By the time of his downfall, last spring, he was off drugs and alcohol but was nonetheless delusional.
His new clothes, his very greenness, liberate him, make a hero of him, and at the same time are his downfall.
Drawing a parallel between pictures of the Nazis burning books in 1933 and Iranian demonstrators burning official photographs of the Shah at the time of his downfall is unfortunate, to say the least.
The report, which found that HBOS had a funding gap between its loans and deposits of more than £200bn at the time of its downfall, reveals that a "brash" culture developed inside the bank following its creation in 2001.
It's not the only time Nixon's downfall and Brown's financial crisis intertwine in his discography: when Brown leads the chant: "I need some money!" in the JBs' You Can Have Watergate, Just Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight, he isn't lying.
They say screen time is the downfall of relationships.
These can be important imperatives in a time of economic downfall.
For the musicians write a song about your experience and record it, so you can get the anguish out of your head, plus the achievement of a kick ass song will make you feel good, all the feel good vibes are well welcomed in this time of potential downfall.
Ebay is my Westfield, my diary, my time-killer, my downfall, and it's 20 years old today.
Even though it's been spoofed a thousand times, Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall is a still-lacerating account of Hitler's final days, while The Lives of Others took a hard look at the compromises entailed in the grinding state spy system in the former-GDR.
