seeming

Infinitive complement

• come: The Pictures are brillient, with the plants seeming to come alive from the page.
• suggest: Paul seeming to suggest that Unicode support is something that should be in applications and not the OS.
• notice: He advanced over the platform, not seeming to notice my presence.
• want: Have you noticed how people often speak without really seeming to want to get a message across?
• know: The Edinburgh exhibition took ambition one stage further in its labels, by seeming to know what prehistoric people said to each other.

Modifies a noun

• paradox: Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say.
• impossibility: I already mentioned the seeming political impossibility of inducing first world citizens to lower their impact on the world.
• contradiction: To me the appeal was the music itself, for us the whole image with all its seeming contradictions came along later.
• inability: With a seeming inability to rest; to stop what they're doing.
• indifference: That sums up the conventional view and explains the seeming indifference of many central banks to this issue.
• reluctance: Some persons told their stories with seeming reluctance, some with candor and sincerity, some with obvious embellishments or deletions.

Modifying Another Word

• ever: Ever seeming on the increase are the Magpies in the area, especially the Park.
• never: It's a case of never seeming to be in the mood to just go out, looking for things to take pictures of.
• often: Even at his best, Willis followed a formula, often seeming to cheat his organs out of interesting possibilities.
• always: They have an annoying trait of always seeming to produce more cockerels than hens which makes them expensive to breed.
• even: Through Christ we are " more than conquerors " because even seeming defeat can be turned around by God into victory!
• all: Sorry to drone on and not to show you any pictures, but it is all seeming a bit surreal at the moment.

Used with adjective complement

• avoid: We need to keep doing research, become better informed and avoid seeming like a bunch of " Whingeing Miss the boaters " .
• end: It isn't a bad commentary, but in comparison to Stallone's it ends up seeming a little flat.