Last week he looked as if he would become neither.
People become neither good, nor bad, but, just like that hotel lobby eagle, unpredictably wild.
That, in fact, is what they have become: neither snarling tyrants keelhauling miscreants, nor heroic helmsmen, but managers.
But Mr. Zagajewski, unlike some of his black-sweatered fellows, has become neither a politician nor founder of a start-up money pot.
In a split second in 1990 I became a caregiver and not a wife, and in a split second as 2007 dawned I became neither a caregiver nor a wife but a widow.
One sharp contributor, Aqil Shah, reckons that Pakistan will become "neither Sweden nor Somalia", as the army's strong grip will prevent disintegration but also block growth of strong civilian institutions.
He has managed to become neither a wizened oracle nor an oldies act, and his best songs convey the appealing sensation of listening to a guy who is still trying to figure out what he's doing.
The polite, pious rich boy, who had left university without a degree, became neither an intellectual nor a visionary.Pure rage was all he needed, roused especially by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the arrival of American troops in Saudi Arabia, on the holy ground of the two mosques in Mecca and Medina, in 1990.
So, for all his evident brain power and stamina, his resilience and loyalty to his party – a combination conspicuous even in a talented generation that included Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, Michael Foot, Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland Healeyey became neither foreign secretary, a post for which he was supremely well-qualified ("I would have loved that"), nor prime minister.
Through these they become neither passive nor naive professional addressees since they also install contradictions meaning-orientedly in possible future scenarios.
