To the Editor: Susan Sontag's comment about Sept. 11 not being a day of reflection ("Real Battles and Empty Metaphors," Op-Ed, Sept. 10) resonated with me.

The disturbing comment resonates in the context of the struggles of Ms. Duffy and Ms. Robinson, who are shown grappling with pain, debts and despair.

These comments from Toby and Sam clearly resonate with the President: it is implied that they led him to decide to accept the humiliating censure deal.

As the leader of a remarkable turnaround at McDonald's, Skinner's comments will resonate across the country.

And his comments resonate with a tentative, complicated sense of his life, not with the resounding triumph of a Hollywood ending.

Still other analysts said that Mr. Giuliani's comments about Crown Heights may simply not resonate with Houstonians at all, no matter how it played out in New York.

Yet Lou's comment that she wanted to patch things up still resonated and gave him a sliver of hope.

Dishwashers are not allowed; the heat is hard to control; and on a gray day, Lewis Mumford's comment on its "police state" architecture resonates.

Her comments resonated with some older white women, but generated an immediate backlash elsewhere.

But to Mr. Rumsfeld's critics, the recent events were interpreted as indifference, or at least indicative of a tin ear to how his comments and actions resonate among the military and the public.