Here's a very selective precedent to improve the mood of North Melbourne supporters: in the first round of their Premiership-winning 1991 season, Hawthorn was ingloriously thumped on a trip to Adelaide, blitzed by 86 points and left wondering whether they'd reached the end of the road as a flag contender.
"Here he soon made many acquaintances and friends, and won the respect of all with whom he had business dealings; while socially he was much beloved by his acquaintances, and came to be familiarly known as 'Honest Abe.'"In 1832, he was made captain of volunteers in the Black Hawk war, but this, his first and last essay at leading soldiers to battle, ended ingloriously without a sight of the enemy.
It was ingloriously shut down after springing a helium leak in September 2008, before it had even got properly going.
Negotiations with the European Union have—in many Polish eyes ended ingloriously, even though the country is expected this weekend to be formally invited to join the club in 2004, along with another nine countries mainly from Central Europe.
After being largely ignored during Thabo Mbeki's nine-year presidency, which ended ingloriously last year, they had helped propel Mr Zuma to power, expecting to wield a lot more influence in his new administration.
Although the Crimean campaign was on the whole a fiasco for all the participating armies, the French forces came off less ingloriously than the others and could with some justice pose as victors.
None the less there is a sell-out crowd of 10,000 this evening, and the signs are that this enterprise has deeper foundations than the one that unravelled so ingloriously at Great Leighs.
The first is a golf buddy, a man whose "ball often squirted off to the left without getting into the air at all, but [who] sank some gorgeous putts in his day" and who dies unexpectedly, ingloriously, in a lavatory.
My favorite paragraph in "The Anthologist" thus far comes on page 21, when the ingloriously named Chowder flips open a copy of some obscure literary rag (oh, all right, it's The New Yorker) and glowers at a poem, atremble with bile.
In the ensuing bedlam, it… Last May, an exhibit sponsored by the government of the Mexican state of Sinaloa compelled civic leaders in Culiacán, the capital, to denounce the artist… And that it should end so ingloriously!
She imagined the case of Shakespeare's hypothetical sister, in whom genius lay dormant and mute, who died young, and was buried ingloriously at a crossroads near the Elephant and Castle, where omnibuses trundled past.
