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"Pride of ownership" was a favorite phrase of my father's, embodying an idea real as bread to a man of his background, one having to do not with social competitiveness or conspicuous consumption but with his standing as a manly provider.
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He now finds a board that has reached out and put a real Dundee man at the helm as the club sails in heavy seas - one with a genuine passion and desire to right previous wrongs.
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His most important role, however, was as a man who found his real calling in using his abilities and prominence to advance causes of vital importance to the country he loved and to the preservation of its security.
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Real people, such as a blind man and a mute woman, were introduced.
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Critics have drawn real life parallels to his role as a man in the grip of a nervous breakdown - but his director remains supportive.
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S. Naipaul, sought to compensate for his father's failure while at the same time using his talent as a way of killing the father off, showing his mother who was the real man in the household.
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While he comes to look like the real-life Hughes as his character ages, he remains unconvincing as a man tortured by brain disease.
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"Not many people knew the real Bobby Robson, but the people who played under him knew him as a man, " he said.
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As the reader is reminded, Austerlitz was Fred Astaire's real name as well as a famous Napoleonic battle, and the experiences of Austerlitz the man merge with other traumas in European history, and with the thoughts of Mr Sebald's hypersensitive narrator.
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Neither man is still a billionaire, showing that sometimes real wealth can be just as fleeting as mistaken wealth.
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In Iron Man, Tony trusts Obadiah Stane and sees him as sort of a father figure while still idolizing his real father.
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