Mr. Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is characteristically pleased with himself.
Between the handsomely printed covers, for instance, Ruhlebenites found a page thanking "the folks at home" for supporting "their Ruhlebenites," as well as offering characteristically pragmatic advice: send butter, margarine, or dripping, please!
Sir Mike remained characteristically humble about the honour, telling EducationGuardian.co.uk he was "pleased, but baffled".
Last year, the top contenders included Simon Pegg, Alan Sugar, Dannii Minogue and Susan Boyle; this year, we're faced with such names as Rob Brydon, Stephanie Beacham, Bear Grylls and James Corden, with a characteristically bashful biography titled May I Have Your Attention, Please?
The teenager from Highland Park, Ill., delivered a characteristically charismatic performance that helped raise spirits in Sochi and would likely have pleased anyone watching at Prince's Paisley Park studio near Minneapolis.
(When Fitzgerald paid it back in full, Murphy wrote him, characteristically, "I wish we could feel we'd done you a service instead of making you feel some kind of torment. Please dismiss the thought").
He has been characteristically silent over the Nobel peace prize just awarded to a Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo.At home and abroad Mr Zuma is a supreme pragmatist, anxious to please everyone and offend no one.
"Please, please, please... .. "Down".
"Dad, please, please, please".
