“He has a sense of humour, is highly intelligent and blessedly was quite free of that terrible aura of ego that surrounds all ranking politicians.”

“He supplies a grand moral sententiousness blessedly free from the messy squalor of life as it's lived here, I suppose.”

“Having only a croak of a voice, I managed to screech out one chorus but apart from that was blessedly relieved from the pressure to sing.”