When he stepped from the shadows of his presidential palace to greet Ghaida al-Tawati, whom he had summoned that evening by sending one of his hulking female bodyguards to fetch her, it was the first time she had seen him without his trademark sunglasses; his eyes were hooded and rheumy.
He continued to work in the palace of The Hague until the count's death in 1425 and then settled briefly in Bruges before he was summoned, that summer, to Lille to serve Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, the most powerful ruler and foremost patron of the arts in Flanders.
George Gresham, the burly, paternal president of the 1199 SEIU labor union, among the most powerful in the entire country, told attendees he'd been "summoned" that morning to Albany from his home in Washington, D.C. to deliver a message: the Working Families Party must not "overplay our hand".
But if he can summon that same form again, there is room for him in this draw to make it quite far.
Because he could summon that majesty.
(Senator John McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, took this same lesson in the Michigan primary, when he suggested that high-paying industrial jobs were a thing of the past. His opponent, Mitt Romney, insisted he could somehow summon that lost time, and he won handily).
Given the power and intensity of the speech, one wonders how Mr. Byrne plumbs so deep every night -- what demons of his own he might be summoning that makes their release seem so real.
He didn't just summon that move on the spot, unrehearsed.
Though he hasn't endorsed a candidate, he has summoned that somewhat distant past of rampant crime and bitter race relations to attack Mr. de Blasio.
It used to be that whenever Woods looked to be on the brink of disaster, he summoned recovery shots that left fans breathless.
