Sentence examples for deck seemed stacked from inspiring English sources

At the outset, the deck seemed stacked against the cheery, slightly campy series.

But the deck seemed stacked in Miss Shin's favor: she concluded the first half of the concert as well, with "Caro nome" from Verdi's "Rigoletto". In both selections, her voice, small but focused, carried well, and she negotiated the altitudinous acrobatics with ease and uncanny accuracy of pitch.

But Smyth's deck seems stacked; his crew, Matt Struble, a former Michigan State pole-vaulter, is also the reigning Inter 20 North American champion.

"Does the deck seem stacked?

But by acting as if our actions can matter, even if the deck seems stacked, they often do.

I know you're weary and sometimes the deck seems stacked against you, but hang in there and trust that there are great women who will come and find you!

But the numbers seemed stacked against him.

Alber Elbaz is a lesson unto himself -- how to endure when the deck seems hopelessly stacked against you.

"A lot of younger people are not seeing appraising as a great career path because the deck seems to be stacked against them from the get go.

Their elliptical method starts to seem lazy, and Jean's plight, a journey from bad to bad, starts to seem a stacked deck.

It seems like the deck is stacked against the French dance-music duo Justice.