John Light plays Dr Conrad superbly, with a bogus decency that becomes ever more desolating.
Some will be cynical about the theory that New Zealand, by playing startlingly attacking cricket under all circumstances, while behaving with a palpable decency at all times, could prove to be the saviours of Test and even one-day international cricket.
Still, Cole has to push away from them to a degree and de Klerk does that with an innate decency that makes clear Cole has no other choice.
The country's yearning for a government with decency, politicians with integrity, and leaders with ideals seems to have found utterance.
At the lower end of the age range, and fizzingly illustrated by Kate Hindley, it's a tale of bravery rewarded, positively a-thrum with human decency in the face of adversity (impending penury, trapezes, lions).
"Akin continues to offend women, anyone else with a sense of decency," the e-mail's headline read.
Not that the other workers have it easy: "Every Twelve Seconds" shatters any belief you might have about the system treating animals with a shred of decency.
Overriding aides who objected to putting race center stage, he addressed a painful, difficult subject straightforwardly with a subtlety and decency rare in American politics.
Any political party with a sense of decency would include a promise to return the marbles to their rightful home in its election manifesto.
Beneath Fred MacMurray's lighthearted family man persona, Wilder had discovered something weak, treacherous, touchingly vulnerable and Nixonian, yet with a spark of decency flickering within.
