What are their upside for seeming like a human being?
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My fans grow with me versus it seeming like I'm just flexing.
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Because I was so self-conscious about seeming like an attention-seeker.
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He wrapped up almost seeming like he was trying to recruit the audience.
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Looking for a way to impress your boss without seeming like an ass kisser?
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They lie on the bed facing one another, seeming like they're about to kiss.
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And his unconventional personal story keeps him from seeming like just another ambitious énarque.
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The question is whether he can take advantage without seeming like he is taking advantage.
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" — Joel Anderson, BuzzFeed News reporter "Bernie was just better at seeming like a human being.
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Instead of coming across as concerned, you risk seeming like a busybody or a tattletale.
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Women are also judged more harshly than men for seeming like typical politicians, the research shows.
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And he knew that seeming like a genteel "problem solver" was one way to get it.
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Others criticized them for seeming like poor winners on the field after beating Thailand, 13-0.
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" That blend, Mr. Melfi said, helped keep "Hidden Figures" from seeming like "an old-fogey movie.
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If they mention the mistake, how can I play it off without seeming like I'm completely unhirable?
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But roads and other infrastructure to support such development lagged, often seeming like afterthoughts to private construction.
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Obviously, if Uber stops seeming like a reasonable alternative to yellow taxis, people will use it less.
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There are some things that you simply can't complain about without seeming like a complete and total ass.
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When did it start seeming like people were finding the record and connecting with what you were doing?
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What elevated the clothes, and kept them from seeming like props from a Macklemore video, is Italian craftsmanship.
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Somehow, though, Trump's own endorsement of Strange ended up seeming like an unimportant footnote in the Alabama race.
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American Horror Story: Roanoke is already seeming like the string that ties all previous seasons of the show together.
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Despite seeming like an extravagant thing to auction, it's not a far cry from the Revenant star's past contributions.
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Despite seeming like a ghost town, Facebook still updated it with a retweet-like Relasso and camera uploads today.
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I looked back at Jen and considered how to approach this conversation without seeming like a self-important tool.
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At the risk of seeming like a Los Angeles caricature, I confess that I also walk to be seen.
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At a certain point, however, Musk the showman stopped being cute and started seeming like the world's most annoying bullshitter.
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If companies can send their messages in a natural way without seeming like an ad, it can be very effective.
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Right now, it's seeming like we'll have to wait until the end of this year or the beginning of 2019.
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But that's assuming Phase Two hasn't killed everyone first, which is seeming like less and less of a safe bet.
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Seeming like a much-diluted descendant of the plays of Charles Mee, the show aims for a kind of surreality.
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The chemistry between Lucy and Joshua is also gratifying, with both seeming like fully conceived characters rather than passive stereotypes.
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Niall's greatest charm, and the primary allure of his 2017 album Flicker, is instead seeming like an ordinary, likable guy.
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's former president, has also wavered, Conn said, sometimes seeming like she's for it, sometimes against.
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Jon became both the Lord Commander and the King in the North despite it seeming like he has no birthright claim.
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Do you answer honestly and risk seeming like a dud, or laugh awkwardly and answer that sometimes your cakes don't rise?
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The actor's work teeters on the border between meaningfulness and incomprehensibility, seeming like a parody of the stereotypical, unhinged performance artist.
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And how do you put an official ethical system in place without it seeming like you're telling everyone how to behave?
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But rather than seeming like the backing band at a reunion tour, this youthful company appears whipped up by the occasion.
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So no, I never worried about seeming like I was writing something frivolous, or that I would be treated as frivolous.
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On the one hand, these microscopic organisms are impossibly cute, seeming like tiny blimps that bumble around harmlessly on their stubby legs.
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We already know employee turnover is concerning at our tech and creative companies, with one-year tenure seeming like the going average.
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He is jumping in the race very late and will tick off some voters for seeming like an opportunistic Johnny-come-lately.
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I had to source a supplier that would produce my recipe without it seeming like this was a recipe for money paper.
