"Everyone says that this Barcelona team has finished their cycle but my opinion is that it is very dangerous". Barca boss Martino, 51, had faced criticism after falling four points behind La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid with a shock loss at lowly Granada, days after Atletico knocked them out of the Champions League.
In the early fifties, Blass was still a lowly "cloakie" by day, but by night — armed with his urbanity, his chiselled profile, a hollow leg, wicked repartee, a faux Jockey Club accent, and the potent charm that resides in an upstart's infallible instinct for the insecurities of the powerful — he embarked on a career in café society as a ubiquitous extra man.
He ended the day a lowly 17th, three seconds slower than pacesetter Rosberg.
On the one hand, he finishes "The Accordion" with information about his family's diaspora and the news that he wrote it on the subway after a hard day's lowly work, and, on the other, he offers an anecdote about an accordion-playing ancestor that might be entirely fictitious and is grandly unverifiable.
Zoe simply cannot fathom why Stephen spends his days as a lowly salesman and does not choose to aim higher, like those "pit boys… [who] work and turn into cabinet ministers".
The days of the lowly password are numbered.
Fear and loathing of the press is as old as the press itself, and the press would argue that the mighty in their seats have much to be fearful about; but the British tabloid press, in particular, spends much less time on the mighty, from day to day, than on the lowly, the lecherous, and the foreign.
Housework - unpaid, lowly and trivial - was, in those days, a woman's only job, and in the social pecking order it was right down there at the bottom.
These days, with even the lowliest pieces of midcentury furniture commanding outlandish sums of money, design aficionados are trolling other eras to find pieces that complement a modern aesthetic.
Lowly HRT had a torrid first day of the new season with their new car.
The days are long, hot and lowly paid.
