Whether the hat he pulled low over his face protects his eyes from stage lights or merely adds to his aura of mystery and eccentricity is anybody's guess.
With his aura of invincibility fading and lacking match practice, results were mixed but he did reach the semifinals of the U.S. Open before losing to eventual winner Juan Martin Del Potro.
Certainly there is no one in the current ANC leadership who commands anything close to the kind of respect that Mr. Mandela does, or who casts his unifying aura.
But Obama must recapture the energetic, passionate sound that provided clarity to his first campaign, and Romney needs to project his new aura of ease and humanity in other venues and formats.
Part of Mr Mandela's saintly aura derives from his tireless appeal to South Africans' nobler instincts, such as forgiveness and remorse.
Combined with a veneer of South Side Chicago ruffian that he wears when it serves his purposes, Ellison attains an aura of power and danger.
In January, the country's communications minister, Matti Aura, fell on his sword, after a row over the privatisation of the national telephone operating company, Sonera.
Later, over dinner, the startup CEO made a critical mistake: He forgot that this was a business interaction, and a time to project the right aura about himself and his inventions.
He has created an aura of fear and mysticism around himself and his rebels follow strict rules and rituals.
His close-cropped grey hair gives him the patrician aura of a Roman senator.
And his public demeanor and persona otherwise exudes a squeaky clean aura.
And of course, after all these years there is a certain remarkable aura that has formed around the man and that bus of his.
Thompson must emit some aura of government power, because he always gets cast as a heavy official certain of his duty.
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