She has done nothing to galvanise liberal thinking ("Our Democratic message is one of renewing America's promise," she warbled in her pre-buttal to George Bush's state-of-the-union speech), nothing to shake up the party's senescent establishment and nothing to create a sense that the Democrats are the party of the future.
Locals say that they also cut out the vocal cords of a singer who had warbled improvised anti-regime ditties in previous weeks.
"I'm every woman," warbled Whitney Houston, at one point, "It's all in me".
Then, sans segue, Willie Nelson's "Always on My Mind" was warbled by a lady in a denim shirt as she gazed adoringly at her date.
As someone warbled "Bohemian Rhapsody," I struck up a conversation with a patron at the bar.
Michael opened one of the doors to reveal a wall lined with little cubbyholes, in which dozens of pigeons warbled and bobbed and shifted their feet.
One was delivered on YouTube by an animated bird, who warbled sadly from the pavement against a backdrop of commuters' calves.
The singer Paloma Faith, at the head of the runway, warbled "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" in increasing loud tones, but the models — including Suki Waterhouse, who marched by in a thong in front of her boyfriend, Bradley Cooper (who was sitting in the front row) — did not seem to be particularly unhappy.
She was reciting a rhyme about singing bones, and then she warbled like a bird and held up the bone puppet and rattled it.
I remember Emily Dickinson writing to her dear friend Elizabeth Holland: Dear Sister, After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely.
On one side of the cassette, Clavin warbled a militant ode to John Hinckley, Jr., announcing, not necessarily in jest, that "there ain't nothing wrong with trying to kill the President".
