Perhaps only the hot-blooded, unthinking sort can now escape altruism's tainted reputation, captured in the suspicious terms for what people are really engaged in when they think they're helping (sublimation, colonialism, group selection, potlatch, socialism, co-dependency — the list goes on).
Willie Walsh's fearsome reputation is captured in a comment he once made as a trade union representative in his native Ireland: "A reasonable man gets nowhere in negotiations".
Once described as a cross between a firebrand preacher and a charismatic litigator, Mr. Loucks burnished a reputation aptly captured in a Fortune magazine headline: "Why Do Drug Companies Fear This Man?
BreadTalk quickly established a good reputation and captured imaginations with its unusual baked goods, which can include green tea, pork floss (dried Chinese meat that has a light and fluffy texture similar to coarse cotton) or curry.
With Morvern acting as the narrator of his first two novels, and the third – 1998's The Sopranos – recounting the tale of five teenage girls heading to a choir contest, Warner quickly earned a reputation for capturing the young female voice.
Icon enjoys a reputation for capturing the essence of a machine, and then emphasising it further with obsessive attention to detail.
Lucian Freud may have passed on, but his reputation for capturing unique, unexpected (and often discomfiting) angles will have a lasting effect on generations of artists to come.
Not to be confused with the Elizebethan philosopher, Francis Bacon was a conceptual painter with a reputation for capturing particularly bleak impressions of humanity.
Since 1991, acclaimed London label Ninja Tune has earned a reputation for capturing the moment's most exciting sounds instead of rigidly adhering to a single style.
Now entering it's third year, the premier electronic boutique festival has earned a reputation for capturing the crucial acts, and representing the most relevant of dance music's fast moving sounds.
She contends that the opposite is true, and recent deserters said the army, which had a reputation of brutalizing captured rebels, had treated them respectfully.
