The historical record surely seemed unequivocal?
Yet there are darker societal undertones in Gogol's story too, ones that surely seemed provocative to both Shostakovich and Mr. Kentridge.
After Duane's death, it would have made sense for the group to dismantle; after Oakley's, it surely seemed imperative, if not inevitable.
Architecture surely seemed to matter that morning in December at the press conference in the Winter Garden, if only because a roomful of public officials was sitting still for a three-and-a-half-hour festival of avant-garde culture.
AMSTERDAM — In a letter to her grandmother in 1940, composed before she went into hiding here, 11-year-old Annelies Frank recorded a detail that surely seemed of little consequence at the time.
The ship surely seemed authentic enough, though, as I stepped aboard in a downpour, seeking shelter under the canvas-covered main hatch and enviously eyeing the crew in waterproof orange and yellow foul-weather gear.
— Eighteen months ago Britney Spears took the stage at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards and, it surely seemed, doused her career in lighter fluid and struck a match.
Not long ago, Mr. Stringer endured the snickers and condolences of his friends and colleagues for having put his early money on what surely seemed like the wrong horse.
