He took genuine innovations and improved upon them.
Russians took genuine pride in the Olympics, and by extension, their country's achievements in the post-Soviet era, in spite of problems that remain.
But then there's Mary Wollstonecraft, who took genuine and steady aim at books that engendered "a romantic twist of the mind" in "A Vindication of the Rights of Women".
"It is a consequence of struggle, strategy, ingenuity, vision, courage," he writes, adding that the places where democracy worked took genuine commitment, talent, nerve and the obvious passion for freedom — "politics in the best sense of the word".
This unlikely couple -- a silver-haired Italian-American from Queens and a gawky Canadian tomboy -- took genuine delight in each other's musical company and even broke into a slow dance on the stage.
Whether it be the ombudsman's job or not, the EU would surely benefit if somebody, somewhere, took genuine pleasure in giving the commission (for example) a big fat slap round its big fat head, on behalf of the general public, when the occasion demanded.
To understand him, according to the so-called "Power House" team that he brought to prominence at ENO – music director Mark Elder, artistic director David Pountney and Jonas – you had to realise that he took genuine pleasure in the time he spent getting to know performers.
However, for a Countryfile purist like me, it's hard to reconcile all these shiny new buttons and whistles with the old self-effacing, stiff-backed lunchtime Countryfile that took genuine pleasure in the little things and really didn't want to put anybody out.
Interestingly, recreating what has been destroyed took genuine users about 1.5 times the duration it took to perform the destruction.
