Sentence examples for have seemed less from inspiring English sources

He could not have seemed less powerful".

No one could have seemed less likely for the role.

Fewer spots could have seemed less likely to generate an internationally successful dance troupe.

The stories, the admonitions, the dramatic scenes must have seemed less opaque in ancient days.

Past efforts to ease immigration restrictions for entrepreneurs have seemed less the stuff of science fiction.

A few years ago, continued tenure might have seemed less assured.

The residents of the area have seemed less than eager to help out with the investigation.

THERE was a time when playing classical piano in Togo might have seemed less odd.

It would have seemed less strange to see a beast come leaping through.

With a stronger foil, Ms. Dunleavy's Violetta might well have seemed less extreme.

Given the brand of rough justice that was imposable for certain offenses that might not even be crimes today, why, indeed, would one struggle over whether the judge may have seemed less-than-circumspect in how the justice he meted out might have "appeared" to his contemporaries?