Mexican fans seem to wipe the slate clean every four years; they are the fútbol world's great unrequited lovers, swooning whenever their coquettish Selección flashes a bit of dominance, trashing teams like Panama and Jamaica in the CONCACAF qualifications before ultimately losing, always gloriously.
Compared with specification I, young plants now exhibit a much faster productivity growth, and seem to wipe out their productivity disadvantage vis á vis the mature plants by their fifth year after entry.
She uses the walls: at one point one dancer seems to wipe another along the wall like a cleaning rag.
Politically speaking, the shock of the attacks seemed to wipe away the debate about Mr. Bush's legitimacy.
Only once did he appear to crack; as his aunt cried before the court while describing her nephew, Tsarnaev seemed to wipe away a tear.
Maryland's first appearance in the national semifinals seemed to wipe away its reputation for failing to win the big game.
They seemed to wipe out whatever mystery there was surrounding the top pick last week when the assistant general manager, Neil Olshey, and Coach Mike Dunleavy told reporters they were taking him.
As the chief justice read his statement, which mentioned that the Ginsburgs had met at Cornell University on a blind date in 1951, Justice Antonin Scalia, a close friend of the couple, seemed to wipe away a tear.
In what appears to be leaked CCTV footage, one of the women approaches Kim in the check-in area, while the other rushes up from behind and seems to wipe her hands across his face.
For Tunisians, though, the scenes at the polls on Sunday — a turnout far above expectations, orderly lines stretching around blocks, satisfied smiles at blue-inked fingers — already seemed to wipe away 10 months of anxiety and protests over the future of the revolution that ousted Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
And in the ambitious concluding story, "Great Day," which recounts the birthday festivities of a distinguished retired civil servant ("his signature had appeared on the nation's banknotes"), an arsonist sets fire to a local museum, seeming to wipe out the very past that is being celebrated, since many of the family's memorabilia were in this place.
