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One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.

But for sheer entertainment value, the young Europeans seem to know how to be naturally affable and unceremonious.

You definitely couldn't call it unceremonious.

IT HAS become an unceremonious tradition under the Fifth Republic for the French president to dump an unpopular prime minister.

That was an unusual year, sandwiched between the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, which traumatised China and alienated its trading partners, and India's balance-of-payments crisis in 1991, which brought an unceremonious end to its fiscal splurge in the 1980s.

Deceptively simple instrumentation and unceremonious presentation belie the power of his sound.

AFTER her unceremonious dismissal last year as Pakistan's prime minister, Benazir Bhutto has seen an opportunity to strike at the government of Nawaz Sharif.

Three of the men who did the job before Ms Smith were forced to make unceremonious exits after each walked into a succession of booby-traps.

But his unceremonious departure from the government will reinforce the perception that rules in Haiti are made to be broken.

In a decree made public this morning, Mr Medvedev said he had lost confidence in Mr Luzhkov, who has ruled Moscow as a medieval fief since 1992, back when the late Boris Yeltsin was still president.The unceremonious sacking came after three state-controlled television channels mounted a co-ordinated attack on Mr Luzhkov and Elena Baturina, his billionaire wife.

Mating is quick and unceremonious.