And yet the notion of Colbert unzipping this persona and stepping out — forced to own his opinions — is legitimately fascinating.
Occasionally, somebody from the kitchen emerges by pushing the counter into the dining room and stepping out from behind it.
Here's to rootin'-tootin' summer bootin', bags trimmed in fluoro colors, the new über-long earrings dropping like flies and stepping out on a high note.
I definitely had a feeling, writing In Custody and Baumgartner's Bombay, of opening the door and stepping out into the street, walking, seeing, experiencing other places, other lives.
Through a fluid "stepping up and stepping out" process, team members take on more responsibility when the need for their particular knowledge or skill is greatest.
When she does cross the road it is by waiting with a woman and stepping out with her, "like a calf with its mother".
It is not just a matter of a candidate hopping on a plane with an aide or two and stepping out in front of the klieg lights.
As the temperature drops, the oxygen level plummets and stepping out at 4,700m is enough to bring on instant dizziness and pounding heads for many.
As she and Janet pass a homeless man on the street, he calls out, "You're both lesbians!" "That short sentence," Crosby says, "quickly became shorthand for the pleasure of dressing up and stepping out".
Jacob Creel, 20, a Marine reservist, was one of those poll-watchers, sitting inside a senior center and stepping out from time to time to make calls to his higher-ups about the kinds of voters coming by.
They included shots of him riding a tricycle as a baby, chipping away at the Berlin Wall, riding in an elevator with Sen. John McCain and stepping out for an evening with actress Natalie Portman.
