Sentence examples for seems inflicted from inspiring English sources

And in The Easter Parade (1976), even the third-person narrative voice seems inflicted with this sense of fatalism, announcing itself in the opening sentence: Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents' divorce.

The solo served as an introduction to Ms. Ellsworth's religion for one, which is largely a vehicle for her many neuroses and a way of ordering and keeping at bay a world that has, it seems, inflicted much pain on her delicate psyche.

One factor that seems to inflict obese children is fat accumulation in the trunk area of the body.

For a brief, weird moment, it is as if the young man were likening the Knight to God, to a God whose ways we cannot know, yet whose decisions seem to inflict incomprehensible suffering on us.

· Labour MP for Peterborough Andrew Motion The history of sanctions does seem to inflict immense damage to those very people that we would be going to war to defend and I am therefore less interested in this way of dealing with the problem.

Intuitively, head-on conflicts would seem to inflict more damage than codirectional ones.

As evidenced above and in Table  1, the majority of diabetes-related SNPs seem to inflict a change in the function of the pancreatic β-cell.

That is still low by developed-country standards, but it seems to have inflicted more pain than most predicted.

And while drawing a line between the ten civilian deaths that would be acceptable and the 10,000 that wouldn't is difficult and distasteful, it seems that those inflicted thus far are at the tolerable end of that spectrum though the humanitarian problems in Baghdad and elsewhere could yet tarnish victory.So could the third mystery: Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

LePage has long been known for his controversial comments, but his most recent scandal seems to have inflicted some serious damage.

Each seems calculated to inflict at least as much pain on traditional Labour voters as on the Tory opposition.