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Her husband said all the staff they were interacting with were doing their best, despite seeming like they had very little direction.
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But then again, not seeming like a self-absorbed sociopath is 75 percent of the way to actually being a normal person.
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And McConnell seeming like he's going to get his way, makes the acquittal of the president he's predicted all the more likely.
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But these once-renegade moves are now at risk of seeming like their own orthodoxy, prime targets for would-be operatic disrupters.
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With co-workers, there's a complex art to seeming like you care about whatever they're talking about when you really couldn't care less.
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The developers behind Detective Pikachu embraced the idea of seeming like a novelty spinoff Pokémon game because they realized they couldn't escape it.
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If your biggest selling point is a triumphant march to the recent past, seeming like a limping vintage model is a big problem.
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Costell and Paul's relationship started out as seeming like it was all for clicks, said Relph, but then it developed into something real.
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As a physician, I know a pneumonia diagnosis can vary greatly in seriousness—from seeming like a bad cold to being life-threatening.
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We've been fighting the fight for size acceptance for what seems like eons, and it's recently seeming like things are finally paying off.
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Instead of seeming like a moment of catharsis or character development, though, it feels like a forced attempt to make the film feel contemporary.
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Its five leading roles — three for women, two for men — are marvelously distinct, while never seeming like copies of other roles in the repertory.
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The Bachelorette star told DeMario Jackson to kick rocks and bounce the moment it started seeming like he was playing games other than basketball.
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But over time, he said, the word has come to exonerate the driver, too, with "accident" seeming like a lightning strike, beyond anyone's control.
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"You have to be very careful in not seeming like you're dictating to people what they should do with their lives," Dr. Fauci said.
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The issue, of course, is how to protest without seeming like a shitty employee who just wants to goof off all day in pajamas.
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He can push hard against the rhythm or abandon a piece's harmony altogether without seeming like he's gotten his hands dirty or gone overboard.
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Trump has been slammed with negative coverage over the failure of the House GOP's health bill, and we know he hates seeming like a loser.
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No One goes from feeling completely helpless to seeming like she might slaughter everybody in Westeros just by imagining it, and that's all on Williams.
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They thought we were actors, hired to play Josh, Mike and Heather in order to keep the whole thing from seeming like a snuff film.
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I'm doing so under a pseudonym to protect my anonymity, and to protect AA from the possibility of seeming like I speak for the program.
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Blame the three beers, blame how easily I can be charmed, but the restaurant stopped seeming like a money-grab and more like a noble endeavor.
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But with every day seeming like it's bringing a new announcement of a new show coming to Apple, the question remains: where will we watch it?
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In the meantime, at the risk of committing the most grievous online sin and seeming like I care, I invite you to follow me on Instagram.
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She's ubiquitous without it ever seeming like she takes it for granted, a little bit under the radar while still being completely on top of it.
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But the minivan is now relegated to a small portion of the market, despite seeming like the sum of everything most people want in a car.
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That makes it very hard for the administration to sell its big-picture vision without seeming like it's being condescending or missing the point in practice.
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Where they're at: Suddenly in a tight battle for first in the Atlantic, after seeming like they had the division on lockdown for most of the season.
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And the film leans hard into dark comedy rather than outright horror, which saves it from seeming like technophobic scaremongering or a "kids these days" moral panic.
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He stayed away from addressing whether or not the Cubs would actually win, seeming like he doesn't want to curse his team any further than they already are.
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Part of the Bey-Jay dynamic has always rested on them seeming like an incongruous match, and on each artist keeping the details of their romantic relationship private.
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As the 21st century progresses, a new era of aviation seems to be upon us, with flights powered by solar and biofuels no longer seeming like science fiction.
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Billionaires and tech titans "who successfully influence politics and policy have a public persona of being relatable and not seeming like they're soulless," the former Obama aide explained.
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There's so much on your doorstep that can add activity to your lifestyle without it seeming like you're making any effort at all, go out and enjoy it.
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I want to know if you think other artists are afraid to approach serious topics like immigration for fear of seeming like they are appropriating something extremely serious?
