But more importantly, the world has lost a sage and loving man who taught us all how to 'grow young'.
His rugby-loving man-of-the-people style has served him well, even if he is the Oxford and Harvard-educated son of a professor of Welsh.
And above all, he was a good, caring and loving man.
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Mr Thompson's widow, Jo, said she could at last grieve for her "kind and loving" man.
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His family described him as a "larger than life, fun-loving young man" as they spoke for the first time since he went missing.
His family described him as a "larger than life, fun-loving young man" as they spoke for the first time since he went missing 18 days ago.
Among his peers the respect for him is immense and behind the scowl which adorns the face of many champion sportsmen, 'Punter' is a generous and loving family man who has gone the full circle from tough street fighter to consummate professional and ambassador for the game of cricket.
Many of his proponents argue that the Rev. should be bishop because he is a loving and caring man.
"He's the most uniquely giving, loving, happy man, " Patane said.
His family previously described the father-of-two as "a loving, devoted family man" who "loved life and lived it to the full".
Then again, it could well be that the new technologies render us more autistic: less inclined and able to communicate, and therefore happier in front of a screen rather than talking to, let alone loving, our fellow man.
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And yet at this time he recorded perhaps his greatest song, 1980's "He Stopped Loving Her Today, " the tale of a man who continued pining for his lost love many years after she left him.
The young man who emerges from Virgil Tanase's biography in particular is seductive, funny and loving, but constantly on the move: between the raw, sun-drenched Mediterranean and cramped, grey Paris, ever in search of respite from crippling bouts of tuberculosis, as well as comfort from the various women he charmed and loved with a passion.
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