By showing Simon Cowell appearing to fall into a trance – worse still, a trance that made him nice to people – that trust had been betrayed.
After you have determined that your admirer is a truly nice guy, think about what makes him nice.
Being teetotal, he added, has made him nicer to be around.
But you get older and success has made him nicer, as it often does.
With strong offensive options all around, including players who like to drive to the basket in Carmelo Anthony and Jeremy Lin, Allen's sharpshooting would make him a nice piece to plant along the wings.
And we thought about it a lot and realised after a while that any effort to make him seem nice or less mean, made him actually seem passive-aggressive, which is worse – the worst.
He is quietly multitalented, able to speak fluently as a leader in a multicultural clubhouse, which would make him a nice find for the Mets if a position change could be brokered.
Linda Schiro claimed that the resident surgeon who had performed the operation, a Filipino named Angelito Sebollena, insisted that everything was all right, but she was unnerved one day when she caught him shaving Scarpa's face, in order to, as the doctor put it, "make him look nice".
And it is certain, based on other high-profile cases, that Iverson will be treated excessively in one of two ways: his celebrity will either make him a nice target to gain headlines for some ambitious prosecutors or politicians, or it will be helpful in getting him a kindlier consideration from authorities.
That doesn't make him the nicest of company, but Cambridge University isn't a kindergarten.
