And in this unfolding gesture, the figure's moral shakiness is drawn out too – from almost resistance to almost surrender.
His skills at the turntable are his passport through life, until he almost surrenders to an overdose of ecstasy and cocaine.
The Nationals lost the seat of Shepparton to the independent Suzanna Sheed, who achieved a 32.5% swing, and almost surrendered the supposedly safe seat of Morwell to Labor.
Wigan continued their hot pursuit of a place in Europe in an extraordinary game that saw them fall behind after two minutes, surge back into a 4-1 leandand then almost surrender it again as Manchester City managed an improbable rally with two late goals.
They almost surrendered a 36-4 lead, conceding four unanswered tries in quick succession in the second half.
An army of Aussie followers descended on Royal Ascot, but the Antipodean cheers among the 77,000 crowd turned to gasps as the mare almost surrendered her modern-day record unbeaten run.
After the eighty-six-millionth email dinged into my inbox, I did almost consider surrendering to popular pressure and dedicating an entire column to my analysis of whether such an arrangement is ever likely to happen and what it would mean for Google, and the wider world.
Dr. Biden, 57, will almost certainly surrender her job at Delaware Technical and Community College.
The verbal truth of the war poems is fascinating in that their poetic music is almost completely surrendered in order to honour the spoken clarity of factual experience.
Before the Olympics he said that he had the gift of focus and that he understood – perhaps even better than the phenomenal Qiu Bo of China, who hadn't been beaten for two years and who, almost unbelievably, surrendered the gold to the American David Boudia on Saturday night – that you could never go beyond the imperative of concentrating utterly on the next time.
