Woolf has admitted he recently considered joining the Conservatives, while Hookem voted Labour until he became disillusioned with what he considered "a criminal Labour government".
He vetted the process until he considered it assembly-line efficient.
Mr. Mairs likes to buy attractive growth companies, but he waits until he considers the stock reasonably priced.
But his stature grew, until he was considered a literary and political beacon, influencing generations of African writers as well as many in the West.
Until recently, he was considered a spent force.
It wasn't until a year later when he considered tackling "A Star Is Born," the third remake of the 1937 movie of the same name, previously circled by director Clint Eastwood and Beyoncé. .
Until recently, he considered the United States a second home.
The son of one of Mao Tse-tung's closest comrades, he was until last year considered a rival to Xi Jinping, who took the reins of the Communist Party in November and became president in March.
(Though never a member of the Communist Party, he considered himself a Marxist until 1950, Bigsby reports).
Indeed, until his late 20's he considered himself a composer who conducted on occasion.
He'd been "eviscerated," he said, by another, more famous, fiction writer — a writer he considered, until this moment, a friend.