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She's never asked us to bow down to her greatness — for all her range and emotional intelligence, perhaps her greatest talent is still seeming like an ordinary person.
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What has happened is a technology has become so thoroughly ubiquitous that it's stopped seeming like a type of good or gadget but instead is closer to an appendage.
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Trump has therefore spent the past two months trying to alter the ban without seeming like he's flip-flopping, but has only succeeded in making the ban completely incoherent.
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"The failure to spend adequately is what's creating and what's increasingly seeming like ... secular stagnation in much of the industrial world," said Summers, a former Obama administration economic advisor.
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Ponzinibbio met Neil Magny in the main event and despite this seeming like a decent matchup on paper, Ponzinibbio didn't let Magny into the fight for even a moment.
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That was the predictable outcome, but the point was that McConnell offered just enough for Democrats to agree to reopen the government without it seeming like a total capitulation.
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The Sun City Girls also drew on its members' travels around the world, their songs sometimes seeming like dilettante approximations of West African guitar music or Southeast Asian pop.
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The Dursleys' home was ranked eighth on the Porch movie home list, with the cupboard under the stairs seeming like a good place to live for some survey-takers.
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Gorham's Cave is on Gibraltar's rough-hewed eastern coast: a tremendous opening at the bottom of the sheer face of the Rock, shadowy and hallowed-seeming, like a cathedral.
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Do I risk seeming like the office Grinch because I don't enjoy engaging in or listening to stories about babies, pregnancies, children and bodily functions on a daily basis?
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It's impossible to imagine this kind of imagery — KKK hoods, Nazi swastikas, and white supremacy— leveled at any other candidate without it seeming like a gross exaggeration or extremely disingenuous.
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They're genuinely exciting, and the last half-hour of the season is a solid example of a series seeming like it's not going to go there, then ultimately going there.
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In an industry where referencing — of other cultures, of other historical styles — runs rife, Watanabe's pieces have the rare, almost unique attribute of seeming like stuff we've never seen before.
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If you're interested in writing TV shows that have themes and ideas and morals ... it's going to end up seeming like you [were] writing about the times you lived in.
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"If you're interested in writing TV shows that have themes and ideas and morals ... it's going to end up seeming like you [were] writing about the times you lived in."
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Our definition of what it means to be a "working stiff" has changed so much in such a short time that The Belko Experiment ends up seeming like a period piece.
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Somehow we got on the topic of kids and it ended up seeming like our "time frame" was about kids when it was actually about finding a new place to live.
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Undecided voters seem to be worried about his temperament, so Trump may try to convince them that he's presidential material by not seeming like the completely unqualified candidate that he is.
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For now, these are laughably melodramatic statements, but if North Korea's nuclear and missiles programs continue to improve at the same pace, those proclamations will quickly stop seeming like empty boasts.
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But it's still thrillingly acted, with Moss's character (a New Zealand detective) increasingly seeming like an open wound, and the story's treatment of issues stemming from adoption is particularly well done.
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He also has a habit of seeming like he's finally "gotten it together," putting on a blinder against a decent opponent, and then looking completely out of place in his next fight.
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He added another piece of flatbread on top—presumably to keep maggots from jumping into my eyes, which was suddenly seeming like a real liability—and my Spartacus moment was upon me.
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She vacillates between seeming like a victim and acting demonic as hell—she keeps using magic to kill people, but they probably deserve it, so it seems fine to any rational viewer.
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If she tries to take the high road and wag her finger at Trump too hard, she'll fall into another trap — seeming like the derogatory "angry feminist" who can't take a joke.
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At the end of the movie, it was revealed that Timothy Hutton was not actually paralyzed and used the wheelchair for the exact purpose of seeming like someone who couldn't commit murders.
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They may not always identify the arousal to visual stimuli they might consider to be unusual, unconventional, or too kinky, in fear of it seeming like something's wrong with them, she adds.
