The momentum caused by the event has now, perhaps, died down, or paused for thought.
Pietersen remains English cricket's biggest, indeed only, mainstream star; the last gasp of something that has now perhaps gone for good.
When Diego had been transferred to the hotel, the day before, from a prison in the fort, where he had spent a day and a night with other men who had now perhaps been killed, it felt like being exhumed — finding himself in the spacious hotel, with the warmth of these men all around him, ignorant and easily optimistic.
With money so tight, it has now perhaps become a trade-off: do we want more nurses or better paid ones?
As Moyá himself commented: "The fact that we have now Rafa perhaps eclipses a few great things from the past.
The issue for the conventioneers was that after struggling since the 1970s to have the comics taken seriously, they have now succeeded, perhaps too well.
For Hazard, there is the possibility that one day he will inherit the status that the likes of Messi and Ronaldo have now and perhaps might be a Ballon D'Or winner himself.
Almost all online reports of the latest tragedy have now been deleted, perhaps for fear of more copycat attacks.
"The deepest fault lines of our democracy have now been exposed, perhaps even widened," President Obama said Tuesday in Dallas.
Given the limited evidence we have now, it is perhaps premature to point out which approaches work best.
