There was never any discussion of alternative destinations, and I looked forward to the trips because of how different everything seemed from the United States and how, year after year, so much in Panama remained the same.
Everything seems right, from the rickety slum dwellings to the bleakly bare-walled cop-shop and hospital, all shadowed by the fortress-like nature of the looming airport.
With the exception of sushi, an Edo-era creation, everything seems to come from somewhere else: ramen is Hakata or Hokkaido style, elaborate kaiseki meals come from Kyoto, and a full third of Tokyo's 191 Michelin stars are French or Italian.
As Thomas Nagel writes "Everything seems to result from the combined influence of factors, antecedent and posterior to action, that are not within the agent's control.
Everything seems easier here, from the way of life to the way people interact with one another.
Everything seems designed, almost from the first instant of creation, to construct a cosmos that would pave the way for human beings.
Everything seems to have disappeared from the screen.
In today's world, everything seems to be personalized, from shopping services for selecting your clothes to designing custom shoes with your favorite colors.
He discovers that, on the Web, everything seems to be 19 clicks from everything else.
It can capture a dichotomy; that sickening understanding that before a bomb, or a mine, or an attack from sky, everything seems ordinary, and we're safe, then it isn't and we aren't.
