At such moments, "Tom Cruise" feels about as reliable as the tabloids and yet, astonishingly, somehow meaner.
Two people rebuild his desire for life: lifelong pal Moore and the astonishingly pretty and clearly available Hoult, who somehow manages to maintain a sexual electricity whilst seeming to also appreciate Firth as a mentor and intellect.
The unwilled surfacing of this moment of calm seemed astonishingly unexpected and, brief as it was, I wanted somehow to bank on it, to find in it some resource to draw upon through all the hardship to come.
One young woman had somehow managed to run a tiny shop down a black side tunnel, selling biscuits, and, astonishingly, put herself through a degree in business administration.
Astonishingly, the attack was neutralised by the Leicester full-back Telusa Veainu, who somehow forced Saili into an inside pass, and the wing Adam Thompstone, who followed up with a try-saving tackle on Simon Zebo.
Even more astonishingly, there was St. Paul's Chapel, six blocks north, whose 235-year-old bricks and timbers had somehow endured a conflagration that leveled skyscrapers of steel and concrete nearby.
Astonishingly the Romanian referee Ioan Igna did not even award France a free-kick, French disgust almost compounded when Brazil broke and Socrates somehow missed an open goal.
Astonishingly, nearly all did.
Astonishingly, the plan worked.
