Hoffman portrayed a public figure capable of facing down scorn — his Capote was an actor himself, a performer and manipulator.
A lot of folks think that it takes a hacker to do this but anyone in the public is capable of doing it".
They implied they had no idea that a man who'd habitually become unglued in public was capable of much worse behind closed offices and gymnasium doors.
As Hoffman plays him, Capote is an actor, too: a wounded personality who remade himself; a public figure capable of facing down scorn.
Aged 28, he was still green behind the ears, the quintessential public schoolboy, capable of making schoolmasterly corrections of idle errors of cricketing fact.
A new state constitution that untangles the Proposition 13 knot and provides for greater democracy, including the restoration of majority rule for all state financial decisions, would enable residents to rebuild a public sector capable of providing prosperity.
The Britishness that allowed four querulous caricatural nations to live together, that conceived a public realm capable of embracing the world, has perhaps still its most important contribution to make.
Yet India's prime minister remains, even for Mr Sardesai, a mysterious figure.In hologram or the flesh, Mr Modi is a brilliant public speaker, capable of seemingly endless Hindi epithet and rhyme.
When Barack Obama was asked last year about Colin Kaepernick taking a knee in protest, he spoke not as the leader of a political movement but as a holder of public office capable of a moral voice and with a duty to seek a unifying answer.
If the Labour party is serious about addressing the "long-standing pressures on work" it will need to adopt progressive fiscal and social policies – such as investment in public services – capable of generating sustainable apprenticeships and job opportunities, paid for through a progressive and fair tax system.
