Mr Frayn's characteristic modesty seems to prevent him from driving his argument all that hard.
"I am not dispirited, but you do have to keep driving the argument forward," he says.
There is a slippage between this kind of hero and the "professional killer" it is her military's mission to train -- a slippage that creates the impression that something else is driving her argument.
The light Celtic voice, the trick of brushing back a fallen forelock from his brow, the mannerism of driving an argument home by stabbing the air with an index finger - the House experienced all this, and so felt the full impact of the man's personality.
Gary is always driving the argument that you must hustle.
Given the fact that Media Matters has been driving an argument of late, the premise of which was that right-wing media hosts had been trafficking in a sort of speech intended to incite violence and intimidation.
That crisis ended up driving home the argument for a public health approach to drug addiction.
The SPLC went on to sue other hate groups, using the same legal arguments, driving them to the ground.
In an opinion article in his local newspaper, The Omaha World-Herald, Mr. Cain called instead for stiffer penalties for drunken driving — an argument that drew a pointed rebuke from Diane Riibe, a board member of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
