Sentence examples for seemed marked from inspiring English sources

Their approach has seemed marked by composure and candour.

From birth, Ralph Waldo Ellison seemed marked for distinction.

The police had an emergency plan — blocking off some streets, and redirecting human traffic to others — that seemed marked by a preternatural calm and a long-considered certainty.

Still, the victims seemed marked by their ethnicity in a vicious, if short, war — itself fought over competing claims to the same patches of ground by different groups.

His card seemed marked as soon as he told us some of his backstory about his previous life as a slave trader.

Mr. Clinton's summers always seemed marked by uncertainty, not all of it due to the fact that he had been known to take a poll to determine where people wanted him to go to relax.

He seems marked by the sadness of his profession.

The first few years of childhood seem marked by contrasts: babies are unequivocally small, adults are unquestionably large, and the area in between goes unexplored.

He's always been open about the fact that he's had two breakdowns; episodes that seem marked more than anything by sheer terror.

William Ash's Johnny, forever hunched up on his bed, and Renee Weldon's Mary, casually discarding her unionist admirer for a fly smoothie, also seem marked from the start for destruction.

4 Men having sex with men (MSM) are 19 times more likely to acquire HIV infection than adults in the general population, and this risk seems marked in Asian countries.