In the years since Idriss Déby had seized power, he had engineered fraudulent elections, enriched himself, and dispensed favors to his inner circle.
By the time Rae himself has dispensed "the witty unpredictable live shit" and left the intoxicating beat to ride out, it's a bonafide Wu-banger.
"Even as the leaders praise economic liberalization and the Internet, the Communist Party can't change its basic nature," said Mr. Wu, who in the 1980's dispensed the party line himself as an editor at People's Daily.
Having dispensed with Downey, Tyson then found himself at the mercy of Brooke Shields, who, to his dismay, started improvising a pass at him herself.
A minister could not dispense what he himself did not possess, namely, the Holy Spirit.
Partridge never dispenses tips, confining himself to observations so general they appear banal.
(Hugh Hefner plays himself, dispensing this nugget of advice to Tucker: You don't need to find a bunny; find the bunny that's in every girl).
Perhaps oddly for a man who barely showed up at the office during his year at Elektra, Mr. Ocasek finds himself dispensing tips on corporate politics, along with recording advice.
All this is perfectly in line with Aronofsky's prevailing ethos of adamantine self-punishment, even as it usurps divine prerogative – Noah has almost become a deity unto himself, dispensing his own justice.
High points do come, but rarely: one is that prickly moment when Jerry, having discovered in Mrs Unger "a character", finds another writer nosing around, a "smirking, intrusive, ungenerous and insincere man" who dispenses versions of himself before disappearing "into a thicket of half truths he hoped was art".
