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The 69-year-old looked as if he was a prophet of a progressive future while the middle-aged Blairites looked as if they were locked in a neo-liberal past.
Everything looked as if it had worked according to plan.
She looked as if she'd been out in the sun.
That morning, Yasser looked as if he hadn't slept much.
It looked as if he were walking on black ice.
So it looked as if Mr. Trudeau had achieved success.
He looked as if he was ready for another break.
He paused, but looked as if he welcomed my question.
It looked as if immigrants had moved into the neighborhood.
It certainly looked as if it was doing the job.
It sometimes looked as if that might be the case.
But it looked as if what he had was mono.
She looked as if she were deleting herself from a picture.
And it looked as if there were more additions to come.
The walls looked as if they had been hosed with blood.
It looked as if this would be an ugly, personal debate.
It looked as if she could head out for another lap.
At first, it looked as if Brown was out of bounds.
At the meeting, it looked as if the development would proceed.
This looked as if it could be from a movie set.
And it looked as if whatever it was was getting better.
It almost looked as if Simmons had jumped off a trampoline.
It looked as if it were making a face at him.
The arm looked as if it had been sprayed with buckshot.
It looked as if a wrecking ball had been swung through.
To Ghazala it looked as if her son had been tortured.
He looked as if he were in awe of his accomplishment.
The phone cords looked as if a sailor had coiled them.
At times, it looked as if the schedule caught up to them.
For a while, it looked as if the plan was going well.
Last year's "Split" looked as if it would be a turning point.
And by October last year it looked as if they were right.
They looked as if they were a hole punched in the sky.
It looked as if either my pocketbook or my back would suffer.
This election, it looked as if that candidate would be Ted Cruz.
It looked as if I'd just stuck my finger in a socket.
Some of the exteriors looked as if they were about to collapse.
It looked as if they were hoisting shots in a stiff wind.
It looked as if a piece of the moon had dropped there.
At first glance he looked as if he could be idly daydreaming.
It looked as if he were trying to peel the skin off.
For a while, it looked as if Palmer might steal the tournament.
His first shot looked as if it hit squarely in his chest.
And the key looked as if it would fit another safe-deposit box.
It looked as if Seacrest might obtain the great Kardashian scoop of 2017.
For a frightening week, it looked as if Mr Erdogan's sensitivities would prevail.
An observer said it looked as if the president was meeting the pope.
And for two periods, it looked as if he would achieve that objective.
All those coats that looked as if they weighed more than she did?
She also looked as if her baby might be born later that afternoon.
The tumor grew so large that she looked as if she were pregnant.
It looked as if something had changed to rig the system against workers.
They looked as if they were filming an instructional video on defensive fundamentals.
It looked as if they were battling unacknowledged impulses to like Mrs. Clinton.
In late September 2006, it looked as if congressional Republicans might just survive.
Big moment: on replay, that looked as if it could be a handball.
Texas Christian, it looked as if they had been, perhaps, a bit overlooked.
It looked as if he had had a hard time after the war.
In 2011, it looked as if Scott might have made a good bet.
Until last month, Netanyahu looked as if he would coast to re-election.
It looked as if the officer kind of took things into his hands.
At this point it looked as if only the Fulton would make it.
I glanced at the aide, who looked as if he might be sick.
But the results looked as if they had come from two different infants.
For a time, it looked as if Mr. Flynn was indeed in charge.
Frankly, It looked as if hundreds of thousands of dicks had washed ashore.
TETSU For quite some time, this looked as if it would never happen.
It had briefly looked as if Kansas City had recovered a muffed punt.
Her white T-shirt looked as if it hadn't been washed in weeks.
It looked as if he had just been pummeled in a boxing ring.
It looked as if it was too late by the time she leapt.
It had looked as if that moment might be put off for some time.
It looked as if the room was covered in shit; the smell was unbearable.
It looked as if Christie would spend the next year exiled in New Jersey.
I made the herbed yogurt soup, which looked as if it might be bland.
For much of the game, it looked as if deGrom might be the catapult.
In her débutante photos, she looked as if she were wearing someone else's features.
The concrete house looked as if it had been robbed by a sloppy thief.
Dr. Sharon's first thought was that the child looked as if he had tuberculosis.
When Sasha came into the living room, she looked as if she'd been crying.
In the game's opening moments, it looked as if Porzingis would be dearly missed.
The idea was that it looked as if they were standing on a waterfall.
To the outside world, it looked as if Google had capitulated to employee protests.
There was so much dead skin it looked as if his arm were foaming.
Boston looked as if it had a hit with two outs in the sixth.
Only a few months ago it looked as if Europe could slide into recession.
He looked as if he would have preferred being anywhere other than Court 24.
They both looked as if they were launching the ball into a stiff breeze.
After Wednesday's loss, he looked as if he had walked miles through a desert.
By the end of the race, it looked as if his sneakers had exploded.
He was finally freed, but it looked as if his time had run out.
It looked as if she'd dipped her hands in a bucket of red paint.
Typically self-assured, Brady looked as if he didn't know exactly what to say.
The game looked as if it would be a blowout until the third quarter.
For a while, it even looked as if we would have a gadget renaissance.
Marijuana legalization looked as if it was going to become a reality last year.
They said a homeless man looked as if he might fall on the tracks.
During the presidential campaign, it looked as if the pressure on Goldman would continue.
It had looked as if the Knicks were finally about to break their fall.
In the junkyard videos, it looked as if no one had bathed for weeks.
Cars on California highways looked as if they had been splattered with raw eggs.
In recent weeks, it looked as if he was finally close to making it.
It looked as if the Mavs were finally about to succumb to Oklahoma City's talent.
As the song built to a crescendo, it looked as if Downie was getting emotional.
Shortly before Mr. Trump took the stage, it looked as if things would proceed differently.
The furniture looked as if it was preserved from Viennese royalty, hand-carved and regal.
So after 600 days, the supernova looked as if it was only 60 days old.
For much of the night, it looked as if the game would be over early.
At first, it looked as if Gardendale would be able to make its own district.
But it was essential that the figures looked as if they were made of paper.
In Rio, it initially looked as if the demons might get the better of him.
Against the Bulls, he looked as if he might be picking up a new groove.
Then, near tragedy struck in 1986 and the venture looked as if it would end.
The second stage looked as if it would feature another duel between Sagan and Gaviria.
His eyes looked as if someone had scooped them out and filled them with mud.
And briefly, on May 21968, it looked as if all hell might break loose again.
On Politics With Lisa Lerer The Sanders-Warren spat looked as if it'd blow over.
It looked as if they were at a cabaret, waiting for the show to start.
Just two years ago, cable news channels looked as if they were beginning to fade.
Early on in Saturday's game, it looked as if a repeat might be in order.
A lifetime of arguing on playgrounds looked as if it might be his best case.
This week it has looked as if North Korea might be the first hot spot.
True, it looked as if he was pleating shit, but Cill had a higher purpose.
It looked as if Professor Fritsche's research on polarization was given corporeal, very noisy form.
It looked as if they were going to have to take their boys over the sea.
On one side, it looked as if Trump had weathered the threat of politically fatal scandal.
To outsiders, it looked as if property rights in Saudi Arabia depend on the prince's whim.
In public, it looked as if things were going gradually downhill, but nobody could pinpoint why.
It looked as if Spacey wanted to deflect the allegations against him by revealing something private.
It looked as if he might struggle after the Padres jumped on him in the first.
It looked as if Democratic candidate Mark Green was going to wallop the Republican candidate, Bloomberg.
It looked as if they would be able to split the living room into two rooms.
The Smith siblings: Jaden and Willow, who both looked as if they teleported from another galaxy.
One of them looked as if it were striking a yoga pose, thrilled by the spotlight.
They found a number of breaks that looked as if they had occurred after Lucy died.
Just when it looked as if it might elude him forever, his ambition had been realized.
This corn looked as if it had just been harvested hours before arriving at the store.
You say that it looked as if he had a bruised knee and a bruised ego.
For a while it looked as if Europe's experiment in forging an antipolitical politics might succeed.
As analysts with China Merchants Bank said, it looked as if ICBC was performing "national service".
The bathroom was spacious and new (the countertops looked as if they had never been used).
Indeed, it looked as if she were sad, but only on that half of her face.
At first, President Xi looked as if he was going to simply ignore the impudent foreigner.
He took a sip, and looked as if he'd decided to wait and see what happened.
At first, he looked as if he had tried to make up too much too soon.
For a little while, it looked as if Kathy Griffin was getting exactly what she wanted.
WASHINGTON — For a brief moment, it looked as if America's mayor just might become America's diplomat.
The gelatin looked as if it had been scoured by the end of some rough brush.
Zara Tindall, a granddaughter of the queen, looked as if she might fall off her chair.
A growth sprouting from the trunk looked as if it belonged to a different plant altogether.
Rayssa was so small by comparison that it looked as if she were riding a surfboard.
And for a time it looked as if New York's men's week could hold its own.
And the northern part of Westeros looked as if Britain had been clumsily grafted onto it.
He explained that, according to the ultrasound, it looked as if I had a misshapen uterus.
Two weeks ago it looked as if the tribunal would deliver a knockout blow to Mr Temer.
The past few weeks in Colombia's peace process have looked as if someone had scrambled the calendar.
To attendees, it looked as if whatever digital magic Engelbart was performing was accomplished right on stage.
But it doesn't explain why the wave signals looked as if they had traveled through interstellar space.
The evidence against him was so damning that it always looked as if he would be convicted.
Kinley, so determined at the wheel for much of the day, looked as if he might cry.
Twenty-odd years ago it looked as if the monarchy was in an advanced state of decomposition.
The sky looked as if it had been set ablaze as the dragon exploded, hurtling Sonic away.
With China Resources no longer at his side, Mr Wang looked as if he might be toppled.
When the Yankees scored in the first inning, it looked as if their luck might be turning.
Many online saw the photo and commented the snowman looked as if it were stalking the president.
With his feet spread shoulder-width apart, he looked as if he were working on his posture.
"It basically looked as if there had been a tornado going through an electronic store," Lodhammar said.
The Knicks fell to 23-22 and looked as if they could use a good night's sleep.
He had perhaps been handed these to soothe him; he looked as if he had been crying.
It looked as if the walls were shrinking inwards, forming a deep, dark, dead end up ahead.
It looked as if the conditions in the region were too harsh for ancient DNA to survive.
And they looked as if I was high on multiple drugs and naked and waving a spear.
And for 44 minutes on Saturday, it looked as if Chelsea would go exactly the same way.
It would also have looked as if President Trump's attacks on the Fed were changing its behavior.
The black box theater at Abrons Arts Center looked as if a storm had swept through it.
When the staff arrived on Monday, the office looked as if it had been attacked by terrorists.
The children wore rags and looked as if they had not eaten in days, Sheriff Hogrefe said.
The two-lane road was surrounded by sun-baked fields that looked as if they never ended.
So it looked as if UUU — the code was thought to be read in triplets — designated phenylalanine.
Back then, it looked as if Mr. Lukashenko would be the dominant figure in any merged entity.
The hillside, with two long scrapes exposing stripes of brown, looked as if it had been clawed.
He said the radical-chic ad looked as if it were depicting an "attractive lives matter" march.
The Calderón has long looked as if it is on its last legs; now it actually is.
I looked as if a gerbil's casket had been plastered onto the upper half of my face.
For a moment, it looked as if Trump had cowed America's neighbor with his madman foreign policy.
From the right angle, standing on his toes, Ali looked as if he actually floated on air.
Originally, NASA had intended to replace one of the LEEs that looked as if it had degraded significantly.
Just when it looked as if Scott had a dagger in Riviera's side, the course sent him staggering.
"She walked to her table and looked as if she was about to cry," an onlooker told PEOPLE.
Everything from their early relationship to their wedding prep looked as if it came out of a catalogue.
It looked as if the economy would be relatively unscathed, as many forecasters were saying at the time.
He asked them not to move because the officer looked as if he might shoot them or something.
Every few kilometers there was another playground that looked as if no child had touched it in decades.
Pier 50, abandoned by the Pennsylvania Railroad, looked as if it would collapse in the next fresh gale.
Sandra said that when she saw Rosen early the next morning he looked as if he'd been crying.
I worked downstairs, in a basement that looked as if it hadn't been cleaned since the place opened.
To his parents—often, surely, to himself—it must have looked as if he had failed for good.
Before the group was separated, it looked as if the writer's room had her cozying up to Nick.
As the match proceeded Friday it looked as if he were paying the price for that earlier victory.
Entering the mosque afterward, he said the bodies looked as if people had been shot in the back.
He looked as if he had bounced out of a sketch concocted by his fellow Englishmen Monty Python.
At first, after the plane landed at Larnaca, it looked as if the crisis might be resolved quickly.
It looked as if relations were warming, and the price of soybeans was floating around $9.90 a bushel.
For a moment, it looked as if humans had suddenly been given the power to erupt into bloom.
For a moment last month, it looked as if the Yemen conflict might have a period of calm.
Whatever the reason, Ms. Burton looked as if she had been caught in, well, a dinner theater production.
It looked as if John Bolton had been chosen to perform an exorcism, sadly not on the president.
There were moments Friday night when it looked as if Duke would not be able to take revenge.
Brown looked as if he had been plucked from a 1950s highlight reel with pull-up midrange jumpers.
"My mother, for weeks afterward, looked as if there had been a death in the family," he said.
"It looked as if he'd cracked my hooter with an ax," Downes told The Daily Mail in 2011.
Thamer looked as if he wanted to move away from it but was too tired to get up.
Trucks loaded with talc bounced by, carrying local workers, who looked as if they'd been coated in flour.
It looked as if all five might graduate from high school, and maybe some would even attend college.
For a minute, it looked as if we might have lost Mr. West, too, even if only figuratively.
But now that she had broken it, she looked as if she had just finished unloading her dishwasher.
Also a plastic-fantastic slip dress that looked as if it had been made from transparent Lego blocks.
It looked as if our very lives had been consumed by flames, we were walking into a wasteland.
The people in line looked as if they expected everybody else to mug them if they turned around.
He clutched a thick Bible so old it looked as if the pages had begun to sprout hair.
It certainly looked as if Elliott could get used to the flavor, the scene, the accomplishment, the happiness.
From a distance, the blue-green waters looked as if they'd been ripped from the pages of Vogue.
Back home, looking out from my balcony, it looked as if the festivities could go on all night.
