Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

Only an Adams could convert naïveté into bravado.