He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
He had delusions of adequacy.
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.