As one of the game's great students (and fans) - and blessed with inordinate natural ability - Federer often trusts his own instincts and judgment to correct flaws, finesse existing strokes and introduce new repertoire.
Trustees pay presidents with questionable abilities inordinate amounts, and colleges turn classes over to adjuncts.
A central question for actors and directors is whether to present Timon as authentically noble in his belief that friendship is only true when it is tested by want ("O you gods, think I, what need we have any friends if we should ne'er have need of 'em?"), or as a self-regarding egoist who takes inordinate pleasure in his ability to patronize his friends.
Like many right-wingers, Scheuer has an inordinate faith in military power's ability to keep us secure.
As a consequence, the large landowning families exercised an inordinate amount of economic and political power.
"If we have to spend an inordinate amount of our resources on testing, then it diminishes our ability to improve teaching," Ted Stilwill, Iowa's education director, said.
I had little sympathy for the teacher in this situation because she seemed to place an inordinate amount of importance on her degree rather than her abilities, as if this is enough to establish intellectual authority.
"Inordinate delay between arrest, indictment, and trial may impair a defendant's ability to present an effective defense.
These reforms would limit the court's lagging behind popular opinion by limiting the ability of any one justice to shape the court for an inordinate amount of time, while still providing the protections from public sentiment that the founders envisioned.
Joseph Butler, in his well-known sermon "On Self-Deceit", emphasizes the ways in which self-deception about one's moral character and conduct, 'self-ignorance' driven by inordinate 'self-love', not only facilitates vicious actions but hinders the agent's ability to change by obscuring them from view.
