We on the other side need this sentiment too, because the flaccid no campaign has focused on the dry, the tedious; the worst-case scenarios, and the scaremongering.
As a caper it leaves this year's other contenders, David Mamet's shopworn Heist and Frank Oz's flaccid The Score, standing.
It made me realise that the bunch of managerial carrots which include positive assertions, directions, estimations, recognitions and, crucially, celebrations, was infinitely preferable to motivating sceptical, harried academics, or put upon administrators, with the flaccid stick of shame.
If I woke up as a 15-year-old, I like to think I would pluck my eyebrows to nothing and stake my claim on a flaccid life, a train ticket, a rousing speech.
It seems, every week, another popgun gangster flick or flaccid ensemble relationship drama is unleashed, to a now suspecting public.
Political cynicism, unmoving opinion polls and flaccid national campaigns are partly to blame for the lack of colour in the constituencies.
That notion overestimates both how stiff the lip was before Britain was never quite the emotionally deformed place of lore and how flaccid it has become since.
Of course, these conservatives were prepared to admit the odd setback Mr Bush's flaccid state-of-the-union speech, for instance, or the fact that Howard Dean was no longer the likely Democratic nominee but nobody seemed to be taking seriously the idea that John Kerry might actually be elected president in November.
The author's self-serving indictment seethes with malevolence.Mr Wilson seems to be overlooking the fact that America's growing self-help industrial complex does not indicate "flaccid contentment" but its absence.
And now George Will writes that the president's speech in Copenhagen was one of his worst.I'd agree with Mr Will that some of the flaccid, earnest bits should have been cut.
Still, the fact remains that France's fertility is now higher than America's and the demographic reaction to the great recession does not suggest any profound transatlantic difference between virile Americans and flaccid Europeans.
