Not that there has ever been any question of the Spaniard's commitment, but the image of him face down on the Yankee Stadium turf, pained at the loss of a stoppage time equaliser illustrated a man with commitment to the cause.
Located outside a strip club in Hell's Kitchen, it illustrated a man in a tuxedo holding flowers, presumably jilted by his date.
Illustrating a man's uncanny confrontation with life and death while fishing, this 33-minute short is the first film entirely shot by a smartphone to receive an award at an international film festival.
His journey, which leads him to a life of asceticism, greed and hedonism and then back again to asceticism, illustrates that a man's life is the sum total of his experiences, and that it is in the course of searching where true meaning lies.
The interaction illustrated a young man, still enamored with the game of football and the chance to play alongside his childhood heroes.
This is a tale narrated from the grave, with not one but three Cobbs sharing the stage, a ruse cleverly exploited to illustrate how a man's view of himself changes over his lifetime.
But the play is itself a kind of proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a genius elegantly and movingly works through the human problem of how to face the end of his life.
A towering work by Philip Glass, the new production of his 1980 Satyagraha in collaboration with the genius British team of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, at the Metropolitan Opera illustrated how a man obsessed with equality could make a difference by focusing on one, defining chapter in the story of M. K. Gandhi.
