Sentence examples for he seems guilty from inspiring English sources

When Roberta, his first lover, is found drowned in a lake, Clyde is sent to the electric chair, although he seems guilty more of contemplating murder than of committing it.

Initially the teenager seems guilty to everybody except a lone juror.

Considering the Premier League already lends its brand name to a preseason tournament — the Barclay's Asia Trophy is in its fourth year — Scudamore seems guilty of artful deception.

The minister without portfolio seems guilty of no crime other than having been the friend and mentor of Derek Draper, the disagreeable lobbyist who boasted on tape that he could get his clients a favoured hearing in high places.

And the fellow-student who picked up the dropped card &, instead of mailing it, handed it to the local mimeographer seems guilty of a failure of gallantry.

As it turns out, the 24,000 pages of e-mails that journalists and the public spent the weekend poring through contained nothing notable — quite an achievement that Ms. Palin seems guilty of nothing more than the excessive use of exclamation points.

Goddard suspected that the other boys might be conspiring to make him seem guilty.

Instead they seem guilty of the grossest fashion sin: wanting to hang out with the models.

Afterward, certain students grumbled about their "privacy" -- complaints that made them seem guilty, at least to me.

(If you've blamed your poor performances in the past on a lack of ability, don't feel bad. We've all done it. The butler seems guilty. Just please don't do it anymore).

"Guilty, in the averment of this jury of peers, and of a certainty.... To 'rational'reasonableable' — observers doubtlessly he did seem guilty... and surely censurable in grand measure".