As I gazed at this seemingly impenetrable 935m-high wall of rock, my sentiments echoed those of Miss Jemima, who noted: "We were hard put to discover a path, or to understand how we should reach its summit".
Obviously the Christian sentiments of the song must rule out such a violent conclusion.
Similar sentiments were expressed in Toxteth, in Liverpool, where the fact that rioting was more contained – compared with London, Birmingham and Manchester – was partly attributed to community cohesion and an outreach drive by youth workers who toured the streets, dissuading people from getting involved.
The "make-up" of the three Cabinet ministers is as close an approximation as possible to the features, dress, and manners of the originals, and the fun of the thing consists partly in placing them in ridiculous situations, and partly in making them utter ludicrous exaggerations of the sentiments which they are supposed to profess or act upon in their public conduct.
Confronted with this recent outpouring of anti-Thatcher sentiments, I am struck by the strident tones from "wronged" miners and other working people, and a marked absence of any mea culpa.
While those on the Qatari organising committee have consistently stated a summer tournament is viable thanks to the development of cooling technologies to be used at grounds, sentiments their general secretary Hassan al-Thawadi reiterated on Monday, there is still widespread concern for the health of players, officials and supporters.
Her approach echoes the sentiments of many other small NGOs, yet small NGOs so often struggle with financing.
The writers, who also included Peter Carey and Michael Ondaatje, argued in their letter that the choice of winner was "not simply conveying support for freedom of expression, but also valorising … material that intensifies the anti-Islamic, anti-Maghreb, anti-Arab sentiments already prevalent in the western world".
Such sentiments would seem jarring for Eurovision, especially in a year celebrating diversity, where host city Vienna installed special same-sex couple pedestrian traffic signals.
Sentiments such as "I fear nothing, not even death" (Lubitz's breathing as the plane hurtled towards the mountain was steady); "death before dishonour" (failing to make it as captain); and "I'll show you" (the rejecting girlfriend, the wider world) can be elements in the egoistic suicide.
(Those were sentiments shared by Gray's family).
