Or was the mighty Goldman prize enough to satisfy Washington, if not the many ordinary citizens who blame Wall Street for the Great Recession?
Had he not been up against Hilary Mantel's mighty Wolf Hall, the prize would, I think, have been his for the taking.
That's a mighty fine consolation prize.
Last year, it was bought by Telefonica, a Spanish telecoms firm, for a mighty euro5.5 billion—a handsome prize for Endemol's investors that required neither their humiliation nor their nakedness.
When the 1981 prize was announced, a mighty career was launched.
Revealing untraditional emotion, they jumped around in a huddle on the side of the podium once they realized the 40-year spell that had left their mighty teams with nothing but Olympic consolation prizes had come to an end.
At the MLG San Francisco tournament Leto agreed to split the prize money with his final competitor "Mighty" before the final game, and claimed to do so in order to make his opponent less hungry for victory.
One of Jacobson's previous novels, "The Mighty Walzer," won something called the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and, indeed, there is a delicious quality of overstatement in P. G. Wodehouse that Jacobson may be searching for.
Jacobson won the first ever Wodehouse prize in 2000 for his novel The Mighty Walzer.
Howard Jacobson won the first ever Wodehouse Prize in 2000 for his novel The Mighty Waltzer, while Frayn won two years later for Spies.
The old turf cottages of the past have largely been replaced by concrete houses built to withstand the mighty forces of nature - if not to win any architecture prizes.
