"The Diplomat" is a deceptively complicated film about talent and privilege, art and sport, self-knowledge and self-deception, loyalty and betrayal and the way that living in a police state with utopian pretensions makes those things triply hard to untangle.
She refuses to talk further about the Kremlin head, showing the self same loyalty, but says he looked after her when her father fell from grace and the courtiers stopped coming.
To many, the veterans stood as totems of a vanished age of self-sacrifice, loyalty and honor, and, some said, as a living rebuke to the more self-centered mores of contemporary Britain.
These underlings show the same self-deluding loyalty, only with garish egos instead of practiced deference.
She is a tangle of self-doubt, loyalty, guilt, frustration, and smothered rage.
I agree with David Brooks that marriage is based on "self-sacrifice, loyalty and love".
I was really taken with his self-confidence, loyalty to his friends and ability to handle me".
MANAGEMENT FEALTY Bush: Self-described loyalty enforcer for his father -- "If somebody jumped my old man, I was jumping back".
Those who know him well offer little more than variations on the Sobchak line -- admiration, praise, an impression of sober industry and self-sacrificing loyalty.
"He is a man of principle," said Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power.Part of Mr Shima's appeal, in addition to his timelessly youthful looks, is his respect for the Japanese virtues of hard work, self-sacrifice, loyalty and modesty.
