Sentence examples for seem embattled from inspiring English sources

And even though "Seussical" has been labeled "troubled" since it tried out in Boston, and despite rumors that the days of "Jane Eyre" are numbered on Broadway, Ms. Schaffel and Ms. LaManna do not seem embattled or beleaguered.

Part of the reason that she seems embattled — her media empire is shrinking fast — is that she won her corner of the culture war.

This is a campaign in which some voters seem as embattled and dedicated as the candidate.

Creative writing teachers sometimes seem rather embattled on this subject, insisting on the "rule" that the point of view in a continuous prose narration cannot move among characters, even though a great number of canonical literary works rely on the fact that it can and does.

Even during the 1990s, when the British monarchy seemed so embattled, the number of people telling opinion pollsters that they would vote in a referendum in favour of replacing it with a republic was no more than one in five.

The prognosis is not good: The Taliban is still as powerful as ever, and the men, women, and children who fight them seemed desperate and embattled when Anderson visited them for the segment.

At times, in those years, he seemed as embattled and as determined to prevail as he did last week.

Blasphemous as it seems, this embattled work looks both mockingly and longingly at the fetishism of primitive religion and pushes the envelope so far that it might even be viewed as testing God's wrath.

While the proliferation of film festivals and the atmosphere of hype and hucksterism that afflicts so many can be a cause for wariness or even cynicism, festivals nonetheless uphold an ideal of cultural cosmopolitanism that seems more embattled and more vital than ever.

More drama in Brazil: Just a day after Brazils embattled currency seemed to stabilize at an equilibrium level against the dollar, the countrys central bank president shocked the market by stepping.

The Iraqi government — embattled, paralyzed, ineffectual — seems highly unlikely to carry out meaningful evacuations or large-scale relief efforts in the event of a breach.