Nicky is a practitioner of the Situationist art of negation.
Mr. McCain, however, has been a victim, rather than a practitioner, of the old racial gamesmanship.
Mr. Waugh, Mr. McInerney recalls, labeled himself "a practitioner of the vituperative arts".
Alexander was a practitioner of the ultimate extreme workout: empire building.
He is a practitioner of the politics of truculence, and complains, "I get bored when I'm not being attacked".
Merkel was described as a political climber, a practitioner of "the politics of baby steps", either outlasting or outwitting rivals.
"I like it," says Alexandre, once a Russian translator, now a practitioner of the Japanese tea ceremony.
His campaign manager is a "transformational kinesiologist" -- a practitioner of the healing arts -- who has never before worked in politics.
He was a practitioner of the rarest most esoteric art in the world the sincere, non-coerced and generous apology.
As a practitioner of the Torah, he is interested in sharing "Jewish wisdom with the entire community".
So Nelson has been a practitioner of the art of cruelty, too, transforming violence into a m?er.
