Word: paines
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...believed in or taken seriously. Nothing was real. With a giggle and a smirk, our chattering classes--our columnists and pop culture makers--declared that detachment and personal whimsy were the necessary tools for an oh-so-cool life. Who but a slobbering bumpkin would think, "I feel your pain"? The ironists, seeing through everything, made it difficult for anyone to see anything. The consequence of thinking that nothing is real--apart from prancing around in an air of vain stupidity--is that one will not know the difference between a joke and a menace...
...more. The planes that plowed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were real. The flames, smoke, sirens--real. The chalky landscape, the silence of the streets--all real. I feel your pain--really...
...distress is real. There is nothing to see through in that. Honor and fair play? Real. And the preciousness of ordinary living is real as well--all to be taken seriously, perhaps, in a new and chastened time. The greatness of the country: real. The anger: real. The pain: too real...
...student-athletes, the mourners understood the intrinsic value of a team. They knew the bonds formed by shared struggle and pain, strengthened in losses and celebrated in victories. They knew the tenuous thrill of relying upon someone else to be fierce in competition and supportive in practice. They had learned, together, how unforgiving the world can be in competition and defeat. They were all members of a team, and at that vigil, in remembrance of their brethren, they were all teammates...
...field, in the locker room and on the bus with their teammates. Athletes realize that there is little substitute for the strength and pride that comes with belonging to a team—a group of individuals bound by a higher goal, one possible only with united pain and labor...