Sentence examples for seemingly smart from inspiring English sources

Both of these facts are illustrative in another way, too: seemingly smart people spent decades denying them.

Mack was just one of many seemingly smart players who committed a game-bending goof in the first weekend of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament.

At Ameritech, another telecommunications company he previously ran, Mr. Notebaert often conceded his mistakes and sometimes described seemingly smart decisions as mainly lucky.

They describe it as a seemingly smart idea -- selling electricity and natural gas supplies to big corporations in competition with the local utility -- undone by poor financial assumptions, suspect accounting and lax management oversight.

It's slow going because every time I think I've understood the various financial instruments that were involved in the subprime-mortgage crisis, the story pivots, and I find myself dumbfounded that so many seemingly smart people managed to behave so stupidly.

This time, the problem was that the seemingly smart ideas simply didn't fail quickly enough.

De Blasio has run to the left in this Democratic primary – seemingly a smart move in a field crowded with competitive centrists.

Dylan's public persona has always mystified observers; he's a matter of degree off for everyone — seemingly too smart or too dumb, too political or not political enough to suit people's agendas.

Gravrock stresses that exploits are less about individual devices than they are about opening up the entire network through a small and seemingly harmless smart gadget.

A poor cultural fit as well as a class action lawsuit related to the company's seemingly faulty Smart Extruder brought the high-flying company crashing down.

Armed with millions and millions of dollars for polling, consulting and paid television advertisements, political consultants seemingly convinced smart and capable office-holders like Colorado's Sen. Mark Udall to run on a very narrow platform of protecting women's right to choose.