a man's character for truth and veracity

Hereness (Dasein) might be perhaps be called more expediently, Now-Being (Jetztsein), ...

A lounge lizard is a phrase meaning that someone is lazy, like a lizard, because the person is sitting on a couch or armchair.]

Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.