The man is Francisco Camacho, and his world is "Blessed" (and also, it seems, damned).
With the career-threatening whiff of hammy howlers such as The Lone Ranger and Mortdecai still lingering in the nostrils, it seems damning with faint praise to say that this true-crime thriller, co-written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, is Johnny Depp's best film in years.
But to stock an ebook reader in the back pocket of every seat seems damn expensive and unnecessary.
This one, if a little obvious, seems damn smart and likely to work.
He was also, so he assured everybody, the man who was offered the throne of Albania when he attended the League of Nations deliberations in 1920, and turned it down because "it seemed a damn bore".
It seems pretty damn clear to me that we'll take the former option, but the point is that I don't know and I don't need to know.
It does seem damning with faint praise, best costumes, doesn't it.
"While it may seem damning now, the judge may exclude a lot of the evidence and it may never make it before the jury," said Carl Tobias, a professor of law at the University of Richmond, in assessing the new information about the case.
Retailers, it seems, are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
it seems, are damned if they intervene, and damned if they don't.
