Perhaps they were too worthy.
Jools Holland was too worthy, Top of the Pops too cheesy, CD:UK too teeny-bop, but on TFI live music, with a real, pogoing audience, provided the beating heart of Chris Evans' perfect pre/post-pub telly.
She retorts with a long list of mid-sized successes, from democracy promotion in Burma to a 2012 ceasefire in Gaza, or projects to advance women's rights.If some chapters are too nakedly political for a work of foreign-policy analysis, then others are too worthy for many general readers.
We were made for happiness; we are too worthy to suffer abasement at the hands of another and need not subject ourselves to someone else's concept of who we are or what we should be.
I immediately tune out the next few minutes because the thought of a man reading a woman awful poetry on national TV is too cringe-worthy to willingly endure I tune back in as Chris is telling the camera how much he likes Des... because she can throw a football.
Don't think that your material isn't worthy or is too ordinary.
The eloquent Werner Güra is a more operatic Evangelist than our choral scholar tradition might allow, and the soprano is too shrill; Benno Schachtner is a worthy successor to Jacobs's alto.
At one point, when Tyson was visually and verbally explaining the sheer vastness of space-time, my 11 year-old son exclaimed, "I feel like we're not supposed to know this!" I knew what he was trying to say: Something along the lines of "This science is too awesome -- are we worthy?" mixed with "I feel kind of small now".
It's too safe, too worthy, too willing to reward a narrow view of British music.
Some speculated that there were too many worthy Devils candidates for the trophy, resulting in a split vote among sportswriters.
