You know the N.C.A.A. tournament is off to a wobbly start when the banner moment of the first day of its Round of 64 was a Connecticut player missing a meaningless dunk at the end of an ignominious defeat for the defending champion, followed by No. 1 seed Syracuse staving off an even more ignoble fate by the length of a misguided referee's whistle.
October 21 2015 January 31 201616 This ignoble effort by the storied playwright David Mamet tells a tale of avarice and spiritual poverty.
In 470, however, its aggressive neighbour Árgos, which had been neutral in the Persian war, took an ignoble revenge by besieging Mycenae, and in 468 Árgos destroyed it.
A week ago, the Mets started their ignoble run by melting down in the Bronx, completing the second straight loss to the Yankees.
But President Goodluck Jonathan was moved to make one firm media statement: "The president believes that the cowardly and ignoble attack by violent extremists is a monstrous assault on the right to freedom of expression".
Hollande described the incident as "an ignoble terrorist attack" by two supporters of Isis.
Several bank insiders claimed the selection process had nothing to do with the candidates' merits and everything to do with their nationality (by ignoble tradition, the head of the World Bank has always been, like Dr Kim, American).
But countless striking examples followed, contradicting the long prevailing notion that only male friendships were noteworthy, noble and admirable (as in the "bromance" model of Jesus and the Apostles), while women were seen as defined by ignoble rivalries and intrigues.
It was Élie Metchnikoff who first proposed that "aging is the replacement of noble elements by ignoble ones" [ 1].
Fast-forward two millennia, and the world's most widely heard story concerns a proud beast wrongly slaughtered by an ignoble hunter: Cecil the Lion.
