Sentence examples for looked so straightforward from inspiring English sources

What added insult into injury, of course, was that Hoy's mission had looked so straightforward.

It all looked so straightforward at the end of the pairs competition tonight, with the Russians Mariya Petrova and Aleksei Tikhonov fingering their gold medals, the Chinese Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo looking wistfully down at their silvers and the French Sarah Abitbol and Stephane Bernadis wearing their bronzes with the tears still drying on their faces.

Things do not look so straightforward in Group A where Holland and France face tricky opponents in Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus and Luxembourg.

But it was hard to buy into that version of events when his players made their ensuing victories look so straightforward.

When we understand that the police officers demanding payment to protect their fellow citizens haven't been paid for six months, condemning corruption no longer looks so straightforward.

Although re-enactments tend to raise alarms, particularly by viewers who confuse documentaries with journalism, interviews are often more problematic precisely because they look so straightforward, even transparent.

Helped by a rapidly flattening wicket, and baffling captaincy by Justin Langer, the visitors, who resumed on 56 for four, made survival look so straightforward it was hard to imagine Somerset summoning the wherewithal to bowl them out again.

But the look was so straightforward in its attitude that it sparkled with rightness.

While there's plenty of reason for the startup industry to be feeling a wave of optimism, it's rarely so straightforward as it looks to exit a public company, and it may be even trickier today than in past years.

But deciding the overall look of the loft in Borough was not so straightforward.

So far, so straightforward.