When the onslaught was over, she simply clapped, waved, bowed and smiled, peeling off another warm layer of herself that few had witnessed throughout the night.
But also because, despite relentless onslaughts over centuries from unfriendly neighbours, the Georgian culture and spirit remain undimmed.
At such moments, with its own, generator-powered lights shining out from the top of the Zafer tower, Level Up seems like a beacon of sophistication in a city that has been under siege, and suffered three devastating Israeli military onslaughts, over the nine years since Hamas took control.
Philippine authorities are sending body bags, medicines and food packs to remote villages as the country prepared for Typhoon Hagupit's onslaught, just over a year after Typhoon Haiyan devastated communities.
Glass, out on a morning foray, falls afoul of a bear, who is protecting her cubs: an astounding sequence, not just because her claw swipes are so murderously fierce but because the ferocity rises and fades — she stops mauling, sniffs him, licks his face, ambles off, and then, just when you think the onslaught is over, comes back and swipes anew.
But we also remember how relatively small a piece of girlhood real estate was owned back then by the Disney Corporation, before the year 2000's marketing blitz that led to the creation of the four-billion-dollar "Princess franchise" and, ultimately, the onslaught of over 26,000 Disney princess items currently being sold in the children's market.
Australia failed to gain serious momentum when it batted, although a 21-run single-over onslaught by Johnson on Muttiah Muralitharan ensured it a competitive total of 159 for 9 from its 20 overs.
When I entered Gaza, a few days after the onslaught ended, I heard it over and over again, from people old enough to have worked in Israel and whose fields, houses and factories were just destroyed: they spoke warmly of their ex-employers and Israeli business partners who had just called them, worried about their plight.
Celtic Park was bracing itself for a traditional late onslaught when Joe Shaughnessy headed over from an unmarked position with nine minutes to go.
