It is pinched thin and careful to begin with, softened with open vowels and even the odd moment of involuntary gentility – I always think Bowie utters the line about the "seat with the clearest view" like an elderly customer asking for a table in a Yorkshire tea room.
We enjoyed it outdoors on the roof of the base on June 5, and served scones and Fortnum & Mason tea in a temperature of minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit, with one of the clearest views available on the planet.
He reports that he's behind a security perimeter around 100 meters from the scene of the siege with a clear view of the street.
From the subway exit on Church Street, passengers emerge with a clear view of the viewing stand where tourists crowd to take pictures of what lies just beyond the construction fences.
Oliver Platt pointed it out as he sat in the set of "Deadline," the actual old newsroom of The New York Post on South Street, with the Brooklyn Bridge in clear view out the window.
From the church's patio you can look down at 18th- and 19th-century white churches nestled among cashew trees, and to your right, looking south, is the coastline, with a clear view of the popular Recife beach zone, Boa Viagem, about five miles away.
GPS requires that you be out in the open with a clear view of the sky, and like most in-camera GPS, it tends to be less accurate when you're further out from major areas.
Long Island Fireworks on the Bay Those with a clear view of the Great South Bay, along the Fire Island bay front and shore from Patchogue to Bay Shore, will have a good vantage point for the second "Go 4th on the Bay" fireworks display by Fireworks by Grucci on Monday, after sunset.
But the hallmark of the cafe is the great glass windows with their clear view of the sidewalk and street.
One weekday, a few friends and I parked ourselves at one of the three unvarnished wood tables near the picture window, with a clear view of the tree-shaded stream.
