"Ours will be a world-class convention, worthy of the next president of the United States".
Middleton is indeed majestically orotund, in speech, gesture, and song, but the critic doesn't even find the blackface convention worthy of mention.
His speech was preceded by a video biography worthy of a political convention, replete with orchestral crescendos and encomiums about his "life, character and strength".
But here is one: the need for the United States to join the Law of the Sea Convention, a worthy global agreement that the Senate has stubbornly refused to ratify for nearly 30 years.
Your claims that the Democratic convention was not worthy of full coverage ring hollow.
The OECD's convention is a worthy effort to stop "grand corruption" at its source the multinational companies that bribe their way to contracts, mainly in poor countries.
For nearly 30 years, the Senate has refused to ratify the Law of the Sea Convention, a perfectly worthy global agreement.
In a way, the party proved quite functional, for the Perot loyalists reclaimed the party gavel in Nashville at a raucous convention shoving match worthy of the Moscow Duma.
The Rayburn balcony was crammed and buzzing with television operations worthy of a Presidential nominating convention, anchors talking endlessly on camera in the sunny breeze that cut across the Capitol dome behind them.
Instead, at a meeting in the Belgian town of Laeken in December, it should propose a broader constitutional convention to include worthy people like, well, members of Europe's parliament, as well as academics, national MPs and a sprinkling of elder statesmen.
