7 sentences with 'seemingly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word seemingly and other words derived from it.
• « The Spartans were unquestionably superior in land warfare, while the Athenians had a seemingly unstoppable navy. »
• « The element to note is not only the seemingly irrational nature of the boom, but also the mentality: the Dutch moneyed classes were already embracing speculative market economies, in which the value of a given commodity has almost nothing to do with what it does, but with what people are willing to spend on it. »
• « According to Freud, there are three basic areas or states that exist simultaneously in the human mind. First, part of the unconscious is the "Id" (it): the seat of pleasure drives (sexual lust, power, security, food, alcohol and other drugs, etc.) and of what might be considered "obsession": seemingly irrational desires that have nothing to do with pleasure per se (pyromania, kleptomania, or seemingly self-destructive political activity). »
• « Encouraged by the success of his research on beverage cooling, McGee took issue with a widely held but seemingly absurd idea that hot water freezes faster than cold water. To his surprise, he discovered that if he filled a mould for making ice cubes with boiling water, the water froze sooner. »
• « In these stories he created curious Chinese parables, a seemingly police narrative that turned into a nightmare, and some tales of pathetic realism. »