BEIJING — In the international melting pot that is the Olympic Village, Michael Phelps is in his own world, set apart by circumstance and by choice, his universe seemingly contained in a three-bedroom suite and in the contents of his iPod.
The relatively small and seemingly contained outbreak, she said, was almost entirely linked to a Liberian man who flew into the country while infected and later died.
With all the other major conflicts and crisis in the world, not to mention a heated political season here at home, it's understandable that this seemingly contained conflict would remain below the fold in most news outlets.
He was protean, a world unto himself, seemingly containing multitudes.
With filming well underway for season six of Game of Thrones, speculation is rising as to what we can expect as David Benioff and DB Weiss head fully off-piste from George RR Martin's books with every day seemingly containing a new hint from on set.
More police arrived, but they were keeping a distance from the crowd, blocking off streets and seemingly containing the flow of people, but not actively trying to stop them.
Intermixed with lingering closeups of objects that seemingly contain substance, like lonely ballet flats in an empty dance studio, are loose themes of the human plight to nurture the positivity the world offers to us.
Off to the sides are tweets that seemingly contain the phrase "cristiano ronaldo" or are directed at his account (twitter.com/cristiano).
But Sir Mark and his Manchester forces showed how thrilling music-making can be, and the audience -- seemingly containing large numbers of parents and siblings of the youth choir members -- was ecstatic.
It is a catalog song, containing a seemingly endless list of humorous topical references about Alice B. Toklas, the Ziegfeld Follies' men's lounge and a strip of Coney Island beach along which gay men sometimes paraded in dresses and hats fashioned from beach towels.
It's a seemingly endless sprawl that contains all types of London life: girl gangs, Tories, yuppies, third-generation immigrants, first-generation immigrants, first-time homeowners, WW2 veterans and dubstep producers all call Croydon home. .
