After a lifetime at the cutting edge of British statesmanship, Eden was a curiously inadequate man.
One inadequate man has come to personify all the perennially unresolved contradictions in left politics that cripples it politically.
If you're a girl, anyway, there being few things as alarming to insecure and inadequate men as the prospect of women who can think for themselves.
His bestselling 2005 book, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, was an intimate study of PUAs – inadequate men with their own acronym.
This is about as uplifting as a tale of a thoroughly inadequate man and the tawdry, muddy murders of two teenage girls can get.
Intentionally or not, Bronson comes across as an incredibly boring, conceited and inadequate man with an addiction to savagery and to the celebrity status it gives him in prison.
It isn't clear whether he later sent money to this woman or another he'd met in Thailand, but the pattern – inadequate man seeks to dominate woman working in the commercial sex industry – is familiar.
Even after she left the service, Ms Rimington was still encountering prejudice in the boardroom, with too many inadequate men insisting on calling her "dear".Previously, Britain's most famous spies had to balance work with a dedication to nothing more demanding than communism, alcohol and young boys.
As Barnes's theory goes, whereas infertile women tend to internalise the problem to their sense of self, feeling personally responsible and inadequate, men are more likely to externalise – like a racing driver who has no problem behind the wheel, but is let down by mechanical problems beyond his control.
Mark Charnley, defending, described Truscott as a "socially inadequate man".
Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner also criticised the clip, describing Ramsay in a tweet as a "sad, inadequate man".
