The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

The brother and sister seemed to be a sort of mutual-aid society, a little fortress of kindness for each other in a hard world.

There are, he thought, so few true means of forgetfulness in this life that why should he shun the medicine even when the medicine seemed, as it did, a little crude??

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

As long as audiences came to see the movement, there seemed little reason to adventure further.

He seemed to be looking at a point above the little window.

When things got a little out of hand, they very rapidly got a lot out of hand -- it seemed to be a general rule.

Phil decided to stay a little longer, and as time passed it seemed as if the strange little man had never been there, but for the other glass on the table.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

There had been little organized opposition to Thomas's nomination and his confirmation seemed assured until a report of a private interview of Hill by the FBI leaked out to the press.

The public, however, seemed to have little interest in a Chaplin film without Chaplin, and it was a box-office disappointment.

: For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.

Furthermore, critics complained that he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic disasters — depressions and strikes — in his second term.

Except for the president's desire to perpetuate himself in office, there seemed little reason to alter the nation's basic charter.

The plan seemed to work, as foreclosures dropped, but it was seen as too little, too late.

At 105 – 5, things looked a little worrying for them, but an Australian win still seemed the most likely result.

Of these ideas, Coleridge's emphasised the vastness of the universe and his feeling overwhelmed by how little the universe seemed to him.

Additionally, the academics, who themselves tend to eschew any attempt at interpretation, complained that the English translations were usually of poor quality, seemed to display little or no knowledge of 16th-century French, were tendentious and, at worst, were sometimes twisted to fit the events to which they were supposed to refer ( or vice versa ).

Thus Lenin remained the enfant terrible of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, although in this point in the war his following in Russia was as little as 10 000 and he must have seemed no more than the leader of an extremist wing of a bankrupt organization.

The beliefs of this group also did not appear to contain any more than usual of " new age " ideas ( broadly defined ) and the authors interpreted their ideas on reincarnation as " one way of tackling issues of suffering ", but noted that this seemed to have little effect on their private lives.

He writes: " In the same year, in the summer, a vapour like an oven's fire boiled up for days out of the middle of the islands of Thera and Therasia from the depths of the sea, and the whole place burned like fire, little by little thickening and turning to stone, and the air seemed to be a fiery torch.

Brown was surprised to see Harris exiting his vehicle with a gym bag, commenting that he had been absent from an important class test that morning, but Harris seemed unconcerned, commenting " It doesn't matter anymore.

The band seemed surprised and delighted by their applause.

The band surprised early audiences accustomed to the generally shambling, lo-fi and collage-like quality of the records with their energetic live show, featuring Pollard's homegrown rock theatrics ( consisting of karate-kicks, leaps, and Roger Daltrey-inspired mic-twirling ), Mitch Mitchell's windmilling and chain smoking, sometime bassist Greg Demos ' striped pants, a never-ending barrage of tunes that all seemed to clock in under 90 seconds, and prodigious alcohol consumption all around.

Mr Aldis described him as a slender, modest young gentleman, who surprised him by his intelligence and thoughtfulness, but who seemed nervous as they walked to the meeting together.

Flex Wheeler seemed to be the heir apparent but Ronnie Coleman surprised everyone with a new improved physique in 1998, winning 8 consecutive titles.

Mister Sinister, an evil geneticist who was obsessed with the Summers bloodline, appeared eager yet surprised that Alex's potential exceeded Scott's – despite the fact that he seemed to lack control over his gift.

On March 22, however, these tensions seemed to evaporate when guitarist Joe Perry surprised Tyler with a performance of " Happy Birthday " on American Idol in advance of Tyler's 64th birthday.

In fact, while Xena seemed to know where Eve was, Gabrielle didn't, as seen in " The God You Know " where Gabrielle seems surprised to learn Eve is in Rome.

“ Why did you marry me in the first place ?” Chaz seemed truly surprised at the question.

I was not surprised at the fact, but was surprised at its openness .... not even the pious shrugged their shoulders or seemed to care .”

Blackstone lowered the cage and then seemed to toss it into the air: bird and cage " disappearing " in the process to the astonishment and delight of the surprised children.

A very surprised Kohl later thanked Steinhoff for his actions who later said that it just seemed to be the right thing to do.

Although a decade-long fund-raising effort seemed to fail and was abandoned in 1972, a miserly hermit in Los Angeles with no connection to Bridgewater surprised the town by leaving money for the library in his will.

Houbraken was surprised he let his son learn painting, since his biography seemed to be a treatise against the pursuit of arts.

Although the Canadian team had long ago given up being surprised by the UK computer division's odd decisions, when they decided not to use the Gemini and instead develop their own it seemed like an obvious insult.

