Having been emphatically the better side before the interval and taken the lead through the first of Lee McCulloch's two goals, they went into decline after Andrius Velicka's equaliser and had to rely on a dreadful blunder by Eduardas Kurskis, the Hearts goalkeeper, for their late winner.
Ross County's progress to the final with goals from Steven Craig and Martin Scott brought an ignominious end to a season that has been one long embarrassment, but the victory was utterly merited by a First Division side who were emphatically the better team from first whistle to last.
"Things have changed emphatically for the better, but I see old patterns repeating.
Children who were praised emphatically did do better — but only if they had high opinions of themselves to begin with.
Inevitably, since he was slightly unhappy about both the book and the film, Clarke extended 2001: a Space Odyssey into a loosely linked trilogy - 2010: Odyssey 2 and 2061: Odyssey 3. Commenting on these books, Clarke said emphatically that "2010 is better than 2001, but 2061 is the best".
I remember my mother-in-law emphatically stating, "You'd better be ready.
And here is the emphatically layman's diagnosis: It is better to get agita from doing something you like than getting agita from not doing something you like.
"If we do the slightest thing to encourage people to get on boats this problem will get worse, not better," Mr Abbott said emphatically.
After post-opening Broadway changes, none for the better, the show continued to change, emphatically for the worse.
Chicago has dealt with this conflict better than most cities, nowhere more emphatically than in the new stadium's design.
