With the breathtaking arrogance that typifies the man, he later insisted the worst thing he did during the campaign was take the advice of others, rather than follow his own instinct.

BBC: Newt Gingrich and his campaign legacy

Since he assumed these posts early in the Obama administration, Brennan has shown himself to be a man of abysmal judgment, ill-concealed arrogance, and serial incompetence.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dont stop with the DNI

His sharpness and arrogance fell away, and he was revealed as a man shaken to his core by cancer--someone who has learned what it's like to be vulnerable and frightened, someone who now regrets his oft-displayed lack of sympathy for the vulnerable and frightened in the poorest precincts of his city.

CNN: Rudy's soulful exit

Yet the third go-round conventionalizes its hero by throwing him into repetitive struggles with his dark side. (Clothes and the man make each other here, since the black symbiotic substance that's responsible for his darkness and alarming arrogance turns his costume from red and blue to jet black.) And the script traps him and M.

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