Though

Already

Perhaps

However.

On one level,

Among other things,

With

And with.

In a similar vein

To be sure:

Make no mistake.

Nary a trace.

However,

Aside from

With

And with,

Not

And not,

Rather

Manifestly

Indeed.

Which is to say,

In fictional terms,

For reasons that are never made clear,

Not without meaning,

Though (as is far from unusual)

Perhaps too late.

The first thing that must be said is

Perhaps, because

And, not least of all,

Certainly more,

Which is to say

In every other respect

Meanwhile.

But then perhaps

Though

And though

On the whole

Alas.

Moreover

In contrast

And even

Admittedly

Partly because

And partly because

Yet it must be said.

Even more significantly, perhaps

In other words

With

And with,

Whichever way

One thing is clear

Beyond the shadow of a doubt.

DAVID LEHMAN