Transposed to the stage, the character seems purpose-built for Maggie Smith, who can outdo any performer when it comes to exuding crackpot hauteur.
For years, when I remembered Doug, his act had seemed purpose enough, and the Marine Corps honored him for the sacrifice, too.
Like all of Swift's narrators, she talks the way that people actually talk - sometimes to no seeming purpose - and our expectations are slowly flattened by this, until something more interesting begins to emerge.
It is not uncommon for humans to find themselves with the intuition that random, unplanned, unexplained accident just couldn't produce the order, beauty, elegance, and seeming purpose that we experience in the natural world around us.
But the Weyerhaeuser headquarters seem purpose-built, rhetorically and materially, for one of Seattle's growing companies.
She performs this with fair success, thanks to legs that seem purpose-built for winding around waists and the un-self-conscious narcissism that goes with them.
Indeed, with their short daily entries, reader feedback and links to the net, blogs seem purpose-built for creating episodic stories.
Read the review In the same way that Irvine Welsh's dialogue in Trainspotting made a seamless transition to the stage, so the ribald language of Alan Warner's The Sopranos seemed purpose-built for performance.
A lot of today's trap hits seem purposed for a few distinct functions.
