Yet Tommy is a proud man wanting to support his family financially too - it didn't add up.
For a start, the governor, Keiichi Inamine, a proud man, has blessed the offshore heliport scheme and appears unwilling to lose face.
My dad was a proud man and didn't want people to see him when he was wasting away, but Janey went against his wishes and invited old friends over to say their final goodbyes.
Being a proud man, and only human, it is unlikely that Roberto Marinho acknowledged that his huge audiences were being fed on trash, and even less likely that his lieutenants used such a word in his presence.
He added that Mr Boatman was a "proud man" who had worked hard to protect the police and had felt "ashamed" at the recent developments.
Why this revival of the memory of a proud, touchy man who became a national myth?
He was a professional man proud to do the job he did and died doing the job he loved.
She insists that she doesn't want to be instructed by anybody -- least of all a proud, but repressed man like Li.
To now admit to doping after years of denial will undoubtedly be painful and embarrassing for Armstrong, a proud and intensely competitive man.
"He was a man who was proud to be a police officer and worked tirelessly on behalf of the public and members of his federation to improve policing, " its president Derek Barnett said.
BBC: Police Federation chairman Paul McKeever dies in hospital
He was a good man, and was proud to be of service to those who had freed him for the second time in his life.
But as those few claims snowballed into hundreds, the family had to face up to the horrific truth: that the man they were so proud of as a media star and tireless charity fundraiser had a far darker side to his past.
He added that the Martin family were proud and honoured when their brother Eamon entered Maynooth as a young man to study for the priesthood and were even prouder when he was ordained at the age of 26.
And Milena, stupid, proud Milena, who had always thought that it was beneath her to fight for a man, what did she have?
Kate said she was very proud of the man she married almost 25 years ago, and would remember him with a "big cheesy grin on his face".
应用推荐