Apart from adding a morose kind of gaiety to life, the failed coup attempt against Farage could yet offer some hope to Labour.
If a company fails to get its designs and buying right, the damage is as serious as a brand being devalued by poorly made products, dowdy stores and a morose sales force though the reverse is also true.
Yet although many Christians are morose about their prospects, others hope that a more democratic Egypt may provide opportunities to end their community's political isolation.
The queues outside their branches are orderly, if morose.
But many private-equity executives are morose about their former comrade Mitt Romney's bid for the Republican nomination.
They are adrift, morose and full of bitterness about the new arrivals.A book published this week* describes the calamity that befell the decent folk portrayed in "Family and Kinship".
Fully four-fifths of the French tell pollsters that they think "things are getting worse".But the opening quotation, seemingly so apt for morose France today, is not about that country at all.
Rather than speculating about the odds of her reaching the Elysée, France's mainstream politicians need to work far harder to head off Ms Le Pen and her party.The best answer is for them to deal with the malaise that grips so many of France's morose voters.