Colonel, mirroring his then relationship with Hollis Mann, Gibbs seemed surprised and unhappy about his private life being a part of McGee's books.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

It suddenly seemed very important to me that Mary Jane Brennan should know the truth about me -- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible person she believed me to be.

It seemed the most important thing in my life at this moment that she should know the real truth about me.

It was nothing that he said or did, but it seemed so natural to her that she should be working for him, looking forward to his eventual proposal.

But there seemed to be some difference of opinion as to how far the board should go, and whose advice it should follow.

I suppose I should have paid attention to that half-murmured remark, but it seemed one of those extreme statements women under stress indulge in.

Actress Julie Harris felt Flockhart should be hired without further auditions, claiming that she seemed ideal for the part.

This may seem in odd in light of his previous and subsequent reputation, but in the 1920s no major war seemed to be on the horizon, although Beatty correctly warned that Japan should be treated as an enemy going forward.

At first this seemed like a victory for Frederick of Augustenburg, but Bismarck soon removed him from power by making a series of unworkable demands, namely that Prussia should have control over the army and navy of the Duchies.

It seemed appropriate to Aeneas that the election should fall upon himself: although the sacred college included a few men of higher moral standards, he believed that his abilities made him most worthy of the papal tiara.

( 3 ) After a lengthy debate whether it was less appropriate to refuse a triumph to man, in his presence, in whose name when absent a thanksgiving ( supplicatio ) had been decreed and honour paid to the Immortal Gods by reason of the things successfully accomplished under his leadership, ( 4 ) or for a man to triumph as though a war had been concluded whom they had ordered to hand over his army to a successor ( something that would not be decreed if no war remained in the province ) when his army, the witness of a deserved as of an undeserved triumph, was far away, the middle course seemed best: that he should enter the City in ovation ( ovans ).

Clive Bell polemicized post-impressionism in his widely read book Art ( 1914 ), basing his aesthetics partly on Roger Fry ’ s art criticism and G. E. Moore ’ s moral philosophy ; and as the war came he argued provocatively that " in these days of storm and darkness, it seemed right that at the shrine of civilization-in Bloomsbury, I mean-the lamp should be tended assiduously ".

The American historian Charles Thomas wrote that Raeder's remarks about the executions in the Seekriegsleitung war diary seemed to be some sort of ironic comment in protest against the executions, which might have reflected a guilty conscience on the part of Raeder in enforcing a policy that he knew well to be illegal, and one that might lead him to being prosecuted for war crimes if Germany should lose the war.

When asked by his entry in the war diary that seemed to criticise the shootings at Bordeaux, Raeder stated that he was not protesting against the executions per se, but was instead protesting that the shootings had been done by the Kriegsmarine, arguing that the local naval commanders should have handed over the British POWs to the SD to be shot.

Although Steward and Barnett seemed to be suggesting that anthropology as such should restrict itself to purely academic affairs, people within and without the academy have continued to debate the ways non-anthropologists have used this principle in public policy concerning ethnic minorities or in international relations ( see this interview or this article on cultural relativism and human rights for examples of this debate ).

Atlanta's main rivals were Toronto, whose front running bid that began in 1986 seemed almost sure to succeed after Canada had held a successful 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and felt that the Olympic Games should return to Australia.

" And since in practically all the temples where Serapis and Isis were worshiped there was also a figure that seemed to enjoin silence by a finger pressed against its lips, Varro thinks this had the same meaning, that no mention should be made of their having been human beings "

Zapata decided that on the surface it seemed as though Madero was doing good things for the people of Mexico, but Zapata did not know the level of sincerity in Madero's actions and thus did not know if he should support him completely.

He thought both of the main Italian operatic genres – opera buffa and opera seria – had strayed too far from what opera should really be and seemed unnatural.

Although Teuffel's First Period was equivalent to Old Latin and his Second Period was equal to the Golden Age, his Third Period, die römische Kaiserheit, encompasses both the Silver Age and the centuries now termed Late Latin, in which the forms seemed to break loose from their foundation and float freely ; that is, literary men appeared uncertain as to what " good Latin " should mean.

In his review of Floating Weeds, film critic Roger Ebert recounts once had a young assistant who suggested that perhaps he should shoot conversations so that it seemed to the audience that the characters were looking at one another.

In this context, it should be mentioned that Diana Ross & the Supremes, frequent guests on Sullivan's show, debuted their then-release and eventual controversial # 1 hit song " Love Child " on Sullivan's show, but nothing about its title or its content about a woman in poverty having a child out of wedlock seemed to faze Sullivan, the show's producers, or the network.