Tahrir looks like a war zone

Tom looks like a typical American tourist.

Economic stagnation has come to appear endless.

Thanks to Poland, what only days before had seemed impossible was, suddenly, possible.

Plans to meet the crisis, in country after country, have been revamped and restructured time and again.

These are the key ingredients in the nationalist stew that seems to appeal to Russians nowadays.

In Plato's Dialogues, learning appears as a process of remembering.

Indeed, recent growth in Africa appears to have been fueled by increases in oil exports and high oil prices.

And judging from this, it looks a little like a cheeseburger.

The bishop, then, does not strike one as an attractive man.

A compromise power sharing agreement brokered by the Saudis initially seemed to be a solution.

The emotional manipulation of the mise en scene surrounding Chávez s death appears certain to translate into electoral support for his grey successor, Nicolás Maduro.

In the world circus, the poet looks like a Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, and Augustus the Fool appears ill equipped for everyday life.

Except for the weather, the highway has the feel of Switzerland.

Indeed, the Arab world as a whole seems to have given up on Bashir.

The buildup of assets associated with external surpluses, together with continuing export strength, looked like a guarantee of their currencies.

Deliberately manipulating the earth s climate seems like something from science fiction.

Viewed against this foil, the West with Stoker's Britain at its pinnacle emerged as the seat of universal reason.

At first sight, the regime appears to be almost intact.

And in Philadelphia, you have Philadelphia cheesesteak roll, which looks like an egg roll on the outside, but a cheesesteak on the inside.

Preventing this requires political will, especially within the EU, which all too often seems to favor playing a neutral role.

What he says feels right to his followers, because it conforms to their prejudices.

On the surface, it looks like a choice in favor of a rapidly rising civilization.

Stimulus by tax cuts might almost seem to be built on deception, for its effect on consumption and investment expenditure seems to require individuals to forget that they will be taxed later for public spending today, when the government repays the debt with interest.

Once again, we would see what might appear, from looking at the government deficit, to be an austerity to prosperity scenario.

But he rarely seems to act on the basis of raw sentiment or instinctive prejudice.

In the absence of hope, the country seems to be falling into a collective depression.

Khamenei s backing of the June 2009 putsch now appears to be a costly mistake.

Indeed, Putinism now seems like a trite parody of all of them.

So far, however, he seems inclined to make one of those systems resemble the other.

To many, this looks like a one way bet.

In the process, they would accentuate the pressure on the global economy from the West s seemingly endless downturn.

Sadly, this is where the Palestinian Israeli tragedy remains stuck to this very day, thus making the conflict practically insoluble.

Indeed, ignorance seems to be a source of strength for the candidates still in the race.

In retrospect, that day looks like a fork in the road of human history.

The situation seems to continue as it is and our government doesn t want to intervene to stop this tragedy.

So, there's Peruvian Chinese food, which should not be mixed with Mexican Chinese food, where they basically take things and make it look like fajitas.

But this seems like collateral damage from the pursuit of an overriding political objective.

The newspaper noted that Wolfowitz sounded like a character out of the mafia television show The Sopranos .

Indeed, it is at times like this that the world truly does seem like a global village.

On one hand, he appears to be an educated and dynamic leader committed to modernizing Russia.

Singapore s People s Action Party (PAP) remains dominant, though that appears to be changing.

As the name suggests, the head resembles that of a small fox because of the small ears and large eyes.

Whatever the cause, the boom seems an unlikely capstone to a century of war, ferment, and revolution, and only adds to the sense of discontinuity that characterizes modern China.

At the same time, the kind of authoritarianism and state managed economics that we have long impugned now seems to be serving China well.