Small wonder, too, that some on the left are so dismayed by protests from the DS leadership that nothing is amiss".I talk to a lot of people from the grassroots of the DS," commented the Nobel laureate, Dario Fo. "They are furious about Unipol.
Mr Alal says he saw Salah Abdeslam around a month before the attacks and nothing seemed amiss: "We chatted and talked about school and sports – I didn't see any sign of hatred in him whatsoever".
Whether or not there are facts to be had in this most crucial of decisions is debatable in itself, but as far as the women we spoke to are concerned, at least some straight talking wouldn't go amiss.
He rarely accuses, preferring to talk about problems in the passive voice, as things that are amiss with us rather than as wrongs that have been perpetrated by them.
Fighting talk is all very well, but some transparency wouldn't go amiss.
As a St Louis community activist who talked to me on Monday put it, he knew something was amiss when the police stationed K-9 units at the protest at 9am protest on Sunday.
Nothing, though, seems amiss the next morning while Georges and Anne eat breakfast in a corner of their kitchen, talking amid the clatter of dishes and cutlery.
What seems clear to me throughout the last two decades of teaching, and talking weekly about religion in college classrooms, is that we would be amiss to equate religious affiliation with ethical behavior.
Dr. Laughlin of Stanford said that at a symposium in October in Santa Fe, Dr. Batlogg "gave a talk that was very aggressive and bold, as though we were on track and there was nothing amiss at all".
Prosecutors said that on the day of Mr. Jackson's death, the doctor was talking on his cellphone instead of monitoring Mr. Jackson, and that after he realized something was amiss, he delayed calling 911.