Though some slow-growing, rare corals were absent, the communities looked as if they were starting to recover.
But over a few weeks in December 2012, it looked as if he might lose everything for good.
As we went to press the Tories looked as if they could fall just short of an overall majority.
Just when it looked as if we'd be kept in suspense, the ball dropped, in the best way possible.
For a time it looked as if Apple would never relinquish the top spot in terms of market value.
For a while, it looked as if Notre Dame would not have to worry about the final few minutes.
After years in which it looked as if Britain's two-party system was fragmenting, things have gone into reverse.
He looked as if he'd rather be somewhere else, a quieter place, a vaster one, with fewer flashing lights.
AT TIMES last year it looked as if Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's authoritarian president, was losing his grip.
For a while it looked as if Tom Watson might follow Chukka Umunna and others out of the party.
It was warm and sunny and the sky over Manchester looked as if it had been blue for months.
The bruises, though, looked as if they were caused by injections, Pierce County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Erica Eggerstein said.
President Donald Trump's chances of reelection looked as if they were in trouble at the beginning of the year.
He brightened up when we found a moose-stomped trail that looked as if it led to the top.
For a few weeks, it looked as if the holiday was going to fall the day before: Sept. 11.
" ("The Heart of the Park") "She jumped back and looked as if she were going to swallow her face.
At one point, it looked as if a DACA fix would be incorporated into a long-term spending measure.
When I watched the video later, it looked as if we were standing in a hail of razor blades.
In 2013, when Obama looked as if he might order airstrikes, Syria hurriedly agreed to give up chemical weapons.
" He added, "They always looked as if they were on the edge of some kind of revelation or breakdown.
PHOENIX — At first, the Republican looked as if she could win Arizona's Senate race by a razor-thin margin.
Each had a handful of major tournament wins and at times looked as if he could dominate the sport.
For a while it looked as if Senegal would continue dominating, but Japan eventually found some rhythm and possession.
For a moment, it looked as if Elon Musk and Tesla had put a summer of turbulence behind them.
And for a few years, it looked as if that would be it, because he couldn't land another part.
Cotton wadding looked as if it had been vomited out of a hood, dripping into a fringe-like effect.
Kendrick looked as if the devastating weight of another Nationals playoff failure would crush him right through the bench.
Suddenly, it looked as if pharmaceutical companies might join Carrier, Ford and Boeing as targets of Mr. Trump's ire.
On the surface, it looked as if there was a lot of bad news recently for the Islamic Republic.
But for about 10 minutes on Friday, it looked as if Japan's dream was turning into a nervous nightmare.
Indeed, until recently it looked as if the political dominance of the evergarchs would extend indefinitely into the future.
The film instantly became a front-runner, one that looked as if it could assuage the Academy's race problem.
It didn't help when we ran into her best friend, and Max looked as if he'd swallowed a boulder.
Kendall Jenner looked as if she was wearing an entire alligator on her back, with another on her front.
In her postmatch news conference, Kerber looked as if she had shed quite a few tears after the defeat.
The material verged on filmy, and the collar looked as if moths had just departed after a long winter.
Philip Hammond, who looked as if he was for the chop before the election, remains as chancellor, his position secure.
For a fleeting moment in the Euro 216 group stage, it looked as if Croatia might go all the way.
For a time on Friday, it looked as if Raonic, not Murray, might get the unappetizing assignment of facing Djokovic.
Strongmen are in power in several countries that once looked as if they were democratising, notably Russia, Turkey and Egypt.
I have no clue how he did it, but it looked as if his human face became his real face.
Three powerful forces are breathing life into bits of America that had looked as if they were permanently left behind.
The man's abdomen was so swollen, he said, that it looked as if he was more than nine months pregnant.
A young soldier handing out leaflets with security advice looked as if he would rather be back in his barracks.
Shields escaped trouble in the sixth when it looked as if the Giants were going to add to their lead.
Ruzhou, a city of one million in China's coal country, looked as if it might be one of those places.
Facing the same team Wednesday, it looked as if Oklahoma City was in store for the same type of meltdown.
For a while it looked as if the Democratic Republic of Congo might actually hold an election on December 23rd.
Visitors to his various homes would see young women there who looked as if they should still be in school.
When we came, it looked as if it was going to fail, because of everything that was happening around it.
Chrome's ears were pricked up, and he looked as if he were running by himself — controlled, relaxed and wickedly fast.
It looked as if the blade was floating an inch away from the saber and it immediately threw things off.
Everything looked as if it could become animated, brought to life, and her ceramic pieces have that same kinesthetic quality.
The thing is, North never really fell, it only looked as if she did in the photo a paparazzo snapped.
I picked at a bit of skin on my big toe that looked as if it might begin to blacken.
This version was topped with an egg, which looked as if it could have been plucked straight from a McMuffin.
A 100-year-old lemon tree that looked as if it had never been pruned staked claim to the back.
In one spot, forward of the central island, it looked as if the ship had been cleaved like a log.
The bottom line: For a while, it looked as if laws might have to be changed to work with crypto.
For a while, it looked as if she wanted it so much that it was distorting her normally efficient play.
Just a day before, it looked as if there would be no quick resolution — and possibly a deeper, uglier rift.
At the time the second scene took place, the bartenders looked as if they were struggling not to get caught.
This one looked as if it had been lifted from the pages of a textbook devoted to just one disease.
One had cute glasses and a nose ring, and another looked as if she played guitar better than I did.
Trey Burke, a midseason refuse heap find, looked as if he was capable of playing explosive minutes off the bench.
In many ways, it may have looked as if he was taking a back seat after two terms as president.
"It looked as if it was the end of the world, that everything is dark, cruel, unexplainable, inexplicable," she said.
Not too long ago, the "gig economy" looked as if it just might be the future of work in America.
Gray sweatpants pooled around his stick-thin legs, so fragile they looked as if you could snap them in two.
The Cavaliers (29-103) looked as if they were wearing concrete sneakers and lofting jump shots into a stiff breeze.
It looked as if for once they were culling goods that had reached their expiration date, but no such luck.
It even looked as if his company had never closed — as if his work remained central to their artistic activity.
Jennifer Hudspeth of Minnesota looked as if she were draped in liquid emerald while competing in this floor-length gown.
And George Clinton looked as if he strode right out of his living room, wearing a low-waisted white robe.
For most of the day, it looked as if Kisner might be the player to earn his second tour title.
It wasn't quite a ruin, but it looked as if a viral outbreak had removed all life from the place.
Finally, for a while this past week, it looked as if we would have a 12th Dodger-Yankee World Series.
Because if you stripped the sentence from its context, naturally, it looked as if the orange-flavored drink was potentially suicidal.
Perry was 20153 and hadn't had a breakthrough, so it looked as if he'd be on the assembly line for years.
He backed Jeremy Corbyn to succeed Ed Miliband and kept him in office when it looked as if sense might prevail.
And then it looked as if new showrunner Angela Kang had opted to kill Rick off even before the announced date.
Holiday followed up a timeout with what looked as if it would be a winning 3-pointer with 9.3 seconds left.
On receiving this information, Peter looked as if he'd felt the explosive impact of a torpedo in each of his loafers.
It looked as if it would stay 2-1 going into the third, but Sorensen struck again late in the second.
As The Economist went to press, it looked as if the talks could at last get under way on January 29th.
" Mr. Joyce was unimpressed, mocking the couple's video by saying it looked as if Mr. Depp was "auditioning for 'The Godfather.
It looked as if it might be a tough, physical series for Curry, a slender 6 feet 3 and 190 pounds.
Representative John Mica, Republican of Florida, told Mr. Comey that it looked as if the end of the investigation into Mrs.
Just a few months ago, it looked as if Amazon had pulled off one of the greatest scams in corporate history.
Rivers returned in the second quarter after receiving 22 stitches, and his face looked as if he had gone 23 rounds.
When Biden was looking his weakest — after New Hampshire — Bloomberg looked as if he might be a better bet than Biden.
Opinion Columnist Until recently, it looked as if the midterm elections might be defined largely by an argument about health care.
He also said he was alarmed because all the poll workers looked as if they were at least 60 years old.
The ones in Saudi Arabia looked as if they were better built than the ones in Jordan, according to Dr. Kennedy.
The gloves were so big on the youngest children, it looked as if they had just plunged their hands into baggies.
The case looked as if it had been rescued from a garbage disposal, which was the reason for its prominent display.
The haze from Indonesia's forest fires muddied the day; the ocean looked as if it were evaporating in front of us.
At times, the chamber seemed to vanish, and it looked as if the opening had become a wall of radiant color.
Heavy Lifting When Republicans won in November, it looked as if 2017 would mean a major legislative shift to the right.
I stared at the note; it looked as if the pencil lead had splintered at the end of the word 'ordinarily.
Suddenly the Chiefs looked as if they might be down to their last realistic chance to make a game of this.
For a while Friday night, it looked as if Berrettini, also 23, might be able to join Medvedev in that pursuit.
Last year, it looked as if the president might be on the ropes as Nicaraguans mounted their largest protests in decades.
The damage looked "as if someone had taken a blade and just scraped the ground," Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said.
One dress looked as if it were covered in seed pods; two more resembled Fausto Melotti's sculpture (also geese in profile).
They held a 44-40 halftime lead as the teams looked as if they were hitting the court after long naps.
According to Winston, when he would click on the files they looked as if they were screenshots of logos or emails.
After a fairly pedestrian heat, it looked as if Farah would only slip up if he got tripped or became over-confident.
The Longhorns (27-7, 218-21) looked as if they would keep the Jayhawks' skid going when they built an early lead.
In the late 1860s, it looked as if he might help his party make real change in the post-Civil War South.
On a couple of occasions, hookers would saunter around the plane, hitting on guys who looked as if they were travelling alone.
But one of the rocks in the latest observations looked as if it might not belong in our neck of the Universe.
Leaving the love-fest I overheard two female activists who looked as if they were in their twenties chatting to each other.
After dismissing the theory of a micrometeoroid impact, Rogozin said it looked as if the hole had been made by a drill.
And at the start of the game, it looked as if both teams would continue to put huge numbers on the board.
Angry politicians said Obamacare would doom America; wide-eyed protesters at town hall meetings looked as if they were going to explode.
The New York Islanders certainly looked as if they would have been happy to take the day off the Jets didn't want.
The model Alessandra Ambrosio wore another metallic Balmain that looked as if it had been made from the mirrors at Studio 54.
Being a sports fan in 53 means falling victim to recency bias — and recently Thomas looked as if his career was over.
A few weeks ago, the start of the N.F.L. draft looked as if it would be filled with linemen and defensive players.
It looked as if they knew Havana bay was contaminated to such degree, that it would be simply foolish to dig around.
For a while Wednesday, it looked as if the Mets would use their new weapon — the home run — to keep rolling along.
Careless with the ball and lacking focus on defense, the Warriors looked as if Kerr's concerns about late-season fatigue were materializing.
Thank goodness I put my hair up, or I would have looked as if I had just stepped out of a shower.
It looked as if he might be in for the fight of his political life with a very strong challenger, former Gov.
Djokovic looked as if he was on course for the first true Grand Slam by a man since Rod Laver's in 13.
So thick with simulated sediment were the channels of the Bird's Foot that they looked as if they were filled with ink.
There was one point last season, around mid-April, when it looked as if Tottenham might have reinvented themselves as a team.
At least 280 states have banned high-interest payday lending, and for a time, it looked as if Ohio would join them.
Weeds had sprouted between the paving stones, and the parking lot looked as if it hadn't been used in quite some time.
Online, people suggested he looked as if he were straight out of "Jurassic Park," or created through special effects, or maybe Photoshopped.
It looked as if a bug somewhere on his skin had gotten loose in his blood and the rest of his body.
We were all drenched and cold, and it looked as if the concert had been rained out just before the biggest act.
Damir looked as if he was in his late 203s; he was skinny, with short, dark hair and intense but gentle eyes.
Eastern on a chaotic N.F.L. Sunday and the entire A.F.C. playoff landscape looked as if it was about to be startlingly upended.
The United States has had moments when it looked as if women were finally taking their rightful place in the public world.
Down 2-0 early in the second half to Japan, it looked as if Belgium's World Cup was about to be over.
It looked as if it would be a rare keepsake, because McIlroy failed to sink another birdie on his next eight holes.
Over the summer, she looked as if she could not decide whether she would win more votes as a progressive or moderate.
By the end of that week, it looked as if Mr. Abe was the one who had given Mr. Trump a gift.
Encarnacion, the designated hitter, looked as if he hadn't been out with an oblique injury, going 4 for 13 against the Twins.
On the way, I stopped to take a picture because it looked as if someone had hung dryer lint on the trees.
Nevertheless, early on October 19th it looked as if Mr Johnson was within two or three votes of the 320 he needed.
If they looked as if they had been plucked out of Asia, it is because they were built by Chinese construction companies.
It looked as if the third time was going to be the charm for the London Stock Exchange Group and Deutsche Börse.
Nussbaum wore a fitted purple dress and high-heeled sandals, and her blond hair looked as if it had recently been permed.
Just when it looked as if the game were headed for overtime, Caggiula's fifth of the season put it away for good.
Several gallons were sloshing around in a huge plastic jug that looked as if it had been snatched from a water cooler.
Powell received a technical, too, and it looked as if he had also been ejected when he walked toward the locker room.
In early trading, the global benchmark had dropped below $23 when it looked as if oil exporters might leave output targets unchanged.
The magnetic field was warped in such a way that it looked as if the moon was actively emitting gases from the region.
Kacey Musgraves wore prom dress-like Armani Privé, and looked as if she had gotten lost on her way to the Staples Center.
For a while, it looked as if Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank, might land the CEA role.
Before Brexit it looked as if that was it: the party that could produce the best synthesis of Thatcher and Jenkins would win.
WBBJ reported massive power outages, and quoted a resident saying the destruction looked as if an "EF5 tornado" had blown through the area.
Every time the Knicks looked as if they might give up their grip on the game, someone stepped forward to make a play.
It looked as if four months of nationwide protests against Mr Bashir and his 30-year-old autocracy had culminated in a coup.
Other houses looked as if the tide had washed everything out of them, leaving sand and ankle-deep seaweed in place of furniture.
At the age of 23, he became the youngest world champion in history, and his career looked as if it had no limits.
Nugent's house was a bungalow with a pebble-dash job so pockmarked it looked as if the façade had taken heavy artillery fire.
