"He was not your average C.P.A.," he writes with a son's understandable pride.
Azeff's mother, Barbara Barnhill, who had worked as a hot walker and a groom, talked with understandable pride about her daughter's passion for horses, how she had followed in her mother's footsteps in the racing business, how driven and determined Yvonne was to succeed.
And for a Muslim, who views Islam as God's final revelation and can recall with vividness and understandable pride nearly a thousand years of Muslim triumph and superiority over Christendom (that is, the West), the presence and strength of Israel is a painful reminder of Islam's long fall from power.
Would any sportsman, or sportswoman, relish the sight of tears, after a stiff punch on the nose, mingling with mascara?" Now 82, Buttrick - bejewelled with little boxing-glove earrings and an International Boxing Hall of Fame ring - beams with understandable pride as she scans her scrapbook, at the torrent of weasel words that were slung her way.
Asked the highlight of his tenure Tuesday, Colletti took understandable pride in inheriting a team that had won only 71 games and leaving it in a much better place.
An immense amount of justified and understandable pride and joy surrounded the games, but as they wore on fatigue began to mix with annoyance.
Are we looking at understandable pride and justifiable relief, dancing on a grave, or "jingoism meets Spring Break" -- especially since many of these kids were probably in middle school in '01.
The Boston Symphony, which has played there for a century, is unthinkable without Symphony Hall, and it takes understandable pride in celebrating the hall's 100th birthday beginning this week with a pair of special concerts and a daylong open house.
The Corps looked upon this accomplishment with understandable pride and, without intended diminution of respect for its enemy, issued a statement of victory: "We harnessed it, straightened it, regularized it, shackled it".
Yet beneath Richmond's understandable pride – as well as the still-simmering resentment at their abandonment by some supposed Premiership friends – there is another layer of intrigue.
