But it was the Dons who went on to take the lead five minutes before the interval, albeit undeservedly, thanks to Maguire.
Giles Oakley London In conception and format, it was trite – while being undeservedly pompous and self-esteeming.
Some of the artists it brings together are much neglected, and undeservedly so.
Everyone performed well yet Mr Dohnanyi, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, was undeservedly booed.Opera apart, much else was memorable this year such as Shakespeare's "Othello", performed in English and directed by Sam Mendes.
Many subsidies undeservedly survived the cull.The proposed cuts to benefits, by contrast, look brutally concrete to many Germans.
On this basis, Canada's house prices are bubbly whereas Japan's are undeservedly flat (see table).America's formerly stricken market has rebounded: house prices have risen by 12.1% over the past year.
Readers interested in knowing more about Bello, whose name is undeservedly forgotten today outside Chile and Venezuela, can turn to Ivan Jaksíc's superb biography, "Andrés Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (Cambridge University Press), on which this week's column draws.Latin America remains a project under construction.
The last years of the king and especially the days between the shooting and his death (March 29) made him a martyr in the minds of his people, perhaps undeservedly.
Some scenes – not least that in which a repressed homosexual dentist finally makes a sickeningly sad bid for the favours of the hotel-worker who has helped him as a guide in Bangkok – were strong meat for the world of Shaftesbury Avenue and Made in Bangkok had undeservedly only a moderate West End run.
And so, in spirit of balance and fair play, we thought it only right to strike a note of spite and envy – or reality, as we like to call it – with the IoS Smug List, our annual compilation of the people in British public life who have done most to irritate, who are most undeservedly ubiquitous, and whose faces are most eminently slappable.
Critics would say it deserves no sympathy for having been roundly, if undeservedly, condemned for the Watson threat, when it has provided a platform for the actual violation of others.
