You shouldn't be able to scratch any of the shiny material off and they shouldn't seem like they can be easily removed.
A dehumidifier may seem like the best way to remove moisture from the air, but it can drive electric bills up.
Bank mergers may seem like distant, arcane transactions far removed from our day to day lives, but they affect real people and real communities.
This latter item may seem like a minor upgrade, but by removing the friction around translating a social share into something that can be accessed and read immediately, Amazon could potentially convert more recipients to Kindle customers in the long run.
This may seem like a sleight of hand artifice (removing troops from Point A, only to drop them in Point B,) but many hawkish pundits, columnists, and bloggers respond to criticism of Obama's plan by deploying the straw-man directive for readers to "consider the alternative".
It might seem like an esoteric finding, so far removed from everyday life as to be of almost no interest.
Viewed from a certain remove, Caracas may seem like any other capital in the developing world: streets crowded with traffic, people hustling to work, shops open and doing business.
The idea that we have to process the sensory data coming into our brains makes it seem like we are already a step removed from the real world".
The old system certainly didn't work well, but removing it altogether doesn't seem like the answer.
It seemed like, once you removed religious morality from the equation, there really wasn't a good reason to not have an abortion if you didn't want to be pregnant.
