I scored each on a scale of 1 to 10 (I had to keep track somehow), and the lone 10 went to a story from "After the Plague": "The Underground Gardens," about a luckless Sicilian immigrant named Baldasare Forestiere who arrives in turn-of-the-century Fresno to build a new life.
This five-minute crowd-pleaser takes riffs from Beethoven's "Eroica" and folds them into a score teaming with clanking percussion, corny brass chorales, and perky passages that sounded as if Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon had somehow encountered the Lone Ranger.
As with many horror films, it focuses on the "final girl" trope the heroine and inevitable lone survivor who somehow escapes the horror that befalls the other characters: Sally Hardesty is wounded and tortured, yet manages to survive with the help of a male truck driver.
Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me" two stars out of five, finding that it fitted poorly with the tone of the series.
And it was somehow reassuring to learn that the lone cowboy did too.
Twenty feet above the global green and good flew a lone pigeon, which had somehow got into the great Orangery of Kew Gardens.
SURVEYING the row of door buzzers outside the hulking Brooklyn building where the artist Sue de Beer works, it somehow seems fitting to find a lone occupant listed on the building's top floor, with no further explanation: "GOD".
"We are working under the assumption that half of the arsonists are still politically motivated," Ehrhart Körting, Berlin's interior minister, said in an interview, "but that they are more scattered lone perpetrators and not somehow organized by groups".
Leshchenko recalled seeing Manafort at Yanukovych's inauguration, on a snowy day in February, 2010 — the strange, lone American who had somehow ended up at the center of Yanukovych's entourage.
