It feels downbeat among the team.
The Londoner admitted she felt downbeat after pulling out but remains confident she can deliver a good performance in Wednesday downhill event.
A report called the Consumer Pulse Check, released last month by Mullen in Wenham, Mass., another agency owned by Interpublic, found that shoppers "are tired of feeling downbeat" and "want brands that make them feel good".
Perhaps the downbeat feel is appropriate given the story which was never very far away from the Croisette this year: the continued detention of one of the competition judges, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi.
And the downbeat feel of the show has increased, as has its soap opera nature.
She avoids worn-out narratives about drug wars and violence, and her downbeat supernaturalism feels quite different from the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez.
At times South Africa's body language was so downbeat it felt like watching a second-rate tribute act struggling to perform a set of classic covers.
This feels like an appropriately downbeat turn of events: Chowdhry is coming to the end of his most successful year yet (his recent UK theatre tour was a sell-out), but still jokes that "it's only taken me 10 years to become an overnight success".
Imagine the regrets you would feel, they said to a downbeat Mitchell, if you did not at least try to stage a fight.