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He says you have to find a gentile to help, and asking one to come inside your house to turn off a light is difficult to do without seeming like a sociopath.
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At this point it is seeming like the game will come down to a turnover generating points rather than either offense suddenly waking up, though with either squad points could suddenly accumulate quickly.
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Being told that one character was "more interested in protecting the light than she was in seeming like a hero" is a reminder about wielding power well that feels deeply truthful and necessary today.
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The pretense of it even seeming like a mouth doesn't even make sense anymore, it's like someone opened Dragić in Photoshop and just smear-tooled his face to within an inch of its life.
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Showing up, looking good, being clever and seeming like you really care in all these different spaces can feel like a video game set to the hardest level, except you only get one life.
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After weeks of it seeming like Peter Weber's Bachelor season had 50 women remaining, half of whom were Miss Iowa at some point, going into episode seven, there are only six Bachelor contestants left.
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It's mostly a funny-strange curiosity in the careers of both women, but for Oh, it has the additional resonance of seeming like a response to parts in which she was cast as the friend.
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As you and everyone you know become less engaged with Facebook, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pushing a new initiative around Groups, the News Feed suddenly seeming like its time has come and gone.
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In retrospect, I wish I had done a bit more reporting before I tweeted it, even though it ended up seeming like what went down was pretty close to [what] that source initially told me.
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If you haven't heard it yet, scroll to the bottom of this story and listen to it right now, and then come back to us, because this praise will immediately stop seeming like an exaggeration.
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My hunch is that someone out of left field will win, but considering that Bob Dylan won last year, simply seeming like a classic Nobel Laureate is a pretty good thing to be in 2017.
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Despite the Hail Mary pass of bringing a love interest back into a flailing season — and despite "Everlasting" seeming like a cautionary tale for "UnREAL" itself — Adam's return neatly weaves together this season's thinner threads.
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"Once I did that, I think it freed something, in that it allowed me to write how I thought my uncles spoke — without it seeming like a rip-off of Pinter or Mamet," he said.
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"Most clinicians want much more guidance, especially on how to communicate uncertainty without seeming like they don't know what they're doing," said Dr. Mary Politi, an associate professor at the Washington University School of Medicine.
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And all of a sudden you got to the financial crisis of 210, a lot of those things stopped seeming like the responsible life choices we had all been told we were supposed to make.
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It's unclear why Uma's "rehabilitation" involves being buckled to a lone carousel horse, floated into the air, and surrounded by increasingly disturbing holographic video spheres, but the videos offer character backstory without seeming like clunky exposition.
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Watch Juul take off in Google searches here: Politics rarely make for pleasant conversation, but this year feels especially charged, with everything from gun control to international policy seeming like it's going to upend civil society.
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Highlights include encouraging Missy to date guys back-to-back and lie about when it happened to avoid seeming like a cheater, and making Connie uncomfortable with her sexual advances by licking her arm and ear.
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And, at least when it comes to the taco transformation, it is counting on the bottomless modern desire to make things ironic — unless for so many there is beauty in seeming like a popular Mexican fast food.
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In the "Weekend Update" portion of the show, the comedians skewered the former first lady for gloating after the debate, for not having any black friends and for seeming like she was on drugs at the debate.
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The "double bind" means that women must project both warmth and authority in their body language: Smile, but not to the point of seeming like a pushover; take up space, but make sure you're not physically intimidating others.
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From Twitter to op-ed pages, many have questioned whether men's burgeoning new fear of seeming like a predator will lead male bosses to limit the amount of time they spend getting to know their young women employees.
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While some women can be criticized for seeming like they care more about becoming famous than finding love on The Bachelor, Bekah Martinez and Kendall Long both agree that Lauren Burnham's heart was always in the right place.
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That she turns the gun on Lydia after seeming like she might shoot June is meant to suggest, I guess, that even those who have drunk the Gilead Kool-Aid know who the real oppressors are in the end.
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In high school, it stopped seeming like a joke: Zemser was the valedictorian of his class at Channel View School for Research, a star running back on the football squad and a regular volunteer at the local soup kitchen.
