And yet, funny though it is, his Cyrano is utterly free of self-regarding, starry showboating.
The absolute requirement for a successful royal college of teaching is that it is utterly free from political interference.
"It's a really odd journey, from being completely in control of something that you've created to something that is utterly free," she said.
"No one is utterly free from vanity or anxiety, but in my own various projects I resist defining myself on the basis of others' judgments".
In his biography of his friend, Jacques Dupin marvelled at Miró's ability to live a life that was "utterly free of disorder or excess".
The faculty -- only 22 tenured professors -- is utterly free from teaching duties, spending time on research and mentoring 180 visiting scholars each year.
As he pointed out, it's all very well saying everyone is utterly free to do whatever they want when you're poncing about drinking a frothy coffee in a Parisian cafe, but most people have to earn a living.
So you will know What it means to be utterly free, floating Without a hope, floating in hope, a medium Fit for the being you have become, given The bed you have made, the race you won.
Weber's methodology in the end amounts to a call for the heroic character-virtue of clear-sightedness and intellectual integrity that together constitute a genuine person of science — a scientist with a sense of vocation who has a passionate commitment to one's own specialized research, yet is utterly "free of illusions" [Löwith 1982, 38].
