Sentence examples for seemed visionary from inspiring English sources

Vodafone's mobile-only model, which once seemed visionary, began to look outdated, as the industry embraced "convergence" between fixed-line, mobile, broadband and television services.

Notions of using the Constitution to protect private choice on intimate matters such as contraception, abortion and sexual privacy or preference would have seemed visionary.

Suddenly, the world caught up with Willie Nelson, and by sticking to his guns, he now seemed visionary rather than stubborn.

Plenty of European Union policies seemed visionary, or even reckless, when first suggested, but have come to be accepted with the passage of time: the abolition of frontier controls, the establishment of a single currency, even the admission of relatively poor countries such as Spain and Portugal in the 1980s or Poland today.Visionary leadership is all very well if the statesmen get it right.

A seeming visionary, Pang persuades a pair of desperate bandits (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau) to join him in fighting the rebels, and the three swear a blood oath.

In this era of relentless focus on the economic value of the creative industries the approach taken by the Conservative government of the 1980s seems visionary.

Even the green "oasi," or panoramic oasis that the founder planted in the mountains surrounding the factory — and which Paolo's sister, Laura, now tends — seems visionary in a world that has finally come to care about its planet.

Watery reflections can make settings seem visionary, and the core of the exhibition calls attention to this in examples by Minor White emphasizing mystical spatial ambiguities, by Daniel Jones featuring magical blendings of light and texture, and by Chip Forelli, revealing uncanny simultaneous experiences with alternating haze and hard-edged clarity.

My guess is that it will now seem visionary.

As a white blimp floated overhead, illuminated from within, an occasional sheep would raise its head to gaze at it in a way that seemed almost visionary.

As a result, Jefferson's diplomatic overtures to establish a market for American tobacco and to reopen French ports to whale oil produced meagre results, his efforts to create an alliance of American and European powers to contest the terrorism of the Barbary pirates proved stillborn, and his vision of open markets for all nations, a world without tariffs, seemed excessively visionary.