Although a category won in the past by some of of the finest playwrights (Jack Rosenthal, Tom Stoppard, David Hare), this form has felt downgraded in recent years: the presentation of it was even cut from last year's live TV coverage.
Smetana was hurt by this remark, which he felt downgraded his opera to operetta status, and was convinced that press hostility had been generated by a former adversary, the Russian composer Mily Balakirev.
I feel disgusted, downgraded, humiliated".
The fear of cultural deprivation seems to cut both ways, both for those who think that the proposed raised standards of the literature exam will render it an elite subject, and for those who feel its downgraded status reflects the prejudice that the arts are not as central to life as more 'useful' subjects.
Graham Onions bowled OK, but I don't think Steven Finn bowled at his best and there seemed a downgraded feel to the whole match.
Some early reaction to the Spanish downgrade from Stan Shamu, market strategist at IG Markets: Analysts are starting to feel the Spain downgrade is a positive for markets as it might result in a spike in Spanish yields and force Spain's hand to request a bailout.
"I wasn't going to move unless I found something that didn't feel like a downgrade in terms of space and was worth paying a fair amount more per month".
Edin Dzeko, City's forward with Bundesliga experience who has also been mooted as a makeweight in a deal for Napoli's Edinson Cavani, may be enticed by a move back to Germany though, given his erratic form at the Etihad, he would still feel like a downgrade.
It could lead to a situation where an "upgrade" to Lumia would feel like a downgrade if a Nokia X user's favourite Android apps were conspicuous by their absence on Windows Phone (remember the Instagram debacle, anyone?).
Still, in a sign that there is no consensus about the dimensions of the problem, Fitch Ratings said that after reviewing about a dozen loans on individual buildings and groups of buildings -- about the same number reviewed by Moody's -- it felt only three should be downgraded because of inadequate terrorism coverage.
