Sentence examples for seem conceived from inspiring English sources

Small Mediterranean-style dishes seem conceived by the chef, David Seigal, to let the wines shine.

Eerie cluster chords in the piano and astringent sustained harmonies in the strings seem conceived to make you think, "Oh, how curious," not "My, how beautiful".

Too many of the catalog's project descriptions have the promotional tone of advertisements, just as too many of the designs in this global survey seem conceived to fit comfortably in upper-middle-class first-world homes.

The film doesn't seem conceived with the same kind of global appeal as the Taken franchise, and a smash-and-grab release schedule – the US and UK creating an early March splash for a busy overseas weekend with most major territories a month later – reflects that.

It's likely, I imagine, that most moviegoers will be more concerned by the eerie listlessness of those characters' faces and the grim vision of Santa Claus's North Pole compound, with interiors that look like a munitions factory and facades that seem conceived along the same oppressive lines as Coketown, the red-brick town of "machinery and tall chimneys" in Dickens's "Hard Times".

Proving their intimacy each week the Winchesters argue as if they were a married couple and seem conceived to correct for the existence of so many only children who must fight their battles solo in fairy tales and other fiction for the young.

The Electronic Evolution series, beginning Wednesday at Alice Tully Hall as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, seems conceived and programmed specifically to drive such ambiguities home.

The direction itself seems conceived as a critical formalization of the Facebook "community": speed and virtuality of exchanges, aggregation of solitudes, solipsism of points of view, indistinguishability of lies and truth.

Mr. Dromgoole and Mr. Buckhurst's production seems conceived to reach as wide an audience as possible, in particular winning over those spoilsports who find Shakespeare a dreary slog.

Speaking of sore thumbs, Jil Sander's man seemed conceived as an accidental tourist (based on the show notes), in his plain poplin shirt and big, full-cut shorts with brogues and black socks.

Atlantic Avenue, the median-divided thoroughfare that forms Richmond's Hill southern border, seems conceived more for cars than people, offering places to change oil, buy tires and pump gas.