A ruthless coach deprives the victors too of worthy lessons: an appreciation of fair play, the value of treating an opponent with respect.
Yet this too has its compensations, chiefly the way it stuns into silence enthusiastic young men passing in white vans showing their appreciation of the fairer sex in a rather intrusive way.
There are places where the term "Guardian reader" isn't a signifier of righteousness, jaunty Fair Trade Breton stripes or an appreciation of high-minded weekly TV columns, but is heavy with the weight of insult.
So hurt feelings go along with a keen appreciation of the fact that fairer, more transparent markets are not good for the Masters of the Universe.
But, to be fair, it's more likely that that the appreciation of music is a better descriptor.
The price was $210,000, a fair bit of appreciation for one piece in a haul that had begun with a $70,000 asking price.
"As the dust settles, if this thing turns out O.K., we will owe a fair amount of appreciation to the French," said Michael O'Hanlon, a military expert at the Brookings Institution.
After studying exhibitions on art, science and technology at the world's fair in Paris, Adams concluded that -- despite his own appreciation of the merits of "progress" -- Americans were too ready to embrace new technology at the cost of traditional values.
Through the FC Barcelona Foundation, the club runs educational programmes at its stadium, where local schoolchildren learn about fair play, health and education – and gain a solid appreciation of 'the beautiful game,' as football is often called.
Never prudish, he knew the exuberant life of the London streets, bawdy houses, fairs, and theatres firsthand and derived from them a fertile appreciation of the vitality of popular tradition.
