An almost reclusive leader of few evident convictions, he is both mistrustful and, after two years in office, increasingly mistrusted.
Richer and better-educated ones largely voted against Mr Morsi's constitution but the rural poor voted overwhelmingly in favour, upping the overall yes vote to 64%, enough to render futile the widespread claims of fraud.Private opinion polls suggest that the Brotherhood, though still adept at mobilising its core of support, is increasingly mistrusted.
For a writer who increasingly mistrusts the metaphoric – nothing, in the final analysis as much as the first impression, is like anything other than itself – when it comes to the subject of my own books, and my attitude to them, I find myself mired in similitude.
The shooting deaths have increasingly sown mistrust and strained the partnership between Afghan and Western forces battling the Taliban insurgency.
At worst, it is open to incredible abuse -- a problem in a society increasingly riven by mistrust and damaging splits.
Visitors of certain ethnicities and nationalities, especially Arabs and people from Muslim countries, were increasingly treated with mistrust by American immigration officials.
That's a sensible conclusion certain to enrage people who, increasingly, fear science and mistrust reason.
American and European economic sanctions on Iran over the dispute, and Iran's defiance, have fed an atmosphere of increasingly tense confrontation and mistrust.
Yet also on trial will be Japan's business culture and what constitutes trust in the world of finance.In the West, that culture is increasingly one of implicit mistrust.
