Wilson was told that it was a sort of hotel for white people, which seemed to him rather queer.

The Skopas people seemed to him of that breed of human beings whose insularity frees them from tragedy.

I sighed, thinking that among other things, people here seemed to be those who would have to cut down if they earned less than $85,000 yearly ; ;

Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.

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.

Valiente was unhappy with this version, saying that " people seemed to have some difficulty with this, because of the various goddess-names which they found hard to pronounce ", and so she rewrote it as a prose version, much of which differs from her initial version, and is more akin to Gardner's version.

In the Western world of the time, people believed animal species were eternal and immutable, created with a specific purpose, as this seemed the only possible explanation for the incredible variety of living beings and their surprising adaptation to their habitats.

This limitation seemed reasonable when GIF was developed because few people could afford the hardware to display more colors simultaneously.

Cook's chiselled looks and languid manner led Humphries to observe that whereas most people take after their father or mother, Cook seemed more like an aunt.

It seemed to shift the tax burden from rich to poor, as it was based on the number of people living in a house rather than its estimated price.

To a lesser extent, the same seemed true for people described by police as having " brown " skin.

Jus naturale was a concept the jurists developed to explain why all people seemed to obey some laws.

Although the Mattachine Society had existed since the 1950s, many of their methods now seemed too mild for people who had witnessed or been inspired by the riots.

In the case of Native Son, people complained that he portrayed a black man in ways that seemed to confirm whites ' worst fears.

But Struensee was one of the few people that paid attention to the lonely queen, and he seemed to do his best to alleviate her troubles.

the fact that it had been handed down in the name of some vague notion called the French ( or German, or Chinese ) people – all of it seemed to detract from the seriousness of the decision ".

Both Freud and Jung seemed to have shared a common understanding that people frequently distressed by nightmares could be re-experiencing some stressful event from the past.

Napoleon set out to reform the French legal system in accordance with the ideas of the French Revolution, because the old feudal and royal laws seemed confusing and contradictory to the people.

Bryant started conversations with several people about European wasps in the area and the lack of Japanese tourists, but seemed to be mainly mumbling to himself.

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 ).

Catch-22 seemed to embody the feelings that young people had toward the Vietnam War.

" He was known to speak in a high-pitched nonsensical gibberish, that only the family seemed to understand ; in the " My Fair Cousin Itt " episode of the sitcom, Morticia and Gomez, although still failing to realize that Cousin Itt's is utterly incomprehensible to most people ( Morticia went so far as to admit that Itt sometimes speaks " a bit too rapidly for the average listener ," while Gomez had failed to notice even that much ), taught Cousin Itt to speak in an understandable baritone voice for acting purposes to suit a theatrical director's tastes.

But although many people were introduced to general semantics — perhaps the majority through Hayakawa's more limited ' semantics '— superficial lip service seemed more common than the deep internalization that Korzybski and his co-workers at the Institute aimed for.

Then the Noldor drew swords, and the Teleri their bows, and there was a bitter fight that seemed evenly matched, if not even in favour of the Teleri, until the second Host of the Noldor, led by Fingon, arrived together with some of Fingolfin's people.

" Lê promised the Vietnamese people in 1976 that each family would own a radio set, refrigerator and TV within ten years ; he seemed to believe he could easily integrate the South Vietnamese consumer society with industrial North Vietnam.

But the scar seemed to pull hard at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were hurt and angry.

Suddenly it seemed to him insane that they might hope to locate Gyp Carmer so casually, even were he to prove the thief.

He considered himself handsome and seemed to think all the girls were after him.

Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

Though, taken individually, the big rooms were, or seemed to be, square, the apartment as a whole formed a triangle.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

A long flat known as the St. John field seemed to answer their purpose, and since the Winooski bridges were at last passable, they decided to use it.

It seemed as though she were always auditioning.

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

It seemed as if they were all under a spell.

Dr. Barnes said that there seemed to be feeling that evacuation plans, even for a high school where there were lots of cars `` might not be realistic and would not work ''.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

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

All the performances of the evening were smooth and assured, and the sizable company, with Mr. Nagrin and Marion Scott as its leading dancers, seemed to be fine shape.