The most likely outcome is that, whatever the differences in style, America's new man at the UN and his interlocutors will find a way to talk to each other.
Blackpool manager Ian Holloway is renowned for his flamboyant style off the pitch but Coleman insists there is a real football man underneath the swagger.
Over the past decade Mr. Maret, 37, has turned up with virtually every musician in every style, from bossa nova to the avant-garde, but is clearly his own man in terms of his playing.