Sentence examples for quest to seem from inspiring English sources

In my quest to seem far cooler than I was, I went to extreme efforts to immerse myself in the highly regarded stuff.

In the wealthy, mainly white part we're discussing, it's a pleasant but highly conformist city where people dress terribly and expend much of their cultural energy in a strange quest to seem like "regular Americans", whatever those are.

Not only has the spell of what had come to seem like a quest been broken but a night that had felt spontaneous now seems manufactured.

Karen's quest to be thin seems to have begun innocently enough just after high school graduation when she started the Stillman water diet.

Sometimes, the quest to avoid death can seem extreme, like in the much-publicized cases of Terry Shiavo and Marlise Munoz, where unnecessary life-extending procedures created exorbitant medical bills and emotionally burdened their loved ones.

Music lovers, however, who can harden their hearts against pretty well anything in the quest for rapture, seem to have taken the conductor's side and settled the matter for themselves.

What a shame, then, that in its quest to become more global, it seems to have done the exact opposite.

Scandals may tend to provoke a regulatory overreaction, and some of the agency's recent edicts and actions (like its quest to regulate hedge funds) have seemed a bit too fussy.

More than a grand quest, this desire seems to me to be a simple proposition.

While Phillips didn't succeed in his quest, Davis seemed to view the film as one long audition for the part in Manson Family Vacation.

Last week, Bonds said his quest seemed to be similar to the course of his life: up one step, down one step.