Sentence examples for a formulation that seemed from inspiring English sources

In moving to a neutral outlook, the Fed said the risks to the economy were now balanced between a return of inflation and further economic weakness, a formulation that seemed to minimize any concern that the economy was on the brink of deflation, or a generalized decline in prices.

In his first major foreign-policy speech, delivered in November of 1999, Bush declared that "a President must be a clear-eyed realist," a formulation that seems to connote an absence of world-remaking ambition.

But it's also true that his immersion in the German philological tradition sometimes makes him resort to knotty, high-sounding formulations that seem to waffle ever so slightly.

(It's a formulation that comes up a lot in evangelical circles these days).

From there, Mr. McCain's address moved into his new mouthful of a slogan against Mr. Obama, a charge that his Democratic rival would be a redistributor, or the redistributor in chief, or some similar formulation that seems to conjure up images of the internal workings of cars.

Such a formulation became necessary because teachings arose within the Christian community that seemed to threaten what the church believed and confessed about Christ.

That seemed a trivial concern.

That seemed an understatement.

That seems to me an odd formulation.

He proceeded to exalt what, in a deft formulation, the Whitney show's curator, Scott Rothkopf, calls "things that seem like art but aren't".

That seems a stretch.