Dominic Cooper stars as Jesse Custer, a Texas preacher with a violent past who finds himself imbued with the spirit of a supernatural being, attracting the furious attention of God Himself in the process.
His way of coping with his own personal tragedy was to create a fictionalised version of himself (imbued with more than a few of his own characteristics, of course), thereby allowing millions of people to confront their own situations.
He describes men trapped aboard a sinking U-boat with horrific economy: "a screaming mass of humanity, fighting for egress against the inrush of water, all comradeship lost, every man for himself, imbued by blind and selfish panic".
His articles were considered to be most detrimental, as he frequently applauded the Bolshevik government and one was forced to the conclusion that he had probably become imbued with their sentiments himself".
However, at age nineteen, he happened upon Cicero's Hortensius, now lost except for fragments [see Straume-Zimmermann 1990], and he found himself suddenly imbued with a passion for philosophy [Confessions III.iv.7 8].
He imbued all his subjects, including himself, with an enervated yet dignified remoteness.
Arthur Conan Doyle, himself a physician, imbued his character with the kind of keen observational skills so essential to a good physician.
In the piece, Menand discusses how Penn rejected the strictures of the Hays Production Code and imbued his film with, as Penn himself noted in an interview with NPR, "the kind of terrible, frightening volume that one sees when one genuinely is confronted by violence": Much of the controversy was about the violence, and this reflects Penn's contribution.
Born to Nigerian parents in London - a Muslim father and Christian mother - Akinfenwa's outlook, his relaxed demeanour and nonchalant disposition, are imbued with the faith he attached himself to as a child.
Weekends he hiked with the family and coached girls' soccer and softball in Livingston, N.J. "He accepted that there were other ways to define himself," Paul said: he seemed imbued with faith and fresh joy, and he strolled with the lightness of a man who had found his way to easy street.
