Sentence examples for it seems expressly from inspiring English sources

It seems expressly designed to embarrass hotshots driving anything from BMWs to Mustangs.

As for Rachel Portman's score, it seems expressly designed to bring the temperature down; when the boys in the workhouse sit picking apart old ropes, day after day, we are supposed to construe their task as a compulsory death of the spirit, but the jaunt of the music softens it into a moment of fiddly fun.

Old Hatoyama and Yoshida formed the LDP as a bulwark against resurgent socialist parties and the political system they devised seems expressly designed to resist change.

Moveon.org became known as the mainstream of the growing movement, joining a larger coalition called Win Without War, whose name seems expressly designed to ward off any charges of anti-Americanism.

The timing of the announcement, with Newcastle riding high in the table, and the international break disrupting the Premier League fixture list, seems expressly designed to limit any opposition to the move.

In both cases the women are using their extraordinary voices to deliver extraordinary emotions, and they're doing it in songs that seem expressly built for that purpose.

Our roast duck appeared in stages: first the breast, sliced and served with mustard sauce, then a duck broth with duck ravioli, then the leg, with a peppercorn gravy and a kind of silver clamp that again seemed expressly invented for its purpose.

But once you begin to look carefully for examples of musical genres that seem expressly tailored to reflect the preferences of the critics whose job it is to evaluate them, it's surprising how many of these symbiotic relationships survive.

Indeed sickly flavours, from tutti frutti to candyfloss, seem expressly designed to lure rather unsophisticated palates.If California raises its smoking age and renders e-cigarettes forbidden fruit, more youngsters will inevitably puff away in secret.

Vague and overlapping regulations can seem expressly designed to enrich predatory officials.

He did not seem expressly concerned with Petrino's pattern of disloyalty.