Jagr has almost seemed to be playing with resignation.
In an onstage interview after the concert, the WNYC radio host John Schaefer commented that it had almost seemed like an athletic feat, one both mental and physical.
Williams has almost seemed fortified, in her will and her serving, by the tame surrender of her sister, Venus, in the quarter-finals – a shock compounded by their failure together at the same stage of the doubles.
Amid all the rancour and frustration, it has almost seemed to go unnoticed during this jarring spell for Manchester United that Louis van Gaal's team have now gone seven hours and 45 minutes since anybody scored past them.
In repeated appearances in court, Mr. Abdulmutallab, the well-educated son of a wealthy family, has almost seemed to have two personas: a polite, silent observer who appeared small at the defense table, and an unruly onlooker who would suddenly yell out messages of support for Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, who was recently killed by a missile from an American drone.
At times in the debate that has ensued, it has almost seemed that one was being asked to choose between the 2 evils, as though Americans, whose country was born in opposition to authoritarianism and has done much to oppose totalitarianism ever since it emerged, in the century, were incapable of despising, and condemining, both.
Club secretary Greg Dickson said Byron's 84th-minute equaliser had almost seemed pre-ordained.
For many days now, Israel's Operation Protective Edge had almost seemed to be a ghost war.
Apple has almost seemed to abhor external ports, and in fact another rumor, this time about the 12-inch MacBook Air, says it's limiting I/O to just one port on that device, which would almost seem to be motivated by exactly the opposite kind of approach to industrial design.
"These past several weeks have -- almost seemed like several years, quite frankly -- have really dealt a blow to me and my family, and I think it's too difficult".
