The clock ticks for all men, and with each tick comes change.
We still tend to associate those qualities with men and with leaders.
Mostly men — and, with the weather closing in, they seem more tightly wound.
He always referred to them as "my men", and with two exceptions indeed they were.
He's shirtless and roaring, surrounded by other shirtless men, and with decaying buildings in the background.
In the pub he met his fellow men and, with them, formed a society of musers and drinkers.
Contending for Anna, drove a wedge between the young men, and with the onset of the war, they gradually became rivals in the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in Volhynia.
Early in the second half, Bale peeled right, neatly slalomed inside two men and, with the outside of the left foot, just missed the near post.
He added that he admired both men, and with both of them still in the race, "I felt like it was better to stay out of it".
That core is down to three men, and with the team likely to move on next season without him, it may stay that way, too.
With the lakeside town of Goma encircled by his men, and with new funds from captured mines and checkpoints, Mr Nkunda can afford to show willing.
