These seemingly concrete-set doubts impinge on even triumphant stories he recalls playing to nearly 200,000 people at a gig in Rio de Janeiro, just to tell me that he had "cunts throwing cans of Coke," at him.
The seemingly solid concrete road bounced violently, and each passing car roared decisively as it just missed grazing ours.
A seemingly windowless concrete bunker that curved around a stark internal courtyard, the house has been interpreted as a built allegory of grief and hearth.
There's a certain amount of chaos in Vlore - virtually no signs giving street names, nutty drivers, ugly and seemingly stalled concrete construction projects.
There was Pier Luigi Nervi's innovative, seemingly floating concrete dome on his stadium for the Rome Olympics, in 1960; Kenzo Tange's swooping, sculptural gymnasium for Tokyo, in 1964; Günter Behnisch and Frei Otto's canopied stadium for Munich, in 1972.
Though it is made up mostly of a fence, barbed wire and ditches, here in this urban environment it takes the form of a high, seemingly endless concrete wall.
Central to their message is a refusal to accept what has become of the communal landscape, as exemplified by this, the Laurel Shopping Center: a seemingly endless concrete U of shops that curves around the dominant aesthetic offering of a massive parking lot, where our car is now anchored like a small vessel in an asphalt bay.
In the secretary of state's words, the long Middle East impasse seemed to find expression: a Palestinian leader, described at once as responsible for terrorism and central to the quest for peace, facing an Israeli leader tempted to give Israel's military might free rein but held back by an American administration with many good intentions but seemingly few concrete proposals.
But residents were stunned to learn that two-thirds of the 185 people killed in the city were in two more modern, seemingly solid concrete office buildings that fell down with the shaking.
