The walk back to town after the performance, passing through evergreens beside a wide rushing stream, with stars seemingly close at hand amid the cool night air, was a tonic.
Yet the fiery conclusion of all of creation, so greatly feared and seemingly near at hand, never quite arrives.
I saw tiny clusters of lights in the distance and, seemingly closer at hand, on the left side of the freeway, a service island glowing in the surrounding dark.
Yesterday, as Mr. Li's son, a freshman at the University of Connecticut, and other family members tried to arrange an emergency visa so his wife could attend the funeral, they were outraged by another loss, this one seemingly at the hands of the criminal justice system.
Scenes roll by of villages massacred, nuns raped and murdered, children maimed and tortured and politicians assassinated, all seemingly at the hands of soldiers trained by the School of the Americas -- as almost everyone outside the bureaucracy continues to call it -- or under the leadership of its graduates.
Yet despite extensive stage-managing and with a seemingly simple task at hand, the Labour leader still struggled in his bid to look normal and back in touch with the general public.
Several members of Parliament expressed skepticism over Murdoch's claims, noting how "incurious" he would have been and "cavalier" in overseeing payments without seemingly consequential information at hand.
The problem at hand was seemingly intractable.
As with any cable documentary series, where budgets are tight to nonexistent, the images can be repetitious or seemingly unrelated to the events at hand.
While past job seekers could expect questions that had obvious right and wrong answers ("Do you get angry easily?"), today's tests include bizarre questions seemingly unrelated to the job at hand ("Do you understand why stars twinkle?").
