The audience appeared bored.

The audience appeared bored.

They looked very busy.

Everyone seemed very calm.

Everybody seemed very calm.

They seemed as impossible before they occurred as they have felt natural in retrospect.

Seen from the plane, the islands were very pretty.

The reasoning behind the tests seemed unimpeachable.

Two alternative models seemed to work until 2008.

Both the husband and the wife seemed to Anna disgusting.

So it is time to consider alternatives that until recently would have been inconceivable.

The streets seemed alive with people.

When home prices were soaring, the geniuses behind mortgage finance seemed infallible.

It was long since the farm work had seemed so important to him as it did that evening.

It's easy to lampoon their ideas now, but they seemed quite reasonable at the time.

The computers gradually improved, but they still seemed far inferior to the top humans.

Following World War II, investments in the US seemed safer than any alternative.

Foreign brands seemed cooler, more fashionable and were therefore more expensive.

He was wearing a short coat, and his hands and broad bones appeared more immense than ever.

Those who think that globalization, technology, and the market economy will solve the world s problems seemed subdued.

Both were among the longest structures of their kind and were thought to be just natural applications of existing technology.

The main challenge is not infrastructure and urban facilities, however important they are.

Of course, there are other sources of friction now that did not seem as pressing five years ago.

Things that were thought impossible just a few years ago can actually be measured now.

Their creators want them to feel human to the touch, for them to mimic the movement of a real body.

It turns out that the anguish of Ethiopian prisoners, something that appeared to be so distant in memory, is not that far off after all.

Sometimes minutes those minutes when she called him to her and he held her moist hand, now pressing his with extraordinary strength and now pushing him away seemed to him like hours and then again hours seemed but minutes.

Given the easy availability of these technologies, their ability to catalyze protest might transcend borders once thought impregnable.

As an outsider, this certainly felt like the most important election in Turkey's history.

First it felt fake, but then liberating, which reminded him of a quote attributed to Bjork.

Reformists managed to create a list of candidates that were seen as somewhat supportive of political reform.

The real reminiscences seemed to be an illusion while the false ones were so convincing that could replace the reality.

Countries whose public finances seemed fundamentally sound as late as last year have come under severe fiscal pressure.

The Cold War had lasted so long that change seemed unimaginable until freedom burst forth.

When natural resources dominated production, conquest and control of territory seemed a way to enhance national power.

Of all the major powers in London, the United States looked the most reasonable and internationalist by far.

As different as they might appear, they attempt to generate exact predictions of human behavior, whether rational or irrational.

In 1994, Fini and Casini were around 40 years old and seen as rising stars of Italian politics.

Macroeconomists celebrated the Great Moderation of the global business cycle, with recessions seeming to become milder and less frequent.

Even if the result would have been longer term stability, the immediate political consequences were too unpleasant.

Seen from the front, her canon bones were very fine and sharp, but unusually wide seen sideways.

He purposely thought of those teachings of the Church which always seemed most strange to him, and that tried him.

While your words seemed kind and compassionate, I would like you to know, sir, that they shook me up.

Fraud is difficult to prove, because managers can always say that they thought the odds were better than were.

Similarly, Milton Friedman's panegyrics to pure capitalism seemed curiously out of place during the heyday of the social democratic age, the 1960's. But then stagflation the combination of weak economic growth and inflation set in, in the late 1970's.