A more subtle line communicated by the picture is Cameron's adroitness and social ease.
This is the notorious individual, who, in Liverpool, was the great putter up of bank-note robberies, and whose adroitness made him a general banker for the "swell mob" in London.
He managed to combine remarkable political adroitness with comprehensive vision.
Now that the DUP is in the ascendant, they see him as irrelevant.Mr Trimble has been steadily ground down by opponents of power-sharing inside his party, and by the adroitness of the still acerbic Ian Paisley, 79 this month but apparently restored to health after a period of illness.
The king's adroitness and personal charm allowed him in time to win over some of his adversaries, but he lacked a strong will and showed none of the military inclination so cherished by the Poles.
Such large gatherings of possibly liberal-minded people were frowned upon by governments in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and the attendant rise of democratic expectations, and it is a tribute to Humboldt's adroitness that he was able to overcome the misgivings of official Prussian circles.
The first four of these were all of a piece: bright, bold, lissom girls who oozed charm and social adroitness as their father's bank account oozed debt.
He must have witnessed the sweetness of Raphael's temperament, and envied him his adroitness, his coolness, his ability to be diplomatic and courteous when diplomacy and courtesy were needed... How he must have breathed a sigh of relief when Raphael died so young, at the age of 37 in 1520, allowing him to live on unchallenged for almost half a century.
He finished it on New Year's Eve, just weeks after he started it, and concluded in his diary, twenty minutes before midnight, "It shows adroitness, great reserve on dangerous questions, with enough frankness on other questions to make a show of boldness".
As the trips evolved, she was usually at the wheel while her husband deconstructed the maps with an adroitness that presumably comes from having had to find his way around strange cities in a hundred and nine different countries.
That the proposed law wasn't voted upon in last November's general election... is, if you ask most cockfighters, a consequence of their tenacity and organizational skills and the adroitness of their lawyers.
