Sentence examples for seem marked for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Oliver presents more than a dozen accounts of bravery by men who, on the face of it, didn't seem marked for heroics, like the Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, who stood 5-foot-3 — every inch packed with "charm, charisma and steel-hard determination," and who roared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" hours into a seemingly unwinnable battle with a British warship.

From birth, Ralph Waldo Ellison seemed marked for distinction.

Yet in spite of its seeming celebration of diverse family arrangements, the show bristles with so much submerged pain that nearly every character seems marked for spiritual death, the way characters on "The Sopranos" used to be marked for actual death.

Unlike the Young British Artists of the nineteen-eighties and nineties, who were often said to be reacting against a decade of cold roast Thatcherism, the current downtown scene has not yet produced anybody who seems marked for stardom on a larger stage, but the participants project a lot of high-decibel energy.

James Dean, 24 Died in 1955, car crash Audacious and fragile on and off the screen, Dean seemed marked for an early demise, earning durable fame with just three movies.

William Ash's Johnny, forever hunched up on his bed, and Renee Weldon's Mary, casually discarding her unionist admirer for a fly smoothie, also seem marked from the start for destruction.

The relative immunity which is the likely cause of the different impact on efficacy between pregnant adults and children does not seem so marked for gametocytes.

However, both instruments showed important ceiling effects, which seemed less marked for the SF-36.

Some pieces just seem to get marked for special scratching treatment because they feel just right to your cat.

This trend seems even more marked for agriculturalists when only population samples of at least 20 individuals are considered (Fig.  4c).

The difference seems to be more marked for polarity and codon distance than for volume and hydrophobicity (0.03 vs 0.01 for weakly divergent sequences).