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Lil Nas X was invited to appear at a BuzzFeed event alongside Buttigieg to recite the lyrics for "Old Town Road," but the singer reportedly refused to participate in order to avoid seeming like he was endorsing the candidate.
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And I've even started to like the stuff about Mr. Robot and Elliot seeming like they're glitching out, because it's giving us a little insight into how Elliot can slowly but surely erase information that's vital to his existence.
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Bringing back Gervais to pretty much run through the same shtick he pulled out a few years ago felt anticlimactic after three straight years of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey tackling Hollywood's worst qualities while also not seeming like total jerks.
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Rather than citing endemic liberalism, political scientist Kenneth Wald has argued this to be largely the product of national Democrats seeming like the party that supports the separation of church and state since roughly the era of the New Deal.
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Later-stage startups have been hit with markdowns from institutional investors and there has been a bit of a lack of high-profile IPOs — with it seeming like companies like Uber and Airbnb are in no rush to get out the door.
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However, despite it seeming like Lisa, 58, would not make the ceremony, Cartwright's mother, Sherri, shared a photo of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and husband Ken to Instagram on Friday, declaring that they had both made it to Kentucky.
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Fans have been debating Miquela's "true" identity since her account was created in 2016 because, despite seeming like a standard millennial "IT" girl on Instagram — with blunt bangs, tiny sunglasses, and "woke" politics — Miquela is very obviously (to most people) not human.
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And while the movie starts out seeming like it might be about unconventional families and communal living, situations in which everyone is given an equivalent voice, it's fascinating to watch the varying shades of wisdom and foolishness emerge in all the characters.
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Her character, Donna, began the series seeming like just another cable drama wife — constantly picking on her husband to keep him from doing anything fun — but has gradually revealed herself to be the series' soul, especially as she's pursued her own ambitions.
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But this messy, indulgent production instead gives us Ms. Griffin unfiltered, which has the benefit of seeming like a backstage gossip session, albeit one that lost steam as it headed past the 60-minute mark and she dabbed sweat from her forehead.
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On one hand, there's the risk of wanting to push too far and write this evolution off as a mere discovery due to technology; on the other, there's the risk of seeming like the crazy mentors of a concept of instrumental music impossible to implement.
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But because of the way the cameras were capturing the evening, it was rare for Clinton to have a shot where Trump wasn't wandering about in the background, or seeming like he was going to reach out and tap her on the shoulder to unnerve her.
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Above all, the movie relies and thrives on Harboe, who is scrutinized, in closeup, with a vigilance that even Bergman might applaud, and who has the blessed knack of seeming like a perfectly capable adult in one sequence and then, in the next, like a vulnerable child.
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Photograph by Amanda Hakan for The New Yorker That evening, the barbecued carrot, among the small plates, was too intriguing to pass up; listed with mustard, sour cherries, and country ham, like a Kentucky picnic, it ended up seeming like little more than carrots with barbecue sauce.
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But while many directors here stick to the classics, often in productions so radical that they end up seeming like entirely different plays, a crop of brand new works by playwright-directors is lighting up stages in Berlin and Frankfurt at the beginning of the theater season.
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Yo-Yo's limitation is actually the coolest part of her depiction, and allows for some quirky action sequences — like when she cuffs the entire corrupt police department — without it seeming like she's too powerful for the universe (since she has to keep returning to her starting point).
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The first episode is set in the present (where Cintra falls and Geralt is tasked with finding Cirie), but most of the action in each subsequent episode (save for the finale) takes place in the past, despite the show seeming like a sequential, quest-driven narrative.
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Oz got to play the serious doctor in front of a larger and more engaged audience, and Trump got to subtly push the question of Clinton's health without seeming like he was being transparently political, even though he was—all without revealing any meaningful information about his own health.
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The Rock is the kind of character who bleeds sincerity so fully that he can deliver lines like "The island will provide, brother" and "When the fate of the world is at stake, it becomes my business" with earnest urgency, without ever seeming like a caricature of himself.
