Soon afterward, he began styling himself a desert nomad philosopher.
NICOLÁS MADURO, a former bus driver and trade-union activist, is fond of styling himself "Venezuela's first worker-president".
Styling himself the "workers' leader", Mr Rüttgers denounces raw-edged capitalism and preaches policies to temper it.
He is part Friday preacher, part neighborhood rabble-rouser, styling himself as an underdog even as he holds unquestioned power.
Snoop Dogg, styling himself a kind of Hugh Hefner, has taken to drinking from a goblet covered with rhinestones.
Indeed, his predecessor Saparmurat Niyazov was far more self-aggrandising, styling himself Türkmenbaşy, or Leader of Turkmen, and renaming months after himself and members of his family.
Coleman Silk is a black man who has passed for white for most of his adult life, styling himself as the first Jewish classicist ever hired at Athena.
He is clearly relishing doing battle with the administration, issuing broadsides styling himself as a populist standing up to "strong arm" tactics of the White House.
He is styling himself as a lawyer who was simply out of the loop, rather than one willing to manipulate his opinion for the sake of political demands.
As if styling himself the new Disraeli, he is the architect of a new alliance that risks alienating his right wing.
