In offering sentiment which was identical to last month, when Scotland were defeated by the same scoreline in Slovakia, Strachan insisted his focus was not with himself.
Others echoed his sentiments, offering a variety of facts to bolster their arguments.
The campaign disappeared in 1999 after widespread disapproval from customers and ad critics, replaced with more conventional ads offering warmer, fuzzier sentiments based on the word "united".
There is almost a decision to avoid, to turn the head, to give just passing acknowledgment to religious sentiments offering compassion and comfort (look at all the wax drippings from votive candles) and to overlook completely the religious hatred that lay behind the attacks (which is invisible here, and which, one ventures to guess, will be largely absent on Sunday).
"This is really painful stuff — it's hard to read, hard to understand how it could happen and wasn't reported," Father Santarosa said before reading the letter from Archbishop Gomez during one Mass, offering the same sentiments he would repeat at each of the four other Sunday Masses.
"That's a half-hour added to this game of him standing around and us sitting around watching him do nothing," said Valentine, offering a populist sentiment that had some statistical backing.
We kept being told he was making rookie mistakes and offering voters wispy idealistic sentiments rather than the real beef of policy.
At the start of the new week, national political figures began to weigh in on the subject of police and race, offering a range of sentiments from criticism to consolation.
One of the nine justices -- the one widely considered the swing vote on the same-sex marriage questions -- was offering his own mixed sentiments as he questioned lawyers in the oral arguments over the cases in April.
They stirred public sentiment by offering visual evidence of slavery's abuses as well as of the wholesomeness of an emerging class of freed blacks.
