Sentence examples for he seemed given from inspiring English sources
One of the first suggestions made by the film is that Nureyev must have been more prepared for this last-minute defection than he seemed, given that a call had been made to French officials earlier that day to prepare them for a "major event".
When I answered his question about how long I'd been locked up, he seemed to give me a pass and spare me the bureaucratic interferences that I'd been anticipating.
He seemed distracted, giving short, sometimes incomprehensible answers that were punctuated by exclamations of petulance.
For a while he seemed to give up movies altogether and apprenticed himself to a cabinetmaker and a cobbler.
It had always frustrated her, she said, that he seemed to give more credence to what his aides told him than to what she said.
I know there was that incident with Gasquet, when he seemed to give up on a game, but those things happen with a character like that.
Still, as much as Selig avoided questions, he seemed to give a glimpse into his thought process when he talked about the role of the commissioner.
Karl Rove is Exhibit A. Until the very end, he confidently predicted a Romney victory, though he seemed to give himself some weasel room in bringing up Hurricane Sandy at the end as an excuse.
Are we really having this conversation?" He seemed to give it some thought, but there was something unnatural about how theatrically he pondered, as if he already knew what he was going to say but was pausing for effect.
