The most affecting passages detail those hardships the poverty that many of the filmmakers he knew, and that he himself, bore, and the legal trouble that some of them, and that Mekas himself, faced as a result of New York's, and the federal government's, stringent enforcement of censorship laws.
He went on to cite that anger and resentment in the State of the Union, admitting he himself bore some "blame" for inadequate communication.
Later, one of the organizers, Seiichi Nakate, a fifty-year-old father of two, told me he feels that he himself bears some responsibility for what happened.
I hope Oren will be reminded, by audiences at universities and interlocutors at Georgetown dinner parties, that a more convincingly democratic opposition is waiting in the wings, while he himself bears responsibility for the government remaining in power.
He closely examines Augustine's evolving self-presentation in the year before and following his baptism and argues that the new identity to which he committed himself bore few of the hallmarks of the orthodoxy with which he is historically identified.
He lives his Christian convictions, opposing violence despite the brutality he himself bears.
In 1466 he detected a plot to overthrow his rule, and, showing more courage than he was supposed to possess, he had himself borne on a litter to Florence, where he defeated his enemies.
He showed what might be the effect of unfavourable ground, what he himself had borne in mind at Avaricum, when, though he had caught the enemy without general and without cavalry, he had given up an assured victory in order that even slight loss in action might not be caused by unfavourable ground.
He spent the next five hours explaining — through repeated memory failure and a steady refusal to acknowledge the contradictions and lies in which he kept entangling himself — why he bore no responsibility for anything else.
He certainly bore himself with the simple grace of a true aristocrat, and this simplicity carried through into his performances on stage, contrasting oddly with all the surrounding flim-flam.
Knowing full well he would get no sympathy from us, he bore himself with offended dig- v,1' a I a a a ^.
