For Shelley's original early 19th-century readers, William's quick recoil from the Creature's overtures may not have seemed problematic; indeed, it may have underscored early Victorian ideals regarding children's supposedly natural innocence.
But in recent years he has seemed the artistic director of the Met in all but name, and that is more problematic.
Most described these relationships as abusive, characterised by frequent verbal bullying, physical violence or rejection on account of their sex worker status, even if initially their profession had not seemed problematic to a new partner.
If that seemed problematic, it may have proven beneficial.
The company's most obvious business — selling ads — seemed problematic.
According to Dewey, a transnational public sphere powerful enough to create a community arises not from political decisions, but from the consequences of decisions that have come to seem problematic in the lives of citizens.
Though these exclusions make the idea of private property seem problematic, philosophers have often argued that it is necessary for the ethical development of the individual, or for the creation of a social environment in which people can prosper as free and responsible agents.
"I said that the approaches that have been surfaced so far seem problematic in terms of both efficacy and side effects, but we have to look at the possibilities and understand them because if we get desperate enough it will be considered," Holdren wrote.
But of course, it would seem problematic if I haven't understood it; that doesn't mean nobody else has understood it.
(HBO has a version in development, which seems problematic: once you Americanize "Borgen," you convert it right back to its source material, "The West Wing").
