It is a trait that has defined his career ever since, whether in his buildings or in his wider public interventions – being the first architect to give the Reith Lectures, for example, being a Labour member of the House of Lords and key government advisor on urban policy, chair of the Tate Gallery and a long-standing supporter of the social housing movement.
Since, whether competing or attracting, only the best will do, resources get piled into them, almost regardless of the consequences.
Ever since, whether I am in a town or stomping through a narrow forest gulley, I cannot stop looking for these stories, these clues.
Reader, I was one of the invaders, and I have often wondered since whether it takes a Wilcox to understand a Wilcox.
The American director Martin Scorsese once said: "The French New Wave has influenced all film-makers who have worked since, whether they saw the films or not.
Ever since, whether they saw his soaring punts or not, many fans have believed that Guy was by far the best ever.
But this has not impeded them from posing as quasi-journalistic independent observers elsewhere ever since, whether on CNN, CBS, Fox or in these pages, identifying themselves as experts rather than Pentagon junketeers.
I have wondered ever since whether a human conductor was aboard, or whether a robot train is still making its ghostly way up and down the No. 6 line, opening and closing its doors for no one.
Richard Lester's Dumas adaptations revived the genre in the 1970s and it's been springing up ever since, whether Luke Skywalker swinging across space station chasms with Leia or 007's languid wisecracking.
Obama was a fashion natural eight years ago when she first came to the White House and she has stayed that way ever since – whether in McQueen or J Crew.
"We were nervous about it, but excited too," said Ms. Raz, who happily recalled that they've been a couple ever since, whether long-distance or accompanying each another on the road, in 26 different states.
