Like a black diplomat from some chaotic country going to the palace, in a rare moment of clarity, to present his credentials.
Rather, they say, it was subterfuge, a political game, an elaborate ploy to throw a chaotic country into even more confusion.
The American public did not sign on to armed intervention in the clan politics of a chaotic country that poses no international threat.
Asserting authority across this chaotic country, though, will not be easy.
He has the swagger, the big jeans and the skull cap, and his music reflects the violent, chaotic country in which he lives.
The pre-election polls suggested that many Russians crave his desire to bring order to what all agree has become a chaotic country.
Postwar Poland was a chaotic country in which pro-Soviet communists and patriotic nationalists fought each other.
Hussein Nour Ali, 43, argued that a religious state would bring order to the chaotic country and allow people to live their lives.
And it's the only way to prevent chaotic, war-torn countries from turning into breeding grounds for inflamed fundamentalism and terrorists.
Without the integration of opposition movements into the democratic state under the rule of law, the Philippines will remain a chaotic country where life is bad.