The death of the 84-year-old spiritual leader of the Catholic church was announced on April 2nd, unleashing a wellspring of emotions from pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square.
I was also astonished by the wellspring of emotions that erupted from hidden places inside me.
The celebrated rock critic Lester Bangs once declared that Patti Smith's 1975 debut, Horses, "touches deep wellsprings of emotion that few artists in rock or anywhere else are capable of reaching … real rock 'n' roll again at last".
But while Radcliffe had cried in the gutter during the Athens 2004 marathon after staggering to a halt with four miles remaining, here the wellsprings of emotion opened at a crucially important part of the course – five strides over the finish line.
The romantics wanted to let loose the repressed wellsprings of emotion.
… He is capable of bringing great comedy out of a wellspring of deep emotion like [Charlie] Chaplin".
It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness.
The art of the focus group, Reilly explained, is to get at the general undercurrent of the race, some wellspring of relevant emotions that lies buried just beneath the surface of the polling data.
While many of them have embraced me, many have not; we have not always been friends, but there we all sat, feeling many of the same things: a wellspring of so many emotions.
So after some deliberation, we decided to rely on emotion, the wellspring of many great songs: Jealousy, Anger, Joy, Defiance, Revenge and others.