That same month, the British royal wore a rose-pink gown that looked as if it came straight out of a Disney film.
Now there were fans in the audience just to see him, some of whom looked as if they could pass for Kayla's classmates.
Her standing on the national team dropped in a couple of years, until it looked as if her longstanding Olympic aspirations had evaporated.
The lights around me began to take on aural depths and the room through the orb looked as if it was in flames.
And too many busts against A. J. Green, a 6-foot-653 receiver who looked as if he had suction cups for hands.
Burkitt lymphoma had torn open her left cheek, leaving a crater that looked as if a cherry bomb had exploded in her mouth.
He looked as if he was planning things in his head, even while he was talking to you and looking directly at you.
A week ago, the United States and China looked as if they were going to reach a deal to end their trade war.
Greenwich Village, normally thrumming with tourists and the young brunch-set on a given weekend, now looked as if from a bygone era.
Bernard Berenson slighted him by observing that Moroni "gives us sitters no doubt as they looked," as if it were a small thing.
The fields outside Kotawaringin village in Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, looked as if they had just been cleared by armies.
The room was windowless and dark, aside from the light from the screen, which looked as if it had been filtered through seawater.
She became flustered and looked as if she were trying to jog the memories with her hands, sketching the answers in the air.
That looked as if it was about to change when a prominent Florida philathropist reportedly offered him a Goldendoodle puppy late last year.
The six-story building, designed in a Tudor style, looked as if it had been plopped incongruously into the rush of Fifth Avenue.
It was Land, who looked as if he had been beamed in from a different dimension, or at any rate a different denomination.
Barely sweating, the 34-year-old looked as if he had completed a quiet morning run as he reflected on his unique achievement.
This shot was no different; it looked as if T-1000 from "Terminator 2" had challenged a Wang computer to a jumping contest.
Seeing him searching the room, Tim walked over and told him that he looked as if he'd got lost in a department store.
It looked as if he might fall short again Wednesday when the Dodgers loaded the bases with no outs in the seventh inning.
With their slender bodies, long snouts and sharp teeth, Tasmanian tigers looked as if they could be related to dogs, wolves or coyotes.
As Prince Coffee, he looked as if he'd never been away: jumping, turning and partnering with ease, an effortless source of singing line.
The villages were deathly quiet, fringed by abandoned, vine-choked estates that looked as if they were being slowly swallowed by the countryside.
A lot of tea leaves in the early voting — in Florida especially — looked as if Hillary Clinton were headed for a clear win.
Steep walls around the lake appeared in danger of collapse, and it looked as if the island might have been about to vanish.
By mid-2015, when I started visiting that area of Kolwezi, known as Kasulo, the place looked as if it had been bombed.
The episode begins promisingly enough, as Negan mounts a counteroffensive just as it looked as if Rick's coalition was seizing the upper hand.
He hit a fly ball to right-center field that looked as if it would drop for a double to tie the game.
Ray Ratto, a Bay Area sportswriter, observed via Twitter that Kroenke looked as if he were ''overdue for his next baby wombat blood injection.
But had the Algerian blocking maneuver not been put in play, the U.S. amendment to condemn Hamas looked as if it would have passed.
It looked as if he was trying to force his brain to work, like someone with a sore throat who bears down to swallow.
The pool was filled with dozens of similar letters, and it looked as if some of them had been there for a long time.
Merkel looked as if she were struggling to stand up while she and Zelenskiy listened to national anthems during military honors upon his arrival.
That's what Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau seemed to suggest with an Instagram post that definitely looked as if Taika Waititi was voicing the character.
Early on, it looked as if the script would hold, as the Wizards hit three of their first four attempts from beyond the arc.
It looked as if the neighborhood might have been bombed; at least three other seven-story buildings seemed to be at risk of collapse.
Sources at the party say he appeared to be on drugs -- and it looked as if the woman may have been his ex-GF.
The Sea of Tranquility, he could see, was a misnomer; up close, the moon looked as if it had been used for target practice.
Now, Mr. Dick said outside the exhibition hall, it looked as if the house where he lived and all their belongings had been consumed.
When his rider asked Exaggerator to go, the colt looked as if he had grown a motor as he whipped around the far turn.
Decked out in western gear, complete with a cowboy hat, he looked as if he'd just ridden into town for another art world showdown.
After Lehman filed for bankruptcy, and great swaths of the markets froze, it looked as if many other major financial institutions would also collapse.
He wore a seatbelt for safety, but he looked as if he might break free at any moment and plunge into the icy water.
Perhaps it was the hospital bed against the wall, or the floor-length curtains that looked as if they'd come from a funeral parlor.
In time, more than a dozen women emerged from the honeycomb-shaped dwellings that looked as if they could neither contain nor shelter life.
The Saints, who averaged more than 31 points a game during the regular season, looked as if they were making up for lost time.
The lawmakers looked as if they couldn't care less, and you have to wonder if this constant stock market talk is a good strategy.
Her third restaurant, Haenyeo was about three months old and already filled with people who looked as if they'd been going there for years.
BEIJING — For a moment, it looked as if China's rigid beauty standards were on the brink of being upended — or at least expanded slightly.
He glanced up in time to see a man waving to the crowd who looked as if he was with the band ZZ Top.
We peeked at the kitchen and the living room, which looked as if little had changed since the 1950s, when the couple lived there.
But when the Falcons led by 17 on Sunday, it was the normally equable Packers who looked as if they were beginning to fret.
He looked as if he was taking care of himself and getting enough rest, but also as if there could never be enough rest.
For 75 minutes or so, it looked as if Manchester City might complete the set for England's representatives: four games, four defeats, no goals.
Many looked as if Mr. Gogos had invited the monsters into his studio, where he meticulously lighted them and bathed them in brilliant hues.
For a few crazy weeks, this most enduring of institutions looked as if it might actually implode under the weight of so much emotion.
Six years ago, it looked as if the Masters would be his first win in a major, but he shot a final-round 80.
It looked as if the lizard's skin were a flat canvas, as opposed to a scaly one with ridges and valleys, Dr. Milinkovitch thought.
The orb's segmented pedestal, which looked as if it might have come from the bridge of a science-fiction starship, added to the mystery.
VanVleet looked as if he never missed a game, shooting 11 of 16 from the field and 43 of 8 from 3-point range.
At age 15 I finally had some stubble, but it was so sparse that my face looked as if it were specked with dirt.
The report found betting syndicates in Russia and Italy were making huge sums from games that looked as if they could have been fixed.
On a recent afternoon, Mr. Feingold mournfully walked through the empty restaurant, which looked as if it could spring into action at any moment.
On her first royal engagement in her long navy coat and black boots, she looked as if she'd taken some fashion cues from Kate.
Sometimes, Mr. Olson and Mr. Clement looked as if they were effortlessly bashing back squash balls; other times, they were lunging away from dodge balls.
His parents are illiterate farmers, and it looked as if Rafi's education would end in the fifth grade, when he was sent to a madrasa.
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West Singer Zayn Malik looked as if he had somehow meandered off the Yellow Brick Road with his tin arms.
Until now, it had looked as if the far-right Marine Le Pen would easily come top in the first round of next year's election.
In July, that proposal looked as if it might succeed when Trump tweeted that he had discussed "forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit" with Putin.
But when people started examining the new $154 billion budget, it looked as if Mr. Cuomo was telling the mayor: New York has a surplus?
All of that data was then combined in a supercomputer to make an image that looked as if it came from a single, giant telescope.
I wouldn't have sold acid to anyone who looked as if they could go under, or who didn't have a group of mates around them.
The Philippines looked as if it might become the next South-East Asian domino to fall to communism—until Mr Sison was captured and imprisoned.
Damon Silvers, the organization's policy director, greeted us in a cluttered low-floor office that looked as if it might belong to a law professor.
Slight, with rumpled hair and shadows under his eyes, he looked as if he'd be more comfortable in front of a keyboard than a mirror.
It looked as if it was soon to be 5-1 when Moreland hit a soft liner to right field that Adam Eaton caught easily.
Her jacket for "Yvor Winters On Modern Poets" looked as if plastic letters had been placed on a tabletop, then jostled by a passing child.
The girls, many of them at least, took typing, where they clacked on manual typewriters that looked as if they were World War II vintage.
Maiwand is our country's most important wrestling gym, and it traditionally produces many of Afghanistan's champions; it looked as if this institution was finished forever.
Scott looked as if he would have the halfway lead all to himself until his putter let him down and he bogeyed the 16th hole.
When she left Fox News for NBC and a reported $23 million yearly contract, it looked as if I was going to get my wish.
She greeted me from a brown velvet couch that looked as if it were an artifact from her Bowery apartment and studio of 270 years.
She reluctantly agreed to a single debate, standing behind a pile of notes so formidable it looked as if she was defending a Ph.D. dissertation.
It looked as if Einhorn was playing a short-term game, and had no interest in convincing the world that Herbalife was going to collapse.
To many lawyers who studied the deal, it looked as if the Chinese buyer was trying to find out what it could get away with.
He is also a veteran hustler, and when it looked as if "Sorry to Bother You" might never materialize, it wasn't for lack of enterprise.
With his purple hair, pink shirt and gentle smile, I thought he looked as if he had the kind of resolve this situation could use.
Just when it looked as if the sugar industry, for all its campaigning, could no longer overrule scientific fact, it was saved by saturated fat.
The car looked as if it might go up in flames, but the traffic was so heavy that we had to stay close to the wreck.
The employee told investigators that the shirt looked as if it had been attempted to be cleaned before being dropped off, according to the search warrant.
It looked as if that would be all the Blue Jays would need to avert a sweep in their first visit to Wrigley Field since 2005.
GEDmatch's database turned out to hold profiles, returned as weak matches, which looked as if they had come from distant cousins of the Golden State Killer.
She pulled off a victory, but only after Trump looked as if he might run away with that victory in the first half of the debate.
As the new year dawned, President Donald Trump's prospects of being elected to a second term in office looked as if they were in serious trouble.
At that point, Brazil looked as if they might capitulate as they did in their astonishing 7-1 semi-final defeat to Germany four years ago.
After Myers tied the game in the bottom of the first, it looked as if the Padres were going to take the lead in the second.
The Gamecocks looked as if they were going to roll to an easy victory when it was 31-13 less than 11 minutes into the game.
"When I got there I was told that I looked very untidy and looked as if I wasn't part of the school uniform," she told PRI.
It looked as if maybe, just maybe, members of the House's far-right Freedom Caucus could come around and give the bill its badly needed support.
It looked as if the program inadvertently created some people with special abilities, and Brenner's research involved trying to figure out what they were capable of.
Structures were abandoned and looked as if they could fall down at any minute; perhaps suitable for rats, roaches, bugs and scorpions — but not for humans.
DeMar DeRozan scored 18 points for the Raptors, who looked as if they had spent three months at sea before the game was 15 minutes old.
Chicago scored two first-period goals and looked as if it could escape with the win despite constant pressure by Toronto from the second period on.
The company had looked as if it might be saved through a £900 million reorganization plan with Fosun, a Chinese firm that was its largest shareholder.
Alex Morgan and Morgan Brian had brief moments when it looked as if they were about to score, but neither put the ball in the net.
When he walked the shedrow, he high-stepped and looked as if he were ready to bolt out the door and sail clear into the fields.
He looked as if he'd been in a fistfight, which made Peggy wonder if her husband could be the sort of man who got into fistfights.
Entering the game, the Russians looked as if they had better players than the United States, and that showed in each team's final preliminary-round game.
Technicians were hunched over cast-iron gadgets — stop motors, compressors, track relays — that looked as if they belonged in the workshop of an eccentric antique collector.
"I sweat like hell," Dr. Belfort said, peeling his gloves off pale waterlogged hands that looked as if they'd spent too long in the bath. Mrs.
But on this morning, as the escape routes closed and the wave crashed in, it looked as if he was just trying to survive out there.
Back in 2016, it looked as if she had been engineered in a lab to broker a truce between the Democratic establishment and a resurgent left.
As we looked at him and tried to comfort him, it looked as if somebody had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth.
We whizzed by snow-haired women who looked as if they had walked out of a painting of 1600s-era peasants, selling chrysanthemums and moonshine roadside.
Surrounded by ten tall, muscled men, she looked as if she had been plucked from a high-school track team and thrown into an N.F.L. game.
For those having trouble imagining the visual, it looked as if the building was a vortex expelling the art through the skylight toward the great beyond.
Russia and increasingly China already looked as if they were being sucked into that regional face-off, announcing joint naval drills with Tehran only days ago.
During the winter and early spring, it looked as if Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren would be the next entry in this parade of presidential pratfalls.
"To me it just looked as if they wanted to put their efforts elsewhere," said Ms. D'Elia, who said she was not surprised by the changes.
"There was no way we were going to just take the opportunity to leave when it looked as if things were going to change," he said.
A student, who said he was originally from Germany, looked as if he were about to cry when he said he feared having to leave Britain.
In April it briefly looked as if 16 counties around Knoxville, Tennessee, would have no insurers in 2022, until BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee agreed to step in.
The Seahawks accumulated just 39 yards passing and 47 rushing in the first half, and as a team they looked as if they missed the Northwestern dampness.
Mr Wilders's anti-immigration PVV, which over the past year looked as if it might win the most seats, now looks likely to come second, with 20.
IT BRIEFLY looked as if Donald Trump, having denounced global warming as a hoax and sworn to dismantle Barack Obama's environmental legacy, might have had a rethink.
The first interception thrown by Trevor Siemian looked as if his target the entire time was Peters, who broke on a post route for an easy pick.
At times it looked as if the foreign secretary was more interested in showing a knuckle-duster to the prime minister than offering a Valentine to Remainers.
In his red T-shirt and blue shorts, his arms by his side, he looked as if he might wake up, rub his eyes, and start laughing.
But every time it looked as if the Packers might be summoning their former magic, they would revert to their hapless ways of the last 10 weeks.
Less than four minutes into the game, the Panthers were up by two touchdowns, and it looked as if the Seahawks were in for a long afternoon.
To some it looked as if he was trying to protect his legacy, since, if financial turmoil erupts, he cannot be accused of failing to foresee it.
It looked as if both had changed their appearance: Cummins may have dyed his gray beard and hair darker, and Thomas may have dyed her hair red.
Just when it looked as if the Rangers were overwhelming the Canucks, left winger Alex Burrows restored the lead with 3:49 remaining in the second period.
