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Discover LudwigThe phrase "seems too close" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to describe a situation or feeling that a person has that something is too close or too near. For example, "The thunderstorm seems too close for comfort."
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If it seems too close to me, it's rejected".
Talk of "whipping terrorists" may sound Reaganesque at home, but overseas it seems too close to a cowboy film.
For most of the first half of this book, however, Mr. Duberman seems too close to his research.
While the appeals from both sides will do little to sway their own partisans, they could make the difference with the thousands of undecided voters, who may well determine the outcome of a race that seems too close to call.
Pleasures enjoyed by a typical baby can upset him: a mother's face seems too close, so the infant cranes away; the father's tickles may produce fear reflexes rather than laughter.
Mr. Mukasey is a respected jurist but is not well known in Washington legal circles, and some Republicans say he seems too close to Democrats who have been fierce administration critics.
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Sometimes they seemed too close, too real.
But some of the crimes seemed too close together.
For Davis this must have seemed too close to illustration.
Some fear that Germany may again come to seem too close to America.
My university in Ulm had partner schools in England and America, but England seemed too close to Germany.
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