Still, it is reassuring to note that a few people, who no doubt included Capello, managed to draw their eyes away from the statistics long enough to see that in Copenhagen he produced some moments of authentic brilliance and that, with young Jack Wilshere also in attendance, England's game at times had genuine ease and rhythm.
The band's songs are half snickering double-entendres (with genuine blues and rhythm-and-blues roots) and half self-absorbed, heart-on-sleeve power ballads.
The language has a genuine literary quality, and rhythm, poetry even, to it.
The band's most recent album, "Reimagining" (Savoy Jazz), is its best, and Mr. Iyer's gigs are attaining a newly urgent momentum, with some genuine lyricism offsetting the rhythm attack.
It is therefore refreshing to encounter a band such as the Bryan Corbett quartet, a young Birmingham outfit which combines genuine intricacy with danceable rhythms and a sassy, street-wise swagger.
Snippets of genuine pop records suggest the rhythm of the times, but any verisimilitude they add is more than offset by the use of an off-the-mark Frank Sinatra impersonator to sing the Kennedy "High Hopes" campaign song.
He said the company was a genuine indepdent label, not under the rhythm and blues label although they were issuing a number of black artists.
However it is also due to genuine variability in the heart's rhythm, which we find is often manifest as variable PR or ST intervals.
A new super-bourgeoisie, whose lifestyles, fashion changes and personal melodramas – be they genuine or fabricated by industrious PRs – have our rhythm of national life hooked; particularly in London with the ubiquity of low content, showbiz-focused free sheets.
By contrast, the travelling side took more than an hour to find any rhythm, too late to mount a genuine challenge for the two points.
All with genuine passion, energy, and sincerity, but with a rhythm and predictability I took for granted.
