An enduring men's-wear archetype, who returns this season wearing more tweed and Anglo tailoring than Robert Downey Jr. in "Sherlock Holmes".
When the conversation turned to the war, Lody opined that the German army was a very well-trained body of strong-bodied and enduring men, and that it would be hard to beat them.
Rock's enduring wild man was emerging from self-imposed retirement and his return to action had been marked by the launch of his official website.
In his darkest days, he said, he was buoyed by reading Viktor E. Frankl's enduring book, "Man's Search for Meaning," the perspective of a Holocaust survivor.
He is already enduring the man in a wheelchair, buying nothing but time, and the wobbly banter and rants of people plunking down coins for lottery tickets and single cigars that they convert into joints, and his patience must last until sunrise.
At its best, Mason's novel, with its yearning parade of "nostoi", or homecomings, reminds us of the indeterminacy of stories, the play between fate and free will, and the enduring power of that cool tactician, that teller of tales, that master of exploits, that long-enduring man, Odysseus.
Other weighty topics that are floated within both book and film include the contemporary relevance of the myths and practices of the ancients, the iniquity of the powerful, the excesses of the rich, the exploitation of the poor, celebrity culture and man's enduring inhumanity to man.
The film's most powerful images are to put it mildly somewhat one-dimensional: they show a man enduring torture and abasement at the limits of human endurance, for a reason which a person unfamiliar with the story would find hard to discern.
Coincidentally — I assume — each of the characters he's played has been a man enduring harrowing circumstances with soft-spoken fortitude.
Now, he's employing that husky, low-down growl of his over basic, brooding instrumentation to offer a sense of a man enduring biblical torment.
Like all famous brands, just "Louis" is enough, three and a half centuries on, to define a man, enduring French taste and a historic period in time.
