For a start, his "Olive Tree" coalition has failed to evolve into a party with any real core of its own, still less the sort of American-style Democratic Party that some of its enthusiasts had hoped for.
After becoming the first Asian Grand Slam finalist at the 2011 Australian Open in January and doing one better at the very next major tournament by becoming the first to win a Slam at the French Open in June, Li struggled to put together solitary victories, much less the sort of sustained dominance needed to win a tournament.
Still, as new forms of denialism continue to emerge, it is hard to imagine federal implementation of a climate plan any time soon, much less the sort of ambitious plan that would help keep the world below the 1.5-2C (2.7-3.6F) level of warming, per the Paris agreement.
But it is salutary to remember that many excellent teachers are never nominated for awards because their skills are less obvious: the sort of teachers pupils only really appreciate years after they have left school.
There are some libertarians in American politics, but on the conservative wing of the Republican Party the liberty talk has come lately to dwell more on the alleged threat to economic freedom posed by Mr Obama's alleged taste for big government, and less on the sort of freedoms entrenched in the Bill of Rights.
With their far-flung side jobs, hospital schedules, research projects and obligations to extended families, Uganda's dozen or so AIDS specialists barely have time to catch up with one another, much less develop the sort of team approach used in many American hospitals.
I didn't have her down for that – she doesn't seem the type to be falling out of the Groucho, but this one is a little less hip, the sort of place that is filled with film and television executives having nice lunches.
Variety's Justin Chang said Joshua Michael Stern's film "more or less embodies the sort of bland, go-with-the-flow creative thinking Jobs himself would have scorned", while CNET's Casey Newton was unimpressed by a movie in which "the viewer spends two hours watching cardboard cutouts lose arguments to Ashton Kutcher".
Whereas the Green New Deal is basically saying we're going to take this tremendous economic gamble up front, right now, you know, with this sort of, you know, I won't call it a Soviet-style 10 year plan but it's a 10 year plan, on the assumption that that upfront cost will be less than the sort of distributed cost over time.
This time around though, there is less of the sort of restraint that existed in the past.
Moreover, statistics do establish that fat people earn less: possibly because the sort of people who make less money tend to be fat, possibly because fat people are discriminated against, or, most likely, a bit of both.