In the summer of 2016 it looked as if Trump could run a two-jerk ticket with Christie as his VP. But Mike Pence got the call.
Although the discussion Tuesday night on debt relief looked as if it could be enough to bring the I.M.F. into the bailout, officials signaled that hurdles remain.
Several weeks ago, it looked as if Republicans had written off the district, but political observers say it looks to have improved for Blum in recent weeks.
In her coveralls and boots, she looked as if she might be there to jackhammer a few holes in the parking lot, not to oversee the centerpieces.
The bones in her face were broken, and the left side was so swollen that it looked as if there were half a grapefruit under her skin.
It looked as if the teams would head to the first intermission scoreless until the Jets popped in a pair of goals in the final 90 seconds.
Against Gulbis on Saturday, Zverev looked as if he would spare himself some aggravation when he broke Gulbis twice to come back and take the third set.
Saints 31, Steelers 28 It looked as if JuJu Smith-Schuster had made yet another critical catch in a season full of them for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Others teams looked as if they had wandered in from the nearest cafe; the man carrying the flag of Estonia wore jeans and a white T-shirt.
The room looked as if I was trying to re-create a West Elm showroom by memory using only stuff I can get from a local Walmart.
And while the explosive Keys struggled with her emotions and her accuracy, Stephens often looked as if she could have been raking sand in a Zen garden.
He left to take it, and when he returned it was obvious that something was wrong; Breaux thought he looked as if a family member had died.
After the bitterness of the soprano Kathleen Battle's rift with the Metropolitan Opera in 1994, it looked as if she would never return to the company's stage.
She had turned sixty earlier that week and looked as if she were made of well-burnished leather—the effect of age and aggressive, year-round tanning.
Doctors there examined samples of lung tissue from 17 patients, all of which looked as if the people had been exposed to toxic chemicals, researchers said. 7.
And Hill, who looked as if he would never survive the first inning, settled down to allow just two hits over the next four, striking out eight.
When Mr. Dudley started at BP, it looked as if "demand would go to the sky," said Oswald Clint, an analyst at Bernstein, a market research firm.
The paleontologists found it farther from the water than most of the other turtles, and it looked as if had been pressed down through layers of sediment.
He remembered a doctor looking at an X-ray of his back and telling him it looked as if it belonged to a man in his 40s.
At that crispness of image, even an actor's stubble can be distracting onscreen; a digitally dermabrased Junior would have looked as if he were wearing kabuki makeup.
At times, it looked as if agreement may prove elusive, as lawmakers haggled over how much to spend, where to spend and how to pay for it.
Last summer it looked as if the long, celebrated career of Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator in charge of human spaceflight, had reached a somewhat ignominious end.
A wind had kicked up and it looked as if it might rain, dark clouds loitering on the horizon and threatening to ruin the coming weekend's OctFest.
Signs of the occupation could also be felt in the church's courtyard, where one of the walls looked as if it had been used for target practice.
The match looked as if it might be getting away from Woods when he hit his drive at the par-4 15th way left, where water lurked.
The alliance between Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and its more conservative Bavarian sister party, the CSU, looked as if it might break down over how to handle migrants.
The braid was so detailed that it looked as if it had come straight off the GOT set — and we know the Mother of Dragons would be proud.
Three months ago it looked as if the global oil market would be undersupplied through the northern hemisphere winter as U.S. sanctions removed large volumes of Iranian crude.
In the lead-up to this final season, it looked as if the biggest existential threat to Westeros, and the world, was the Night King and his minions.
Euro-zone countries have never looked as if they all belong in one currency union, stripped of independent monetary policies and the ability to devalue their exchange rates.
Shortstop Alexei Ramirez's dazzling play in the first inning stymied the Dodgers, who looked as if they would continue on from Monday's 15-0 thrashing of San Diego.
Analyzing the DNA from blue mussels in France, he and his colleagues had discovered some genetic markers that looked as if they belonged to another species: bay mussels.
When I went to Staten Island and checked out the approach on that side, the machines working on it looked as if they were grooming a ski slope.
A woman with a hard bob and a black suit looked as if she'd dipped her feet in honey, then went for a walk on a broken mirror.
It looked as if the perfect script was being written for the host nation but the second half was a tougher affair as Germany asserted themselves and equalized.
A layup by Lindy Waters early in the second half gave the Cowboys their largest lead at 27-221, and it looked as if the rout was on.
With only seven players under par and more than 211 at five over par or higher, a host of players looked as if they needed to cool off.
Mr. Owens said recently that he remembered thinking that the floor plan looked as if it had been laid out by a dog in search of a scent.
Governor Scott Walker, the Republican incumbent in the race elected in 25 on a "tea-party wave and anti-union fervor," looked as if he might hang on.
In the stands it looked as if everyone was from Santa Fe. Many of the fans said that was the message they wanted to send to the players.
Looking nervous, he sat on the edge of his seat, while Mr. Zeman reclined and looked as if he were in his own living room, drink in hand.
I noticed the first one as I passed Mr. Katz's front door, a tiny black cat that looked as if it had been ripped right off the inside.
She looked as if she were going to dance all the way to the 1930s Spanish Civil War — one of the great leftist causes of an earlier age.
Public Health A few months ago, it looked as if large swaths of the country might end up without any insurers willing to sell Obamacare insurance in 2018.
Though she was the vice president of USAG, gymnasts and trainers alike say it looked as if Kelly reported to Martha Karolyi during her time at the ranch.
When they began this year losing four of their first five (along with their catcher and shortstop), it looked as if it might be a recipe for disaster.
She looked as if she had just taken a shower; her hair was wet, and, along with the robe, she wore chunky white foam house sliders by Yeezy.
But that didn't stop her from buying a four-bedroom house in 2016 in Pleasantville, N.Y., with a garden that looked as if it belonged in a Renoir.
A team that once had total reign over the Western Conference, that looked as if they might be invincible for light-years, now sits comfortably in last place.
Wearing a baggy gray suit, he looked as if he had won a golden ticket from some highly politicized Willy Wonka as he surveyed the celebrity-packed room.
For a few hours on Thursday, it looked as if another candidate might drop out, when the self-help author Marianne Williamson laid off her whole campaign staff.
For a while, it looked as if the Mets' final week of the season would reinforce the notion that the Callaway era was doomed after only two years.
Tanaka looked as if he might follow suit, as he struck out nine and got 14 swings and misses, something he has not done with regularity this season.
A decade or so later, it looked as if Ms. Reynolds would finally find a permanent home for her Hollywood memorabilia museum, this time in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
This version was topped with an egg, which looked as if it could have been plucked straight from a McMuffin and did not add much to the burger.
Public School had a lovely, curvy earth-tone model that looked as if it were molded of clay, with a collar that came up to my eyeballs ($975).
When he more recently said the group had been "contained," he looked as if he was out of touch, given the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino that followed.
It looked as if some users were listening to the same song up to 122 times at exactly the same time, on the hour, down to the very millisecond.
But just as prices looked as if they would never go down during the commodities boom, they now look as if they won't go up substantially any time soon.
Not long into the year, the Nationals looked as if they were about to implode, with a 19-31 record and Manager Dave Martinez seemingly halfway out the door.
When it looked as if a recurrent C. difficile infection might kill him (he was down to 108 pounds and dropping), I persuaded him to have a fecal transplant.
Los Angeles looked as if it may pull away for good when it used an 323-0 run late in the third quarter to take a 79-68 lead.
The game ended in controversial fashion as Beal looked as if he scored the winning basket on a baseline jump shot, but it came just after the buzzer sounded.
In one corner is the actor, Johnny Depp, who said on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Monday that the official looked as if he had been inbred with a tomato.
Minnesota has caught fire after suffering through a five-game losing streak - one at Penn State - that looked as if it was going to doom the team's postseason hopes.
Honda revamped its Ridgeline to be more pickup-like, and just like that, Ford looked as if it had fallen behind the curve in its bread-and-butter realm.
A month ago it looked as if there might well be an economic slowdown underway to add to the mix of a polarizing presidential election, geopolitical turbulence and violence.
Inside the theater housing the New York City Ballet, the floor was covered in an enormous photo featuring over 80 dancers who looked as if they were mid-performance.
After all, there have been plenty of periods in the past 10 years when it looked as if the bull market were wrapping up or a recession were coming.
Too often, he was bland and looked as if he wanted to duck into a podcast studio to chat with his frequent guest Sal Iacono, known as Cousin Sal.
To all the world it looked as if Google—one of the most powerful, pro-immigrant, and ostensibly progressive corporations in the United States—was taking a unified stand.
For two brief months, it looked as if there was a possibility of a more than $20123 billion takeover that would combine the makers of Oreos and Hershey Kisses.
For a while, it looked as if the English Defence League -- a street politics movement which organized threatening demonstrations in neighborhoods with large Muslim populations -- might fill the void.
As Mr. Cohn points out, as late as September of that year it looked as if Republicans might retain control of Congress despite public revulsion at the Bush administration.
The Cavaliers (243-6, 12-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) got off to a 12-0 start and looked as if they might blow the Tigers out of the building.
In her home, she was met by her girlfriend's nervy black cat Onyx and a quiet apartment, so neat it looked as if she had only recently moved in.
The pound briefly looked as if it were set to top $1.30 after the U.S. numbers were published, jumping half a cent to $1.2995, its strongest since Aug. 14.
In 2003, when the house looked as if it might crumble as a result of a severe drought, Mr. Lemoine sold an apartment to pay for the necessary work.
She looked as if she were waiting to receive her orders from the percussionists — which is, in a sense, how Britten constructed the soloist's voice in his taut concerto.
Whatever she is doing, it's working, because her skin was poreless and looked as if it were lit from within even though she didn't appear to be wearing makeup.
Until very recently, it looked as if these researchers—traveling aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn—would need to find a new port due to Norway's coronavirus travel restrictions.
At age 53, when she reached the quarterfinals at the 2014 U.S. Open with a surprisingly sophisticated game, it looked as if deeper runs were right around the corner.
Officials in South Korea had apparently scoured online rosters for North American college hockey programs, looking for women with last names that looked as if they might be Korean.
There were tables of businessmen; a table of women in head scarves; a table of women who looked as if they had watched "Jersey Shore" and not been frightened.
BAMBERG, Germany (Reuters) - When Kristin and Thomas Schmitt took out a mortgage and bought a house last summer, the German couple's dream looked as if it was coming true.
BAMBERG, Germany (Reuters) - When Kristin and Thomas Schmitt took out a mortgage and bought a house last summer, the German couple's dream looked as if it was coming true.
"People are proud of you just for being you," the person remembered saying, echoing others in the room who said Booker looked as if he appreciated the pep talk.
Girl Crush looked as if she had dipped her legs in glue and stepped into a McDonald's PlayPlace ball pit, then spun in a circle to make her skirt.
Whenever it seemed the stream would stop, the bats kept flying, creating a dark, moving cloud that looked as if it it were rising from the Dragon Lady herself.
It looked as if a child had scribbled a fat peach-colored crayon all around her forehead and eyes, giving her skin the puddled, waxy look of a melted candle.
When Manny Machado welcomed Seattle closer Steve Cishek with an RBI single to pull Baltimore within two, the Orioles looked as if they might rally for an eighth consecutive win.
While the Zapatistas had not stipulated either a time or a place for the mooted fixture, it looked as if a rebel football match was in the offing for Inter.
Anthony scored 23 points in the second half, and there was a time when it looked as if he might score more after halftime than the entire Notre Dame team.
But while some Whigs joined the antislavery cause, others switched to the nativist Know-Nothing or American Party, which for a time looked as if it would supplant the Whigs.
After the drama of Usain Bolt on Sunday, it looked as if the combination of a poor crowd and heavy rain would produce a flat atmosphere just 24 hours later.
Bernie Sanders supporters have been unhappy with The Times in recent months, but it looked as if they were beginning to have their moment in the sun on Monday morning.
Thompson, who tied for fifth in this event last year, looked as if she was fading with consecutive bogeys on the 10th and 11th holes to fall five shots behind.
But when they showed up in their matching outfits, the security guards said they couldn't dress like that because it looked as if they were trying to start a gang.
He looked as if he'd lost few steps, but he is still trim, still sharp-eyed — and judging by his reaction after that misfired forehand, still clearly bent on winning.
When she was done with me, I looked as if I had lost 10 pounds just in my face, or maybe had gotten some very subtle and expensive plastic surgery.
The illness, since named Covid-19, had then killed fewer than 200 people, and the Chinese government's late but immense efforts to contain it looked as if they might work.
Doctors at the Mayo Clinic examined samples of lung tissue from 218 patients, all of which looked as if the people had been exposed to toxic chemicals, the researchers said.
It wasn't by chance that the sculpted women in that Mulberry Street penthouse looked as if they had been shaken, like subscription cards, from the pages of an Allure magazine.
As he lowered himself into the chair, Hay saw that the tears had begun to flow down leathery cheeks that looked as if they had never before known such moisture.
Vincent Scully, a former Irish politician, declared that Medicine Hat would become "the Pittsburgh of Western Canada," and for a while, it looked as if he might have been right.
By handing over money to an immature company for shares with no voting rights, it looked as if investors had stopped caring about those things, Rob Cox at Breakingviews wrote.
Through the first two days of the Mexico event, Rory McIlroy looked as if he were picking up where he left off last year when he won the Tour Championship.
On a cable car to the popular lookout point Col Margherita, it looked as if smoke were rising from Pale di San Martino, the largest mountain range in the Dolomites.
It looked as if Italian authorities had covered up the nude statues out of respect for Rouhani, so as to his make his delegation more comfortable and avoid giving offense.
WHEN Stephen Harper stepped down as leader of Canada's Conservative Party after losing a national election in October 2015, it looked as if the party he had created might come apart.
It may have often looked as if she were the butt of jokes, but Georgette regularly used comedy to her advantage, holding her good-natured ground to get what she wanted.
Baylor looked as if it would turn the game into a rout with a strong first 15 minutes, taking a 38-613 lead with 5:03 remaining in the first half.
The system identified two of the species as "durophagus", meaning that their teeth looked as if they would be good at crushing the shells of clams, crabs and other armoured invertebrates.
Capape said it looked as if 2018 would be a record year for SWF participation in tech start-ups, with SoftBank's SWF-backed Vision Fund, Temasek and GIC all very active.
