His mother Diane, who had been told he would never be able to look after himself, communicate or form meaningful relationships, was astonished when he made a joke, something she had never heard him do before.
The Church of England's director of communications communicated himself into a corner last week, after a well-meaning but homophobic tweet about Vicky Beeching, the gospel singer who's just come out as gay.
He couldn't feed himself or communicate.
In this era of anti-politics, it's possible for anyone with enough ego, money, and audacity -- in other words, Donald Trump - to do it all himself: declaring himself a candidate; communicating with and mobilizing voters directly through Twitter and other social media; and getting free advertising in mainstream media by being outrageous, politically incorrect, and snide.
In his three-plus seasons as Mets manager, Randolph fashioned himself as someone who communicated with his players, saying he knew them better than anyone.
The role of a helper in client-centered therapy is to assume the internal frame of reference of the client, to perceive the world as the client sees it, to perceive the client himself as he is seen by himself, and to communicate something of this empathic understanding to the client (Rogers 1951, p 29).
He wrote that "the most perfect way of seeking God" is "for us to contemplate him in his works whereby he rendered himself near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates himself".
Bobby Floyd, a Mets coach who threw batting practice to the two Tuesday, found himself trying to communicate with Matsui in Japanese.
Grove had sensed that something was moving around at the bottom of his industry, and he knew that this something was threatening to him, but he didn't have the language to explain it precisely to himself, or to communicate to his people why they should worry about it.
"I was so touched by the things that no one sees — that they are like a normal family," said Mr. Testino, who, after being obsessed with the glamour of royal portraitists like Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, found himself trying to communicate the "energy" and the "magic" of two children losing their mother and connecting with their father.
