Sentence examples for seemed elemental from inspiring English sources

With Yosses's help, I had taken something elaborate and made it something that seemed elemental.

"It may seem elemental, but at the time, the idea of mixing a trading solution and a credit-crisis solution — it was in its awkward infancy".

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyans are once again waiting anxiously to see whether their president and prime minister will do something that may seem elemental: sit down and talk to each other.

There were moments when her unhappiness seemed as elemental as clear water.

At those moments, the White Stripes' music seems almost elemental, their power undeniable: it is clear why they are the only band to have transcended the indie ghetto.

Today, when gigabytes of movie trailers, Napster files and e-mail messages course through the same wires as telephone calls, the idea seems almost elemental.

(I should say so-called Derby pie, because by trademark, only Alan Rupp, of Kern's Kitchen Inc., can make a true "Derby pie" -- though to my mind, a batter of melted butter, egg yolks, flour, chocolate chips and walnuts poured into a pie crust seems as elemental and universally delicious as ice cream).

"Percolator" is one of those records that seems almost elemental.

"It seemed to me elemental that if a person, a man or a woman, wanted to serve their country they ought to be able to do it," he said in a speech in Los Angeles.

Music journalist Christopher John Farley viewed that she "emotionally detail[ed] a song" unlike on her previous albums and that "her gentle voice now seemed like something elemental, a kindly wind blowing through the branches of a big tree".

In the summer of 1984, on a whim propelled by adventure, I holidayed on Naxos, crossed it by bike and got into a little cargo ship that took me to a place that at the time seemed so ethereal, so elemental, so remote, it has remained with me ever since.