Sentence examples for seemed cast from inspiring English sources

"An almost hypnotic spell seemed cast by this masterpiece on the beholder," Mr. Powell later wrote.

As a result, the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, was feverishly trying to persuade Iran to think again.But the die seemed cast.

It was a pleasing moment.Yet he still seemed cast as a figurehead in his newly freed country—a fate tantamount, he said, to keeping Charles de Gaulle on the sidelines after the general had freed France.

Victoria and Albert seemed cast from a different mold than their debauched and dissipated royal parents and grandparents, ready to restore dignity to the British monarchy by presenting themselves as a couple not so different from their subjects.

Burly, rock-jawed, his thighs so muscular they seemed cast in marble, he could be a force in what the players called "the butcher shop," the rebounding area under the basket where welts sprouted and blood spilled and, as Kipling might have said, you had to be a man, my son.

Now the form seems cast off, departed from.

Anne is Scotland's favourite royal and seems cast in our image and likeness.

These naughty acrobats seem cast as much for their hard bodies as their considerable skills.

Wells seems cast more in the "18 'til I die" mould.

Ms. Sacco seems cast from the (outsized) mold of the few prominent female nightclub czars of times past.

The sets are lit sombrely, so that the people, the buildings, and the rooms seem cast in shadow.