Still whooshing

"Whooshing up" once, "whooshing up" twice: find two "whooshings up"
in major newspapers on the same day and you may well pay attention. Get ready
to be swept away by this new coinage, which is featured in All Things Shining by philosophers Herbert Dreyfus and Sean
Dorrance Kelly. Wall Street Journal
reviewer Eric Ormsby summarizes:

Whooshing up is the sensation we
enjoy at a sporting event when the crowd rises to its feet as one to register a
communal sense of awe and admiration before some astonishing athletic feat.
Whooshing up is communal, it is public, and it is shared.

It also replicates what the ancient Greeks did in response
to highlights in athletic events. Dreyfus and Kelly advocate whooshing up as a
partial cure for the nihilism that afflicts our culture now that God is gone.
God may be gone, they suggest, but the gods are not--and the public has to
believe in something.