In cufflinks and signet ring, with scrupulously brushed hair, pocket square, union jack flag on the desk, Grieve seems like the sort of Englishman who finds excessive displays of emotion a little unedifying.
With his well-tailored suits, shiny cufflinks, wise reading-glasses and elegant ties, he looks a thousand miles from a roughhouse warlord.The trial is being followed closely in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Which have I to wear?" Then, after a little ceremony with the cufflinks, Harry takes out his father's old cracked watch and tie-pin and, in a gesture of rare tenderness, gives them to the boy: "Make sure tha takes care of 'em"."The Valley" is a wonderful achievement, alive with characters, a rich social history as much as a family memoir.
Members of the CGI are greeted with a gift of a Patagonia bag stuffed with goodies, including a mobile phone, CGI cufflinks, a remote-control toy aircraft and a pack of playing cards featuring "52 Ways to Improve the World".
THE insignia of the Household Cavalry glinting from his cufflinks, Sam Instone draws a series of elaborate parallels between the financial-services industry and a military campaign.
If things went wrong, creditors could come after them for everything they possessed, down to their cufflinks, and have them imprisoned if they failed to pay.
It even dictates what he wears: his cufflinks bear the Pentagon's insignia.This impression of a man encaged could turn out to matter quite a lot for America's future as a world policeman.
Also, a tiny sewing kit, a couple of pills (two sleeping pills, two pain-killers, two Imodium; a couple of sticking plasters (band-aids in American); spare cufflinks; an almost exhausted roll of sticky tape, a blob of Blu-Tack, a few yellow Post-it notes, spare fountain-pen cartridges.
T-SHIRTS with spots, mugs with spots, plates with spots, skateboards, key rings, credit-card holders, clocks, deck chairs, tea towels, tote bags, cufflinks and even iron-on spots.
Shaven-headed and crisply suited, Mr Hague could be an American executive, were it not for his ministerial red box and cufflinks bearing maps of Britain in blue and silver.
While defending his clients before the SEC, he has been noticed sporting special cufflinks that could be purchased only by senior staff of the regulator although some observers reckon that the choice of attire might have had tactical intent.
