It was a way of validating himself emotionally and God knows he got a lot of it.
But Torre said Matsui did not behave like a hitter who needed to hit balls 430 feet to validate himself.
And yet he has stooped even lower, using the needs of his followers to validate himself with a speech full of intolerance, racism and fear.
Among Clemente's previous clashes: cutting short a reporter who tried to validate himself by saying he'd "seen a lot of football": "The cows at Lezama [Athletic Bilbao's rural training ground] watch football every day, and they haven't got a fucking clue either".
He actually had to sit with the discomfort and learn how to validate himself.
One can almost imagine the Greek poet Aratus of Soli, who described the constellations circa 276 BC his verse itself a pastiche of Eudoxus of Cnidus's prose work on astronomy seeing himself validated in his stars and thinking something similar.
And that Fischer's refusal to recognize peers also allowed his paranoia to flower: "The world championship he won ... validated his view of himself as a chess player, but it also insulated him from the humanizing influences of the world around him.
To avoid assessing a "fictional curriculum" [ 15], which covers what is assumed the students are learning, the survey of the learning objectives was done by one independent person (neither a participating student, nor the lecturer himself), who validated the data with the lecturer.
I've seen funnier Jimmy Porters but Patrick Knowles plays him very well as a displaced romantic who believes, rather like Osborne himself, that life is validated by pain.
Instead, by not distancing himself from his past remarks, he validated the very agenda he decried.
