He justifiably loved to show off his achievements, and still does.
So far, although he looks pretty grumpy, he has just about contained the fury his supporters say he justifiably feels.
He justifiably claims credit for laying the groundwork for "normal, democratic and peaceful development of our country".
He justifiably takes pride in doing right by the land and the animals he keeps, and in being part of a larger agrarian community.
WHEN Herbert von Karajan performed and recorded "La Mer" with the Berlin Philharmonic, he justifiably made that landmark score of French Impressionism sound thoroughly indebted to Wagner.
He justifiably asserts of Welles: "Had he shot nothing else in his life, the surviving fragments would have marked him out as a supreme artist in film".
Mr Brown went into politics to change things but, most certainly, not like this... Sitting tight in No 10 may seem like clinging to office but he justifiably argues it is his constitutional duty.
And as he justifiably rails against the rich-poor divide, he airbrushes away other distinctions – such as the tension between consumers and producers – which can matter just as much.
Out of this scandal and its counteraction, he justifiably managed to excommunicate Lorenzo, to put Florence under interdict, and to induce King Ferdinand I of Naples, the papacy's ally, to declare a fruitless and inglorious war that kept Italy confused for two years.
That elementary fact lies at the heart of the message being carried with deepened fervor by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has made himself an avatar of gun-control advocacy, not to mention top enemy of the National Rifle Association, a label that he justifiably wears with pride.
One long-time regular I run into there is Luis-Manuel Garcia, an ethnomusicologist and writer who has a focus on the social dynamics of Berlin's techno scene and spends so much time in Berghain he justifiably considers Panorama Bar an extension of his living room.