Blanche Knopf ("a tiny woman who looked as if she had gone straight from Dachau to Elizabeth Arden") had been gone two years, but her husband Alfred A. Knopf still lived.
Lawrence and Maroney looked as if they planned to match—each are wearing a different shade of blue jeans, a white t-shirt (though JLaw's was a tad shorter) and sunglasses.
In the wake of yet another round of Russian athletes testing positive, Reedie said it looked as if Russia had improved its antidoping controls, that perhaps it had learned its lesson.
A number of lawmakers tried to get rid of the carried interest tax benefit beginning in 183; by 2010, it looked as if the special treatment would go by the boards.
The occasional dirt road led to the solitary farmhouse lined with old gnarled trees that looked as if they might have been planted as a shield against the howling prairie wind.
Yet even in defeat, Farah demonstrated his champion's spirit as he fought back in the dying meters when it looked as if he would be shut out of the medals completely.
Shuffling a loose collection of disjointed facts and unrelated talking points, it lacked any coherent intellectual focus, and rather looked as if it had been fashioned haphazardly by professional political operatives.
Dunham, who appears in the Quentin Tarantino film along with Pitt, looked as if she was going in for a kiss while the stars posed on the red carpet in London.
" More than a few students — including one who looked as if he might actually be a Dartmouth football player — responded with some version of "Trust me, I know all about it.
It looked as if McCowan might escape the harness of Kristina Nelson's vital defense against her off the bench when Nelson picked up foul number four and went to the bench.
Just when it looked as if the Saviors had long passed the point of reconciliation with the Hilltopper coalition, Negan offers to let Rick live freely as part of his clan.
In each of these open steel-mesh containers, she would weave rubber tubes through the grid, creating a minimalist form that looked as if it were growing hair or coming alive.
With this constant shifting in my seat, I must have looked as if I was having muscle spasms, or at least doing a new dance not quite ready to catch on.
It looked as if the Capitals would roll toward a statement victory against Carolina, which had not been in the playoffs since 20, but the pesky Hurricanes turned up the heat.
During the meeting, Mr. Trump let Mr. Kim peek inside the Cadillac presidential limo known as the Beast, and for a second it looked as if Mr. Kim might climb inside.
For a moment, it looked as if he would tip it, and then Sikich, to my horror, propped the door open with a stick and encouraged him to leave the cage.
For the first three days after the crash, Iran denied growing international accusations that it had shot the plane down, and looked as if it was engaged in a cover-up.
Reliever David Robertson, reacquired from the Chicago White Sox last week, said that even with the heavy air here, it looked as if Judge were playing in a Little League bandbox.
It looked as if the Timberwolves would pull it out after finishing the third quarter on a 33-8 run to take a 79-73 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
Sometimes that means getting an easy regular-season win to maintain the top seed: Against the Lakers on Saturday, James laid low until it looked as if Los Angeles might win.
With Russia, the case tilts to a hidden response because the two countries have experience in covertly signaling each another (during the Cold War) when bounds looked as if they were overstepped.
When it came time for the former Secretary of State to concede the race to Donald Trump, it looked as if she was indeed trying to send a message with her ensemble.
With the biggest provinces on board, it finally looked as if Canada might meet its commitment under the Paris agreement to bring CO2 emissions down by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030.
But at 5-5, just when it looked as if Fognini might force a decisive third set, he double faulted and Nadal got his break before sealing the match four points later.
They told his mother it looked as if he had taken K2, a drug whose popularity at the time was creating a panic, though Mr. Purdy told his mother he had not.
After a full excavation last month, paleontologists uncovered 303 bones, including ribs, a pelvis, shoulder bones and a skull with five gleaming molars that looked as if they were made of quartz.
Mr. Friedlander, as unkempt as Frank Rossitano, the schlumpy TV writer he played on "13 Rock," wore a T-shirt that looked as if it had been stored in his gym bag.
Halfway through the feast, the oldest son of our hosts, in high school at the time, looked as if he had mingled quite enough with all the grown-ups at the table.
In the Humvee where I sat, one layer of glass in the front windshield was cracked; scraggly lines streamed from a cylindrical hole, where it looked as if a bullet had struck.
Tall, frail and almost grotesquely skinny, Josh was the kind of person who looked as if the only suntan he'd gotten in recent years was from the glow of a laptop screen.
I scavenged through scraps of paper, half-broken pens, a stack of coffee-stained fliers, folders and envelopes, and many other random bits that looked as if they belonged in the trash.
On election night, it looked as if Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat with a history of supporting environmental causes, might lose because the Green Party siphoned off about 2 percent of the vote.
Finally, when it looked as if Tom would be allowed to pay his fee a second time, I ran outside and boarded a bus and charged into a sea of dirty looks.
Another end-around to Deebo Samuel went for 14 yards, but looked as if it might go for even more when he got a step on a few defenders along the sideline.
The other women at the pond that day were mostly middle-aged or older; a few looked as if they might well have hung out there in the seventies, alongside Margaret Drabble.
The protesters, apparently under the impression that he had killed someone, stormed his house, joined by a large number of unemployed people and children who looked as if they were barely adolescents.
"It's breaking my heart," she said, pulling up on her computer screen an image of a blobby Danish armchair that looked as if it were made from half-melted chocolate ice cream.
It looked as if Westbrook were insulted by the very concept of distance, and so he annihilated it, soaring and spearing the ball out of the air from between two waiting Knicks.
On the opposite shore, Tkotko roared like a jaguar at him, then laughed uproariously, explaining in pantomime that his eyes looked as if they were going to pop out of his head.
The Maple Leafs outscored the Devils, 13-3, in winning the first two meetings this season, and it looked as if they were headed for another blowout after the opening 20 minutes.
But just when it looked as if Williams's serve, normally her security blanket, would cover her mistakes, she had two double faults to go with three unforced errors over the next seven points.
The priest was nowhere to be found, but Miguel brought me to a woman named Laura Reynoso, who looked as if she had walked out of a coffee-table book on Andean grandmothers.
" He compares his imitation of the German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf to another man's, and writes that onstage Schwarzkopf "looked as if she were trying to kiss the behind of a hummingbird in midflight.
A few years ago it looked as if the United States — long more tolerant of immigration, with a more fluid sense of national identity that readily allowed for hyphenation — could avoid this turn.
And damn near everybody looked as if surviving to next week wasn't foregone, a vision that made me wonder if Mom had ever slogged through the doors wearing her desperation in plain view.
The pink, the perfectly plated food, and the tiny trinkets all looked as if they were designed for a clientele that comes for their photos with a side of eggs, or vice versa.
Hours after the parade, Mr Hariri said he had decided "temporarily" to suspend his resignation, averting a political crisis that looked as if it might bring down the government and raise communal tension.
Not long ago, vegetarian restaurants in the United States were the last place you'd expect to see people who looked as if they couldn't wait to go home and have non-tantric sex.
And she became a public face of the controversy when emails she wrote that looked as if they were trying to help the company avoid embarrassment were leaked to The New York Times.
This summer, it looked as if the world was ending — economic data was sputtering, the stock market was whipsawing, and it felt as if the US Treasury yield curve would remain inverted forever.
And for a moment last week, it looked as if President Trump might vindicate their view by transferring the suspect in the New York truck attack to military custody at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Watching the final round recently, it looked as if there were not any shots on the last three holes you'd want to take back except the approach on 18, which missed the green.
Back in 2008, Mr. Guckert and thousands of volunteers had been working to fight the rising Iowa River for more than a week, and it looked as if the makeshift defenses would hold.
The wage puzzle From the mid-1990s until the 2008 financial crisis, it looked as if there was a fairly stable Phillips curve – a relationship between unemployment and the rate of wage growth.
" As engaged newspaper readers know, that headline paid homage to a News classic from 1975 when it looked as if Washington would let the city fall into bankruptcy: "Ford to City: Drop Dead.
Another dark-ale color, this beer looked as if it belonged to a gnarled older gentleman who sits in the same corner of the same bar every day and orders the same drink.
And when Cespedes went down — and then, after a pause to gather himself, slowly walked off the field and into the dugout — it looked as if that flickering light had just gone out.
Critic's Notebook Even with his astonishing technique, the Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov looked as if he needed all his youthful energy to get through his formidable recital program at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday.
It initially looked as if bond yields would push to multiyear highs following the Fed's Wednesday rate hike, but Wall Street quickly corrected its reaction, unsure whether the economy could handle higher rates.
Mr. Obama waited to react until last week, and it looked as if he might leave his successor a diplomatic tempest, until Mr. Putin, long the master of the unexpected stroke, defused it.
Provide me a better explanation for why the Wizards, who in December looked as if they might not make the playoffs, have won seven consecutive games over all and 210.5 straight at home.
In New Hampshire, Buttigieg wore a white shirt and a blue tie under an oversized brown leather bomber jacket that looked as if it had been purchased in haste when the cold descended.
The Euro final went to extra time in Paris, and with Portugal's essential man, Cristiano Ronaldo, injured and patrolling the sideline instead of the wing, it looked as if France would surely win.
In February, it looked as if Mr. Bolsonaro would fulfill his promise: the national Health Ministry announced that all of the positions left vacant by Cuba's withdrawal had been filled with Brazilian doctors.
Missouri looked as if it would run away with the game early, scoring 14 of the game's first 16 points and taking a 17-3 lead with 11:12 remaining in the first half.
Golfer Hideki Matsuyama sat in front of them, and at one point, he looked as if he was pretending to take a selfie while surreptitiously snapping a photo of Smith and her cool binoculars.
They also imaged the architecture of the bony labyrinth—it looked as if the soft bits and the cavity they sat in was aligned to put the head in the optimal position during fights.
Resolution delayed The resolution was held up Wednesday by Russia, which declined to ratify it -- it looked as if the permanent member's veto power would have torpedoed the attempt to hold North Korea accountable.
After Brendan Rodgers' poor start to the campaign and the inevitable disruption that came with changing managers in October, it looked as if this year might be a complete write-off at one point.
When we got back on Air Force One, he sent an aide to ask if we could continue the conversation; when I joined him again, he looked as if he'd been stewing over something.
Video game fans noticed that Kanye and Lil Pump's costumes looked as if they'd stepped out of the video game Roblox—a Minecraft-style game where players can build and program their own worlds.
Even when it looked as if Mr. Rubio might benefit from unified Republican support, he had only a week for fund-raising and to try to build a strong organization ahead of Super Tuesday.
He overcame the resistance of those who remembered the drinking and didn't think he looked as if he'd dried out, and, in 1861, was put in command of the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
But when she was a student at the School of American Ballet, a teacher used to tell her that they looked as if they came out of a washing machine — in other words, shapeless.
When he was paired with fifth-seeded Milos Raonic for the second round of this year's United States Open, it looked as if the name of another conqueror would be added to his list.
Conley, Gasol lead Grizzlies over Bulls CHICAGO — Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol looked as if he might be in for a long night after he missed five of his first six shots Wednesday night.
In the play "Eclipsed," he turned a "Rugrats" T-shirt, worn by Lupita Nyong'o, into a sweaty rag that looked as if it had spent weeks forsaken in Liberia, where the play is set.
But as the results came in and indicated Trump may actually win the election, Trump Jr. is said to have told a friend that his father looked as if he had seen a ghost.
Devils 259, Bruins 214 While the Devils were fighting for a playoff spot with five games left in the regular season, it looked as if the Boston Bruins were trying to give one away.
Big picture: This was one of the first companies created on the thesis that traditional anti-virus software didn't work, but for a while it looked as if it had actually launched too early.
While early in the season it looked as if the prodigal son had returned, almost, to the fold with his new house and promises to his mom Kris, he's still pretty scarce around Calabasas.
Once, Ms. Sharma said, she received an email that looked as if it were from a Chinese factory she was working with, asking her to send the next payment to a new bank account.
For a time, it looked as if Mr. Herheim would make his Met debut in 2019-20, with a reprise of a fanciful "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" that wowed the Salzburg Festival in 2013.
Spencer Lane, a 250-year-old white senior at a high school where whites are in the minority, said classmates had told him that he looked as if he could shoot up a school.
Or, to be fair, to walk through it, but since it was only an inch or so deep, and she was wearing towering platform heels, it looked as if she was walking on it.
The highlight of my visit was a retrospective on the Japanese ceramist Akio Takamori, who in his later years created rough-hewed, blown-glass heads that looked as if they'd been sculpted from clay.
The high ceilings, hardwood floors and stark, white-painted brick walls gave it a minimalist vibe, and the cafe's English-speaking staff members looked as if they could have been shipped in from Copenhagen.
But the cooked items were still warm, the lettuce and other raw ingredients hadn't wilted, and all the plates looked as if they had been primped by a food stylist for an overhead shot.
Ms. Butler, 44, who grew up in an attached rowhouse in Brooklyn, had always wanted to live in the suburbs, and for a brief while it looked as if she would get her wish.
His opening move—labelling Mexican immigrants rapists—immediately lost the left, and his demotion of John McCain, a former P.O.W., from hero to loser looked as if it would cost him the establishment right.
As of this writing, it looked as if it might yet pass the House, with at least cosmetic nods toward people with pre-existing conditions, but not the guarantees that Mr. Kimmel argued for.
The Timberwolves looked as if they still were dragging from a New Year's Eve loss at New Orleans as the Celtics went on a 16-0 second-quarter run to go up 47-27.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said it looked as if Iran was behind the attacks but Washington has not produced concrete evidence to support its accusation, and Iran denies involvement in the strikes.
He was often on his phone, talking or texting, with his dog, a shy whippet, whisking around his feet; it looked as if his strategist, pollster, and staff consisted of himself and the whippet.
It looked as if this would be an easy night from the get-go for the Razorbacks, who, after Freeman-Liberty's free throw gave Valpo a 1-0 lead, scored the next eight points.
The blue light may represent the bolts of inspiration that drive Mr. Gutenbrunner to higher and higher creative peaks, although to me it looked as if he had been soaked with kirsch and flambéed.
The Crimson Tide scored on a 2527-yard touchdown pass from Jalen Hurts to Calvin Ridley after Hurts escaped trouble in the backfield and initially looked as if he might try to run it.
With less than 30 minutes to go in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie with the German powerhouse Bayern Munich, Juventus looked as if it was already knocked out.
He was prosecuted for offenses he had not committed (he was not a Treblinka guard), and it looked as if he would escape punishment for the grievous offenses he had committed (as a Sobibor guard).
