7 sentences with “seemingly”

Nor does he reject seemingly absurd experiments.

Byzantium's main problem was that it faced a seemingly endless series of external threats.

The Spartans were unquestionably superior in land warfare, while the Athenians had a seemingly unstoppable navy.

In these stories he created curious Chinese parables, a seemingly police narrative that turned into a nightmare, and some tales of pathetic realism.

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.

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).