Jason Gilkison, the director and choreographer of the musical "Burn the Floor," was channeling his inner grandfather.
In Mr. Gilkison's case, the inner grandfather had a real-life component in the form of Sam Gilkison, who with his wife, Ronnie Jasonn's grandmother), opened what was probably the first ballroom dance studio in Australia in 1931, in Perth.
After all, Johnson, 39, has been part of Fidelity's inner circle: Her grandfather, Edward C. Johnson II Edward C. Johnson II, founded the company in 1946, and her father, Edward C. Johnson III Edward C. Johnson III, 70, has been Fidelity's chairman and chief executive since 1977.
"Plum had a very cold relationship with his father," Mr. Cazalet said from London, hinting at his great-grandfather's inner life.
Jon Stewart's grandfather was born in Inner Mongolia.
His favorite possession is his grandfather's chessboard and his inner monologue sounds like Sean Connery.
Viscount Cranborne's grandfather ("Bobbety") was part of the inner circle that chose Tory prime ministers in the 1950s.
Because I know the person or persons mentioned in an item, and know or knew their fathers and their mothers, and in some cases their grandfathers and their grandmothers, and in a few cases, for that matter, their great-grandfathers and their great-grandmothers, I can sense the inner significance and the inner importance of the occurrence that the item tells about; it lurks between the lines.
Kweku's film sounded more like a keyhole to an inner world, to a reality where the formidable Nelson Mandela could be anybody's grandfather, passing down nuggets of wisdom learnt from his hard-fought lessons in life.
That inner radar descends from Lucien Kraemer, Olivier's and Laurent's great-grandfather, who moved to Paris to make his fortune around 1870.
My grandfather knew mufti İbrahim and the members of his clan, prominent local Kurds who belonged to Reşid's inner circle.
