If you treat them like humans, they'll eat you alive .The sordidness of the sport is undeniable yet somehow nobility occasionally breaks through, as it did in the savage beating Braddock suffered when he lost his title to Joe Louis.
Later, evoking the memories of mothers caught in the worst turmoil of Somalia's conflicts, "In Love and in War" reads, "To my daughter I will say / 'when the men come, set yourself on fire.' " The collection feels confiding, occasionally brutal, but somehow still playful.
"This is worrying, as we know that even occasional tobacco smoking is bad for your health, and young people who smoke occasionally believe they are somehow immune to its effects and do not feel the need to quit".
One is only as enjoyable as the other, and both are imperfect, clumsy, and occasionally maddening, and yet somehow still compelling.
Their greatest ally in bringing wartime New York to vibrant life onstage is Bernstein, whose music is a cityscape in itself, drawing on a dizzying range of styles that somehow never clash, even when they occasionally tussle competitively.
The fact of three singers onstage, taking turns at his songs or occasionally singing together, did somehow connect to the living-room atmosphere in which they were originally performed.
So far the Iraqi army, with its hungry, ill-equipped soldiers, its old guns and ageing tanks, has somehow managed to temporarily confound and occasionally even outmanoeuvre the "Allies".
Somehow, city gain gradually more habitat, occasionally.
Somehow, it seemed, the virus was occasionally surviving the winter even without mosquitos around to spread it.
