Sentence examples for seems obligatory from inspiring English sources

At this point, public testimony from both Kavanaugh and Ford seems obligatory.

It seems obligatory to cite the childhood challenges faced by successful black people.

It seems obligatory lately to assess the effect of just about everything on the economy, so let's think this through.

Dancing seems obligatory (a sign on the wall entreats customers to refrain from two-stepping atop the jukebox).

Even when they are campaigning in their districts these days, a tech photo opportunity no longer seems obligatory.

His ship is in fact carrying a more complex cargo: Jenny Halliburtt, a girl disguised as a boy, as seems obligatory in seafaring tales.

The fact that they lived separate lives and had little to talk about made the sex start to seem obligatory.

The apologies have often seemed obligatory, as the men offer excuses for their behavior or cast doubt on their accusers, experts said.

The play is a bit too long and has stretches that seem obligatory as all of the mid-20th-century's demons are dutifully invoked.

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There are annoyances: the onscreen text that sometimes spells out Holmes's thoughts; the are-they-gay jokes that now seem obligatory in every show involving male colleagues; a creeping moralism about Holmes's shortcomings.