When more than 3,000 people gather to focus on health and wellness, gratitude and peace, the result is mass serenity, joy and a welcoming vibe that let a cynic like me look past my misconceptions.
Sreesanth steered Tim Bresnan's delivery to Kevin Pietersen in the gully and Andrew Strauss's side became a moving, jumping white mass of pure joy.
But when the leaders of the rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, signed a historic, if preliminary, agreement in Cairo on Wednesday to end a four-year schism and unify the two Palestinian territories, wariness and skepticism precluded any mass outpouring of joy.
And so it is: A magnificent performance of Beethoven's great mass, filled with joy, wonder, humility and, above all, devotion.
Strand upon strand of sound accumulated into a gleefully chaotic mass, a pandemonium of joy.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Bosnian by way of Sweden, came on late in the game to share in what became a mass outpouring of communal joy, complete with players' infants, local musicians and all the ticker tape and spectacle Europeans used to dismiss as the trappings of American excess.
The online dating agency arranges dates for trios as part of their commitment to introducing the masses to the joys of polyamory, then coaches them on how to go about it.
Whereas hip-hop could bring joy to the masses while retaining a sense of experimental play, perhaps indie rock had become too "refined and effete," increasingly detached from "lived, earned experience".
The overall Market sentiment illustrates that the masses are not jumping with joy.