It looked as if the Phillies might have registered their first hit against Bailey in the bottom half of the fifth, but Jorge Alfaro reached base on a throwing error by third baseman Alex Blandino.
The South Korean-born New Zealander looked as if she might launch a charge with six birdies in nine holes from the eighth but a double-bogey at the last stopped her in her tracks.
The Hoyas looked as if they were going to put a run together with three straight wins to close out January, but lost three of four in February and it is easy to see why.
Early this year, it looked as if the dollar would stay at those elevated levels because the Federal Reserve was raising interest rates while other global central banks were cutting them to stimulate their economies.
He looked as if dogs might have gotten to him after Syrian government forces, backed by loyal militiamen, routed him and his comrades from the ancient city after almost a year of Islamic State control.
"We would love to have an American be there," Merenzon, a Russian who was educated in the United States, said when it still looked as if an American might win the right to challenge Carlsen.
The Japanese authorities have not indicted Mr. Ghosn on any charges related to the accusation, but have allowed prosecutors to continue holding him just when it looked as if he might be released on bail.
By Friday, as the counting of late ballots continued and Democratic candidates in Florida and Arizona suddenly looked as if they might emerge on top, Mr. Trump blamed corrupt election officials for "finding" Democratic votes.
Scoring on a 90-yard, 10-play drive to cut the lead to 27-14, Nebraska looked as if it could build momentum going into halftime knowing it had possession to start the second half.
There were people who couldn't keep time, people who could really dance and jazz dudes who could keep time so well, and in such complicated subdivisions, that it just looked as if they couldn't dance.
Also twisted matador hats, high-waisted toreador trousers and big shawl-like shoulders that hugged the body and looked as if a bullfighter was going to navigate the corporate seas via the South of France.
Its solitary setting, their mother's tchotchke-filled Southern California bungalow, deteriorates along with the brothers' psychological mooring, and the rehearsal set looked as if it had been turned upside down and shaken for loose change.
The only blemish on his round came at the par-5 sixth, when he pulled his tee shot into the trees and looked as if he would have to punch out back to the fairway.
At one point, Justin Edwards, playing a slow-minded Englishman called Tom Kettle, was sprayed with water and strategically daubed with (organic) mud, so it looked as if he had just come from the marshes.
MINNEAPOLIS — When Matt Mooney was refurbishing used basketball shoes and selling them out of the trunk of his car in high school, that entrepreneurial streak looked as if it would carry him further than basketball.
It was a joyous ride, which only really looked as if it might be upset in the run-in by Qatar's little-known Abderrahaman Samba who was timing his run well until hitting the last barrier.
What's more, a 911 caller identified Lewis by name in a call in May, saying he looked as if he was breaking into a Howard Beach home with a crowbar, ABC News reports, citing police sources.
Many of my fellow voyagers looked as if they were lifted directly from a Hollister catalogue—rippling muscles, hairless bodies, blonde hair sparkling in the sun, and harboring a marked tendency for questionable, nautically-themed tattoos.
WHEN, last week, Pat McCrory finally admitted defeat in North Carolina's governor's contest, belatedly abandoning his graceless demand for a recount, it looked as if Republican efforts to sway the state's elections had finally been exhausted.
The sport's oldest and most successful team looked as if they were a step ahead in pre-season testing but Mercedes have won all seven races so far, including one-two finishes in the first five.
The gym looked as if it had not changed much since its rumored opening 70 years ago: there was a large room with heavy punch bags and behind that, in the back, a small sparring ring.
It looked as if the lesson might be learned in China, too, but when I visited this April, authorities had begun a new stimulus campaign, and debt was still growing three times faster than the economy.
A day earlier, Miller had left the field in anguish and annoyance after taking a line drive off his nonthrowing arm — an injury that looked as if it might be a formidable blow to the Yankees.
Yankees 2, Astros 1 HOUSTON — A couple of hours after Aroldis Chapman left the clubhouse at Minute Maid Park on Monday, it looked as if the Yankees' playoff hopes were ready to follow in his footsteps.
Coach Fernando Hierro looked as if he could barely believe his luck when he charged on to the pitch at fulltime waving one finger to signal to his players that they had sneaked into first place.
Surrounded by Moscow glitterati and well-groomed waiters who looked as if they had been borrowed from an expensive nightclub, the grandmaster, 23-year-old Fabiano Caruana of the United States, was not having much fun.
Yet the Ukrainian military was weak: Every time it looked as if its forces were about to make some inroads into the Donbas, Russia would surge in some of its own troops and shatter their attack.
Two years ago, the Pirates were coming off a 98-win season and their third straight playoff appearance, and looked as if they might be just a player or two away from a championship-calibre club.
Purdue looked as if it would turn the game into a rout in the first half, going on a 20-3 run to take a 31-14 lead with 23:41 left in the first half.
The Yankees still have a month to regain their groove, but on Monday it looked as if there was only one team that was roused by the crowd, and playing as if something were at stake.
When I entered his office, Nadery invited me onto a balcony with a view of Darul Aman Palace, a colossal neoclassical structure that looked as if it had been teleported from the Latin Quarter of Paris.
In 2007, Jin Meng, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, and his colleagues reported finding the fossil of a 160-million-year-old mammal, called Volaticotherium, that looked as if it could glide.
She had a good reason: Madden had recently battled breast cancer, she needed a second mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, and it looked as if the publication of the article was going to coincide with the procedure.
Before then, though, it had looked as if seventh-placed Everton were about to leapfrog United in the table on goal difference when a rare and deft Phil Jagielka goal gave the visitors a first-half lead.
Kepler, Mejia power Twins past Red Sox BOSTON — When Max Kepler squared up a sixth-inning fastball from Boston's Rick Porcello, it almost looked as if he were swinging a golf club instead of a baseball bat.
The euro, which had looked as if it was headed toward parity with the dollar at the end of 2016, has recovered above $1.07 and hit seven-week highs of $1.0774 in early Asian trading on Tuesday.
WHEN, almost a month after the vote, Pat McCrory admitted defeat in North Carolina's governor's contest, abandoning his graceless demand for a recount, it looked as if Republican efforts to sway the state's elections were finally exhausted.
Or scriptwriting for TV. It didn't matter how small the job was, the calendar had to be full to the point where it really looked as if I was going to struggle to hit all the deadlines.
All this at the risk of being set alight, but then, from where Lucy stood, Safi ye looked as if she was formed of fire herself, particles of flame dancing the flesh of her arm into existence.
When in July she announced a pause in the approval process for Hinkley Point C, a proposed nuclear power station due to be part-financed by China, it looked as if another U-turn might be ahead.
The week looked as if it might get even stormier, but by Thursday evening the attorney general's office had issued a statement saying it had opened an internal affairs inquiry into the actions of the government investigators.
Another time, he wore steep black heels with pilgrim buckles, a tight-fitting black army jacket with the collar turned up, and outsized corduroy trousers that looked as if they belonged to someone else, or should have.
And it looked as if posting a low score might only get easier in the fourth round because tournament officials decided on Sunday that the event's final 18 holes would be played under the preferred lies rule.
His stats against the Giants (21500 yards, three touchdowns) were inflated by his opponents' defensive incompetence, but a few weeks ago he looked as if he would have a hard time scoring points against a college team.
For a time it looked as if his administration would have some reasonably competent people in its cabinet but that the White House itself, the zone of crucial decision making, would be reserved for cranks and cronies.
To Chamblee, it looked as if the butt end of Langer's long putter was embedded in his shirt during the stroke and as if his left forearm touched his chest, a potential violation of Rule 14-1b.
There was a point, in the dying days of the European transfer window, when it looked as if the Brazilian might get the move (back) to Barcelona that he craved, only for it all to fall apart.
Finally, after an uptick in oil prices in 2016 and an abrupt shift in sentiment after Donald J. Trump's election in November, it looked as if the world economy might be getting jolted out of that cycle.
He made his name as the tough-talking, truth-telling presidential candidate before he actually won a nomination and became the cranky guy who looked as if he was yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
Ubers pulled up at Katz's Delicatessen on the Lower East Side and deposited what Central Casting wished it could: old Jews, rappers, downtown model types, guys who looked as if they still bought their porn in print.
It looked as if there could be another major upset when Oxford erased a 2-0 deficit, but a goal by the substitute Cristhian Stuani in the 86th minute sealed the 3-2 victory for host Middlesbrough.
It looked as if the Saints had wrapped up their first division title since 2011 as they were rolling to a win over the Falcons while the Panthers were losing in the final minute against the Buccaneers.
The Oilers looked as if they had broken the scoreless drought eight minutes into the second period when Oscar Klefbom took a feed from Jesse Puljujarvi at the point and blasted a shot through traffic and past Holtby.
We saw the show sticking to its source material more closely than it ever had before, and it looked as if it was trading in its standard narrative toolkit for something newer and bolder focused on world-building.
At the Moschino show during Milan Fashion Week, models like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner walked out in ensembles that looked as if someone had scribbled a fat, black marker all over them — right down to their nails.
A perfect storm appeared to be brewing around oil markets at the start of the year, but the winds that looked as if they might at least partially reverse the oil price rout appear to be dying down.
It looked as if it might be a short evening for Duffy in the first inning as the first two Twins' batters, Mauer and Eddie Rosario, singled and Robbie Grossman walked two outs later to load the bases.
As the game went on, England looked as if it had an increasing stranglehold on West Indies, despite the resistance of Marlon Samuels, whose 85 not out is the highest ever individual score in a World Twenty20 final.
Typically if rates are likely to rise, then you should look to lock in good deals on any debt you have, she says, with the opposite being true if interest rates looked as if they were to fall.
As of Thursday afternoon, votes were still being counted — but the effort looked as if it was doomed to defeat, with the "no" votes leading the "yes" votes by more than 35,000 with almost 2.4 million votes cast.
While it looked as if the strike was settled this week when the governor agreed to 5 percent raises, the Legislature had not committed to that, and how much workers would pay for health care was still unsettled.
Williams wants to be a role model for working mothers, and at Wimbledon, it looked as if she was carrying the weight of that self-imposed responsibility along with the pressure of facing a master counterpuncher like Kerber.
In the many years of US-Iran confrontations, Iran has provoked Washington with terrorist attacks and by supporting anti-US proxies but also tried to back down when things looked as if they might get out of control.
He was tall, thin, looked as if he loved L.A. and routinely announced, "I love L.A." Every Monday night for the next month, I would stuff my contact lens solution into my backpack and walk to Michael's apartment.
For much of the 2016 American presidential contest, it looked as if Donald J. Trump would take a path similar to Ms. Le Pen's: unprecedented victory in the Republican primary followed by humiliating defeat in the general election.
Just a few weeks ago, it looked as if the Trump operation might collapse, amid the candidate's attacks on the Khan family, whose son died a hero in Iraq, and the departure of Paul Manafort, his campaign manager.
A 45-minute boat ride later, Ko Kut rose from the Gulf of Thailand, a green hump ringed by an undeveloped beach and statuesque boulders that looked as if they had been designed for diving into the sea.
The monarch looked as if she was genuinely enjoying the show as she watched on from the coveted front-row spot (known as the "frow" in the industry) and was given a special velvet cushion to sit on.
At first glance, the documents the retiree had spread out on a table in Tucson looked as if they could have been keepsakes from just about anyone's career: a company magazine, a timeline, letters of commendation and congratulation.
For all their beauty and imagination, Sarah Lane, in a short, flirty dress, and Cory Stearns, in jeans and a white T-shirt, looked as if they were part of an artier outtake from "Dirty Dancing," the 1987 film.
Western Construction and Equipment owner Jeff Light says Yangson slowly syphoned that money by forging checks to her husband and herself, later editing information in the business's accounting system so it looked as if she had paid other businesses.
They hit the wire together in a blur, two gray horses that had shown promise on their way to the Kentucky Derby but once beneath those iconic twin spires looked as if they hardly belonged in America's greatest race.
Four decades ago, the Brooklyn Academy of Music was a lone fortress on Lafayette Avenue; the jazz singer Betty Carter lived on a stretch of St. Felix Street alongside it that looked as if it had been intermittently bombed.
In April, when the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Washington, it looked as if the nation was finally going to reckon with the outsize role that technology companies now play in American elections.
Gail: And we've all noticed the deep, deep irony of Hillary — who Trump keeps suggesting is so sick she can barely walk down the street — standing there slugging away while her opponent looked as if he needed a nap.
His past productions at the Met have ranged from the whimsical (his Bollywood-accented take on Handel's "Giulio Cesare") to the traditional (his production of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" looked as if it could have been painted by Hans Holbein).
With online commerce offering infinite selection at unbeatable prices –enabled by centralized warehouses instead of thousands of locations– it looked as if nearly every retailer was doomed to face the same fate as Borders or Blockbuster going against Amazon.
And Garbrandt even took a page out of Cruz's book in the first round by hitting a beautiful takedown as Cruz pursued him that looked as if it could have been lifted straight from the second Faber – Cruz bout.
By the time the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, was finally permitted to visit the site in 2015, it was empty, though the agency's report indicated that it looked as if equipment had been removed.
By early Saturday, in a rare bit of good news, it looked as if some of the hardest hit islands, like Antigua and Barbuda, would avoid the worst of Jose, as the storm's course looked set to bypass them.
But the detail that struck me most forcefully was the brightness of the red ink: Every time I visited the gallery, over a matter of weeks, it looked as if the artist had painted it on only moments before.
He said the committee was hoping this could be accomplished quietly but was prepared to move more aggressively — such as by steering financial contributions to favored candidates if it looked as if Democrats might be running themselves to defeat.
Fleetwood, an Englishman, looked as if he might challenge Rory McIlroy's 23-hole tournament record of 25 under from 218 when he made his fifth birdie (against no bogeys) to get to 23 under with three holes to play.
Four years after Uchimura's botched dismount from the pommel horse almost denied Japan a team medal in London, it looked as if the same apparatus would be their undoing again when Koji Yamamuro lost his grip and rolled off.
The deck in back could use some beautification — although Mr. Li has already reinforced it, because it looked as if it might collapse (for a while, they had to enforce a five-person-at-a-time limit at barbecues).
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that aviation experts have yet to explain the reason for the deadly incident, with one aviation expert telling the newspaper that it looked as if the aircraft had come apart before hitting the ground.
For a moment it looked as if Tom Watson and the Labour Party's Social Democratic wing might stage a mass walk-out and join the Tiggers (as Change UK members were known when their nascent party was still the Independent Group).
