But those who knew him personally describe him as a laid-back Californian with a playful side.
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When Stanley Calrke was only 25, the word "legend" was already being used to describe him.
They describe him as highly intoxicated at the time and not wearing a shirt despite below-freezing temperatures.
The victim, a UNR student, was able to escape her attacker and describe him in detail, police say.
The smartest kid in the class, as some describe him, he was not always the most popular though.
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People who have worked with Cook at Apple describe him as quiet and confident, the peacekeeper at the conference room table.
Some politicians and diplomats who have met Maduro, who was Chavez's foreign minister for six years, describe him as a smooth negotiator.
The players describe him as a "sponge" and call him Coach Joe, even though he is not allowed to do any coaching.
As Kernighan and Pike describe him, Ritchie was an unusually private person.
She can hardly recollect how he looks and struggles to describe him.
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He did say it would be fair to describe him as a "bully" who helped perpetuate the atmosphere of doping on the team.
His friends and colleagues describe him as an agricultural guru.
And when I describe him as Welsh party leader rather than leader of the Conservative group in the National Assembly, I do so with Mr Cameron's blessing, I think.
So I thought, "You are not going to get away with that", and I called him in the debate an "ex-future prime minister" and took the occasion of the law case to describe him in those slightly unflattering terms.
Those who have been close to Mr Maduro describe him as a calm man and he also appears to have a spiritual side - he and his wife used to travel to India to hear the teachings of Indian guru Sathya Sai Babaa who died in 2011.
Ask him to describe his coins, however, and a collector's eyes will light up.
The feeling of being in solitary is almost impossible for him to describe.
While telling this story, the Rocaforts called Quintn into the kitchen and asked him to describe why he had been given Adderall.
We asked him to describe in three words what it felt like when he won the Young Sports Personality of the Year award.
Defence barrister George Hepburne Scott raised the psychiatrist's use of the word "fantasy" to describe what Mr Railton told him.
Afterwards he found it almost impossible to describe the experience that sent him running in anguish down the rocky hillside to his wife.
When those who were fortunate enough to see George Best play football describe the qualities that set him apart, they could easily be talking about Darcey Bussell or Rudolf Nureyev.
"It is kind-of surreal, a privilege just to be there, and to beat him, I cannot describe that, " said Nicholson.
"I can't describe how incredible it is to hold him again, " she said.
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