Sentence examples for seems ridden from inspiring English sources

Except that Rusbridger himself seems ridden with neuroses about his wealth.

He seems guilt-ridden and unhappy enough to be contemplating suicide.

Mr. West, in turn, quotes another and later entry that to him seems like "guilt-ridden stuff".

Since it is 100 years ago this week that Britain entered the first world war – and at the moment the world seems to be especially ridden with conflict – it's an opportune moment to reflect on why human beings seem to be unable to stop fighting wars.

Anyway, the narrative of a scandal-ridden presidency seems to be evaporating as we speak.

The comparison with gun-ridden Baltimore seems fanciful, but Norway has a history with heroin.

This group, which oversees the internet's domain-name system, seems even more conflict-ridden than the World Trade Organisation.

The story of "Look to Windward" involves another species, the Chelgrians, descendants of fiercely predatory creatures whose caste-ridden society seems prone to violence yet also produces art of the highest order.

Once again, as in Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm, the Taiwanese Ang Lee shows himself sensitive to the language and culture of a particular time and place, an uncommon thing in movies by foreigners working in Hollywood today where the cliché-ridden repartee seems to balloon from characters' mouths in comic-strip fashion.

Now 44, married with no children, Mr. Vann seems the opposite of gloom-ridden.

In short, our woe-ridden world suddenly seems to be dance crazed.