In last’s week New Yorker Adam Gopnik wrote about Mr. Sarkozy. I quote: “Gossip swirls around Paris about Sarkozy’s relationship with his own wife, the darkly beautiful Cécilia, as it did in Washington about the Clintons, but it tends to come down to a fairly coherent story, which is that both have had romantic attachments outside their marriage but have come back together now not from convenience but out of real passion—he adores her the way short, ambitious men adore beautiful women who are taller than they are but tolerate their advances.”

My question is how do short, ambitious men adore beautiful women who are taller than they are but tolerate their advances?