"But … David is extremely healthy, he's rosy-cheeked [and] he smiles a lot … He still has that power in that chest and in his voice … When he starts singing [I] have to back off, and go into another room and just leave him in front of a microphone".
And dotted here and there amid the wreckage are choices that risk making Extremely Loud smell almost rosy by comparison.
Her eyeshadow is never overdone, eyelashes appear extremely long and she nails the rosy cheek and lip combo without appearing way beyond years.
Part of what's going on is that even as unemployment is extremely low and the macroeconomic picture looks rosy, actual workers' incomes aren't necessarily rising the way they should be.
"In this otherwise quite rosy household survey, this is an extremely elevated number," Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said of the part-timers.
He told the BBC it was "extremely worrying" that young British Muslims were appealing to their peers with a "rosy, romantic HD picture of jihad".
He then issued a rosy forecast for the coming year, expressing delight about election ad spending that he expected to be "extremely robust".
