Mr. Buffett's intellectual partner and confidant, Mr. Munger provides a screen: if he sees reason not to take a proposed action, Berkshire refrains.
I can read every word". On the other hand they, and we, are particularly fortunate in that the majority of the letters here have been written to his best friend, Thomas McGreevy, whom he met when teaching at Ecole Normale Supérieure, and to whom he wrote in absolute candour and trust, as an intellectual equal and confidant.
Intertwined with this riveting and suspenseful true tale is the story of her relationship with her husband, William Friedman, also a pioneering codebreaker and one of Elizebeth's closest confidants and intellectual partners.
He became the king's "intellectual courtier," secretary, and confidant, and he gained much power.
In addition to his routine duties at the Exchequer, More served throughout these years as "Henry's intellectual courtier," secretary, and confidant.
She appeals to God directly as her confidant and confessor about her weakness for "intellectual quackery," her burning ambition to achieve literary greatness, and her all-too-human foibles.
The evolution of a tiny group of mostly Jewish New York intellectuals from left-wing radicals in the late 1930s and '40s to confidants of the Reagan and both Bush administrations continues to fascinate.
Dismissive of students who are lazy, mediocre or slow-witted, he is extolled by his disciples as "the intellectual counterpart" to Michael Jordan, and for these chosen few, he plays the role of father figure, confidant and confessor.
Bill Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard, and a close confidant of Gordon, says "I think of Al as the quintessential Harvard person distinguished excellence of various sorts, intellectual curiosity and a multi-talented all-rounder.
Neighbors swiftly become confidants.
Mary collects confidants.
