Educated Syldavians are shown speaking Tintin's language ( French in the original ).

In contrast to ordinary Syldavians, who use Cyrillic, the Royal Court in Klow uses the Latin alphabet.

To the men in the instrument-jammed bomber cockpits, submarine compartments and the antiseptic, windowless rooms that would be the foxholes of tomorrow's impersonal intercontinental wars, the questions seem farfetched.

Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

They didn't seem to be able to think of any.

But whereas the postwar American abstractionists seem to Helion to be determined to `` escape '' from the real world, or simply to rebel against it, the ordered abstractions which he and his associates of the 1930's were painting embodied the hope of `` improving '' things.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

There are some people, intelligent people, who seem to be untouched by the sea of wonder in which we are immersed and in which we spend our lives.

And, contrary to many popular assertions, the goal-values chosen do not seem to us to be primarily oriented to materialistic success nor to mere conformity.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.

namely, the law that prescribes the death penalty for murder when there seem to be no extenuating circumstances.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

These have never gone out of style in Scandinavian homes and now seem to be reappearing here and there in shops which specialize in handicrafts.

The arguments advanced by those individuals and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with the wishes of the general public.

Khrushchev himself is reported to be concerned by the surge of animosity he has aroused, yet our own nuclear statesmen seem intent on following compulsively in his footsteps.

so, all things considered, the highway commissioners would seem to be elected.

These seem about the only two ways in which the `` unhappy incident '' can now be closed.

I'd thought him a pimp or procurer but he didn't seem to be.

It would seem, then, that movable property and equipment is not taxed as a whole but that certain types are taxed in towns where this is bound to be expedient for that particular kind of personal property.

If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.

Good service starts with product design and planning: Many products seem to be designed for a production economy, not for a service one.

`` Too many of our writers seem to be interested only in creatures that crawl out of the woodwork or from under the rock ''.

His thirteenth chapter includes many exciting accounts of huge serpents with prodigious strength, but these seem to be given to complete his picture, not to be believed.

The other Endless ( particularly Death and Destruction ) seem to be fond of Delirium, to varying degrees, and protective of her.

They seem to be fond of eating a native endangered plant, Cordia globosa and feeding on Nickernut ( Caesalpinia ) a primary food plant of the endangered Miami Blue Butterfly ( Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri ); additionally on Marco Island, Green Iguanas have been observed using the burrows of the Florida Burrowing Owl, a species of special concern, all of which can make them more of a serious threat to Florida's ecosystem than originally believed.

He is not relating a nostalgic tale of fond memories, but a mixed tale of hatred and love for his college. They also talk about most of the characters such as Tradd and his non-cooperative parents who seem not to be communicating very well.

Needless to say, this is not a view that most professional philosophers are particularly fond of or comfortable with, but it does seem to have been the consensus of the Vienna Circle positivists towards more or less all traditional philosophical inquiry, although not necessarily to the use of philosophical method to get clear on the logical structure of empirical questions.

Marion notices things from a very juvenile point of view, something the other characters seem fond of.

:" has no name, but it would seem to be most like ; for the character of the person in the intermediate state is just what we mean in speaking of a decent friend, except that the friend is also fond of us.

* Divine Twins: There are several sets ( the Indo-Europeans seem to be quite fond of twins ), which may or may not be related.

They are naturally skilled climbers and are actually very fond of exploring the unknown, though they never seem surprised by what they find.

Michael O ' Sullivan, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, " What I'm not so fond of is the cop-out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise ( let alone the theme of obsessive love ), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity ".

Migjeni ’ s religious education and his training for the Orthodox priesthood seem to have been entirely counterproductive, for he cherished neither an attachment to religion nor any particularly fond sentiments for the organized Church.

They seem relatively fond of their nieces and nephew, but seem to like them more when they are young as demonstrated by a quote from Lisa's First Word: " The older they get, the cuter they ain't.

Although it does not seem it, despite all the banter and arguing he is extremely fond of the members of the Raven and we see occasional glimpses of this, notably at the end of ElfSorrow.

The light passing through the mineral will therefore have different colors when it is viewed from different angles, making the stone seem to be of different colors.

Higher concentrations of phosphate in the sea water do not enhance phosphatization, as may seem natural ; rather, it increases the rate at which the organism breaks up, perhaps because the mineral " fertilizes " the decay micro-organisms.

The tree is found on mineral soils that range from heavy clay to coarse sand ; thus texture does not seem to be limiting.

In locomotives used for mineral traffic the advantages seem to have been marginal.