The truly frightening aspect of all of this for the Bundesliga – apart from the tidal wave of £50 notes that is about to wash over the clubs and their best players, a bit like one of those comic book scenes where Scrooge McDuck's vault is bursting – is the realisation that the Premier League has become successful independent of actual sporting success.
Furtwängler relied on degrees of vagueness, especially in Strauss, where he regularly allowed the edges of a chord to bleed, and let the waves of fast fiddle notes gurgle indistinctly.
To anyone who cared to look, it had become clear that the long waves of industrial activity noted in the 1940s by Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian-born economist best remembered for his views on "creative destruction", were getting dramatically shorter.
The group called the spread of climate-related legislation "a spectacular wave of progress," noting that in 1997, there were only 36 laws on the books around the world meant to address climate change, compared to 487 today.
Visibly moved by the rolling waves of applause, the pilots noted that this was the first recognition that they had received for the role they played during the war.
A transient decrease of the a and b waves of electroretinogram (ERG) was noted in all doses of ocriplasmin, but without permanent ERG or retinal ultrastructural abnormalities at doses less than 250 μg.
With just guitar, bass and voice, the pair plays not notes but waves of sound that hang in the air like lullabies for lucid dreamers.
And Miller offered insight into the real thing, noting the "waves of envy" the movie has generated as operatives wrangle over credit for felling Osama.
(And I mean that literally, since in Iowa he claims that the amber waves of grain include corn. Note to Mitt: corn is green, and it's not even clear it's a grain).
Kinberg said the film-makers had set out every day to make a great movie, but noted the waves of negative publicity surrounding the film, which even Trank himself dismissed via Twitter in the week of its release.
