It's understandable that the public is beginning to have its doubts, and not just because those invisible gods somehow demand sacrifices only from workers, never from the wealthy.
Although the Cantonese comedian-turned-director's trademark "mo lei to" absurdist comedy has made him wildly popular in China, the chart-spiking popularity of The Mermaid somehow demands further explanation.
Kelley's art somehow always demands a bunker or cave, basements and spooky places.
We are perfectly content to learn that a novelist needed half a decade to tell his or her tale, but somehow we demand of painters a little more dash.
In Ms. Schultz's telling, there was almost nothing that some corporations wouldn't do to pare their pension obligations, from canceling death benefits to instituting "clawbacks" — that is, informing retirees that they had somehow been overpaid and demanding a lump-sum repayment that very few were able to afford.
Between raising this many children, all of whom are very active, and working in our professions, which can be demanding, and somehow keeping up with the gigantic amount of laundry our house produces, we don't have a lot of spare time to go out to social events, even if we wanted to.
The reduced quantity of services would somehow need to be rationed among competing demands.
He demanded, somehow, that we see the suffering human behind the Dionysian god.
Her voice cannot be said to carry the sorrow or soul of Billie Holiday or Nina Simone, but maybe these are over-rated qualities: doesn't it feel somehow wrong to demand our artists suffer for their art just so we can enjoy it in the comfort of our homes?
But she found that somehow Irish affairs demanded her attention, helped to define the age she dominated and were to play a role in determining how history remembers her.
