There is also truth in the idea that the government's travails are not unalloyed good news for Labour.
They have got more unalloyed and uncritical support from the press than they know what to do with and they are still not going to win the election.
"The remarkable thing I find about the Conservatives is that here's a party that's awash with money, has got unalloyed support from vast swaths of the British press, and they still are not going to win this election.
No line was available but, as the firing in the streets increased, we were given house room and refreshments and could not but observe the unalloyed joy of many in the embassy, notably the British naval representatives, at the coup.
But cross-border forays are not an unalloyed good.
And he is expected to enable Mr Arafat to attend the Arab Summit in Beirut next week and to return to the Palestinian territories thereafter.But if the two sides, prodded by the Americans, do declare a formal ceasefire, that will not in itself be cause for unalloyed optimism.
Mr Lux's supporters are mainly church-going country folk who share the Social Democrats' preference for a "social market" economy over the unalloyed capitalism Mr Klaus espoused.
Yet China's arrival as a proper trading partner may not be unalloyed good news.
And, as before, the Kurds, whose autonomy is one of the few unalloyed successes of America's invasion, are likely to be kingmakers.Yet, as our briefing shows (see article), Iraq is still bitterly divided.
But the grisly pictures from Abu Ghraib are raising doubts, even in the heartland, about whether American power is an unalloyed force for good in the world.
In such desperation, suspicions fester.Nor could Mr Aquino find unalloyed respite from his troubles at home in the outpouring of international sympathy and generosity the disaster prompted.
