Seeing Shakespeare reviewed in the Mirror would be triumph enough for some, of course.
It's the look of depraved triumph, mirrored in the eyes of a detestable character and a smashing actor.
And mirroring the workers' triumph here in Mexico, a new semi-independent trade union in a tennis shoe factory in China has won new rights for its workers.
This is sometimes forgotten by those who see in Liszt a cinematically Romantic misunderstood genius, his career path ending posthumously in glorious triumph, mirroring his symphonic poem "Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo".
The movie will mirror a Roy Orbison song: having triumph and tragedy, sometimes losing the girl and sometimes getting the girl, and ending on a high note.
Mr. Kupfer's ecstatic treatment of Alexei's gambling triumph is the mirror image of his equally arresting treatment of the General's dashed hopes, which leave him a broken man taken away in a straitjacket.
Then, when Wright left for a career in television, it was Wallace who dreamed up the 3am concept to replace him, recruiting the three women - including the excellent Jessica Callan - who turned the idea into such a triumph for the Mirror that it was later copied by competitors.
Reversals always came trailing after the triumphs or the reconciliations, mirroring the painful flux of real experience.
Another triumph was "Heaven's Mirror" by the Arvaiden Theatre Company, also a national theatre, but from the tiny Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
Buttigieg insists that the rearview mirror is a poor guide to future triumphs.
"How depressing that a criminally old-fashioned collection of cliches should be hailed as an innovative triumph," wrote Kevin O'Sullivan in the Mirror.
