The 38-year-old Gormally is famously lugubrious, yet at the same time very sharp, self-aware and amusing.
His own marriage was famously close, yet he and Caroline were so involved with each other, despite his many mistresses, that their children also suffered.
John Major was famously grey, yet he won in 1992 – but that was partly because he was up against Neil Kinnock, against whom many voters took a strong dislike.
Kissinger is famously unimpressionable yet, confronted by Nelson Mandela, he was hugely impressed, as everyone was, by the courage of the man, and the sheer charisma he brought to bear on us all.
The Manhattan household where they spent their early years was overseen by William Shawn, the famously retiring yet domineering editor of The New Yorker, and his wife, Cecille, who died in 2005 at the age of 99.
I realised that I had conjured a nightmare vision in the sportswriter's mind of those famously relaxed yet enthusiastic tones introducing his Radio One show with the words: "Later we've got a session by the Gang of Four and new singles from the Fall and Scritti Politti, but before that I'm going to set my dogs on this otter".
After a run in the mid- to late-2000s when the famously productive yet erratic singer got sober, formed a steady band and made some of the most respected albums of a long career, everything unwound.
The dinosaurs were famously wiped out yet plenty of turtles, crocodiles, birds and mammals survived.
For several years, Duane Reade continued to bumble along, expanding its footprint around New York City with its convenient yet famously cluttered stores.
Conlon is uniquely qualified to write about this giant (four times the size of the F.B.I. when he was hired) yet famously insular tribe.
