After the euphoria of his release, Mr Mandela needs to demonstrate his capacity for statesmanship.
But it would behove the tightly-wound, hand-tapping secretary to demonstrate his capacity for confronting his critics directly, for confidence' s sake alone.
You could say these straight-guy roles are all offshoots of his celebrated turn in Arrested Development, in which he first demonstrated his capacity as a sort of holding midfielder at the centre of the collective comic madness.
While it may have seemed like a violation, he had shown that he had seen into her; he had dared to speak to her without a filter, demonstrating his capacity for terrible honesty.
In khaki slacks, a neatly pressed white dress shirt and a gaucho-style hat made of "witch material," Vita Kitambala, a Mayi-Mayi military general and traditional priest, demonstrated his capacity to deflect bullets.
And playing me – or the chancellor – is the remarkable Paul Higgins, who himself spent some time in seminary thinking about the priesthood, and who also demonstrated his capacity to swear like a trooper as Jamie, the other ferocious spin-doctor in The Thick of It.
He demonstrated his capacities early in his books on the Crossman diaries affair, and the Moonshot (a collaboration) and his contributions to Philby.
The unbeaten run was still alive but Real were not satisfied with the draw – least of all Ramos, who again demonstrated his astonishing heading ability and capacity to save his team's skin.
Furthermore, if this functional underdosing could have been detected via real-time therapeutic drug monitoring, a dose increase suitable for his demonstrated metabolic capacity could have been recommended.
