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She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.
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She and seemed
She seemed irritated.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
She seemed to speak to herself.
She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.
She arrived late and as she entered the party, noted that gentlemen seemed to be in the majority ; ;
She ascribed her delight with both experiences to the effect they seemed to have of temporarily removing from her the controls which she felt so compulsively necessary to maintain even when it might seem appropriate to relax these controls.
She was just another freighter from the States, and she seemed as commonplace as her name.
She seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.
She whirled and faced him, roaring terribly, and Ulyate, watching through the leaves, could not understand why she did not charge and obliterate him, because he wouldn't have much of a chance of getting away, in that thick growth, but she seemed just a trace uncertain ; ;
She seemed overly tall, her brow knitted in concern.
She asked, in a way that seemed oddly sophisticated, considerate, and yet perhaps partly scornful.
She seemed so unimpressed that he was obliged to roll up his blue jeans so she could see his brace.
She seemed especially kind compared to fellow judge Simon Cowell, who was often blunt in his appraisals of the contestants ' performances.
She relied instead on a variety of lighting effects to reinforce mood ; actors seemed to come out of darkness and return to darkness.
She emphasised that although Mongkut had been a forward-looking ruler, he had desired to preserve customs such as prostration and sexual slavery which seemed unenlightened and degrading.
She seemed unfazed and gradually won some respect, although she was unable to restore the government's standing.
She seemed to be in perfect health.
She was a sister of Turnus and supported him against Aeneas by giving him his sword after he dropped it in battle, as well as taking him away from the battle when it seemed he would get killed.
She told him that his father was Elatha, one of the Kings of the Fomorians ; that he had come to her one time over a level sea in a great vessel that seemed to be of silver ; that he himself had the appearance of a young man with yellow hair, his clothes decked with gold and five rings of gold around his neck.
She has thrown such men as have seemed to me no less strong than Thor.
She also pulled her " American Life " video because of its controversial military imagery that seemed inappropriate once the War in Iraq began ; subsequently, a new video was made for the song.
Pryce Jones reports that " She saw him, it seemed, more than a hundred times, no other English person could have anything like that access to Hitler ", and the suspicions of the British SIS were aroused.
She had become an alcoholic and seemed deranged.
She seemed shy and pleasant, but mostly she just listened ....
She and work
She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.
She goes on about her work and listens for the completion of the grinding.
She spoke also with deep thankfulness of the many individuals and agencies whose interest and efforts through the years had made the work so fruitful in results.
She helped with teaching as well as office work for a few years -- the catalogues show that she had classes in geography, rhetoric and bookkeeping.
She gave a little pout and said, `` I don't get off work until eleven o'clock.
She took postgraduate work at the University of Grenoble in France and then returned to London to work on market research with an advertising firm.
She stayed here to work for Aliah.
She would work out a method, by-passing her limitations, whereby she could sing.
She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.
She has been repaying the debt from her housekeeping budget, and also from some work she got copying papers by hand, which she did secretly in her room, and took pride in her ability to earn money " as if she were a man.
She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.
She makes no appearance in Bede's work, the Historia Brittonum, the Mabinogion or Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.
She had said, " Don't forget yourself to the point of believing that it was you who wrote this work.
She said that her work was determined more by the political importance of CND than by any security threat posed by subversive elements within it.
She steered clear of the controversial Eakins, though she much admired his work.
She was well suited to the precise work but later wrote, " this was the lowest depth I ever reached in commercial art, and although it was a period when youth and romance were in their first attendance on me, I remember it with gloom and record it with shame.
" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.
She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.
She left college during The Great Depression to work as a secretary at the Fletcher Trust Company in Indianapolis.
She hopes to expose her work in a gallery one day, as she documented the last decade of her life with a Pentax camera.
She elected to work under the advice and management of her third husband, Marty Melcher, whom she married in Burbank on April 3, 1951.
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