The one exception seems to have been a reporter from Il Foglio, a weekly paper with close ties to Berlusconi, who described the after-hours Chigi as a place in glorious disarray, where the young Tuscans are busy running Italy, barefoot in T-shirts, eating takeout pizza.
If it were, it might ask whether the current British interest in the drunken, decaying culture of Russia has anything to do with the malaise of another post-imperial country beset by delusions of grandeur: a place whose national church is in disarray, where social unity has been sacrificed to the profit motive, and where binge-drinking is a recognised social ill.
They are also counting on the fact that while Republicans appear poised for victory elsewhere in the country, the Republican Party remains in disarray in New York, where no Republican has won statewide office since 2002.
Today, Mr. Gao repeatedly tried to heap blame on the Ministry of Health, and on institutional disarray in Beijing, where several jurisdictions -- municipal, national, military and others -- overlap but have not previously coordinated disease-control efforts.
The need to clarify the secretary of state's meaning hinted at disarray in Washington, where overall policy towards Syria has been overshadowed by the narrower and urgent question of how to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the jihadis of Islamic State, as Barack Obama has formulated his goal.
To me America seems more than ever a land of disarray, a place where "left" and "right" have formed into two hyper-caricatured identities, and each is scrapping with the other in the middle.
To me America seems more than ever a land of disarray, a place where "left" and "right" have formed into two hyper-caricatured identities, and each is scrapping with the other in the middle.
Their defeat of the presidential guards in gunbattles and artillery duels in recent days adds to disarray in a country where the United States is also carrying out drone strikes against one of the most powerful branches of al Qaeda.
It was not clear, in the long run, whether it would calm the political scene, where uncertainty and disarray have caused the currency to slide in value and investors to withhold their business from Indonesia.
Of all the vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the Senate, none might be more endangered than Missouri's Claire McCaskill, but the one bright spot in her uphill climb toward re-election has been the disarray on the Republican side, where three Senate hopefuls have battled for advantage for months.
"It got to a point where everyone was in disarray," Houston said.