It wants a lasting friendship with Russia, if only to secure its northern border, the scene of clashes in 1969, and a source of worry in the 1990s when Russia looked as if it might drift into the West's orbit.
It looked as if Chara gave the Bruins a 2-1 lead early in the second period with a seeing-eye wrist shot after a Jets giveaway in their own zone, but Winnipeg challenged the play, and it was ruled offside.
Iwakuma, Mariners shut out Tigers SEATTLE — Thirty-five-year-old starter Hisashi Iwakuma looked as if he had thrown his last pitch for the Seattle Mariners when he signed a free agent deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers in early December.
I started taking spin classes twice a week, and the high I felt while cycling up an imaginary mountain, sweating so much it looked as if I'd jumped in a pool when I left the studio, was incomparable to anything else.
When I told my sister I was quitting my job as a book editor to edit a magazine of stories and poems, she looked as if I'd said I was running away to join the circus: a tiny, doomed, irrelevant circus.
Mr Stone, who both worked on the campaign for a while and seemed to have advance knowledge of the emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee by Russian military intelligence (the GRU) looked as if he might be the missing link.
It looked as if there might be a shock at Emirates Stadium in London as Arsenal, the Premier League leader, fell behind on a Jermaine Lens goal after 17 minutes for Sunderland, which is second to last in the league.
It looked as if the Packers would to cut into the Falcons' lead early in the second quarter, but Jalen Collins stripped Aaron Ripkowski at the 23-yard line and recovered the fumble in the end zone for a touchback.
When taking photos that produced bokeh — a photography term used when talking about depth of field, and thus a perceived blurriness in a photo — it looked as if it was applied via software, instead of naturally produced with the camera's lens.
The Cubs looked as if they would settle for a small-ball reply in the bottom of the inning, but Bryant's three-run shot put them ahead 4-1 after Chicago first tied it 1-all on the squeeze by Quintana.
What happened next was captured on a sheriff deputy's dashcam: a wall of fire leaped across the road, its intensity growing as it swallowed the surrounding vegetation, until it looked as if the dash cam was pointed directly at the sun.
It looked as if their weakness had been exposed - an inability to change their game, stop a momentum swing or deliver a plan B. Jones immediately accepted there was a "psychological issue" but was entirely confident that he could fix it.
For the second year in a row, a bill made its way through the Alabama Legislature in the past session, and with the backing of high-level Republicans as well as voting rights advocates, it looked as if it might pass.
After Ellsbury's home run staked the Yankees to a 4-0 lead, they looked as if they had put the game out of reach with six runs in the fifth, an outburst that was aided by shortstop Francisco Lindor's throwing error.
Depp, with long hair and a black paisley bandana around his head, looked as if he had walked off the set of "Pirates of the Caribbean", where his role of Jack Sparrow is modeled on Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
Roundup After being told that his right rotator cuff was "significantly torn" and calling 22006 of his closest friends to tell them it looked as if his career was over, Washington Nationals pitcher Bronson Arroyo received some good news on Saturday.
But it looked as if the team that has dominated the last two seasons might have been trying to give a bit of false hope to fans of other teams at a time of year when finishing first doesn't count.
" Kenney told CBS Philly he has seen the TMZ Sports video of the brawl and says ... "In addition to punches being thrown, there were some kicks that looked as if they were being leveled and that's unconscionable and it's cowardly.
Omega eventually took control, and it looked as if the game plan he and partner Kota Ibushi laid out—leverage his quickness advantage early, get the first fall, and trust his conditioning advantage to split the final two falls—was working.
In the first dozen games of this season it looked as if Caris LeVert, a first-round pick in 2016, could be emerging as the team's long-awaited star, and then a devastating ankle injury sidelined him for three months.
Having won his first six games on the bounce, it looked as if all would be swept away in the face of Guardiola's Premier League revolution, and football's commentariat were desperate to be a part of that new world order.
By the next morning, the post was shared not only by fashion editors, but also left-leaning people outside the industry, along with the tired eye roll: It looked as if Forever 21 had copied the work of an independent designer.
"It really always looked as if my vote didn't matter, being a single mom of two kids, struggling most of my life, losing a parent at a young age," she said, explaining that her mother died when she was 14.
Soon enough, I was sitting in the marble lobby across from a man in a black leather jacket who rented me a town car after unquestioningly accepting a license that looked as if I had typed it in my mom's basement.
Some people looked a little bemused; a couple of royals looked as if they were on the verge of giggling, at least according to the The Daily Mail, which likes to stir up trouble, in this case with mild insinuation.
TOKYO — As recently as this spring, Shinzo Abe looked as if he was on track to become Japan's longest-serving prime minister, no small feat in a country where the leadership sometimes seems to be equipped with a revolving door.
Corrections officers and the city officials they answer to had neglected Layleen in Rikers, her family wanted to argue, and now it looked as if they were going to neglect her again: a shocking death, compounded by airless civil proceedings.
After five consecutive games in which the home team came out on top, it looked as if the trend might be over in Game 27 on Friday night when Boston's Al Horford banked in a 21979-footer with seven seconds left.
EditorsNote: Several tweaks and fixes A game that looked as if it would be a blowout turned into a nail-biter for the Winnipeg Jets, who held on for a 133-213 home win over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday.
They walked to Herald Square, and suddenly they seemed to be filming a different movie: the area was largely deserted, except for a volunteer serving soup to some hungry people who looked as if they didn't have anywhere to go.
Laverne Cox had the unenviable job of stepping into his shoes as Frank-N-Furter, and never looked as if she was doing more than imitating her onscreen predecessor, something that was true of the rest of the cast as well.
Thin strips of silver had been hand stitched to create a turtleneck mini that looked as if it had been molded from liquid mercury, and metal cut into geodesic flowers strung together to create a proprietary universe for the body.
The two social novels share not only concerns about money and society, but also withering appraisals of appearances (Larsen's protagonist observes with cool equanimity that her friend "looked as if her husband might be a butcher"), and similarly shattering endings.
Thanks to reams of information — sensors and surveillance everywhere, and computing capacity to make sense of it all — it looked as if we were entering a "Minority Report"-type world, where much of the future could be foretold in our numbers.
DeMarcus Cousins looked as if he had a shot at the offensive rebound, but he couldn't get his hands on it — so the ball rolled, and kept rolling, all the way to half-court, where no one could get control.
With her knotted tangle of bleached hair, messily applied red lipstick and dirty-looking babydoll dresses, Courtney looked as if she'd accidentally tumbled off another planet when she was wasted and was now stuck on this one, with a hangover.
In a popular corridor east of San Diego, they repeatedly came upon stretches of desert that looked as if a funnel or wind devil had set down and annihilated any trace of animal or insect traffic on the sandy floor.
TOKYO — For a few hours on Thursday, it looked as if Sharp, the ailing Japanese consumer electronics company, had secured a $5.5 billion takeover from Foxconn of Taiwan, the giant contract manufacturer that churns out products for Apple and other foreign brands.
After being hampered by a hamstring injury in training camp, Johnson looked as if nothing could slow him after he became the first N.F.L. player with a rushing touchdown, a receiving touchdown and a kickoff-return touchdown in his first two games.
Driving the news: Agari is reporting it discovered that a fraud group they've nicknamed "London Blue" attempted to trick its chief financial officer into a fraudulent transfer of $22,650 using a fake email that looked as if it was from the CEO.
The court recently heard arguments in a significant challenge to the labor movement over the collection of dues by public-sector unions, and it looked as if the plaintiffs would prevail; a tie, without Justice Scalia, would keep the current system intact.
When the Northern Trust Open field was finalized last week, it looked as if Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood here would be the stage for the latest high-profile duel, between Spieth, the world's No. 22012 golfer, and Rory McIlroy.
With zero shots on goal after 120 minutes it looked as if the Sounders, who have reached the playoffs in each of their eight years in the league, would come up short yet again but found the target when it mattered most.
It looked as if the recommendation of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to take Gard off a ventilator and provide palliative care would be carried out, on the grounds that keeping Gard alive and in pain would cause him undue suffering.
The Aggies have lost some of the swagger that followed when Johnny Manziel took the Southeastern Conference by storm, Sumlin became a $2490 million-per-year head coach and Texas A&M looked as if it could be a perennial threat to Alabama.
In early 2015, it looked as if Varoufakis's party, the left-wing Syriza party, had a chance to roll back some of the harsh austerity measures the EU and IMF imposed on their country in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Project Mercury (an Eisenhower program, I feel conservatively compelled even now to point out) had found in the new President a leader who looked as if he could himself be one of the seven astronauts in whose progress I took an obsessive interest.
The bed covers, sheets, pillowcases, and nightstand next to the bed were red, the hardcover books and knick-knacks, throw rugs and drapery — all that could be seen in a place that looked as if it were ready for human habitation was red.
It looked as if it would be a serious contender for the top spot after that first season with Mercedes, but it has had a tougher time this year, and is in fifth place, in a close battle with the Force India team.
Harena, even then, was extraordinarily pretty, with fawn-colored hair and skin, long spindly legs, acerbic breasts, and a beauty mark beside an arched nose that looked as if it belonged on an ancient marble statue in a museum thousands of miles away.
It looked as if a shot against the goal post by Alexis Sánchez would be the closest Arsenal would come to scoring until Giroud, making his return to the starting 11, looped a header over goalkeeper Ben Foster with four minutes to play.
The flare initially looked as if it would drop, and McCutchen, on first after getting hit by a pitch, was sprinting to third, but Haniger extended his body and slid his glove under the ball to loud cheers from the home crowd.
The colt not only made it to the starting gate of the Kentucky Derby but looked as if he had an opportunity to win the race when Gaffalione seemed to have found another gear as they turned for home at Churchill Downs.
Eastern, CBS The Bills appeared to have torpedoed their playoff chances when they benched quarterback Tyrod Taylor at the start of Week 11, taking a loss that looked as if it would keep Buffalo out of the playoffs for an 18th consecutive season.
CreditCreditRyan Pfluger for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — When Rupert Friend stepped out of wardrobe on a recent Wednesday, he wore a filthy checked shirt, baggy tweed pants and boots that looked as if they could have been used as chew toys.
So back in the 1990s, when electronics had arrived at a point where people could build headsets that blocked off actual reality and replaced it with a virtual version created inside a computer, it looked as if something world-changing might have arrived.
Back when we lived under what was called the "sustainable growth rate," we had to go through a "doc fix" scare every six months to a year as it looked as if Medicare reimbursement rates were going to fall off a cliff.
In a warehouse in Pennsauken, New Jersey, lying face down on a contraption that looked as if it were built for medieval torture, I flapped my arms, which were strapped to plastic "wings," and flew like a bird over New York City.
From afar, many of the dresses and leather coats looked as if they had sprouted long, multicolored strings (there are a lot of strings around), which turned out to be the dangling yarns of sampler patterns worked onto the weft of the garment.
Related: The Feds and North Carolina Are Suing Each Other Over the State's Anti-LGBT Law House Democrats applauded and whistled initially when it looked as if the bill would pass and continued to clap as more members voted in the affirmative.
Woodland, who could not manage a top-210 finish in his first 275 majors, looked as if he played for the biggest prizes in the game every week as he carded a third round two-under 69 that featured three birdies and a lone bogey.
Then, for a brief moment, it looked as if the White House was declaring a trade war, when reports surfaced on Twitter that Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, had said that a 20% tariff on Mexican imports would raise the necessary funds.
A week ago I worried about the Sanders health plan; it looked as if he was low-balling costs in an effort to obscure how hard making such a plan would be, and how many currently well-insured people would end up being losers.
For a while in Saturday's final it looked as if Husillos had run the race of his life in crossing the line in 44.92, a time which would have set a championship record and shattered the European mark that has stood for 30 years.
Penn State led 413-27 with 5:42 left and it looked as if the Nittany Lions (7-1, 4-1) were going to knock the Buckeyes out of the College Football Playoff race and put a firm grip on the Big Ten East.
In 300 hours of talks, which led to the unveiling last week of 36 reforms to the country's notoriously complicated labour rules, it looked as if President Emmanuel Macron's government and union leaders were simply negotiating a technical overhaul of France's rigid employment law.
"What at first looked as if it would turn into a legal, political deadlock," has been transformed into a "both powerful and visionary agreement" through an "intense academic dialogue," Flemming Friborg, director of the Glyptotek, said in a joint statement with Italy's minister of culture.
Gone was the red-faced, furious man of late September, with his claims about dark money and Clinton-funded plots; gone was the man who alternately wept and roared and looked as if he was trying to pass a kidney stone of compressed rage.
In fact, it looked as if Okeke was irreplaceable as his teammates struggled through a first half in which they made only 3 of 11 shots from the beyond the arc, the bombs-away zone that has accounted for 43.5 percent of the team's offense.
On the second day, Risk of Change, a theater troupe, teamed up with the L.G.B.T.Q. booth and marched through Fair in the dusty pinks and blues of the transgender pride flag, with wigs that looked as if they were from a Dr. Seuss book.
C.C. Sabathia, given a 4-2 lead on home runs by Didi Gregorius and Greg Bird, looked as if he were going to extricate himself from a jam when, with runners at second and third and two outs, Guyer hit a grounder to third base.
Even with some sporty snaps to ground them, his dresses (and sleeves and trousers) looked as if they'd taken a wrong turn on the way to a Martha Graham dance performance and ended up in the ballroom of the Sixth Avenue Hilton by mistake.
Just when it looked as if some in the crowd at Christie's might nod off during a slow-going — albeit solid — auction of Impressionist and Modern works Monday evening, a bronze female head by Constantin Brancusi injected a powerful dose of excitement into the proceedings.
Montero had a strong first inning, but he looked as if he were a different pitcher in the second, allowing hard singles by the first two hitters before Maikel Franco drove a two-run double off the base of the left-center-field wall.
While it looked as if South Africa (Baa3/BB+/BB+) paid a 15bp or so concession based on where its outstanding bonds were at Monday's close, it was about 5bp once the moves on Tuesday in rates and credit spreads are taken into account.
For a while, it looked as if the closest thing this season's Champions League would get to old-fashioned, soul-stirring romance would be the new-build team, plucked out of thin air and deployed as a rolling billboard for an energy drink manufacturer.
With Obama, the terms of electability looked as if they were starting to shift—but President Donald Trump's ascendency has shown, as has Harris' campaign suspension, that America remains a mostly fixed entity within the highest echelons of government, however much we covet change.
