None of which is to say that Mr. Villaraigosa has recaptured the electric popularity that he enjoyed in the flush of his initial election, as a mayor of Mexican descent in a city with a vibrant and expanding population of Mexican-Americans.
Her last visit was as first lady in November 2000, in the waning days of the Clinton presidency but in the flush of her own recent election as senator from New York.
But there was only so long Mr. Romney could sustain the fiction that he or any Republican leader actually wanted Mr. Obama to succeed, or felt the slightest flush of excitement at his election.
In the first flush of reforms after Mr Khatami's election in 1997, journalists were so daring with their criticism and revelations that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's conservative "supreme leader", declared them to be an "enemy base".
When Republicans began questioning President Obama's birth certificate four years ago, it seemed at first like a petulant reaction to a lost election, a flush of nativist and racist anger that would diminish over time.
At the beginning of 2005, flush from his election victory, President Bush envisioned another major tax reform, somewhat similar to that of 1986.
Finally, we discuss the effects of election polling data on election outcomes.
As Variety's Sonia Saraiya noted, no lack of solid information "stopped media organizations, in the full flush of pre-election coverage, to make this some kind of 'October surprise' for the Clinton campaign, seizing on it as a turning point in the narrative of election 2016".
Another flush of empire seemed imminent.
A royal flush of a hand, indeed.
