As I cried looking at the view in the Pass (emotions often well up and I cry, I'm a cry baby) I thought, if there is a heaven and there is peace, it looks like this.
They wondered if they were experiencing a passing emotion from a traumatic event.
You could hear the capital letters in his voice – they are, for him, what passes emotion.
The painter aims, rather, to capture the often fleeting—"life" (Lebendigkeit) of things: "the lustre of metal, the shimmer of a bunch of grapes by candlelight, a vanishing glimpse of the moon or the sun, a smile, the expression of a swiftly passing emotion" (Aesthetics, 1: 599).
It's where the whole magic of the thing comes from; that single moment when a character, story or passing emotion seems ripped straight from the pages of your own soul.
Of course, I did get angry occasionally with some of the things they did, but anger as a passing emotion is quite different from the feeling of sustained hatred or hostility".
But as the long winter's night passes, emotions improve, and those same areas of the country are rewarded with an even longer polar day 73 days during which the sun never fully sets.
Time passes, emotions cool, and the public and the media move on.
I scoured every frame of that thing for ear steam, or misty or fear-widened eyes, and found nothing that could pass for emotion.
The choice, the day, the moment or second is as worthy as the others but it must be felt, seen and heard for what it is... a passing of emotion and a perception for which only we give it permission to stay or meaning to hold.
