Alas, the linguistic harmony of the polyglots hardly mirrored the world of flesh and blood that they inhabited.
The meticulous Van Gaal may note Mourinho's game plan on his trademark clipboard for future reference - and his view hardly mirrored his opposite number's.
Your marine can now double jump and pull himself up onto higher ledges, which is hardly Mirror's Edge-style parkour, but it looks like inspiration's been drawn from Quake III's smooth, silky movement, with a few extra bits bolted on.
Yes, they can be unfair and, yes, they exhume a reductive and potentially troublesome commitment to identities before ideas, which would have to be extrapolated, surely, to ethnic, religious, even working-class representation, given that poor, white males must hardly find their mirror image in the coalition's and Labour's rich, white ones.
The décor is antique-shop chic: you can hardly move for ornate mirrors, elaborate chandeliers and the kind of square tables you'd find in a correctional facility.
The lucky country's reversal of fortune could hardly have been starker.It mirrors the global downturn, but especially that in China, Australia's biggest trading partner.
"I look in the mirror and hardly recognize myself," she said.
The Daily Mail gets its fair share of name-checks (Bridget Christie has done an entire show on it, in fact), but the Sun and the Mirror have hardly featured.
Journalist Kaveree Bamzai elaborated, "She hardly looks into the mirror, barely even glances at the set monitor, usually the crutch of every insecure actor, puts on make-up only under extreme duress, and never watches her old movies".
She hardly recognizes herself in the mirror.
