He exhibits, offscreen and, frequently, on as well, a polished air of defeated, schlumpy resignation, as though he had honed his personality to work with failure rather than with success.
Asad has a slight smile, but it should not be mistaken for a smile of joy — it's a smile of sadness, confusion, defeat, resignation.
The act of letting go could feel like defeat, resignation or even passivity, but it could also be construed as a powerful declaration of trust -- trust that there's an order to things (however hidden that order may seem), trust that the universe knows what it's doing, trust that the universe has our backs.
But it failed to halt the slide in his fortunes as he headed to defeat and resignation in 1997.
The next day, a defeated David Cameron announced his resignation as prime minister, barely a year after winning his unlikely re-election for a second term.
Fair-minded to a fault, dutiful, full of wonder at the heavens but regret on earth, Mark expresses the resignation of the defeated.
And perhaps to the right of Salmond sits Boris Johnson, the newbie MP for Uxbridge and now clear favourite to win the Conservative leadership contest following the resignation of a defeated David Cameron.
Jammeh's defeat and resignation led to euphoria in the Gambia last week.
Nevertheless, a majority of his party voted against him, and a smaller number joined the opposition to bring about his defeat and resignation later the same month.
Each word just drips with defeat and resignation.
