Sentence examples for seemed lifted from inspiring English sources

Ferozi, a banking novice, had a history that seemed lifted from a Saturday-afternoon adventure movie.

He seemed lifted, too, by a sizable turnout of military veterans, whose presence he thankfully acknowledged.

McCain seemed lifted by her presence, and was far more energetic and enthusiastic than the stumbling, unfocussed candidate I'd witnessed on the campaign trail earlier in the summer.

The busy young lives of Leo and Lucia Krim, as documented by their mother, Marina, on her dotingly detailed blog, seemed lifted from someone's imagined idyllic New York childhood.

Translating himself from French into English and sometimes from English into French, Beckett became a great writer in both languages, and seemed lifted clear of nationality at a time when nationality appeared the besetting sin of belligerent humanity.

For a moment, at least, the problems pressing down on the church seemed lifted, even for the two priests who did not get the Austrian pope they had wanted only minutes earlier.

Somehow a great weight seems lifted from me".

THE plots and details seem lifted from Philip Roth or the early work of Woody Allen.

Indeed, after one thumbs through it, other languages' curses seem lifted from kindergarten readers.

The two ads seem lifted out of the pages of a supermarket tabloid.

Though the author was born in 1927 and is thus still shy of eighty, many homey details seem lifted from within his own study.