He appeared to be harmlessly ethereal, explaining that his utter lack of success in painting any portrait that patrons would buy was because he was too sophisticated, and actually aiming to be a Raphael or a Titian.
This drastic, disproportionate state of affairs derives from Real Madrid's utter obsession with success on the European stage.
Memory fails as to which unfortunate first uttered the phrase "success is, like, a double-edged sword" to a Smash Hits journalist, but that too became a catchphrase, rigorously applied any time a pop star began protesting about the pressures of work, as in: "Boy George stormed out of a TV show complaining of being exhausted and that success is, like, a double-edged sword" etc.
Tacitus put his finger on it: "Those who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall".
Certainly the meteoric rise of the title looks suspicious; it usually takes many months to build from utter obscurity to chart success.
Whether you look on Vista as a qualified success or an utter failure, we can all agree it was more of the same.
A slab of black granite, the memorial has on its top a brass medallion that bears a close-up of Ganesan uttering his popular opening line "Success".
Now, five years later, both companies are in nearly equally precarious positions, priming the companies for utter failure or rise-from-the-ashes success.
And I am a big success, but I feel like an utter fraud.
Some of us are outliers: Grad school offers ample opportunity for catastrophic and utter failure, yet some are blessed with unsurpassed success.
That dichotomy startling success in a few isolated cases, utter failure in the vast majority poses one of the toughest obstacles yet for drugmakers and regulators mired in the long and bleak struggle to cure cancer.
