It feels, instead of revolution, like an affirmation of the work of decades.
It almost sounds like an affirmation: "I am a woman who took a little girl to the market," Ms. Hileman said.
"It was like an affirmation," said Mookie's owner, Liz Wiseman, whose other Jack Russell, Melanie, had a similar reaction to the new food.
Each victory is like an affirmation of life, I suppose; each loss brings the season closer to an end, and reality closer to the forefront.
If Stuart Pearce's team win tonight, it will feel like an affirmation of the progress the senior side are making; in 1993, the opposite was true.
The inscribed copy of "Ask Your Mama" was a kind of bonus pay, but, in those final months before "A Different Drummer" appeared, it must have also seemed like an affirmation.
For Michael Bloomberg, who became mayor in 2001 after converting to the Republican Party a year earlier, bringing his party's national convention to New York this month must seem like an affirmation of sorts.
Say it out loud, to yourself, like an affirmation.
"It also felt like an affirmation of black is beautiful, you know?
I remember getting texts off Gianfranco that were like "Where are uuuuuu??" But it felt like an affirmation, a seal of approval from an elder statesman.
