to the occasion, from this vantage, is an invention of panicked souls whose metabolisms are not suited to the pace of competition.
He recognizes what he calls "the Difficulty" of writing about an age whose heroes turn out to be, from a modern vantage point, villains: Hawkins, of armada fame, helped introduce the English slave trade; Spenser, who left us the glorious "Faerie Queene," also wrote a tract calling for the brutal subjugation of the Irish.
One of the best vantage points, however, is from the cozy greenhouse, whose glass panels form the narrow tip of the triangular house.
The designer — whose deft hand famously sculpted the BMW Z8, Aston Martin's DB9 and V8 Vantage, and the sadly short-lived Artega GT — should now be seeing ramped-up production of his luxury hybrid sedan, the Karma.
