But Wainwright seems at worst, hopeful, and at best, quietly confident.
On-screen agents might seem at worst robotic, but it is obvious that, like any finely trained operatives, they are excellent at their jobs.
However, despite talk of a health and care economy, the proposal seems at worst focused upon hospitals and at best on the relationship between secondary and primary care.
If you don't think the song's narrator is willing to have sex without consent, then the song seems at worst sleazy, and the reaction overblown.
Instead we have "flexibility", which seems, at worst, to mean a £2.60-per-hour and 12-week apprenticeship, and "tailoring", which means imparting skills for the immediate job in hand and of no necessary lasting value for the future.
Yet they seem, at worst, relatively harmless.
Ten years ago, when the global financial crisis seemed at its worst, the stock market hit rock bottom.
Just when things seemed at their worst, police detectives kicked in the door and arrested them on suspicion of selling machine guns and related hardware.
Whenever times have seemed at their worst, Americans have been at their best.
Most recent Chinese art has seemed at best secondary, at worst made cynically for the western art market, the kind of objects whose technical skill exceeds their interest.
