I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

To almost two generations of Americans it must have seemed as though the existence of Mr. Sam coincided with that of the House.

the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.

It seemed an almost impossible job for Miss Rogers to select 4 winners from the 46 Juniors entered.

By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.

Unlike Wilson, who at times seemed almost anti-intellectual in his earthy pragmatism.

Putting the key into the switch, pressing the accelerator with his foot, putting the car into reverse, seemed vast endeavors almost beyond the ability of his shaking body.

When he looked up again, he seemed almost contented.

Now it seemed almost as if Jesus were looking down at me with sadness in His eyes, saying:

Ancient authors were almost invariably from an elite background for whom giving poor and uneducated people power over their betters seemed a reversal of the proper, rational order of society.

Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.

During the Counter-Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church searched for religious art with which to counter the threat of Protestantism, and for this task the artificial conventions of Mannerism, which had ruled art for almost a century, no longer seemed adequate.

As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.

His early projects at the IIT campus, and for developer Herb Greenwald, opened the eyes of Americans to a style that seemed a natural progression of the almost forgotten nineteenth century Chicago School style.

Ruling from 1814 until his death in 1840, Francia succeeded almost single-handedly in building a strong, prosperous, secure, and independent nation at a time when Paraguay's continued existence as a distinct country seemed unlikely.

The non-worded but scored script seemed to allow the Clangers to say almost anything, including swear words in the basic script.

He, almost alone among the Canadians, seemed to take to the larger ice surface as if it offered more opportunity instead of obligation.

In 1939, in a country which had seemed deeply divided, these promises made it possible for Parliament to agree almost unanimously to declare war.

After the fall of France in 1940, Hollywood drove fashion in the United States almost entirely, with the exception of a few trends coming from war torn London in 1944 and 1945, as America's own rationing hit full force, and the idea of function seemed to overtake fashion, if only for a few short months until the end of the war.

It seemed to spring from the fact that almost every young person was possessed of an ingrown ambition to be somebody financially and socially.

European politics of the 16th century revolved largely around the struggle between Catholic and Protestant forces, so it seemed almost inevitable that Denmark, a strong, unified Lutheran kingdom, would get drawn into the larger war when it came.

Such music often seemed far removed from the preceding jazz tradition, even though it almost always preserved one or more central elements of that tradition while abandoning others.

He was known all over the world as the " Black Spider " because he wore a distinctive all-black outfit and because it seemed as though he had eight arms to save almost everything.

In the conference final, the Wizards would fall behind 4 points to 1 to the Los Angeles Galaxy and their season seemed to be coming to an end.

When Pohl began his stint as editor, both magazines were operating at a loss ; despite Ifs lower budget Pohl found it more fun to edit, and commented that apparently the readers thought so too: he was able to make If show a profit before Galaxy, adding " What was fun for me seemed to be fun for them.

After initial suggestions that this was due to the Sun, it was observed that the radio waves seemed to be coming from the centre of the Galaxy.

Martínez came back to MLS in 2005, his rights were traded from Galaxy to Chivas USA, a team he seemed destined to play for.

The staircase itself seemed still to be echoing the heavy footfalls of many men.

the rough surface of the earth itself seemed to resist every attempt on his part to relax.

It seemed to her, as it seemed each night, that the gloom drew itself in and became densest at the table's empty chairs, giving her the frequent illusion that she dined with shadows.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

As the unrest sweeping Europe was bleeding over into the United States, calls for secession reached unparalleled heights, and the fledgling nation seemed ready to rip itself apart.

It seemed likely that Antioch itself would fall to Nur ad-Din, but he withdrew when Emperor Manuel sent a large Byzantine force to the area.

The process, rather than the outcomes, seemed to drive his explicit behaviour and odd use of language, e. g., he called God the " Supreme Fascist ", echoing the role Whitehead assigned, as if the synthesis of Erdős and collaborators in seeking proofs, creating sense-datum for other mathematicians, was itself the expression of a divine will.

This aggravated Frederick, and he was further displeased when Papal Legates chose to interpret a letter from Adrian to Frederick in a manner that seemed to imply that the imperial crown was a gift from the Papacy and that in fact the Empire itself was a fief of the Papacy.

Interestingly the commentary in the translation of Abdullah Y. Ali-which is the most widespread English translation of the Qur ' an-indicate that this group in fact were the Arabs and not Jews: " The Qibla of Jerusalem might itself have seemed strange to the Arabs, and the change from it to the Ka ' ba might have seemed strange after they had become used to the other.

He seemed to gravitate around the Soviet Union, although this was not because he was a communist but the only place he could find support in his country's effort to rid itself of colonial rule.

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 ).

Since the Crown was itself a hereditary dignity, it seemed natural for seats in the upper House of Parliament to be so as well.

This seemed to cause him and the person intense physical pain, although unclear as to whether due to the physical pain of impact or the information transfer itself.

Lacking military discipline, in what likely seemed to the participants a strange land ( Eastern Europe ), Peter's fledgling army quickly found itself in trouble despite the fact they were still in Christian territory.

The Qing dynasty could no longer govern itself, as it seemed to have forfeited the mandate of heaven.

It has been noted that the theme music and incidental music seemed remarkably similar to those of The Prisoner, with alternative notes removed, and the film itself contains visual elements that could be references to, or homage to, The Prisoner.

The first of several key Turtles singles co-written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, " Happy Together ", seemed almost a parody of itself, and had already been rejected by countless performers.

Cabiria was therefore one of several films of the period that " helped resuscitate a distant history that legitimized Italy's past and inspired its dreams " and which " delivered the spirit for conquest that seemed to arrive from the distant past ", thereby presaging the " political rituals of fascism " ( wars of conquest, the Roman salute, parades and the fasces itself ).

When, however, he had succeeded in extracting from the sources a general idea that seemed to him clear and simple, he attached himself to it as if to the truth itself.

For some in the party itself, however, the futility of mass action to achieve positive results seemed clear.

The tone itself seemed to tame the rowdiest of the local stone crabbers, plus the developers, and the lawyers on both sides.

Yet there were better reasons than vanity — I needed the advance the publishers offered, which was far more generous than any given to me for a play ; the theatre itself, once so alluring, now seemed past its best, the wrinkles showing, the kisses dry and dutiful ; it would be a bitter pleasure to describe my disenchantment and blame the people who'd done me down ; and if I didn't write a book about me, it was clear no one else would.