Still, given that they're the only contenders in the category without a corresponding bid from the American Society of Cinematographers (who somehow preferred the Sunday-telly stylings of The Imitation Game), one sadly suspects they barely squeaked the nomination.
Schlepping Australian novels with me to Italy became a private ritual, and never, ever have I felt as happy as when mired in the gentle sea and sunshine beside the Mediterranean while breathing in the literature of an the island continent where I grew up, a place I knew intimately but, somehow, preferred from afar.
"I have heard it suggested that the Obama administration somehow prefers killing Al Qaeda members rather than capturing them," said John O. Brennan, in a speech last year when he was the president's counterterrorism adviser; he is now the C.I.A. director.
Everyone longs for restoration, for the son to come home and become simply good, just as everyone longs for Heaven, but such restoration, like Heaven itself, is hard to imagine, and in our lack of imagination we somehow prefer what we can touch and feel — the palpability of our lapses.
We have mindlessly been falling into a hole of individualism, a world in which we somehow lazily prefer to be confrontational, enraged, unconnected with our emotions.
You can see that dynamic at work in Silicon Valley, where investors pride themselves on their "pattern matching" and "data driven" decision making, but still somehow overwhelmingly prefer to invest in founders that look like them.
/ Isn't there something about the smell of certain spring blossoms that you would prefer your global positioning system to offer you? / Doesn't the era before the horseless carriage seem somehow preferable to what we have?
Dishonestly - first, with the patently ridiculous claim that a candidate like Romney somehow wouldn't prefer to get as many votes as possible, from as many quarters as possible; and second, that he didn't care about the well-being of the 47%.
"I think, somehow, they still prefer the little woman.
In essence, he's saying, "Help me open debate, and you can vote for whichever bill you prefer!" Somehow, this tactic seems to be working.
We believe that labeling some of the elderly community as having 'successfully' aged implies that the others have somehow 'failed', and prefer the phrase 'active ageing'.
