This is surely because skepticism is the ally of inquiry.
This is surely because, in some strange and atavistic manner, we want a heart to be a heart.... View Article Adam Gopnik, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1986.
Howard looked like a bad fit for Los Angeles for much of the year, although some of this is surely because he was still recovering from back surgery, and now the world-beaters-on-paper Lakers are fighting just to make the playoffs.
I have the feeling your European readers are usually aware of the magic of your stories but fail to see the reality behind it...."... "This is surely because their rationalism prevents them seeing that reality isn't limited to the price of tomatoes and eggs".
But that was surely because she had not yet succeeded in them, being too inexperienced in 1999 in Vail, Colo., and too ineffectual in 2001 in St. Anton, Austria, when she came away with nothing despite being a prohibitive favorite.
The two of them failed to generate much of a spark in Mike Nichols's "Closer," but that was surely because the atmosphere in that somber little chamber piece was too damp.
Given the dismal training of parish priests, this was surely often the case because the uneducated were called on to accept the opinions of their parish priest or confessor (Thomas Aquinas, Quodlibetales, III, q. 4, 2, 47; and Antoninus, Summa, I, 3, 10, 64).
Part of it was surely because of the gruesome knee injury that tackle Sean Locklear sustained Monday, in a sequence that is sickening to watch on instant replay (Locklear's leg bends in the wrong direction).
If the programme remained a heavily guarded secret, it was surely because of the rather obvious risks associated with it, notably that the men, once released would immediately take part in new attacks against the US and publicly reveal their journeys through Penny Lane to embarrass Washington.
