That is certainly how it looks, as the task of rebuilding Myanmar's shattered economy takes on a bureaucratic momentum of its own.
I'm surprised by how serene he looks, faced with the task of overturning the world order.
US treasury secretary Tim Geithner is also featured, most likely for maintaining his boyish looks despite inheriting the task of fixing the world's economic ills.
Its unwieldy governance structure, drawn up in 2006 in response to a clash with the then Labour government over coverage of the run-up to the war in Iraq, looks unequal to the task of financial oversight.The BBC's present director-general, Tony Hall, admits that the BBC "lost the plot" on the payments.
The sighing, spectral Harry Reid does not look up to the task of taking on the freshman wolfen.
And while I don't necessarily look forward to the task of boiling down my list to the one school I can attend next year, it's certainly an exciting process, too, as I learn more and begin deciding my future.
The equivalent for a text-messaging driver might be for him to veer off a turnpike into a cornfield and drive twenty miles through the corn rows — stalks thumping the hood, G.P.S. lady losing her mind — without once looking up from the task of typing a heartfelt response to a wireless provider's auto-generated telemarketing text.
But Cardiff manager Malky Mackay, who has secured promotion in his second season in charge, was already looking ahead to the task of surviving in the Premier League.
In her saffron half-sari set off by neon orange toenails, Ashwini looked up to the task of hooking modern viewers.
By doing so, he captured what I think David Foster Wallace would call the task of being human--the task of looking for the wonderful amidst the stupid and the amazing amidst the banal.
