Take the 2-minute tour ×  I recently noticed I use "after all"
very often. But unlike other phrases, I never seem to find a way
to replace it. Some examples:  Like the books, they hadn't moved
a single inch. Erin found this strange. Even the tiniest shaking
would have been enough shift their position. Aluminum was as
light as feather after all.  Eri knew clearly what it was. But
she couldn't make herself bring up the topic. To her, it was
like a shapeless creature moving in the dark. An adversary she
wanted to avoid at all cost. Because, after all, how could you
fight something that didn't have a definite form?  “Now I
finally see that God didn't approve our marriage. You're a
Buddhist after all, and He clearly didn't want us to be
together. Somehow I knew it all along. Yet I still decided to go
against Him.  "I know you're worried about your mother. After
all, this is the first time you're dealing with something like
this.  How could the passages above be rewritten in order to
avoid "after all"?  (By the way