But this really is life-enhancing stuff, a genuine triumph for the good guys, a feel-good experience for the dumper-bound '90s.
It is only fair to say that his after-dinner speeches at such times had been regarded as very special events, genuine triumphs of humor and delivery.
It was just possible that they might actually inflict damage on the Russian carrier, and turn the diversion into a genuine triumph.
That James was able to fit so complex a subject into under ten thousand words was a genuine triumph of his by now completely mature technique.
Miss Sheedy is so good as Maggie that the character's liberation, and the rise of her social consciousness, appear to be genuine triumphs.
It was a genuine triumph to the actors who felt that they were "showing forth the glory of Greece" to "ignorant Americans."
Here he could feel genuine triumph.
We can, however, celebrate a genuine triumph in Ukraine.
Writing in Daily Variety, Alan Rich called the production "one of the company's few genuine Verdian triumphs."
What had been in its first season genuine artistic triumph over serious casting odds became in its second something to avoid.