1.  As a director, Brooks is somehow crudely manipulative and immaculately stylish simultaneously.

2.  Culturally, Love argues, the idea that menopausal women are somehow handicapped is more a reflection of our values and prejudices than our science.

3.  Depicted with stagy gore, the slaughter becomes a pivotal event in Margot's life when an injured La Mole somehow finds his way to Margot's rooms.

4.  Derek's mom, Maria McCracken somehow got to the infield and told her son she loved him.

5.  Despite crippling injuries, the Knicks somehow contrived to defeat three favored teams in the playoffs and give an honorable account of themselves in the finals.

6.  Currently, the state has barely 1,000 acres of old growth that somehow avoided the woodsman's ax since the first European colonists.

7.  Despite its relentlessly ugly vision of life, it somehow tapped into the zeitgeist of the time, and became an instant classic.

8.  Desiring the same cachet, the European Union created a euro "glyph" and asked the computer and software worlds to accommodate it somehow.

9.  Customers still waiting to be reconnected might argue that the company hasn't done enough, that it should have imported more crews or somehow worked harder or faster.

10.  Despite all that, the No. 2 seeded Huskies also needed an element of luck, which for Calhoun on St. Patrick's Day somehow seemed appropriate.