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

Tahrir looks like a war zone

Tom looks like a typical American tourist.

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

Economic stagnation has come to appear endless.

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

What might look like a small step for mankind is certainly a giant leap for Europe.

A tall handsome person enters a room, draws attention, and looks like a leader.

NEW YORK The United Nations today leads what seems at times like a double life.

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

This may seem like a pipedream, but something along these lines has already been happening for a while.

At first sight, the Ivory Coast s post colonial history looks like a variation on standard themes.

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.

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.

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.

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

The coalition took power at the start of what seems to be a new period of prosperity, underpinned by large EU subsidies.

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.

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

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.

He wears nice suits. He does not look like an archetypal post Soviet bureaucrat or KGB agent.

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

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.

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.

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

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

If the past is any guide, much of what seems like science fiction today will become reality tomorrow.

Outside the stadiums, public screenings of the games have become joyous mass happenings.

Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin s statements seem to recall the Soviet era with nostalgia.