The normally restrained Washington Post frothed, "One of the year's finest pictures... hilarious, painful and achingly tender".
And so the euro zone continues to stumble toward what even normally restrained observers fear could be disaster.
Nicky Morgan, sacked by May as education secretary, voiced her worries, as did the normally restrained Tory chair of the education select committee, Neil Carmichael.
Meanwhile, in a dramatic response, the conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, normally restrained in its coverage of conservative parties, likened the Christian Social Union's drubbing to the defeat suffered by Napoleon at Waterloo.
The spectre is ugly, as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the hawks of the Gulf, are joined by the normally restrained King Abdullah of Jordan in taking sides with opponents of Syria's Assad regime.
In a recent interview with The Times, the normally restrained Mr. Djukanovic accused Belgrade of trying to overthrow him by creating a 1,000-member 1,000-member unit and stationing it in Montenegro.
Aberdeen won it against Inverness only after a penalty shoot-out, and the sheer weight of the long, long wait got to the normally restrained chairman-owner, Stewart Milne.
On the eve of what many MPs believe could be Labour's final conference as a governing party for a decade, the normally restrained chancellor delivers a stinging rebuke to the entire Labour hierarchy, which he says appears to have lost "the will to live", and warns that a Conservative government would "crash the economy".
Instead, the "crack-smoking, prostitute-frequenting Mr Sheen" – in the words of the normally restrained New York Times – embarked on a series of outlandish interviews in which he denounced his employers, offered blood and urine samples for drug tests, and produced a string of bombastic soundbites.
His emollience made it all the more surprising when, in 1994, he was accused by his normally restrained former colleagues, Douglas Hurd and Geoffrey Howe, of bearing the main responsibility for the Pergau Dam scandal in which Malaysia had promised to buy £1bn in arms from Britain in exchange for £200m in aid for the controversial dam.
When fire occurs in a structure, the steel columns are subject to thermal expansion, and in practice this thermal expansion is normally restrained by the cooler surrounds of the structure.
