Coming after Gill's thunder-punctuated reading, how could Paling's characters not fail to seem brittle and anaemic?
There are many ways for such a timely plot to fail — to seem opportunistic or not credible, to drift into the repetitive conventions of genre spy fiction.
And really, if you spend enough time wading through the science, Dr. Parker's idea — an ecosystem restoration project, essentially — not only fails to seem outrageous, but also seems inevitable.
So ingrained is the presupposition that the man will be taller, older, richer, more successful than the woman with whom he mates that the exceptions, of which there are now many, never fail to seem noteworthy.
They were so busy counting that they failed to see something that seems impossible to miss.
It seems to me a pity that this idea (unless I failed to understand) seems to have been lost sight of in "Gloucestershire" and "Christendom," which, on their own, wearied me.
By the way, in that session Sonny attended, we failed to make coaching seem easy enough.
Nonetheless, even with our chosen strategy, which is extremely conservative, we sometimes failed to identify what seem to be bad homes.
Lessons UKBA has still failed to learn, it seems.
The fact that Jewish socialist Bernie failed to win here seems a little jarring.
