Christopher (Jeff Perry), the prolix patriarch, is a disheveled poltergeist of fulmination and cogitation.

NEWYORKER: Minority Reports

This fulmination anticipates the rhetoric of modernism.

NEWYORKER: Deceptive Picture

Perhaps that is what being a great parliamentarian amounts to: a rather grander version of the soap-box orators at Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner, whose fulmination is not closely listened to but whose mere presence is supposed to reassure onlookers that all is well with democracy.

ECONOMIST: A great parliamentarian