He greets each of his friends effusively before striding straight towards our photographer for his close-up.
His gaze steady, his hood pulled tight, Anthony emerged from the visitors locker room and strode straight to the team bus, a frustrated star gone silent.
Far from feeling like clothes to state a swaddled elite, Simons's Dior was easy to imagine striding straight out of the shag-carpeted scaffolding construct in Paris' Musée Rodin and onto the Rue Varenne.
But that night he eyeballed the sell-out crowd, addressed himself to the microphone – "What the fuck am I doing here?", he asked the audience – and strode straight offstage.
If only Mary was able to do likewise and abandon her prejudices about him, she might not spend the final stretch of the novel striding straight into the jaws of her final and most terrifying opponent.
Last Tuesday in the French Quarter, Sergeant Glaudi's small staff was challenged by a man who strode straight into the roaring currents of the Mississippi River, hoping to drown.
