Soon after Napoleon arrived in France as a schoolboy, a teacher described him as "domineering, imperious and stubborn," speaking French with "a horrible Corsican accent" he never entirely lost.
But he was only four years old when his father died in 1887, and his mother went on to marry a Viennese general, thus providing a launching pad for young Joseph into the society of the capital.He never entirely lost the faintly aristocratic demeanour acquired in late-imperial Austria-Hungary, a feature which added to his charisma in inter-war Harvard.
He was known for frugal but grand soirées — Marlene Dietrich emptied the ashtrays at one; William Faulkner stood in line with Maria Callas for Chinese food at another — but he never entirely lost his sense of being an outsider, or his feeling that magazine work was a distraction from "a life of letters".
Guilty of slick sentimentality in some of his films, Mr. Levinson shows that "he hasn't entirely lost the scrappy wit and and the wry sense of human oddness that distinguish work like 'Tin Men' ScottoTin Men' Scott
The verdict is in and the killer is due to die, but when the star witness seeks out Corso to confess that her testimony was a lie, the cynical newsman discovers that he hasn't entirely lost his commitment to truth.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Levinson has peddled his share of slick, sentimental junk ("The Natural," "Toys," "Liberty Heights"), but he hasn't entirely lost the scrappy wit and the wry sense of human oddness that distinguish work like "Tin Men," "Wag the Dog" and the early episodes of the NBC series "Homicide".
He had also never entirely lost his Muslim faith and in Islam suicide is as great a sin as it is in Catholicism.
In an interview with The Observer, Mandelson insisted that he and Brown had 'never entirely lost our friendship' and said he had been at times 'a bit combative, probably a bit prickly', but suggested the past should be left behind.
Boot dislikes the term "neoconservative" since he believes that it "has entirely lost its original meaning", but he does not mind being called one.
He seems to have been entirely lost and destroyed by those Jesuits".
