Despite his powerful mimetic skills, he has a lack of solidity, a preternatural detachment, that make him an implausibly engaged protagonist, particularly in dramas set in earlier, more granitic times.
"Where did we go?" This disappointment, he says, made him more engaged as an author.
Sure, his charm involved repeating sexist epithets at his highly pixellated, scantily clad prostitute associates, and his elegance had more to do with how he held his gun and the way he shot a sarcastic one-liner, but his two-dimensionality - his utter lack of depth - made him instantly engaging, a hilarious pastiche, a bastard for all.
For Ali-Reza, a 24-year-old friend from Kerman, Iran, it was Steve's unique type of activism that made him so engaging.
But the pride that propelled Coriolanus to triumph in the battlefield makes him reluctant to engage in the kind of vote-mongering niceties that the public expects.
The Massachusetts law allows for civil commitment of a sex offender who suffers from "a mental abnormality or personality disorder" -- like pedophilia -- that "makes him likely to engage in sexual offenses if not confined to a secure facility".
It makes him seem actively engaged in his faith, as warrior, thinker and bearer of the sacred attributes.
In Persuasion, Captain Wentworth admits that his flirtatious behaviour with Louisa Musgrove was enough to have made him, inadvertently, "an engaged man" if she wanted to claim him.
Make people think, make people smile, make them engage in the stories of the day.
To be fully engaged makes him uncomfortable sometimes".
