Sentence examples for seems something more from inspiring English sources

Local corruption and incompetence – and, it finally seems, something more malevolent – may be at work.

No matter how promising a job seems, something more interesting or inspiring could be just around the corner.

But in Myanmar, with its layers of secret police and prison sentences of as much as 100 years for those who speak out against the government, a soccer match seems something more: an island of raucous merriment in a sea of grinding poverty and fear.

To some, this provides the detail and psychological acuity that they find lacking in most moral philosophy; to others, it seems something more properly taken up by novelists or empirical psychologists, not the business of a philosopher.

Perhaps so, but he seemed something more than an opportunist or a cynical manipulator.

In 1918 Faisal made a triumphal entry into the Syrian capital, Damascus, and for a brief heady moment Arab independence seemed something more than a mirage.

Even the Soviet Union seemed something more like the Death Star – flying overhead, ready to laser us to smithereens – than a country with people in it.

But his somewhat startled expression and pauses to find a word seemed something more than amazement at the honor that places him among science's most exalted elite.

Most important, American laws and customs were becoming more permissive, so that the prospect of reading a book began to seem something more than a promise of genteel diversion.

But for Ms. Day-Lewis, an English food writer (and the sister of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis), tarts seem something more, like a canvas for her creative palate.

Jamie changed rackets after netting a smash on the final point of the fourth game but there seemed something more fundamentally wrong with his tennis than his equipment.