Sentence examples for seem wasted from inspiring English sources

Amref was forced to redo the well after suspecting the water table was too low to sustain supply but their efforts and cash seem wasted so far.

While it's nice to see Mr. Kinnear play an entirely sympathetic character for a change, his slyness and subtlety seem wasted in a project that has no interest in either.

If their effort, now named Celera, were to finish first, the public programs paid for by the Wellcome Trust and the National Institutes of Health might seem wasted effort.

But while Raban writes with energy and incisiveness, his characters are thinly drawn, and his well-phrased sallies seem wasted on such familiar marks as the follies of the technology bubble and academic snobbery.

And yet the money and effort devoted to the pursuit of fairness through the legal system can sometimes seem wasted: the more expensive lawyers there are, and the more ordinary Americans are fascinated by them, the less the cause of justice, some feel, appears to be served.

For it's difficult to warm to any of Hailey's protagonists, and all of their lives seem wasted to one degree or another--if only because the characters are basically intelligent and privileged.

Most of it has seemed wasted.

→You have held a series of meetings, and at each one, the time seems wasted.

There is hardly any dialogue in the film and not one word seems wasted.

She remembers that her mother seemed wasted and frightened, and that she whispered to Ailie, "he twists me".

His syntax is so rigorously constructed that not a word, a breath, a letter, even, seems wasted.