Political leaders around the world have had much to say since Snowden began his revelations, but not one statement that consisted of "I regret subjecting my own people to these procedures".
The interior was equally prosaic: the set consisted of a six-metre stretch of starship corridor.
That evidence consisted of secret recordings made by Kennedy of the activists' private meetings.
This was what we'd been led to expect – Dobson, starring in the reconstructions, had been trailed as the mature foil to youthful presenter Dan Snow, who steered the documentary segments; much of Armada's pre-publicity consisted of Dobson granting "exclusive" insights into the four hours she'd spent in makeup each day, layering on wrinkles, "leather-spots" and blackened teeth.
However, a witness who was present when Lachlan Murdoch spoke to O'Chee said the conversation was brief and consisted of "polite hellos".
While she was speaking, I noticed that the audience consisted of a large number of Japanese women, who had come in from neighbouring offices to see her.
Initially, it consisted largely of bamboo, but it has evolved to include introductions such as Canna iridiflora.
As Laura Miller wrote in Salon: "In Kyle's version of the Iraq war, the parties consisted of Americans, who are good by virtue of being American, and fanatic Muslims whose 'savage, despicable evil' led them to want to kill Americans simply because they are Christians".
Meltdown, complete with an Allen key hurled into oblivion, came on Friday, when a box from John Lewis containing a seesaw claiming to be "easy to assemble" actually consisted of a brain-exploding puzzle of 80 bars, bolts, screws and washers of infinitesimally different sizes.
My playground, carefully curated by my undertaker father, consisted of rooms full of gleaming coffins, the neon glare of brightly coloured embalming fluid bottles, and the bodies, always the bodies.
This consisted of six huge iron boxes containing fibreglass depictions of scenes from his 81 days in a Chinese prison, complete with guards and cell-beds.
