At Versailles she was incorporated into the Olympian iconography with which Louis XIV, the Apollo-like " Sun King " liked to surround himself.

He liked to fancy himself as a chieftain and to dress for the part.

Mike Judge himself is highly critical of the animation and quality of earlier episodes, in particular the first two --" Blood Drive "/" Give Blood " and " Door to Door "-- which he described as " awful, I don't know why anybody liked it ...

In later years Hoover liked to think of himself and his associates as having been " engineering doctors to sick concerns ", and so hence his reputation as the " Doctor of sick mines "

Critics generally liked the finished building, but the architect himself was unsatisfied.

Cousteau liked to call himself an " oceanographic technician.

However, Charles, who liked to see himself as a champion of Protestant Europe, greatly disliked Louis XIV for his treatment of the Huguenots, and was generally uninterested in the western war.

Gustav liked to compare himself to Moses, whom he believed to have also liberated his people and established a sovereign state.

Conway liked the new name, and later adopted it himself.

Gorton liked to portray himself as a man of the people who enjoyed a beer and a gamble, with a bit of a " larrikin " streak about him.

A great many of these experiments Rivers made on himself, and for this purpose gave up for a period of two years not only alcoholic beverages and tobacco, which was easy enough for him as he liked neither, but all tea, coffee and cocoa as well.

Verhoeven himself liked comic drawing and created The Killer, a grey character in a detailed story full of revenge.

On several occasions Pettersson pointed out that he himself was a " Social Democrat ", and liked Olof Palme.

Jagiełło himself frequently travelled from Kraków to Vilnius, and he liked to stay at the Radom Castle during the trips.

" Lang himself, despite objecting to his dismissal conceded that he too liked Game, regarding him as fair and polite, and having had good relations with him.

Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.

Gratian liked and respected his tutor, and when he himself became emperor in 375 he began bestowing on Ausonius and his family the highest civil honors.

Beckett said, though he liked Nausea, he generally found the writing style of Sartre and Heidegger to be " too philosophical " and he considered himself " not a philosopher ".

He was a sophisticated swindler who liked to think of himself as a kind and generous benefactor to the needy.

Trujillo doused himself with perfume and liked gossip.

Fleming himself liked gold enough to commission a gold-plated typewriter from the Royal Typewriter Company, although he never actually used it.

He liked to call himself " El alcalde de Machuchal ," ( the Mayor of Machuchal ).

I ’ ll go .’ So Paul went up Chicago and introduced himself to Ragbaby Stevens and Ragbaby liked him … and Paul got the railroad fare from his father and sent me $ 60 ”.

He describes him as having " in the plain way of speaking and delivery a strange power of making himself believed ," as a man of " not only firm gravity but a severity and even some morosity ," as " rather exceedingly liked than passionately loved.

During these first days of the trial I didn't have as much time to commiserate with Viola as I should have liked.

She liked this taste of authority and independence, and, with darkness, was not likely to give it up.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

for every grown man ( except a few who were always suspected of being shy on virility ) knew at least the fundamentals of baseball, just as every male American in this era liked to imagine ( or pretend ) that he could fight with his fists.

He liked to nip ear lobes of unsuspecting visitors with his needle-sharp teeth.

The reasons are that America generally believes that she can buy anything with dollars, and that she compulsively strives to be liked.

I never liked going straight into an examination with patients -- it relaxes them, I've always thought, to chat first.

Because I liked this sad person so much, I said, `` Will you have a drink with me ''??

Before the plague came, he liked to associate with the Spanish dancers and musicians in the city.

Although the manufacturer committed to re-do the broken parts, Gaudí liked the aesthetic of the broken masonry and asked that the pieces be stuck to the main structure with lime mortar and held in with a brass ring.

However, despite her outwardly placid appearance, Anne was determined, and with experience, made a success of her position, becoming well liked by her employers.

After a lengthy battle with his syndicator, Watterson won the privilege of making half page-sized Sunday strips where he could arrange the panels any way he liked.

I liked the one with bricks, but ultimately I thought simple red behind it was the boldest and the best.

He did not agree with this film's philosophy but liked how it conveyed " the sense of New York as a kind of jungle, and I wanted to make a science fiction film along these lines ".

Bartov wrote that German film-makers liked to show the heroic last stand of the 6th Army at Stalingrad, but none has so far showed the 6th Army's massive co-operation with the Einsatzgruppen in murdering Soviet Jews in 1941.

Orwell liked to provoke argument by challenging the status quo, but he was also a traditionalist with a love of old English values.

He also suggested that two large Belgic tribes neighbouring Caesar's Germani, the Nervii and the Treveri, liked to call themselves Germanic in his time, in order not to be associated with Gaulish indolence.

Cukor liked leading lady Marilyn Monroe but found it difficult to deal with her erratic work habits, frequent absences from the set, and the constant presence of her acting coach, Paula Strasberg.

Palin later spoke, saying that he liked to think that Chapman was there with them all that day —" or rather, he will be in about 25 minutes ," a reference to Chapman's habitual lateness when they were all working together.

" At the instigation of the Devil ", Vortigern fell in love with Hengist's daughter and promised Hengist whatever he liked in exchange for her betrothal.

An FBI agent who had gone on fishing trips with Hoover and Tolson said that the director liked to " sunbathe all day in the nude ”.