(Later, he comments, "I have begun," a man rendered impotent -- or, to Isabella's distress, maybe not -- by self-awareness).
Ms Mantel has done much to rehabilitate a man rendered in "A Man for All Seasons", the popular 1960s film, as a self-aggrandising control freak.
In Reign Over Me he carried America's pain as a man rendered terminally infantile by the trauma of 9/11, then in I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry he pretended to be gay, which was OK because he was a widowed New York fireman - post-9/11 shorthand for "true American hero".
Juno Temple, doll-frail, allows Dottie to teeter between the ingenuous and the knowing, while Church shows us a big man rendered pliable and powerless.
The basic concept, first explored by Dieter in 1968, involved a bust self-portrait that he made of what he might look like as an old man, rendered in dense chocolate, and other busts that were supposed to represent lions but that come off looking more like dogs, made from brightly colored sugar.
Mr Romney a private man rendered more remote by his Mormon faith and personal wealth needs only to be "reasonably likeable" to win, a veteran strategist insists.Partly, Republican wariness reflects a nagging sense that victory in November even a triple triumph in which the White House and both houses of Congress passed into the party's hands would merely start a new round of gruelling fights.
I'll never know if I dropped my glove and forgot my vial of patchouli, or if the older man, rendered temporarily insane by my pout, swiped them.
It's not that some essential quality of being a white man renders Chait incapable of having smart thoughts on the subject.
It reveals a man, though rendered breathless in his prime, whose strong heart still beats loudly".
WALKING around the National Tennis Center during the United States Open this week, you may happen upon a 14-foot statue of a man, nude, rendered in heroic, classic style.
And in the crush of litigation over the 2003 crash of a Staten Island ferry, the largest settlement by far went not to the estates of any of the people killed but to a man, James McMillan Jr., rendered a quadriplegic.
