Not wanting to appear the Hollywood bores, they accepted.
"He's very conscious of not wanting to appear to be out of line".
Not wanting to appear racist, she entered the elevator and hugged a corner.
Many Democrats kept silent today, not wanting to appear to gloat at Republican misfortune.
"Not yet," says Ms. Salzman, not wanting to appear smug about the board's batting average.
Putin veered between wanting to appear conciliatory and retreating into hostile anti-American rhetoric.
All for the sake of impressing one another, not rocking the boat, or not wanting to appear to be impolite?
Not wanting to appear naïve -- as if I could have appeared otherwise -- I hesitated to ask questions.
He reckons refugees are paying the price for Mr Rudd's "wanting to appear more butch than Julia Gillard and more reactionary than Tony Abbott".
At the January retreat, a halfway point in the midst of these budget battles, Cantor sounded chastened, or, at least, like a man wanting to appear chastened.
Insurance company executives, personally upset by the loss of life and not wanting to appear insensitive, have been unwilling to speak publicly about rate increases.
