Barrett's sound defeat, slightly greater percentage-wise than his loss less than two years ago, left his supporters with a series of painful and unanswerable questions: Were people simply put off by a recall?
During a warm afternoon with occasional bursts of wind, Young, 23, searched for ways to defeat his slightly older opponent.
And the United States team barely exceeded expectations in defeating the slightly favored Polish and German teams yesterday before losing to the eventual champion, Russia, and France.
Then they lost 13 of 20, including two of three at Wrigley Field this week against the woeful Washington Nationals before scoring four runs in the eighth inning Friday to defeat the slightly less woeful Mets, 5-2.
Indeed, we've seen repeatedly over the past two election cycles that the more radical a Republican is, the more likely he or she is to defeat a slightly less radical Republican in a Senate or House primary.
There's a saturnine, slightly defeated air to his alcoholic Valmont.
When none could be found, Mr. Forrester emerged from under the sink looking slightly defeated but pledging to help the residents should he be elected.
Three-quarter-length trousers flapping in the breeze, panamas pulled down firmly, faces glowing, Coogan and Brydon look ordinary and slightly defeated.
There is Laurie, who goes by the sobriquet of Silk Spectre, as if hoping to become a top-class shampoo; she is played by Malin Akerman, whose line readings suggest that she is slightly defeated by the pressure of pretending to be one person, let alone two.
(His bellowed line "You're late!" in "The Dogs of War," the fury rising to a leonine whine on the last word, is a real puzzler.) Vic is drawn and slightly defeated; Mr. Walken's lost, trembling cadence makes him seem beaten down by his past life of petty crime.
