What one sees in the West Midlands is a healthy manufacturing sector that is far from the moribund image often painted.
At the very least it provides a merciful full stop on a period of profound deceleration since the false summit of the summer of 2012, when he capped his best season to date with a memorable back-heel scuff-flick winner against Sweden in Kiev, the high point of England's most energetic half-hour of an otherwise moribund European Championship.
US secretary of state John Kerry arrives in the Holy Land this week on his fourth visit in two months amid deepening scepticism on all sides about his chances of breathing life back into the moribund peace process, and an acknowledgement by European diplomats that there is no "Plan B" in place in the event of its failure.
A couple of years ago in Oxford he had spoken of the "almost moribund" New York theatre – "one straight play last year and that didn't repay the investors despite good reviews.
Whenever I flicked over throughout the night – which I did infrequently, and only through a sense of moribund duty – I was presented with the same sight; three men sitting around a table, grinding out the sort of excruciating small talk you make when your girlfriend goes to the toilet and you're left trapped in a room with her parents.
Thanks to allegations about the Unite union's activities in an apparently moribund local Labour party, Falkirk recently became a byword for Labour's forlorn position in Scotland.
Sounders FC still has the same problems (susceptible to the counter, moribund offense), but they also have the same advantages (stout run-of-play defense, individuals capable of greatness).
Although eurozone leaders are playing down the Kremlin visit, the talks are bound to further alienate foreign lenders propping up the moribund Greek economy.
But diplomacy, especially EU diplomacy, is visually moribund.
Its sales were fairly moribund until a movie tie-in deal was done with George Lucas a few years back.
Government forces and Russia-backed rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine have begun a "day of silence" in an attempt to revive a moribund ceasefire ahead of possible new peace talks.
