mind's eye

Scotland fans with even average memories take nothing for granted on the road, their mind's eye still capable of conjuring up disturbing images of losing qualifying matches to Georgia in Tbilisi in 2007 and Kazakhstan in Astana a dozen years later.

One mystery, which the film never addresses — it’s less of one on the page, where the mind’s eye adjusts the setting to a believable degree of plushness — is how some of them can afford to live there at all.

I’d always seen it in my mind’s eye, and now here it was beneath my feet.

That’s what we think in our mind’s eye Sinatra had the research to see and say, “I’m going to try and do the right thing for all these people down below as best I can and try and keep the people at bay.”

But Mitchell’s charge was ongoing: to capture the slaughter in his mind’s eye, to witness and remember and translate everything he had seen for the broader public.