This isn't a policy issue; it's the kind of thing I usually try to stay away from, the supposedly character-revealing nature of someone's personal history.
Cremins once told me that mysterious characters from Chicago, supposedly part of the crowd that helped steer Kevin Garnett to the pros, would show up on campus, unannounced and unwanted.
And even in this case, we have the ironic transformation, whereby a supposedly positive character trait identified early on, tenaciousness, has in fact become perhaps Bush's defining character flaw.
But the main justification is not the awfulness of the offence but the supposedly incorrigible character of the offender.
After John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, speculation later surrounded "Umbrella Man", a supposedly suspicious character shown in photographs carrying an umbrella.
She spoke in far more BBC tones than her supposedly "scally" character would have, but for all that, she was the most real and relatable companion since Sarah-Jane.
Engineer Theatre Collective's production nods towards how vulnerable we make ourselves online but Kat's levels of gullibility are overwhelming and, for her supposedly intelligent character, implausible.
Quite frankly, after reading about Harry Reid's "intolerance for fat people" in the profile by Adam Nagourney, I really had no interest in reading any more about him, despite the column inches devoted to his supposedly "complicated character".
They cheered Kavanaugh's rage, they cheered Sen. Lindsey O. Graham's rage, and they poured their contempt down on the women who dared to question the nominee's supposedly impeccable character.
All of this is an argument against the supposedly "repressive" character of this law.
Yesterday, seeing him battered and bleeding on my television screen was like discovering the mortality of a supposedly immortal character in Greek mythology.
