Sentence examples for seem on the contrary from inspiring English sources

The two translations I've just quoted, by superb poets (Anthony Hecht and Richard Wilbur respectively), seem, on the contrary, to free them and Brodsky.

Alas, nothing so simple, it would seem; on the contrary, a host of new gimmicks and spending options to keep us mired in the credit card Dark Ages, and probably headed more underwater in debt than ever.

"It would seem, on the contrary, that the various more or less Calvinist strains of our society adopted the sensual pleasures of the table as a subliminal replacement for the other joys that they abjured.

There is no sign that the Seleucid government oppressed the native peoples they seem, on the contrary, to have aimed at improving the natives' status as far as possible, largely through bringing them into contact with Greek modes of urban existence.

Saint-Preux's experience of love forbidden by the laws of class reflects Rousseau's own experience; and yet it cannot be said that The New Eloise is an attack on those laws, which seem, on the contrary, to be given the status almost of laws of nature.

It would seem, on the contrary, that epistemology that is so motivated depends for its rationale on moral knowledge.

He seems, on the contrary, to be searching for answers.

The incident seems, on the contrary, a demonstration of control: Matthews proved that he could get any of his women graduate students to sleep with his son.

In particular, surface roughness as well as inner unhomogeneities seems to foster cross-polarization coupling, that seems on the contrary reduced in presence of sharp, structural protrusions and/or indentations on the item surface.

Many years later, Georg wrote: "So far was I from observing any sign of diminished intensity in this animal life at increased depths, that it seemed, on the contrary, as if there was just beginning to appear a rich and in many respects peculiar deep sea Fauna, of which only a very incomplete notion had previously existed".

No, she doesn't seem distracted; on the contrary, determination is visible on her face.