Lincecum, slight as he is, seemed imposing by comparison, even when he wasn't throwing a ball.
In Tallahassee, one branch of the Democrats' war room hardly seemed imposing: two adjoining storefronts in a strip mall on Apalachee Parkway, about three miles from the Capitol.
The storm had seemed imposing enough as it swirled in the Gulf of Mexico to cause about 280,000 people to evacuate a strip of Florida coastline from Tampa Bay to the state's northwestern coast.
It seems imposed on the actual objects rather than growing directly from their importance.
Despite some lively passages, the whole sequence seems imposed -- perhaps, obscurely, to provide instructive parallels to Patrick's own evolution.
Their desires seem imposed on them, and make them almost feral in their hunting, darting, insecure gestures.
But this can be overcome by intense discipline and severe will — which, however, runs the risk of seeming imposed and artificial.
These elements create a certain stark, sci-fi-tinged drama, one that seems imposed on the dance rather than generated by internal structures.
Yet Winner's thinking is so wide-ranging, in scope and in time, that the organizing principle seems imposed, almost too decorative.
But the logic of the story, which seems imposed on the characters rather than an organic product of their circumstances, covers Mam and Dad with the stale dust of 30's-style social realism.
