By now, 111 days after the event, people have turned back to their ordinary lives with relief but also with a reluctant sense of surrendering the coherence of a commitment that made itself felt in the first weeks after the towers fell.
He promised his American audience tax relief for ordinary families and for investors in the stock market.
Many ordinary citizens sighed with relief when the military stepped in, and looked the other way as it installed an unprecedented system of repression.
I strongly supported President Bush's war in Afghanistan, and I was there in Kabul and saw firsthand the excitement and relief of ordinary Afghans, who were immensely grateful to the U.S. for freeing them (a crucial distinction between Iraq and Afghanistan, to anyone who covered both wars, is that you never saw the same adulation among Iraqis).
The distancing device, in focusing on the moments of crisis, has deprived us of the relief that ordinary, day-to-day life can bring, and in the melodramatic events and revelations of the ending there emerges a kind of excess, revealing an intriguing tension in the Bergman-Ullmann sensibility.
Hungarian politicians have sneered at Orbán's populist stance on energy, but the government's policies have brought relief to ordinary people and made everyday life more bearable in a country where around 20% of the household budget was going on gas bills.
The suspension of strikes and protests by Nigeria's unions will come as a huge relief to ordinary Nigerians, especially those who earn their living from day to day.
The real issue here is the banking bailout, a bipartisan swindle that Bunning opposed and that has led to a dangerously spiraling deficit without providing relief to ordinary folk.
After being warned by a tired bureaucrat in the heavens to keep his mouth shut, he returns, with relief, to his ordinary life.
A few contemporary artists work in such a high relief that the ordinary etching press cannot print their work and standard printing papers cannot be used.
