Sentence examples for seems wasted from inspiring English sources

There is hardly any dialogue in the film and not one word seems wasted.

His syntax is so rigorously constructed that not a word, a breath, a letter, even, seems wasted.

Set designs are courtesy of Nathan Crowley, who created sprawling sets for two Batman films, but here he seems wasted.

If we dress up, there must be others to see us or our work seems wasted — no one wears a tuxedo at home.

But the drama of suspending the structures from above doesn't read clearly enough in the design, and the effort seems wasted.

John Kelly, he of the Joni Mitchell voice, seems wasted in the small role of Anton Saitz's former employee, although he sings briefly, bringing a welcome, eerie hush to the show for a moment or two.

Most of it has seemed wasted.

She remembers that her mother seemed wasted and frightened, and that she whispered to Ailie, "he twists me".

For the past fortnight, every moment not spent listening to the Bon Iver record, For Emma, Forever Ago, has seemed wasted.

Elsewhere in the year's crowded output, Martin Scorsese kept the tension high during Shutter Island, but his expertise seemed wasted on the thriller's creaky plot.

He said he'd fought in the 1980-88 Iraq war, his brother was a martyr, and now his youth seemed wasted and the nation's sacrifice in vain.