Sentence examples for Seems proper from inspiring English sources

Graeber himself certainly seems to be having more fun than seems proper for a respected professor.

The former NAB chief executive Cameron Clyne told the AFR that "NAB ruling out involvement with the Adani Carmichael coal mega-mine seems proper" and "prudent" for shareholders.

It seems proper, within the vertebrate group, to consider elimination schemes as variations of mechanisms common to all higher animals but which enable animals to inhabit widely diversified environments.

Here it seems proper to resuscitate both Andy Warhol's famous observation that "being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," and to paraphrase an aphorism often attributed to the actual Picasso: mediocre artists borrow, great artists steal.

It seems proper to consider a word as the name of that which we intend to be understood by it when we use it; of that which any fact that we assert of it is to be understood; of that, in short, concerning which, when we employ the word, we intend to give information.

Four years on from my unsavoury outburst in Cornwall, I find that I am able to miss my old man in a way that seems proper and dignified - in a way that approximates to the mode I spent nearly 10 years anticipating and practising for.

This seemed proper, even expected.

It seemed proper and right.

It seemed proper to eliminate certain words in the lyrics which, in racial terms, had proven offensive".

But does it not seem proper that we who live in what was once the capital of the colonial province of New Netherland should feel a certain affinity for the players representing the old country?

Anna had become entranced by the places at the dark ends of the streets: the establishments that seemed proper on the exterior but contained hidden rooms filled with glittering bottles of moonshine.