No doubt Mr. Bergonzi really was feeling indisposed.
The judges may feel that PJ Harvey deserves to collect an award after being indisposed in 2001 and that the "first artist to win twice" would make a good story.
How, I ask, does Ms Teather feel about the hypothetical possibility that she'll have to defend academies in the Commons, should Mr Gove be indisposed?
Both are true: For every drooling idiot prostrate on the bus because they feel the need to be someone else's farty little problem, there will be a nurse, or a farrier, or someone else totally heroic, temporarily and accidentally indisposed.
It was only a pity that Simon O'Neill, the Siegmund, usually a splendid singer, was feeling ill, and that Vitalij Kowaljow, replacing an indisposed Ren?ape, delivered a solid and honorable but slightly wan performance as Wotan.
Diplomats said Egyptian officials told American diplomats on Tuesday evening that Mr. Mubarak was not feeling well, and today, Secretary Powell said, the Egyptians reported that he was "indisposed".
Her subject, she says, is indisposed.
The devil, on that afternoon, was indisposed.
The star, it added, was "temporarily indisposed".
But on this occasion, both Miranda and Muñoz were indisposed.
