Rather like a calmer version of Tolstoy's Father Sergius, his very retreat from the world gradually feeds his prestige and once free he is able to bring off a remarkable new metamorphosis into South African president and inspirational world leader.
And their success abroad, moreover, feeds the system with prestige and helps bring in money from the European Union and adventurous foreign investors.
So with Tom Hanks (Saving Mr Banks), Naomi Watts Dianaa), Day-Lewis, Bill Murray (Hyde Park on Hudson), Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn) et al, alongside more traditionally structured works like Walk the Line, J Edgar and The Iron Lady, there has been a conveyor belt of these relatively inexpensive prestige pictures feeding the awards machine in recent years.
In the book's concluding scene, she describes herself issuing a lengthy silent curse over his casket as it is rolled outside: "I damn you for having lusted for prestige and for having fed your obscene ambitions at my expense".
Reassured by her evident association with these genuine titans, her undiscerning fans cooed and fed her the delicious drug of celebrity prestige at countless little events – while other people suppressed their astonished giggles.
The paper argues that this fitness increment is via an increase in an individual's prestige because time spent guarding is a handicap that takes away from time that could be spent feeding and because guarding may increase the guarding individual's risk of predation.
Conscription was also introduced as the prestige and security of becoming a soldier declined, reflecting increasing disaffection with authority and the government's inability to feed its own troops.
Some of their frozen bodies were fed upon by dogs -- searing memories for a nation whose armed forces had so swiftly spiraled downward from their cold war prestige.
But now that kind of thing happens weekly, on both prestige dramas and pot-boilery soaps, as writers and producers scramble to garner the kind of buzz that social media exists to feed.
Enriching and feeding your mind builds on itself and you'll find yourself interested in new things that spark intrinsic interest, as opposed to external interests of money or prestige.
