Even when the damage isn't that clear cut, the intangible burdens of a bad image can add up. Just ask Dow Chemical.

The assassin crept into the royal bedchamber only after it was pitch-dark.

A smack of all Human Life lies in the Tailor: its wild struggles towards beauty, dignity, freedom, victory; and how, hemmed in by Sedan and Huddersfield, by Nescience, Dulness, Prurience, and other sad necessities and laws of Nature, it has attained just to this: Grey Savagery of Three Sacks with a hem!

E'en nature's boldest barriers he conqueringly assails.