But the vigour and boldness with which he seized that opportunity, and the altruistic use to which he put his subsequent celebrity are worthy of the highest respect.
Cuccinelli's record has shown, time and again, that when faced with the opportunity of trying to limit women's access to health care and make their personal decisions for them, he'll seize that chance.
In Robert Provine's authoritative Laughter: A Scientific Investigation, he does point out that "pre-school babies provide an opportunity to study laughter independent of speech, the criteria of most adult laughter", but for some reason he didn't seize that opportunity.
Through his materials, he seizes visions that appear to him in the throes of sleep paralysis, a symptom of the narcolepsy he says he was diagnosed with in high school.
Senior American officials spent months weighing the allegations against Ahmed Wali Karzai: that he pays off Taliban insurgents, that he launders money, that he seizes land, that he reaps enormous profits by facilitating the shipment of opium through the area.
"We have an opportunity to seize that [model] again," he said.
We should seize that chance.
Seizing that opportunity will not be easy.
Instead, Cyprus and Istanbul seized that role.
