Bruce's side, who are in 18th place, are just one point adrift of Sunderland and Burnley but the manner in which they capitulated after a promising first half was alarming.
There will be some racket and some heat and some light thrown on things, and maybe 20 years from now they'll write about a movie that carried everybody forward half a step, that alarmed some folks, that got some people thinking differently about some other people and that caused, all in all, quite a stink.
If not that, then something else equally terrifying because roughly half the country is alarmed as all get out by this president and his wanton fiscal largess.
The involvement of the F.B.I., according to government officials, began when Ms. Kelley, alarmed by about half a dozen anonymous e-mails accusing her of inappropriate flirtatious behavior with Mr. Petraeus, complained to an F.B.I. agent who is also a personal friend.
I caught myself waiting for the next episode of violence, half in alarm, half in gagging excitement, thinking this must be what it's like to witness a public execution.
When the fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili slotted a fine penalty from inside his own half the alarm bells really began to sound, only for Clancy to take an increasing hand.
About half of Americans tell pollsters they are alarmed by these trends.
Many of Britain's 450,000 ethnic Bangladeshis, around half of whom live in London, are especially alarmed by this.
Nonetheless ABC executives were alarmed by warning signs: in the show's first half-hour, 14.8 million viewers tuned in.
After all, by 1999, when Mr. Cuomo signaled his intention to raise the goals, both Fannie and Freddie had made their subprime ambitions well known, introducing no-down-payment products, openly talking of capturing half the market and alarming some top aides to Mr. Cuomo.
