The sheer bludgeoning responsibility is so consuming, and the emotions evoked so elemental, that it's possible to lose sight of the particular in your own circumstances.
Also, there's something about it that reveals something of the isolation, the anxiety, the sheer weight of responsibility that Mr Brown and others like him have to bear.
"Every case in which a police officer has shot someone brings it home to unarmed officers the sheer weight of responsibility that their colleagues face".
"Every case in which a police officer has shot someone brings home to unarmed officers the sheer weight of responsibility that their colleagues face".
When Chelsea was born, I was full of nerves--despite all the books I had read and my work at Yale's Child Study Center, I was unprepared for the sheer wonder and responsibility of parenthood.
The "jobs to get done" by the disparate stakeholders in end of life management are often in conflict: minimize pain, maximize quality of life, observing religious beliefs, professional ethics, obligations and responsibilities, sheer economic reality and/or mitigating potential guilt let alone expressing our love.
It may be that the relevant inequality may be in the sheer load of responsibilities expected of each gender.
Sheer size eroded personal responsibility, diffused risk, and eventually condoned evil.
We need to combine the hard commercial skills which are well-honed by the "usual suspects" with creativity, social responsibility and sheer bloody enthusiasm.
