Charles Kennedy once described him as a "quite extraordinary figure" while, in 2009, Mr Clegg said he was "utterly loyal, hard working and dedicated to the wider good of the party".
Nor is Amanda Drew's utterly persuasive, hard-edged aspirer: she may have her feet on the ground but you couldn't say her heart is in the right place.
He'd lost his seat aboard his dad's gravy train, and then his second wife Esther Murphy, an utterly brilliant, hard-drinking lesbian heiress kicked him to the curb.
"Businesspeople do not want politicians to completely and utterly wreck the hard work they've done for years and years and that is effectively what happened," Branson said.
He tells the story of de Lesseps's vision and integrity, as well as the daring and brio that enabled him to create, in a scant 10 years, a canal that -- whatever its commercial or political realities -- magnificently enabled great seagoing vessels to pass between the dunes, and to pass with a casualness that utterly belied the hard work involved in allowing them to do so.
Quiet-spoken, but still outspoken, Yoko Ono's vision remains utopian and her thinking seems utterly untroubled by the hard facts of contemporary geopolitical reality.
Its locus is events, and there are many of them, and on an utterly convincing evocation of hard lives lived away from the standard artifacts that we create to give it meaning.
That may be my memory suggesting they were more numerous than in reality, simply because they looked so striking, your average psychobilly having contrived to attain a look that was simultaneously utterly ridiculous and disquietingly hard and menacing.
It's pretty accurate as far as popular and mainstream songs go (the stuff you can name easily), but it utterly fails at the harder stuff; the stuff you really need it for.
Douglas is ruthless and utterly riveting in his hard-charging breakthrough role.
