"She has triumphantly demonstrated that she's on top of the part, and I have to say I'm really enjoying that".
But it is too late to kick yourself or shake a fist at the heavens and proclaim "Lord, it should have been ME!" Your rival has not only beaten you to the starting line, but has triumphantly reached the finish and is climbing the charts in The Bookseller before you've had time to draw breath.
"Maximum pessimism" is what he looks for, and in his 88 years he has triumphantly exploited a lot of it.
This hardly mattered since the red T-shirt wearing Corbynistas who had triumphantly taken over the bar were more intoxicated by victory – these are people who actually know the words to The Red Flag – than they would have been by thedrink.
LAST year the Guardian newspaper was riding high, having triumphantly exposed phone-hacking at the News of the World.
Several wells it had triumphantly announced proved economically unviable.
' For the first time since we have been talking, his hands are now still, clasped prayerfully, perhaps in thanks that, with the publication of his collected work, the latest of these periods has now been triumphantly punctuated.
Where professional critics are concerned, her confidence in her own and Adam Cork's work has been triumphantly vindicated.
Not quite the unreliable narrator, she is herself in the thick of things, having fallen in love with Simon, the elder brother and heir who has been triumphantly hooked by the desperate Rose.
And the awful truth is that the cowboy-world-meeting-the-spaceship-world mashup has already been done, triumphantly, by the Toy Story movies, with the friendship of Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody.
