One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy. Americans are almost as fearful of being thought eccentric as the English of not seeming like the genuine article. I once knew an Englishman who refused to go out on Easter Monday for fear of being detected in London when all the right people would be elsewhere; but when he went forth on less dangerous occasions, his get-ups were such as no American would wear to a dogfight.
Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
True worth is in being, not seeming
'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it.
With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn. . . With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent. . . Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.
There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.
You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.
It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.
Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.