First, because the moment of glory is meant to overwhelm (in truth, a failure to succumb would be deemed almost insulting by the Academy), and, second, because he had ascended the dais, earlier on, to pick up the Oscar for Best Director, and had already said his piece.
Before the credit crisis erupted, many mortgages were sold by banks in securitizations, and most of the securities were rated AAA because widespread defaults were deemed almost unthinkable.
Later, Mr. Narvaez, who is called Blue because it is his favorite color, talked of his and his classmates' ordeals in a school that was founded two decades ago to rescue those deemed almost too tough to teach.
They were all rejected, in an outcome that was at the time deemed almost farcical.
Early on, the company deemed almost every core function code red.
Nevertheless, when he played Joseph Merrick on Broadway, Cooper was deemed "almost unrecognisable" by the Guardian's Alexis Soloski, who praised his "bravura performance" in Bernard Pomerance's play.
In a cross-party pact deemed almost Faustian by critics on the left, Renzi has a deal with the former prime minister, whose party is in opposition, to push through the senate reform – and others.
This was the year he produced his two masterpieces, Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal, directed his first television film and put on four stage productions, include a production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, which had until then been deemed almost unstageable.
Written by the winners, rock history is packed with albums that gradually developed a patina of greatness with time – not least The Velvet Underground Featuring Nico, which was ignored on release, but would one day be deemed almost as good as Supergrass' second album.
The world's battle to provide education for all rages on and now technology companies are joining the fray, helping thousands of young women in underdeveloped countries achieve what had, until recently, been deemed almost impossible: the chance to attend university.
All of the album's official lyrics, deemed almost entirely indecipherable, were revealed in celebration of the album's first anniversary.
