• But the more important the early decisions, the more an adviser is likely to show his true colours.

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  • But he was also disarmingly frank in admitting his own naivety for failing to recognize what he saw as Mr Putin's true colours.

    BBC: Boris Berezovsky: Colourful character focused on Russia

  • When the militants want to resume hostilities, possibly in the spring, the country's Islamist politicians may at last be obliged to reveal their true colours.

    ECONOMIST: Tajikistan

  • IR So The Economist, masquerading as a pseudo-intellectual print medium, has shown its true colours as a boorish tabloid, with its reprehensible obituary of Diana, Princess of Wales.

    ECONOMIST: Diana

  • With these words, say his detractors, Mr Obama showed his true colours as a man who does not believe genuinely in America's greatness and is secretly reconciled to its eventual decline.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • John Bull complains 'Look here, this dark horse you are trying to palm off on me is coming out in his true colours as soon as I begin to rub him down!'

    BBC: In pictures: David Lloyd George election posters

  • He expressed for the first time accurate laws of motion, the origins of colours, the existence and effects of gravity, and the fact that the same physical laws hold true throughout the universe.

    ECONOMIST: Isaac Newton

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