His stimulus, as it is with all clowns, was the creation of a character – amusing, moving, the fate of whom constantly intrigues us.
When your parents are Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, both of whom constantly push the envelope in media, you are not expected to maintain a decent image so as to get hired for a good job.
Hence we have the picture of the roundhead Cook, whom Warne constantly needles, and the cavalier Clarke, whom he constantly praises.
Despite the dangers she faced from the authorities, whom she constantly challenged over rights abuses, she remained in Iran until her death.
Glemp's other big problem was simply that, from the time of his appointment until 2005, there was a Polish pope – John Paul II – to whom he constantly deferred.
In his surprising anger — he now says he was "much angrier than seemed warranted" — Nichols saw "the dim racial memory of rage," that little boy in himself who is still angry and whom he constantly struggles to keep down.
In the novel, sensual Ramona is contrasted with Madeleine, the chilly young wife who betrayed Herzog with his best friend and whom he constantly describes as not only beautiful but brilliant.
Part modern-day Job, part existential Charlie Brown, part long-suffering hero out of Bernard Malamud or Ian McEwan, Golding was a man for whom things constantly went wrong, yet he resolutely soldiered on.
Great quantities of bullion had to be poured out to finance the expensive Spanish European empire and the costly wars and diplomacy of Charles V and Philip II, both of whom were constantly in debt.
Although the battle would seem to have been won long ago, this issue is starting to come back with a vengeance, not for manufacturing workers but for highly skilled white-collar workers, many of whom are constantly connected to work.
Cheap thrills are fine in their way, but there has to be something else - and there is in the work of the film-makers to whom Tarantino constantly refers.
