The old anti-communist front that stirred hearts at home and abroad 11 years ago has been wiped out.The end of market reform, then?
Beating Germany for the first time in a tournament for 34 years may have stirred hearts but intelligent heads are more urgently needed, on and off the field.
The song cut through the prevailing American mood of isolationism and stirred hearts.
First, his anti-corruption campaign, despite widespread assumptions it masks score settling, has stirred hearts by reinforcing the president's man-of-the-people appeal.
In 1998, the heavy-haunched Signia failed to stir hearts.
Whether or not art changes anything is open to debate but, as this event defiantly proved, it has the capacity to stir hearts and minds.
Face to watch: Douglas Booth Douglas Booth More than the sum of his cheekbones, this model-cum-actor stirred nostalgia as an eerily convincing Boy George in Worried About the Boy, and will surely stir hearts as Christopher Isherwood's lover in the BBC's upcoming Christopher and His Kind.
Apart from a few other one-liners, an appearance by Susan Bro (the late Heather Heyer's mother), and a finale speech from Wonder, there wasn't much said or done to stir hearts and minds, much less inspire. .
It touched and stirred my heart then and it does so still.
"Had we lived," he wrote, "I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
What he said "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
