Sentence examples for seeming effort from inspiring English sources

What makes us deem this good rather than bad style is that they telegraph a set of contradictory virtues: femininity, seriousness, playfulness, idiosyncrasy, glamour, ease and a lack of vanity or seeming effort that is complemented by natural beauty.

The myth is that amid the visual splendors of transcendental nature there is no "refuse" — no devastation, no collapse, no erosion, no rot; no (seeming) effort, struggle, defeat, death.

Humblebrags can gain special piquancy when their seeming effort to belittle their author also seemingly belittles others in the author's path; note the use of quotation marks at the end of a tweet from the biographer Paula Broadwell in August: "Honored and humbled to be included in @claudiachan's profiles of global 'remarkable women.' " This tweet, too: "remarkable".

When Justice Stevens did speak up, it was in a seeming effort to guide his colleagues on the Supreme Court toward what he considered to be the central argument advanced by the death row inmate in the case.

Steering a car is nothing like the natural physical coordination with one's legs: its like an out of body experience – you float without any seeming effort, and life flashes before your eyes.

The campaign's latest move seems an effort to address some of those concerns.

He grappled with each animal without exerting, it seemed, much effort.

The rest of his career so far touchingly seems an effort to regain his breath.

Mr. Obama's radio address seemed an effort to address his critics head on.

There seems little effort to challenge perspectives, broaden horizons, and see a bigger picture.

It soon seemed that efforts to limit the war might collapse altogether.