To many scientists, that doubtless seems no more than coincidence.
Many pundits fancy "Argo": it juggles an unorthodox mixture of history, humour and thrills without dropping any balls; it has very broad appeal, guaranteeing second- and third-preference votes; its Hollywood scenes send the industry up but also contrive to flatter it.But "Silver Linings Playbook", slight though it doubtless seems to some, may end up coming through the middle to win.
At first blush it doubtless seems a remote remedy to propose, for the uprooted many in the turmoil of the time, that everyone has a right to free movement, asylum and a nationality; but if one ponders it, one sees that it is exactly the right organising idea for the crisis, as well as being a right principle in general.
In ten years' time it will doubtless seem dated.
To some, worries about nitrogen will doubtless seem to be no more than the latest environmental bandwagon.
Oh, it doubtless seemed innocent enough, just a bit of "naughty fun", when it all began back in the Stavros Flatley era, with straightforward cock-fighting.
Allen's message, such as it is – and to non-fans, it will doubtless seem a little smug – is that wealth and fame are pretty fun.
Moreover, for Mr Jospin, son of left-wing parents, the Trotskyites doubtless seemed an honourable alternative both to the Socialists, tainted by their support for French colonialism, and to the Communists, blind to Russia's brutality at home and abroad.
For the banks' managers, on the other hand, a far-flung financial empire doubtless seemed much more fun to run than one based on lending against next year's harvest.
In terms that would doubtless seem familiar to the inhabitants of other occupied countries, this subtle and humane book shows that the French experience of occupation was one of comfort, deprivation, heroism, pettiness, terror, excitement, pride, and shame.
"Any method involving the notion of entropy, the very existence of which depends on the second law of thermodynamics, will doubtless seem to many far-fetched, and may repel beginners as obscure and difficult of comprehension".
