For Xavier, it was like staring down at the world from some Olympian height and watching all the lights come on.

The play's perspective is that of history seen from Olympian heights.

Brady coughed apologetically and descended from his Olympian heights.

This was the pinnacle, the highest point to which a police officer might aspire, and the most Olympian height from which to be crapped on.

Huffins's own rise to Olympian heights is as improbable as any story in track and field.

Milburn reached Olympian heights after a modest beginning.

He must reach Olympian heights when he's alone in the bathtub.

He saw from his Olympian height that man was a weak, cold, hungry, miserable creature, little better than the animals of the fields.

But most readers don't view books from such Olympian heights, and neither, for that matter, do most critics.

From the Olympian height of orbit you could barely see what a splendid job man was doing of fouling his own nest.