But first, more drama: we can articulate precisely how high the stakes have become.
I heard that phrase, articulated precisely that way, from every single woman I interviewed.
And the trouble is that even many of us who feel instinctively pro-European increasingly struggle to articulate precisely why.
"If it wasn't for the overwhelming ennui that has overtaken me in recent months, I might have articulated precisely the same sentiments".
Some are dismissive of the concept of "culture", suspicious when players cannot articulate precisely why they feel good and are playing better.
The Louisiana governor, alternately smug and jejune, articulated precisely the ideology — those G.O.P. "policies" in the Times/CBS poll — that Americans reject: the conviction that government is useless and has no role in an emergency.
One shot of a black barber in 1999 calmly reading a newspaper while he waits for customers under a makeshift awning on a street in Johannesburg is articulate precisely because it looks so matter-of-fact.
It is a question articulated precisely by Stephen Hawking last year, when he noted: "Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution".
I wasn't afraid of SARS, but the university was requiring its students and teachers to wear surgical masks at all times, not the best circumstances under which to try to learn a language that has (depending on which linguist you consult) six, seven or eight tones that must be articulated precisely.
I mention Alinsky because he seems to crystallise many of the failings, not just of the Climate Camp, but of significant sectors of the wider anti-war and anti-globalisation movement which have struggled either to articulate precisely what is their message or who have chosen, literally at times, to pitch their tent at the margins of the political debate.
