Through the Davis Cup, even those of us without the slightest pretence to expertise have been able to perceive and celebrate afresh how Murray's outstanding talent is harnessed to a commensurate character.
With much of the video shot from underneath a metal grille where husky-voiced Amphlett writhed and stomped in both fishnet stockings and a school uniform, the singer made no pretence to the traditional female pop image of innocence or virginity and Australia had never seen anything like it.
The model thus goes some way towards a realistic simulation of the colon, although it makes no pretence to simulate the pulsating nature of the real flow.
If the regime has any pretence to legitimacy left, it derives from the residual authority inherited from the cult of Ayatollah Khomeini.
An additional part of neoliberalism's tacit deal was the abandonment of any pretence to democratic, collective control over the conditions of life: politics has been reduced to technocratic rule.
