He is presented as a bit of a celebrity bimbo, a vain man who lives for the perfect table in the best restaurant amid A-list companions.
He is presented here as a mere rebound fling – a ruse Diana co-created with long-lens photographers, which was intended to make Hasnat jealous.
He is presented not as a symbol of assimilation or deracination, but as a person more or less comfortable with himself.
He is presented as a handsome, charming and amazingly patient man, especially since his mother and wife had some similar traits.
He is presented as a sober, taciturn genius who thinks about nothing except Art, and the tone is one of muffled eroticism as Griet passionately grinds his pigments and tidies up around his easel.
He is presented by his party as a well-educated, Christian man from modest beginnings, a perception which contributed immensely to his popularity in Nigeria's 2011 general elections, during which he garnered a staggering 22 million votes.
He is presented as the principal bogatyr (knight-errant) at the 10th-century court of Saint Vladimir I of Kiev, although with characteristic epic vagueness he often participates in historical events of the 12th century.
He is presented as a poet, the theme of whose great epic sounds remarkably similar to that of Dante's poem: "I was a poet and sang of that just son of Anchises who came from Troy after proud Ilium was burned".
He is presented as a person who constantly worked towards a single objective.
He is presented as a highly intelligent but perhaps detached and impassive individual.
He is presented, even as a young officer, as courageous, yes, but at the same time vulnerable.
