To best way to harness opportunity as it may spontaneously be presented, as well as, successfully ride out any hazards or peril accompanying these, requires like the explorer, a diverse array of talents, an open mindset, flexibility and the ability to adapt to new circumstances quickly.
Although for years Hogan had honed an image of himself as a lovably egomaniacal celebrity, his Tampa lawyers successfully presented him as a rugged Everyman who was victimized by a group of privileged snobs.
Thanks also to the Bush family's version of compartmentalization -- which is to hire a Lee Atwater or a James Baker to do the dirty work -- the president-elect successfully presented himself as the humble soul of bipartisanship.
But Macri – a wealthy businessman from a family of Italian migrants – successfully presented himself as the candidate of change at a time when many voters are concerned about inflation, slowing growth and crime.
Perhaps what has taken Giddins all this time -- apart from working on his award-winning "Visions of Jazz" and on the Ken Burns project "Jazz" -- has been the difficulty of grappling with a subject who so successfully presented himself as simple, even transparent, yet who actually was enigmatic, even opaque.
With more enthusiasm, Bush successfully presented himself as an invested candidate with established policy chops.
But amid a fracturing of support for France's traditionally powerful parties, En Marche successfully presented itself as a party able to transcend left-right political divides to bring reform. .
This is an important victory for the propaganda machine, which successfully presented the protesters as a mix of spoilt children narrowly pursuing their own interests at the expense of the public good, and cunning enemies of the state in league with foreign forces.
The recording industry, Lessig argues, successfully presented Napster to the courts as a mere mechanism for thievery.
