The digressions were part of a meandering, more than hourlong speech, interspersed with scripted praise for Mr. Strange and extemporaneous declarations of wonder about the sheer size of the 6-foot-9 senator known as Big Luther.
The conflicting declarations left the country in a strange limbo, with two men declared president, and on Friday Mr. Gbagbo's government found itself under increasing isolation, some of it self-imposed.
It is a strange time to be making declarations about the nature of American writing.
Asked to characterize the old structure, some neighbors responded with declarations like "hideous," "strange" and "there really wasn't much to describe".
Little Allies Our man Stanley heard the declaration of war upon Germany and Italy under strange circumstances.
"President Obama's declaration tonight that his policies are working was strange," said retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, another GOP presidential contender.
Given the reverence most Americans accord the Declaration, the story of what happened to it is strange, full of abuse, carelessness and neglect.
Everyone said the real problem was that Philadelphia -- the nation's sixth largest city and fourth largest TV market, birthplace of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution -- was a victim of a strange condition: low civic self-esteem.
Sharpton, looking down at Jackson's children, in the front row, said, "Wasn't nothin' strange about your daddy; it was strange what your daddy had to deal with" — a declaration that was as complicated and vexed as it was appropriate and kind.
