Two days on, Benitez will seek to accentuate the positives of a performance that made Leverkusen look like
swaybacked nags from an undistinguished stable.
Forget
swaybacked mattresses and flat, lifeless pillows.
Would you believe Alonso Quijano of La Mancha, better known as Cervante's knight-errant Don Quixote, along with his trusty
swaybacked steed "Rocinante," had an encounter with an invention destined to become a major part of Daisy's history?
The
swaybacked outline, massive shoulders, and wickedly protruding snout identify, the animal at once as a mature hoar, interested perhaps in the sow that recently followed the same trail.
Intricacy and idiosyncrasy were in ample evidence, as was the slightly mad, sweetly obsessive love of
swaybacked shelf and toppling pile.
Petrified,
swaybacked, the sea jerks on its tether but
Family forests and
swaybacked farm buildings are symbols of an economic system gone to seed.
Swaybacked barns disappearing a piece at a time, wind-torn gaps in their sheet-metal roofs, doors knocked askew by intruding vines.