By and by, we will see entire the lineaments of his fate and his standing among the Presidents.
When we climbed to the top of Pule Hill, I knew he had been there with journalists before, also tracing the lineaments of his poems and life: "We are making a film," he wrote in Gig, his engaging memoir of a lifelong relationship with popular music, about taking a BBC camera crew up there.
Both in face and in body — and, it became apparent, in the lineaments of his soul — Barrie seemed ill-suited to adult life, and those neat, child-friendly features sank all too readily into the caved-in sadness of old age.
In contrast, Obama, first at Columbia and later at Harvard, is influenced by leftist teachers like Edward Said and Roberto Unger, immerses himself in texts by Marxist, feminist and ant-colonialist authors, and thus fleshes out the lineaments of "his father's third world collectivism".
The men and women in "Various Antidotes" (1994) coped by filtering their lives through a solitary obsession, be it the study of bees or mice or the compulsive reliving of a traumatic event; and in "Arrogance" (1990), the painter Egon Schiele used art to try to control the world around him, remaking people and things to conform to the lineaments of his own imagination.
Both in face and in body and, it became apparent, in the lineaments of his soul Barrie seemed ill-suited to adult life, and those neat, child-friendly features sank all too readily into the caved-in sadness of old age.
So, while from afar America may seem, to the Briton, a bewildering and Brobdingnagian phenomenon, close up and personal, the Americans themselves take on the more familiar Lilliputian lineaments of his own countrymen and women.
His Pietà is richly realistic and beautiful: his compassionate study of the lineaments of death in a young man's body catches your emotions by surprise as you notice the thinness of a leg, the slump of a shoulder's flesh.
He performs with sensibility and interior tension; his face, despite its classic lineaments, is unendingly mobile and expressive".
Once past the over-the-top opening section (in which Sassoon is liked to, among others, Albert Einstein), his story takes on classic lineaments: from orphanage to apprenticeship, from anti-fascist street-fighter to soldier and commando, and then to, of all things, a salon in the West End.
