Stripped of our usual bearings and sanctuaries, we must now decide on a daily basis what our tangible actions will be.
Mr. Menendez tried to project a business-as-usual bearing late last week as he convened his first meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee, even as he continued to be hounded by reporters awaiting him at every public appearance.
"Like a sleepwalker, we seem unable to wake up to the fact that so many of the catastrophic consequences of carrying on with 'business-as-usual' are bearing down on us faster than we think, already dragging many millions more people into poverty and dangerously weakening global food, water and energy security for the future.
"Like a sleepwalker, we seem unable to wake up to the fact that so many of the catastrophic consequences of carrying on with 'business-as-usual' are bearing down on us faster than we think, already dragging many millions more people into poverty and dangerously weakening global food, water and energy security for the future," he said.
The usual suspects were bearing the accumulated swagger of championships past, and so did their fans.
The enemy includes the 4,000-odd 4,000-oddeepers who AUe meant to stopeacekeepersment from being driven into the sea.As usual, civilians are bearing the brunt of the misery.
Even members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the most organized political opposition group in Egypt, were difficult to pinpoint in that crowd, having camouflaged their usual religious bearing in deference to the nonideological tone set by the protest's young organizers.
I had seen the cemetery in daylight — it was crammed with headstones bearing the usual inscriptions and information.
And each tiller, instead of bearing the usual 100 or so grains, would puff up with 200 to 500 grains.
You could argue, of course, that Cruise is simply bearing the usual burden of being the most powerful actor in Hollywood.
As 3,000 students returned yesterday morning to Stuyvesant for the first time since Sept. 11, they came bearing the usual bulging backpacks, wearing baggy jeans and nervous grins sparkling with braces.
