Sentence examples for seemed more fitting from inspiring English sources

When the company adopted the patriotic symbol of a harp, it seemed more fitting than impertinent.

The old station was a gaping masterpiece of stalactited decrepitude that somehow seemed more fitting, nicely mirroring the seedy ambience of the Coney Island Boardwalk.

For several months, painters debated how to squeeze the heavens onto a cylindrical ceiling, because the artist Paul Helleu's version seemed more fitting for a dome, and they experimented to find just the proper shade of blue.

We would be either catching the tail ends of parties or going to bed at a time that seemed more fitting for a nursing home than a college dormitory.

Favre rarely smiled, and the somber mood sometimes seemed more fitting for a player forced from the game by an injury rather than one who insisted he had no regrets at all.

In his life, Ralegh was more acquainted with sea lanes than pilgrim ways, but on the point of his expected execution, the latter must have seemed more fitting for his thoughts.

Bertone's apartment seems more fitting for a former head of state than for a priest.

It's a paranoia that seems more fitting for reporters covering characters like Vladimir Putin than the latest startup.

Michael Byers ("Even More Things in Heaven and Earth," Op-Ed, Feb. 4) says "nine planets will always seem more fitting than eight".

But the metastasis seems more fitting in the case of Gilbert — more organic, somehow, to the reflexive nature of the original project.

Of course, for those of us who grew up chanting "My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us New Pizza," nine planets will always seem more fitting than eight.