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Accordingly, they display cynicism, or alas, lead the reader into ambiguity and paradox.
You'd think that all this would just add interest--who needs more artificial sunniness from television, anyway?--but Felicity , alas, is no Ingmar Bergman movie, or even a Quentin Tarantino one, and the darkness just turns some delightful teen-age fare into an exercise in viewer masochism.
Alas, I am but one superhero, and could not come to the aid of all who beseeched me.
It can be, alas, a business of an entirely good sort or needful sort, justifying itself in the marketplace.
As for federal subsidies ... alas, it turns out, the schools that spend the most money don't necessarily do the best job--often far from it.