Sentence examples for seem to extract from inspiring English sources

Palmer Williams Jr. plays Uncle Floyd, the thorn in the Love family's side that they can't seem to extract.

Quite often it's to do with the soldering on the board, and the fact that the fans, which are already very loud, can't seem to extract enough air.

The club just can't seem to extract itself from its status as most valuable pawn in Manhattan's never-ending game of promoter wars.

These days, as he pleads with New Jersey voters for a second term as governor, even moments of satisfaction in Jon S. Corzine's world seem to extract their small humiliations.

She captures the sense of someone who has lived her dream, only to see it turn into a nightmare from which she can't seem to extract herself.

In other cases, they seem to extract value for themselves and their shareholders in ways that do more harm than good to the company, its workers, and its community.

Mr. Jerejian seemed to extract at least some of the testimony he wanted the jury to hear.

But he seemed to extract the music from its sedimented cultural traditions to reach a notion of humanistic universality, an ideal of equality.

A later e-mail seemed to extract as much familial meaning out of the title as possible: "I am his godmother, that is family — I (god parent him, nurture and love him".

Rather than merely tipping his hat on-screen in their direction (such as Quentin Tarantino does in "Inglourious Basterds"), Scorsese seems to extract something of their essence and to interpret it in a meaningful, personal, and original way.

It is unequalled, in my experience, at gleaning an individual's sense of morality and (remarkably for anything to do with politics) it seems to extract a binary yes or no answer.