And then there's a 1903 note by Twain that might ordinarily be overlooked, so insignificant does it seem: an answer to a correspondent who challenged Twain's argument that lying can sometimes be a virtue.
Suppose a negative clue is shifted by a "doubt" shifting pattern and a positive clue follows, the positive clue seems an answer to the doubt, which is like answering one's own question.
But this seemed a canned answer.
Which seemed a reasonable answer to me, although in fact it was crazy.
relationship seemed a good answer to the question that Tarasyuk posed in 1994 about keeping Ukraine from becoming a borderland.
The whole post seemed like an answer in search of a problem.
I idolized you, and everything you said seemed like an answer.
Sometimes her work seemed like an answer, in miniature, to what was going wrong with the presidency.
This seemed like an answer to their prayers for a secure space for Christians and other minorities, to which the Iraqi Christian diaspora could return in safety.
