Nevertheless, his secrecy and defensiveness during these playoffs have become grist for international criticism and humor.
Sidekicks are a requisite for comic relief (and grist for the lucrative merchandising mill).
The London Olympics were grist to its mill and to that of many ordinary citizens.
Mrs Giuliani's expensive ways and high-handed habits are providing grist for her husband's enemies.
Grist has a post up which takes a look at NOAA climate data for October.
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This will send the national unemployment rate, already 10.3%, soaring and provide more grist for Mr Tudor's mill.
Dave Roberts over at Grist points out the gross inefficiencies built into our current energy delivery systems.
The "due process in collection" rights Congress added in 1998 has provided grist for still more protester suits.
Congress has reduced withholding many times over the past few decades and thus created lots of grist for researchers.
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That art galleries provide grist for artists' comment mills is no special revelation.
Grist declined to say how much money BMW is spending on the program.
The parallel is grist to the mill of those who see the recent riots as a result of joblessness.
They were what he calls "concrete music" - grist for his creative mill.
Even talking about cyberwar might be grist to the mill of its proponents but it still has to be done.
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Shakespeare knew the value of the sensational: ghosts, gore, and grievous bodily harm were all grist for his melodramatic mill.
It was all grist to the mill for those who bemoan Tarrin's habit of not drawing others into the decision-making process.
This is all grist to the marketing mill in a market that puts strict limits on movie promotions before schedules are allotted.
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His remarks at a discussion hosted by the nonprofit Climate Solutions were carried in a live video feed on Grist.org.
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All of this is grist to the mill of Boeing, reeling from Airbus's coup in grabbing half the civil-jet market last year.
David Roberts, a regular contributor to Grist, a prominent environmental news and commentary blog site, carried the denier Holocaust theme even farther.
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The ultimate result will be to provide new grist for Al Gore's--and the administration's--friends in the "green" investment banking world and Silicon Valley.
At Vault, this article has provided grist for much debate between Law Editor Mary Kate Sheridan and Education Editor David Limm.
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His reticence, of course, only provides grist for tech bloggers and keeps Amazon acolytes coming back to check for word on the mystery device.
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Big, brash personalities be they mayors, business tycoons or TV talk show types are the grist in the mill of our modern life.
Moreover, nine out of ten violent attacks on women are carried out by men, adding grist to the notion of a war of the sexes.
Lately, with few exceptions, the would-be justices have deftly deflected the questions, truthfully but opaquely responding in ways that offer little grist for critics' mills.
Such incidents are grist to the mill of Moscow's conspiracy theorists.
Lots more over at NPR, Grist, and at Crosscut.com where the bureaucratic hoops involved with getting the project off the ground are detailed.
According to a study of the Greater Washington area, for example, per capita transportation emissions in the city were less than the national average, reports Grist.
The merest suspicion that they are going soft on the war, or are trying to use it for partisan advantage, would be grist for Mr DeLay's mill.
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