Because of the attacks, American fans are likely to use these sporting events to express their patriotic emotions.
It is hard to predict whether the American public, after the likely initial surge in patriotic emotions, would long support such an operation.
They did not pretend to mirror the actual events but rather attempted to tap people's patriotic emotions.
Always a plural people, Americans in recent years have grown downright fractious - not a condition that conduces to patriotic emotion.
Even at this moment of patriotic and quasi-mystical emotion, rationalized functionalism is expressed.
Unable to appeal to the two clashing groups with logic and commands, Rama was resorting to patriotic emotion.
Not bound by conventions, patriotic emotions, sentimentality... we haven't what they call a stake in the country.
Unlike America's 200th birthday party in 1976, the bicentennial here has not bubbled over with patriotic emotion.
More than 60 years later, whenever one of his songs is listened to, an inevitable patriotic emotion fills the hearts of his fellow citizens.
Indeed, what for years had been considered simply a bad disposition was suddenly become a patriotic emotion.