Yet at his best he could render dreams on film with a gossamer-light facility that continues to beguile us.
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Federer is on track to win back the title he claimed on his only other appearance at Estoril in 2008, but admitted he was not yet at his best ahead of Saturday's semifinal clash with defending champion Albert Montanes.
Yet at the end his approach to creative leadership required raising the bar remarkably high, inspiring others to do the impossible, and an almost unwavering ability to focus.
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Yet his anger at what he sees as the cluelessness of the governing class hasn't dampened his zest for life, or his sense of wonder at such transformations as the tatty dog track of his youth giving way to a resplendent Olympic stadium.
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Assuming Mr Ramos really does not intend to stand, so this argument goes, then he is also denying his opponents a target to aim at by not yet anointing his chosen successor.
Yet at one point during his senior year in college he was clocking 92 miles per hour on the radar gun.
He called his current offseason "my best yet, " when speaking Friday at his charity golf tournament in Jacksonville.
Yet his party proved better at rabble-rousing than governing, and Haider retreated to his political fortress in Carinthia.
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Eastern Province's Tsotsobe, who made his one-day debut in Perth earlier this month, has yet to make his international bow at Test level.
Yet Onyok owes his shot at fame and fortune to Roel's family values.
Yet at the same time, his breathtaking voice and guitar work are beautiful enough to make me want to weep.
Yet, at the time of his death, Camus found himself an outcast in Paris, snubbed by Jean-Paul Sartre and other left-bank intellectuals, and denounced for his freethinking refusal to yield to fashionable political views.
Yet at the same time, his Feb. 28 shake-up of Wiranto loyalists is still reverberating throughout the military, and his administration is prosecuting financial corruption cases linked to both the Habibie and Suharto governments.
Roosevelt remarried two years later and moved into a home he had built on Long Island, in New York, yet he credited his time at the ranch with deepening the love and respect he had for nature that helped make him an early champion of conservationism.
Iver parish councillor Alan Oxley said he had not had a chance to look at the detail yet but his immediate reaction was that as it was a development in the green belt, the "normal presumption" was to be against it, unless it proved to be in the public interest.
Matters seemed to be improving as Bernard won his maiden ATP title in Sydney in January but he has yet to build on his fine record at junior level.
Yet his conviction on insider trading charges proved that at least some of his success had depended on illegal, unethical acts.
Eavesdropping on their inanities at Ascot and Henley, shrinking at their brayings and cavortings at Queen Charlotte's Ball, suffering and yet somehow savouring his sense of exclusion, he is aghast at the fact of his humiliation.
Hamilton will face his toughest test yet at the next race, in Monaco in two weeks' time.
Yet sovereignty was the great unmentionable at his meeting with the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, and Gibraltar's chief minister, Peter Caruana.
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"You couldn't imagine biting into one of his apples, yet at the same time they seem to have the quintessence of appleness, " said Conisbee.
The former Cronulla half-back is expected to link up with scrum-half Matt Orford who is yet to arrive at the Bulls following his signing from Manly Sea-Eagles.
Yet that is precisely what he did, despite being at an age where he had yet to reach his peak, with most footballers performing best in their late 20's.
Even with 10 men, Tottenham still took the initiative and Defoe came desperately close when the ball landed at his feet after yet another mix-up in the Birmingham defence.
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.
Having lost the series's first three games, New Jersey might have seen its season and championship aspirations evaporate Saturday if not for Salvador, yet he and his teammates are at a loss to explain why, out of nowhere, he's emerged as a 21st-century incarnation of Bobby Orr.
Yet, as his victims queue up at the local hospital reported alcohol related admissions rise.
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"We were 50 companies just independently attached by a group of similar shareholders, " he explains, sitting in his spacious yet unpretentious office at Empresas Polar headquarters in Caracas.
Unlike the beleaguered presidents at Nissan or Hitachi, Mr Idei does not yet have a crisis on his hands, which means that he can undertake his restructuring at a sensible pace.
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