The thing about science fiction is that while it generally takes place in "the future" and/or "in space," at its core it is always really about its own present, right here on earth.
But the case has little to do with the causes of the housing market collapse; at its core, it is really akin to embezzlement from a bank by its employees.
At its core, it is as much a domestic drama as a trackside thriller.
At its core it is an inept, cliche-ridden story edited together in a treacly and cheap manner.
At its core, it is a club of failures — Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Josh Gibson, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg.
"At its core, it is a mergers-and-acquisitions deal shop," said one executive at the company told The Times.
At its core it is about the title character's quest to win the heart of Ramona Flowers, an American working as a delivery girl in Toronto.
But, at its core, it is the same story as the happy kid with his father: Hershey's as the "currency of affection" and the symbol of love.
But at its core, it is an environmentalist tract, and, behind the mostly measured language, a fairly radical one, at that.
British to its core, it is a vast source of all those half-forgotten rhymes for counting, patting, jiggling and soothing babies and toddlers.
The dispute concerns payments for oil companies working in the semiautonomous north, but at its core, it is a fight over who should control Iraq's vast oil wealth.
