"Even if they did something wrong, at some point revenge or justice becomes unseemly.
The 1929 stock market crash assured the dress's ascendancy, as overnight it became unseemly for women to flaunt their wealth.
In addition to resistance from the owners, the next leader will have to balance the interests of the game's superstars, who want more salary flexibility, and its rank and file, who are chiefly concerned with stability.The easiest way to make everyone happy is growing the overall pie so that squabbling over the size of slices becomes unseemly.
While college president pay has risen in recent years, there are signs it is leveling off as high compensation becomes unseemly in an era of tight budgets and economic struggles.
The Silk City has become so unseemly that the neighboring, affluent community of West Paterson has held elections three times over the past dozen years to consider changing its name to avoid any affiliation with it.
In a recent story I wrote about the drama, the late poet's niece, Laura Garcia Lorca (who is also the director of the Federico Garcia Lorca Foundation, which exercises control over the poet's literary estate), told me that she and her relatives didn't want Lorca's body moved because they feared his exhumation would become an unseemly spectacle, "a circus".
But for lovers of France and French life, there is something deeply depressing not only in the apparent elimination of one of the more plausible alternatives, but by what many in Paris see as the "Italianization" of French life — the descent into what might become an unseemly round of Berlusconian squalor, matched by an inability to renew the political scene with new faces.
It was becoming unseemly.
"That's the point where it becomes extremely unseemly, that an individual decision about someone's prosecution should be the subject of horse-trading between political appointees at the White House and Congress," Horton said.
