Europe ceased to seem the place where the future was under construction.
Indeed, all the things that had been ceased to seem very consequential — even the prodigies of the regal Spitz himself.
But Tantawi's solid-looking military might eventually cease to seem like a safe bet for ordinary Egyptians.
Much of that attitude had already ceased to seem fresh, he said, but the brutality of the terrorist attacks have ended its moment for good.
The truth is that, in a state with one of the lowest murder rates in the nation (tied with Oregon for eighth lowest), capital punishment has ceased to seem necessary.
Like Kawakubo, and, indeed, most of the participants in "Skin + Bones," he dismantled, ruptured, fractured, or fragmented, then reconfigured, not only clothing or buildings but the traditional logic behind them, which suddenly ceased to seem inevitable.
The guy next to me ceased to seem like an archetype – weird drunk dude who came alone to a Bruce Springsteen show and might get handsy — and more my new friend I'd happily let spin me around the makeshift dance floor during "Rosalita," then high five.
The democratic backing of the noble class should have provided the Polish crown with unrivalled consensus and strength, but as time went on the elections were increasingly monopolised by the wealthiest and most powerful magnates, and the trip to Warsaw ceased to seem worth it for anyone else.
Having originated in times of fiscal demands thought uncustomary and excessive, representative institutions could not generally survive once the royal impositions, from very repetition, had ceased to seem arbitrary; even where Estates persisted, their votes were more like approval than sovereign consent.
They continued to write to each other, and though the death of her daughter became no less sad, though she missed her no less, her death ceased to seem so existentially unjust and mysterious.