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At first blush, this fact-based production threatens to be a tad too familiar -- seeming like the real-life version of Michael Mann's "Manhunter," in which the brilliant profiler pays a price for his ability to look into the mind and soul of a killer, while chafing at bureaucratic blindness.
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"I was so worried about it seeming like I was writing a 'Poor me!' story that we went out of our way to bring out all of Mae's flaws and things that make her incredibly annoying and intense to deal with," Martin, who had never acted prior to Feel Good, explains.
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The rookie quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles got off to a 363-0 start, and had not thrown an interception until his final pass of Week 4, but that is now seeming like a fluke as he has 11 interceptions on the season, including six over his last three games.
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So if we don't see a direct challenger soon, the real question might be whether casual VR fans or newcomers think the Oculus Quest's design is exciting and different enough to make it feel like a new kind of headset, or if it ends up seeming like a variation on the Oculus Rift.
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As a result, the end of this movie ties everything up in knots, first seeming like a relatively straightforward denunciation of collectivist economics, then switching over to a satire of individualist systems, before ultimately landing on the idea that Jesus Christ himself was, at the very least, a bit of a socialist.
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How do you get to that idea that the government should work very closely with technology companies without seeming like you're doing what people think is happening in China, where it's a too close relationship, which I think was broken by the Snowden revelations in many ways, and it's still healing, that.
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"You can now talk about the risks of A.I. without seeming like you are lost in science fiction," said Allan Dafoe, a director of the governance of A.I. program at the Future of Humanity Institute, a research center at the University of Oxford that explores the risks and opportunities of advanced technology.
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When we moved into the new space two years ago, I took a lead on the design, and thought about how I could make the space feel like an institution that's existed for a really long time: What elements from Chinese restaurants can I bring here without seeming like we're appropriating from the culture?
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LOS ANGELES — Before Mac DeMarco bought a lovely blue home with a pool on a quiet hill here in Silver Lake — the first real adult spoils of a surprising career built on seeming like an affable deadbeat — he gave out his exact address to fans, not exactly expecting them to show up in droves.
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Lee (Casey Affleck) walks through the film seeming like he might get into a fight with anybody who talks to him, and by the time the film reveals why he is the way he is (like many Sad White Person Movies, Manchester by the Sea is something of an emotional mystery), you're more than ready for the cataclysm.
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If Democrats don't back away from their oversight responsibility (some may fear seeming like the Republicans who moved forward with charges against Bill Clinton that a majority of Congress did not think rose to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors), then the challenge will be to handle the investigations in a deliberate and methodical fashion.
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How he fits: The Browns traded into this spot when the Texans selected Deshaun Watson (the Browns also received a 22016 first-round pick), and with Myles Garrett seeming like a sure thing at defensive end, they took a chance on Peppers, giving them two of the most intriguing defensive players in college football last season.
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FISCHER: IT MAY CHANGE MY INTERNAL CALCULUS BUT IN TERMS OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO WHICH IS TO SAY WHAT WILL WE DO IF "A" OR "B," IT DOESN'T CHANGE VERY MUCH THE THINGS WE LOOK AT. LIESMAN: THE FED HAS TAKEN A WAIT AND SEE APPROACH TO FISCAL POLICY, IS THAT SEEMING LIKE A BETTER BET NOW GIVEN WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK?
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It starts out seeming like Emmet is going to have to save his friends from the first movie from the evil invaders of the "Sis-star System" (get it?????), but it turns out that Emmet just might be the one in need of saving, that his quest up the staircase and into the new system might be about him realizing that others have valid points of view, too.
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But as it unfurled onscreen, with that glorious march of angled, scrolling text, I instinctively sensed how surprisingly similar it felt in spirit to the period Hong Kong epics to which I'd become accustomed -- the Force seeming like an homage to the qigong magic used by my familiar cinematic martial arts masters, the light saber combat a slightly less high-flying version of the duels between the swordsmen I knew from Chinatown screens.
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