But as the enormity of the attack sinks in, recriminations against internal and external enemies, real or perceived, are inevitable.
But the enormity of the attack has landed both adults and children "on treacherous emotional terrain," said Dr. Tamar Chansky, the author of "The Anxious Child," and director of the Children's Center for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Anxiety in Plymouth, Pa.
But the very enormity of the attack, which killed 20 young Israelis, may have provided the shock that Israel and the Palestinians needed to draw back from the brink of all-out war.Mr Sharon's restraint was purchased, literally at the last minute, by a public statement from Yasser Arafat, on the morning of June 2nd.
The most egregious example, of course, was 9/11, when even the brutal enormity of the attack against America was not quite enough to still the hateful tongues of people crass enough to insist that the US had got what was coming to it.
Such was the enormity of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Sept. 11 that America's trial lawyers agreed to hold off filing civil lawsuits in connection with the catastrophe.
The degree of deference from news organizations, usually prickly about any infringement of First Amendment freedoms, is unusual, perhaps matching the enormity of the terrorist attack.
One tweet encouraged Kenyans to donate blood after an appeal from hospitals in Nairobi as the enormity of the Westgate attack unfolded.
The initial intention was to convey the enormity and stealth of the attacks, but recriminations were implicit: the United States had been caught sleeping once again.
THE PROLOGUE -- The enormity of the Sept. 11 attacks and the vast operation under way as the world reacts had almost a banal counterpoint in details that emerged of the terrorists' last night on earth.
Its opening prologue is a grim take on the enormity of the conflict – gas attacks, endless crossfire and artillery shelling make for an impactful first five-minutes – and its only real flaw is that the protagonist of this sequence, a member of the Harlem Hellfighters doesn't get seen again – at least outside of potential DLC.
