It was the perfect fit for someone of extreme ego and extreme reserve.
There was no reason for this except possibly his extreme reserve.
1937 On China, U.K. Waits for U.S. LONDON — While the British attitude toward the Chinese situation is marked with an extreme reserve and a tendency to wait for the United States to make the first move, there is the keenest anxiety over what is going forward.
A fresh proposal has just been transmitted to Count Berchtold, similar to that which M. Sazonoff two months ago submitted to France and Great Britain, and which those Powers had received with extreme reserve, declining any intervention which did not have the unanimous support of all the great Powers.
For a game changer, how about gasoline at $2.50/gallon, the world's extreme crude reserves left safely in the ground, and an America free of oil dependence?
In his first major speech since becoming Communities Secretary, Greg Clark told the Local Government Association: "For centuries, to be exiled - to be sent away - was considered to be an extreme penalty, reserved for the most serious of offences against the community.
As I discuss in my forthcoming book, The Democratic Coup d'État (Oxford University Press 2017), a coup is like chemotherapy―an extreme measure reserved for the extreme case of a fully authoritarian government unwilling to permit competitive elections.
When Feingold and McCain proposed a bill to ban soft money outright in 1996, McConnell spearheaded the opposition and launched a filibuster -- at the time a relatively extreme response reserved only for dramatic legislation.
Daily 12-hour firefights were draining their ammunition supplies, and they detonated their claymore mines — an extreme measure usually reserved as a last resort — three times to keep from being overrun completely.
In addition, I'm one to favour the "reserve extreme judgements until personal analysis" approach as it reduces the likelihood that people become the point of criticism and not the products themselves.The iPhone+keys+pocket scenario is one to be cautious of but cracking and breakage of the screen should have been heavily considered by the I.D. Dev team pretty early on.
