"He was the outside confidant that Dickie needed," Mr. Johnson says.
Responding to a Setback The polls were still open in Massachusetts on Jan . 19when Mr. Obama met in the Oval Office with David Plouffe, his top outside confidant and former campaign manager.
But a dependency on this specialist relationship may also develop, with the therapist becoming a substitute for developing confidants outside the consulting room.
In that unofficial capacity, he has duelled in print, in public conversations, and, often, on Twitter, with many of Francis's defenders, including Antonio Spadaro, an Italian Jesuit priest and journalist who is thought to be one of the Pope's closest confidants outside the Vatican.
The Captain is immersed in all of these intersecting events and simultaneously stands outside of them as confidant to his General and epistolary informant to his unseen communist handler.
It is the story of two confidants' inability to step outside of themselves to grapple with the downward spiral for which they blame each other.
On Thursday, the man who sought that outside investigation against the advice of his confidants appeared saddened, proud and perhaps most strangely, invigorated.
The family forbade anyone outside an immediate circle of family and close confidants from knowing the extent of her disabilities, and her mother, Rose, neglected even to tell Rosemary's tutors, aides, and teachers about her daughter's disability.
A novel explores the pride, secret desires, and shames that could never be known to the outside world or even to a person's confidants, because the novel showcases a character's interior life.
