This project might have seemed quixotic a few years ago, but now it fits the times perfectly.

Perhaps it was the crutches, but it seemed it seemed as though she might want to talk to me again.

While these missile tests might have seemed to be a setback in earlier times, they have now become a kind of theater of virility, separate from any political discourse.

And so the question that we might not have birds became kind of fundamental to those of us wandering around looking for the meadowlarks that seemed to have all disappeared.

Everything seemed to have started well enough.

The MDGs might once have seemed to be merely a set of hopes and aspirations. Now we know that they are actually a practical roadmap out of poverty.

History, for some, seemed to have come to an end.

(In 1940, when Hitler seemed indomitable, Monnet suggested to Winston Churchill that France and Britain might be rolled into one country.)

The economy seemed to have escaped its dependence on inventory accumulation.

In the face of the dollar s ongoing fall, policymakers have seemed paralyzed.

After a few months everybody seemed to have forgotten about Ali's story.

New ways to borrow and to spread risk seemed to have little downside.

Until the last 12 months, finance advocates seemed to have a strong case.

During the eurozone s first, prosperous decade, European believers seemed to have won the debate.

Wall Street might have survived, and US taxpayers might have been spared even larger bills.

While European leaders have repeatedly done what previously seemed unthinkable, their responses have been out of synch with markets.

In rich countries, mass poverty, which seemed to have been eliminated around 1980, has reappeared.

But for the rest of the twentieth century, the backlash cycle seemed to have stopped.

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me

Tom seemed bored.

Something seemed amiss.

Layla seemed sleepy.

Layla seemed excited.

Sami seemed nice.

Sami seemed upset.

Sami seemed cool.

Sami seemed sincere.

The dominoes of Eastern Europe might have toppled differently. A few might not have toppled at all.

You might have a guess.

You might have told me.

You might have told me.

Sami might have been abducted.

Sami might have been poisoned.

Ronald Reagan might have approved.

Time seemed to stop.

Sami seemed pretty upset.

A depression seemed possible.

The fact that the man was black might or might not have made the cop go for his handcuffs even sooner than he might normally have done.

The best option therefore seemed to be to have the effort undertaken by the Manhattan Project itself.

I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

I might have forgotten my keys.

Sami seemed to feel trapped.

Capitalism seemed to be dying.

In retrospect, many people have cast the shift as inevitable, but at the time it seemed wildly improbable.

But, in the decades since, the Arab world s rulers, regimes, and practices seemed to have remained firmly entrenched.