The scoreboards were still up, but that somehow felt right in this packed week of fairs, shows and events.
New York is of course hopelessly exciting at Christmastime, sparkling with promise and all dressed up in a finery that somehow manages to be pervasive but not oppressive.
"My formative years were during the Rushdie affair and the first Iraq war, so at college I flirted with political Islam and got wrapped up in this fallacy that somehow there is a contradiction between western culture and Islam".
"You know the whole UFO phenomenon is nothing but myth, magic and superstition, wrapped up in this idea that somehow aliens are coming here either to save us or destroy us," he says.
What I think happened to him — and this is perhaps the scariest part of his story — is that it came about as a result of maybe six or seven different factors — all small and insignificant in themselves, that somehow stacked up in this diabolical way.
Don't beat yourself up for beating yourself up in the vain hope that somehow it will help you stop beating yourself up.
On the other hand, we're currently out $220 million in state bond money that somehow wound up in the talons of, gulp, Enron.
Aubyn, who, like Patrick, grew up in an ancient, aristocratic family that somehow conspired to lose or give away its fortune to others, does not ask for pity or wear his past misery on his sleeve.
True, Sotheby's report prints the sales total and the percentage decrease far apart, wrapping them up in a business-style presentation that somehow manages a quasi-victorious ring.
Usually this line of attack is meant to imply that the children grew up in a broken home, or that somehow the parents were gender-nonconforming or ultra-liberal or somehow encouraged it.
