Sentence examples for desk seems from inspiring English sources

The distance between Joyce the man suffering and Joyce magisterial at his desk seems large and mysterious.

Writers cope with the drain of writing now with yoga and meditation and marital discord (and, of course, with weed and Oregon Pinot, too) but the heyday of the writer with the whiskey bottle always on his desk seems past.

Curiously enough, in a world where only certain things can be said (usually for fear of offending people who would prefer hardly anything to be said at all) the man or woman at the desk seems a much doughtier defender of tolerance, freedom of expression and social justice than the pin-striped reality-softeners of the Westminster chamber.

The woman behind the desk seems more curious than most.

The two leather chairs near his desk seem as important as the playbook that rests on it.

Netrunner is the cyberpunky card game our tech desk seem to play a lot of their time playing.

Free Wi-Fi and the copy machine behind the front desk seem adequate for most business travelers these days, he said.

At the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea a woman at the front desk seemed indignant when asked if she had a price list.

Nevertheless, some guests complained of spotty service: the telephone operator wasn't always readily available and the front desk seemed perennially short-staffed.

As the Giants' season hit its nadir in an embarrassing blowout loss to the New Orleans Saints on "Monday Night Football," the pile on Mara's desk seemed to reach the ceiling.

At the time, Gates' goal of getting a computer on every person's desk seemed audacious.