It is going to take some doing to judge from Wilkinson's eve-of-match mood: "The thought of leaving this final without a happy ending to the journey is a painful one.
"The word I'd use is desperate," said assistant coach Graham Rowntree as he contemplated the eve-of-match mood in the camp.
Both Eve and Nina's moods were light-hearted and jovial throughout Eve's care, even during the difficult transfer.
Alastair Cook was in sombre mood on the eve of the series and spoke on behalf of his team.
Llazar Bici, chief of the town's rebel "salvation committee", says the president is crazy.Such is the mood on the eve of an election supposed to rescue Albania from anarchy.
His somber mood, on the eve of a three-week vacation in Majorca, contrasted with his ebullience earlier this week when he gave an upbeat midterm assessment of the work of his center-left government.
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But when the Yankees traded for Alex Rodriguez on the eve of spring training, Steinbrenner's mood went from icy to buoyant.
It's a tricky mood to capture -- that volatile eve of destruction before the sixties erupted into The Sixties.
But it was Posh that caught the mood of the times, opening on the eve of a general election.
Correction: February 4, 2000, Friday Picture captions on Tuesday with an article about the mood of voters in New Hampshire on the eve of the presidential primaries misspelled the name of a city in New Hampshire.
