Sentence examples for seemed unable to avoid from inspiring English sources

He concluded: "Participants who exhibited the most delay were not just 'better' at self-control, but in a sense they seemed unable to avoid it.

(The logical problem here is that, for a man who wants to get beyond the tyranny of sex, Houellebecq seems unable to avoid endlessly representing it).

Motor theories and other action-based theories give a plausible account of some of attention's instances, but there are limitations that such theories seem unable to avoid: Since movement of the eyes, or of the limbs, is always movement to a location motor theories will struggle to account for the allocation of attention on the basis of anything other than location.

On the campaign trail and back in Washington, D.C., Graham seems unable to avoid the topic of his love life.

His mother seemed unable to cope.

United Nations peacekeepers seemed unable to hold the ring.

The man seemed unable to believe his bad luck.

He seemed unable to imagine a meaning for the word.

But then Ramsay seemed unable to let go.

But he seemed unable to control the spreading violence.

The Americans seemed unable to slow them down.