But as soon as games began, Chaney would begin loosening it to make himself comfortable, so much so that his trademark look became a tie so heavily undone, and a shirt so disheveled, it looked as if he was wearing a John Chaney Halloween costume.
He hit seven home runs, which put him behind only Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs, and looked as if he could have been on the verge of the breakout some had expected since he was selected with the third overall pick in the 103 draft.
It looked as if Cabrera might have aggravated the injury while trying to beat out a squibber for an infield hit in the fourth inning, but remained in the game after becoming the last Mets player to take his position in the top of the fifth.
" Jewelry designer Claudia Bradby, who attended the wedding with her husband, ITN anchor Tom Bradby, told ITV that seeing the children walk down the aisle was a highlight of the already-exciting day: "They were very well practiced, they looked as if they were really enjoying it.
Indiana (11-56.63) entered the game shooting an NBA-best 40.5 percent from 3-point range, and looked as if it would continue that rhythm, shooting 50 percent from beyond the arc in the first half while the Celtics connected on only 4 of 15 from deep.
It's all but impossible to divorce those memories, and the series' nostalgic value, from the show's gloriously cheap-looking aesthetic: Even for its day, the show's production values were so minimal that it sometimes looked as if the whole thing had been shot on home video.
Back when they had toiled at honest work – Lucy at a bakery and Safi ye at an abattoir –they'd wondered if it could be true that there were people who were given money simply because they looked as if they were used to having lots of it.
Lydia Terry-Dominelli, who lives in a suburb of Albany, N.Y., signed up with Liberty in 2013, when it looked as if she and her husband were headed for divorce and she was worrying about how she could support herself and her 9-year-old daughter.
A woman's head turns to blow out cigarette smoke; a train emerges from a tunnel, gradually illuminating the faces within the carriage's interior; a ferry leaves the harbor in such a way that it looked as if the world, not the boat, is gliding across the screen.
Plimpton, whose lanky frame looked as if had been pieced together out of random lengths of industrial piping, starts on Page 1 with an extended metaphor that involves a crew of Japanese admirals screaming at all the unwieldy parts of his body to act in unison.
An aid-station volunteer from Squamish who was cheering on local athletes in the 22014 Ironman Canada race, for instance, said that based on her position and the number of times she saw Miller, it looked as if Miller had failed to complete all the laps.
LONDON (Reuters) - For a while recently it looked as if the Bank of England might finally be getting ready to raise interest rates, but Governor Mark Carney and most of his top officials seem set to remain in wait-and-see mode when they meet next week.
Students: Read the article up to the close-up photo of Mr. Doba in a white tank top, then tell us: — Can you understand why Mr. Doba looked as if he were feeling "ecstatic and feral, in the best possible sense, intrinsically wild and free" while kayaking?
What to make of those few dishes that did not come together — the pebbles of cauliflower under a layer of seeds and nuts that looked as if it had spilled from a bird feeder, or the lukewarm chocolate mousse at the bottom of a deep bowl?
Broker: Sotheby's International Realty Quebec Up from fifth place in November was a home that looked as if it took its cues from the palace of Versailles, with more than 20,000 square feet of space adorned with sumptuously crafted Beaux-Arts detail, in a prime Manhattan location.
Last week it looked as if Carson Palmer and Adrian Peterson were ready for a buddy comedy about aging players finding a way to keep up with the N.F.L.'s youngsters, but time officially caught up with both in a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Rams.
For a time, it looked as if last week's events had finally shocked the country into a similar moment of clarity, in which we could all agree that, at the very least, it is wrong to vilify political enemies in a way that might incite violence.
It was wonderful to see his face shining at us out of a thin cloud of these delicate fumes as he stirred, and mixed, and tasted, and looked as if he were making, instead of a punch, a fortune for his family down to the latest posterity.
Clinton appeared on a Facebook page that, at first glance, looked as if it were Ms. Materna's, but it included a subtle clue that it wasn't authentic in the form of a slogan that, if abbreviated, would spell out a vile word to describe a woman.
The show notes described the presentation as "Sexy by Junya Watanabe," the designer's name a significant addition that accounted for everything being oh-so-cleverly off-kilter — right down to the slashes of red lipstick that looked as if they'd been applied in a moving vehicle.
Ms. Arden, 59, said in an interview that it looked as if Ms. Winters had spilled the drink intentionally, and noted that Ms. Bryant had said on social media Thursday that she had gotten questions from Mr. Winters's constituents about how public money was being spent.
Bacon's assistant evaporated out the door as her boss set a plate on the kitchen counter: strawberry-rose-geranium bars, tiny "doughnuts" made with mushroom and quinoa and a cinnamon bun that looked as if it were forged by a chic cave man with primitive tools.
After striking out 19 times with just one hit in 25 big-league at-bats last year, Gallo looked as if he might be headed back to minors this year, as the Rangers had re-signed Mike Napoli at first base and had a crowded outfield.
The first option is the most common, "none," and the next option is "American Indian"; Wiggins said officers were accidentally hitting the second option when they meant "none," skewing the numbers so badly that it looked as if Native Americans in Kentucky were suffering an epidemic of hateful violence.
Just as it looked as if an easy win had slipped away, the Lightning tied the game 24 seconds later as right winger Nikita Kucherov scored his 24th goal of the season to retake the team scoring lead and tie the game at 5-5 with 4:56 remaining.
In 2016 he made his biggest serpent yet, a 254-metre-long beast (pictured) that coiled and roiled over islands of sea containers stacked around the nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, its unhinged jaw open so wide it looked as if it could swallow the world.
There were moments during the series' underrated fourth season when, between Hannah's damningly indulgent stint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the invention of a carnivorous art-monster named Mimi-Rose (Gillian Jacobs), the show looked as if it had found its groove as a creative-class farce.
The euro, which had looked as if it was heading toward parity with the dollar at the end of 2016, has rebounded above $1.07 and hit seven-week highs of $1.0774 in early Asian trading, though by 1220 GMT it was 0.2 percent down on the day at $1.0745.
Cook watched as six quarterbacks were taken off the board before he was selected by Oakland with the second pick of the fourth round on Saturday in Chicago, and Billings went to Cincinnati at No. 25 after it had looked as if he could be a first-round pick.
But just when it looked as if the team was set for a resurgence — 2016 was supposed to be the year it hoped to challenge Mercedes for the title — Ferrari has found itself the third-strongest team, behind Red Bull, and having so far won no races this year.
Trump ultimately asked Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) to pull the legislation as it increasingly looked as if it did not have enough votes to pass.
And yet, notwithstanding his impressive client base and apex predator status in the art world, Mr. Ruby spent the moments before the show fussing backstage with the drape of a bulky sweater that looked as if it had been knitted by a Cyclops and also wielding a lint roller.
For a while this season, it looked as if Burnley's days among the elite could be numbered: The club won only twice in nine games from the end of November to the middle of January, and found itself dancing around the fringes of the struggle to avoid relegation.
After the game, Jones, who ended up with three interceptions and completed just 15 of 31 passes, looked as if he was still expecting another Patriots lineman to jump into his field of vision, or another New England defensive back to leap unexpectedly in front of one his passes.
" Three years after the tower opened, the architecture critic Paul Goldberger, writing for The New York Times, begrudgingly gave it a nod, describing it as "an alien object," but adding, "It is a lot less destructive to the cityscape than it looked as if it was going to be.
Claypool, a tall, bald man who looked as if he had rolled out of bed in his magisterial robes, appeared to be unmoved by the defense lawyers' attempts to reduce the $303,000 bail or to characterize their clients, none of whom had a criminal record, as law-­abiding citizens.
Just before Christmas it looked as if she was at last beginning to regain her authority, thanks to a successful budget and the conclusion of the first stage of the negotiations to withdraw from the EU. But whatever goodwill she had accumulated was destroyed by this week's cack-handed cabinet reshuffle.
Severino carries Yankees to season sweep of Mets NEW YORK — Luis Severino and Steven Matz looked as if they would be linked together in New York for years in the summer of 2015, when they made their major league debuts within six weeks of one another and pitched dynamically as rookies.
When the justices' orders were first distributed on the morning of June 6th, it looked as if the court was about to dive into a troubling feature of America's death-penalty machinery that had only been skirted around in previous cases: the often vast time lag between sentencing and execution.
Hard-liners in Trump's orbit, as well as commentators who are usually supportive of the president, had been vigorously critical when it looked as if he would sign a funding bill that did not include the $5 billion he had sought to advance the building of a southern border wall.
Her boyfriend at the time, Geoff Knoop, posed as a musician named Astor, and his half-sister, Savannah Knoop, pretended to be JT LeRoy, showing up at public events in oversize sunglasses and a blond wig that looked as if it came from the prop department of a B movie.
At the start, a guitar was held in near darkness by black-clad men so that it looked as if it were floating in air; repeatedly, Ms. Planté walked to it, positioned her arms as if to play and appeared to strum a few notes before returning to the wings.
What looked as if it would be a romp in this matchup of universities tainted by separate scandals in recent weeks became a taut affair in the waning minutes, as the 21th-seeded Bulldogs whittled an 133-point deficit to as few as 213 points before the No. 284 Tigers escaped.
"That's just a deep route, a deep out," Hill said after the game of the route that looked as if it was headed to the right before he made the nasty cut to the left that sent a defensive back twisting around and put Hill into so much empty space.
With Cleveland tying the game with less than five seconds left in regulation, it looked as if they could pull off one of the most shocking upsets in NBA history when the ball fell into the hands of Cavs forward JR Smith, who was just feet from the basket as time ticked down.
As I ran next to her on Sunday, ticking off one mile after the other, from Staten Island to Manhattan, she looked as if she'd always been meant to do this one thing that had been denied to her, and she did it as if it were no big deal at all.
It was almost as exhausting for fans at the French Open to watch as it was to play, and Stepanek looked as if he needed the embrace to commemorate the moment and confirm that he and Murray, the No. 2 player in the world, had engaged in such an unexpectedly grueling encounter.
What appeared to be a firearm was, in fact, a metal pipe with a knob and the man who looked as if he might be a dangerous assailant turned out to be someone well known locally, a welder and a father who suffered from bipolar disorder, a frequent, harmless presence on the streets.
Any president who truly wants to enact bold policies to provide Americans with lives of worth and dignity will have to contend with the raw financial power of industry as well as its grinning factotums—men and women who not long ago looked as if they were down for the cause themselves.
" As Trump tells it in "The Art of the Deal," there were so many dump trucks and bulldozers pushing around dirt and filling holes that had just been dug that when Holiday Inn executives visited the site it "looked as if we were in the midst of building the Grand Coulee Dam.
Teheran, who tossed a one-hit shutout against the Mets at Citi Field on June 23, 216.20, looked as if he would better that effort and throw the Braves' first no-hitter in nearly a quarter-century when he retired 20 of the first 21 batters he faced over the first 6 2/3 innings.
But with Cleveland tying the game with less than five seconds left in regulation, it looked as if they could pull off one of the greatest upsets in NBA Finals history when the ball fell into the hands of Cavs forward JR Smith, who was just feet from the basket as time ticked down.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads What I saw when I stepped from the elevator and entered the hush of the Artists Space gallery was barely anything: a red raincoat on the wall, some honey-colored wood benches that looked as if they belonged in a courtroom, and some odd steel contraptions on the floor.
While the helmets of their original AFL rivals featured cartoon images of dancing dolphins, bucking broncos, and a slumping buffalo that looked as if it knew it was on its way to the slaughterhouse, Oakland's logo was a crossed-swords pirate—beholden to no one, loved only by his crew, sailing by the autumn wind.
Luis Pablo Martinez, 25, a student at El Paso Community College with punk-rock hair and boots, looked as if he were heading out of a Sanders rally as he walked back to his car after voting last week at an El Paso recreation center during the 10-day early-voting period in Texas.
But 20 minutes into "Wonder Woman," the director Patty Jenkins's take on the iconic DC Comics story, the tears came uncontrollably — as the Amazonian women twirled and glided, fierce and muscular and graceful at once, engaged in battle moves that looked as if they were choreographed for women's bodies (which, it turned out, they were).
Editorial For a moment there it looked as if Russia had finally fessed up about its gigantic sports doping operation, even though a senior official's acknowledgment of an "institutional conspiracy" in an interview with Rebecca Ruiz of The Times was coupled with the usual whining about how Russia was being pilloried for what everybody does.
On the day that the former F.B.I. director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, I was walking around the Senate side of the Capitol and noticed that whenever Republican members were asked about Trump, as they inevitably were, they looked as if they were bracing for a chandelier to drop on their heads.
Oh, this hilarious story about the guy that looked as if he was going to propose to his girlfriend but in fact got down on his knee — this is such a male thing to do — so she got all excited thinking he was going to propose, and then he asked her to make him a cup of tea. Okay.
After the Korean rink put a three on the scoreboard in the opening end it looked as if they might romp to victory but Japan would not buckle and when they took two in the ninth and stole another point in the 10th to level at 7-7 the crowd were on the edge of their seats.
Emily: When it looked as if this episode would end like "DC" hinted it might — with Logan making Kendall his "blood sacrifice" — I was satisfied for having predicted the proper "skull" but also disappointed in the sense that it felt so much like Succession's season one finale, wherein Kendall saw his open rebellion quelled via unfortunate circumstances.
From my armchair, it looked as if the Clinton campaign loaded up Mr. Kaine with oppo-research grenades in the hope of either getting video clips of Mr. Pence defending Mr. Trump's controversies (or refusing to) or goading Mr. Trump into a spree like the one he went on against the former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.
Over at Furla, which recently reported a 23 percent sales spike in 2015, underscoring the current booming demand for so-called accessible luxury, heels had been embedded with fragments that looked as if they came from a shattered disco ball, while bags channeled groupie chic, awash with fringing, Navajo straps, psychedelic kaleidoscopic patterns and scattered gold studs.
It looked as if the bill was heading to a vote, but Ms. Murray withdrew it in July because a group of Republicans, led by Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, had added amendments that would have, among other things, prohibited the V.A. from working with Planned Parenthood and other groups that provide fertility services and perform abortions.
And as the horses turned for home on Saturday in this grueling mile-and-a-half marathon nicknamed the Test of the Champion, War of Will was rolling and looked as if he was going to become the first horse to fail to win the Derby but complete a Preakness-Belmont double since Afleet Alex in 2005.

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