I mean someone who is super bright, hard-working, ambitious, with an unshakeable moral core, but who is from a working class family who doesn't have any natural political connections, like being named Kennedy or Bush.
It's the combination of rhyme, popular culture, and what some might call an Eeyorish sensibility that has endowed Larkin's work with an almost unshakeable place in the National Memory.
Campion's Keats seems close to the man I had always imagined – a poet whose work stood at the unshakeable centre of his existence, but who was deeply engaged with the tight circle of his friends, and with the troubled Regency world that lay around them.
Even worse, he claimed he was going to bring the nakedly racist EDL into the "mainstream political debate", saying: "If I win my election in parliament, you've got a very strong, unshakeable ally who is going to work hard to get you involved in all the institutions of the state and get you the exposure you need.
He also said that, "if I win my election, in parliament you've got a very strong, unshakeable ally who's going to work hard to get you involved in all the institutions of the state and get you the exposure you need".
I knew, even then, that the little skinny tubes were for dilettantes.' This anecdote is one of several that Chuck Close has at hand to illustrate his childhood sense of destiny, as well as the single-mindedness and unshakeable self-belief that has underpinned his life and work ever since.
Unifying his outspoken conceptual work, which has a powerful political component, is the unshakeable conviction that the autonomy of the individual is non-negotiable.
The Romney campaign, and not just according to the movie, did little of that kind of work, seeming to rely more on their self confidence and unshakeable belief that Barack Obama was destroying the country.
In Maigret Sets a Trap, Rowan Atkinson tried to adhere to the quirks of the original character: constant pipe smoking, an unshakeable and prescient demeanour, a thoroughly domesticised home life in contrast to a work life hunting killers and criminals.
And yet, the central notion that governs the so-called "War On Christmas" is that this seemingly unshakeable firmament of religious privilege can be destroyed utterly the moment a single clerk working the Target checkout line utters the words "Happy Holidays," instead of "Merry Christmas".
