"Isn't It a Pity" (Version One, in its All Things Must Pass context) starts small and builds – "and it builds and it builds", NMEs Alan Smith would soon write.
But isn't it a pity that the reading of this reflection, later, must be so one-sided?
She bridled when a friend said wasn't it a pity that Greenwich wasn't home to a traditional university.
"It is it a pity that you are leaving Blue Peter because Mummy and I do not like changes.
Isn't it a pity the Gershwins aren't around to provide a diverting score for the midterm elections?
"In terms of punning, isn't it a pity that Salamon Caluj has been taken off?" guffaws Ben Bamford.
He added that he finds it a pity when "politics intervene," and Pompeo agreed that it was "a real risk".
The result was a landmark album with several landmark compositions, from "My Sweet Lord" to "Wah Wah" to "Isn't It a Pity".
At the Darwish museum, Smadar Tsaban, 59, thought it "a pity" that the Hebrew translations of the poet's work were not among the eight languages on display.
Singing "Isn't It a Pity?," she found the multiple shadings in lyrics by Ira Gershwin that drop the names Heine and Schopenhauer.
But "Isn't It a Pity?," choreographed by Stanton Welch, had an utterly dynamic Joaquin De Luz looking hip in a lonely crowd that seemed either stunned or stoned.
