But speak to any Uruguayan businessman here and you hear another story, one full of dismay about the deep, two-year-old recession gripping Argentina that some say will smother this resort or force it to transform itself into something more akin to Atlantic City.
The EHRC report is full of dismaying facts about social dysfunction – and is to be welcomed for identifying them.
We're high in a portered block on Manhattan's Upper East Side where Previn - tiny, beaky, full of amused dismay at the world and the generally unsatisfactory nature of the people in it - lives when he isn't touring.
Now the reverse Kurdisation, as Kurds like to call it is in full swing.To the dismay of neighbouring countries, the Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas who rolled down from their mountains into the oil-rich plains of Kirkuk in April last year, when the Americans were poised to take Baghdad, are not minded to budge.
"People who pay their taxes promptly and in full will be dismayed to discover that the enormous level of tax avoidance taking place is overwhelming HMRC's efforts to combat it," she said.
"Oh, no, you're full," she said with dismay.
In those films, Beatty grapples with a persona not in charge of everything but full of pain and dismay.
And while "School of Rock" may have a class full of fifth-graders dismaying their parents by discovering their inner rock stars, there are plenty of weekend rockers who are more inclined to jump up on stage than any teenager is.
Unlike most foreign bidders, Santander is not offering shareholders the option of a full cash bid, to the dismay of the big institutional investors as well as the Sids who bought when Abbey demutualised in 1989.
Bing decided then and there that she too would leave her mark on the evolution of art, dropped her Ph.D. dissertation and turned to full-time photography, to the dismay of family and friends.
