Sentence examples for seems unequal from inspiring English sources

The effort still seems unequal to the task.

But he seems unequal to the sterner exigencies of war, and his attempted parallels with Greece's great heritage (the commanding officer finds solace in a compendium of Greek myths) are drained of all subtlety by footnotes elucidating mythological figures as familiar as King Midas and the Furies.

In the U.S., Duc's most famous echoer ("imitator" seems unequal to so fearless an act), though not his only one, was Norman Morrison, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, who doused himself in kerosene and lit a match outside Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's Pentagon office in 1965.

On the surface, the two organizations might seem unequal foes.

Purely causal accounts of meaning or reference seem unequal to the task.

The nuclear bargain has become hopelessly one-sided, and the instruments created to sustain that bargain seem unequal to the task.

"Evil" has become the word we apply to perpetrators who we're both unable and unwilling to do anything to repair, and for whom all of our mechanisms of justice seem unequal: it describes the limits of what malevolence we're able to bear.

Then in some fashion, it would seem that by attending to its beauty Equality could seem other than Equality and thus seem unequal.

Even the Justices seem unequal to the task of slowing down history.

It seems very unequal when you watch Bushmen divide the kill, yet it is their system, and in the end no person eats more than the other.

A favorite of the Pentagon, Mr. Chalabi nevertheless seems patently unequal to rescuing the country glimpsed in the film's many images shot through the windows of moving cars.