As these men took their places, the organ played Daniel Jones' musical setting of Dylan's "A Refusal to Mourn," which seemed to me a good beginning to a memorial service for a man who spent his life denying precisely those ordinary sentiments which never failed to bring him to tears.
But, if the artists of the time were throwing off idealism and sentiment, ordinary people were not.
They have harmed ordinary people and solidified sentiment against the west and the "great Satan" of the US.
But his apparent lack of negotiating space reflects both his own weakness and the virulence of anti-American sentiment among ordinary Pakistanis.
Greece is under huge pressure to seal off its borders, from the EU and at home, because of rising anti-immigrant sentiment among ordinary Greeks.
The film depicts Japanese atrocities during their 1937 occupation of Nanjing, a highly emotional topic that is often used by the Communist Party to stir up nationalistic sentiment among ordinary Chinese.
Admiral Mullen's comments are likely only to worsen relations with Pakistan, and to fuel anti-American sentiment among ordinary Pakistanis.The Haqqani network is based in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which border on Afghanistan.
As that date nears, here are the major players, their parties and the sentiments of ordinary Israelis as expressed in polls.
Now, following the terror attacks on New York and Washington, the museum has assumed a new role, that of conveying to the United States the expressions of shock and solidarity felt by ordinary French people whose sentiments might otherwise have gone unnoticed.
The surest way for administrators and ArbCom to retain their positions is to appeal to popular sentiment among the ordinary members.
Last week's move by the Welsh, however, produced howls of fury from newspaper commentators and high levels of anti-devolution sentiment from many ordinary people in England, claiming English students were being punished.
