The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.
To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.
Many of those who have become cops in New York seem to have ceased to address such minor offenses over the past few days.
Whatever the reason, and however absurd their beliefs may seem, American evangelicals are deadly serious.
"He will look for me, and seem bewildered, as if something were lost," replied Philothea.
The hearth bore a uniform appearance, and did not seem to have been tampered with.
To the adventurer from New York they seem always new and crude.
His grasp did not bruise, it did not seem to be tight; but the hand that held it was immovable.
Mrs. Bines declared that it did seem to her very much like out-and-out gambling.
c.1200, "to appear to be;" c.1300, "to be fitting, be appropriate, be suitable," though the more recent sense in English is the etymological one; from Old Norse soema "to honor; to put up with; to conform to (the world, etc.)," verb derived from adjective soemr "fitting," from Proto-Germanic *somi- (cf. Old English som "agreement, reconciliation," seman "to conciliate," source of Middle English semen "to settle a dispute," literally "to make one;" Old Danish some "to be proper or seemly"), from PIE *som-i-, from root *sem- "one, as one" (see same). Related: Seemed; seeming.