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`` Well '', he began, `` It seems like some people in Paris want to hear more from me than those fellers over at the conference house do.
It seems to me that the prayers of the whole free world must rise like some vast petition to Providence that Sam Rayburn's vigor and his life remain undiminished through the coming decades.
This seems like a large order.
For the case of Jupiter, the radio emission spectrum is definitely not like the spectrum of a black-body radiator, and it seems very likely that the radiation reaching the earth is a combination of thermal radiation from the atmosphere and non-thermal components.
) The curve of faded terra-cotta-colored houses in front of the church seems like a stage set.
It seems like only last year that we watched them set out up the hill hand in hand on a rainy day in their yellow raincoats to finger-paint at the grammar school.
Logic seems to have emerged from dialectics ; the earlier philosophers made frequent use of concepts like reductio ad absurdum in their discussions, but never truly understood the logical implications.
The citizens of St. Mary Mead like her but are often tired by her nosy nature and how she seems to expect the worst of everyone.
Indeed he seems more or less responsible together with Gasparo da Salò and some Micheli's like Zanetto or Pellegrino for giving the instruments of the modern violin family their definitive profile.
There is also a family of what seems pirate carts, that look nothing like the others in shape, size or label artwork.
Many descriptions of the amphisbaena say its eyes glow like candles or lightning, but the poet Nicander seems to contradict this by describing it as " always dull of eye ".
Peter Berger writes that " It seems plausible that folly and fools, like religion and magic, meet some deeply rooted needs in human society ".
It seems a reversion to some old habits takes place here, the southern or south west stone becoming higher and thicker, like a miniature recumbent from the recumbent-stone circles.
The design seems like a three-dimensional realization of a Mondrian painting.
Sometimes it seems like Jon can hear him.
" What I do like about him is he seems to be a guy who's interested in the truth ," Connick Jr. says of Haden.
:" We are not there because of our friendship, we are there because, like you, we believe it is right to be there and, like you, we shall stay there as long as it seems necessary to achieve the purposes of the South Vietnamese Government and the purposes that we join in formulating and progressing together.
However, without Grimthorpe's money, it seems reasonable to assume that the Abbey Church would now almost certainly be a ruin, like many other former monastic churches, despite the work performed under Sir George Gilbert Scott in the years 1860 to 1877.
" The New York Times said the change to Verdana " is so offensive to many because it seems like a slap at the principles of design by a company that has been hailed for its adherence to them.
If we should say that no one could possibly know whether water exists a priori, it seems either we cannot know content externalism to be true on the basis of thought experiments or we cannot know what we are thinking without first looking into the world to see what it is like.
While this album's diversity was seen then as perversity, now it seems like a rich smorgasbord.
The freemen were exercitales and viri devoti, that is, soldiers and " devoted men " ( a military term like " retainers "); they formed the levy of the Lombard army and they were, if infrequently, sometimes called to serve, though this seems not to have been their preference.
Other characteristics found in this work are the unadorned dress, in which the eyes and hands have no competition from other details, the dramatic landscape background in which the world seems to be in a state of flux, the subdued colouring and the extremely smooth nature of the painterly technique, employing oils, but laid on much like tempera and blended on the surface so that the brushstrokes are indistinguishable.

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Your suggested solution, it seems to me, is grossly oversimplified and is inconsistent with your generally realistic attitude toward, and endorsement of, sound planning.
It seems therefore useful to distinguish between cultural imperialism as an ( active or passive ) attitude of superiority, and the position of a culture or group that seeks to complement its own cultural production, considered partly deficient, with imported products.
Complaints by preachers suggest that they often did not wait, but at least until the early 1600s the common attitude to this kind of anticipatory behaviour seems to have been lenient.
He knows of a division among the orthodox only on the question of the millennium and on the attitude toward the milder Jewish Christianity, which he personally is willing to tolerate as long as its professors in their turn do not interfere with the liberty of the Gentile converts ; his millenarianism seems to have no connection with Judaism, but he believes firmly in a millennium, and generally in the Christian eschatology.
" During the same year, Jack Stillinger claimed that " Coleridge wrote only a few poems of the first rank – perhaps no more than a dozen, all told – and he seems to have taken a very casual attitude toward them ... he kept Kubla Khan in manuscript for nearly twenty years before offering it to the public ' rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits '".
That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.
His decision to try a different approach in his dealings with the Welsh was influenced by the events in Ireland, although Warren suggests that " it seems likely that Henry began rethinking his attitude to the Welsh soon after the débâcle of 1165 ".
In contrast with Nathan-Turner's attitude that the sonic screwdriver should not be used as a cure-all, the new production team gave it even more functionality than previous versions which has given the series some criticism as it seems to be a deus ex machina, a literary device that is generally avoided.
Thus, a monument dedicated by Cambyses II seems to refute the testimony of Herodotus, who lends the conquerors a criminal attitude of disrespect against the sacred traditions.
Throughout the film, Sanjuro is considered by some of the samurai as a problem figure: he has bad manners, behavior unbecoming a samurai, weird ways to express his thoughts, often seems lazy and disinterested during planning, and a flippant attitude regarding violence.
His attitude toward the girl changes the minute she enters the room, because she seems to be about the same age as Holden and he starts to view her as a person.
However, his nickname of " Manly Wycherley " seems to have been earned by his straightforward attitude to life.
Acacius himself seems to have hesitated at first about adding his name to the list of the Asiatic bishops who had already signed the encyclical ; but, warned by a letter from Pope Simplicius, who had learned of his questionable attitude from the ever-vigilant monastic party, he reconsidered his position and threw himself violently into the debate.
Although he seems to have been rather paternal in his attitude to the settlers, he also seems to have been respected and admired.
* is a Mexican Wolf with a carefree attitude, who seems quite comfortable living in human society.
Rinkitink's companion, other than the rowers from Gilgad, is a surly goat named Bilbil who seems to be Rinkitink's opposite in attitude.
Shaw's attitude immediately changes, and he seems to have no recollection of who he is, where he is, or the identities of anyone around him.
The poem's attitude toward this temptation seems ambiguous, since the happy ending offers the possibility of redemption for Laura, while typical Victorian portrayals of the " fallen woman " ended in the fallen woman's death.
But it seems probable that the influence of Friedrich List's writings, added to his own deep-rooted and hereditary jealousy and dislike of British predominance, had something to do with his change of attitude.
Like Johan, he seems charismatic and friendly ; however, his attitude can quickly change when someone threatens his plans.
It would seem, however, that he was a man of good birth and position, who filled an important municipal office in his native town of Strassburg, but since he is always referred to as Meister ( master ) and not Herr ( sir ), it seems safe to assume he was not a knight, a conclusion supported by the rather dismissive attitude toward knightly exploits shown in Tristan.
* College Music Journal-" Maintaining a mysterious, dark and primal attitude seems to come easy to Danzig, as the group proves itself once again on Danzig 4.
Svyatoslav's successor, Yaropolk I ( r. 972-980 ), seems to have had a more conciliatory attitude towards Christianity.

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