Examples of using "Paraître" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom tried to look calm.
It just came out.
Now, I know it's a bit pompous, my response,
And it may sound like he was being overly dramatic,
Joss: AI can seem pretty abstract sometimes.
You're just being diplomatic.
Tom tried to appear calm.
She made it look easy.
It may look ridiculous.
Tom tried to sound uninterested.
Mary tried to sound uninterested.
So it seems a bit of a contradiction, then,
They can look spiky. They can look smooth.
I don't want to seem insensitive.
Does this make me look fat?
Does this make me look fat?
Dan didn't want to seem shy.
I don't want to appear weak.
I don't want to look stupid.
and it was certainly a tough week to be in news.
SY: This might seem a little bit extreme.
because it seems so straightforward to them
But, as unbelievable as it may seem,
The accused is to appear before the court on Friday.
Doing that sort of thing makes you look stupid.
It may sound strange, but it is true.
The story may sound strange, but it is true.
I hope the new version comes out soon.
Wearing glasses makes you look more intellectual.
Her smile made her look even more beautiful.
It may seem a little far-fetched,
- It sounds strange, but it is true none the less.
- Strange as it may sound, it is still fact.
She was supposed to attend the party with him.
As strange as it may sound, what Tom said is true.
To be successful, you need to look like you're already successful.
Instead of making the difficult seem easy, as a professional entertainer should do, he actually makes the easy look difficult.
The word "rape" may seem unapproachable after an attack,
was greater than my fear of appearing vulnerable on the bench,
It may sound strange, but what she said is true.
He tried to seem calm but his trembling hands betrayed him.
- He may come across as glib, but he knows what he's talking about.
- He may seem glib, but he knows what he's talking about.
Does this make me look fat?
I want to look like her.
If you change your hairstyle, you could look ten years younger.
It just came out.
An optical illusion makes the second object look larger than the first.
We must part; the day will soon break.
As strange as it may be, he met with somebody who is said to be dead.
If you changed your hair, you could look 10 years younger.
I am very good at appearing organised, although the reality is somewhat different.
Her smile made her look even more beautiful.
The populations of China and India dwarf those of every other nation.
I want to look like her.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Everyone loves to hear praise, but over-praise has the opposite effect of sounding insincere.
- Fear has magnifying eyes.
- Fear takes molehills for mountains.
- Fear hath a hundred eyes.
- Danger always looks bigger through the eyes of fear.
My favourite animals are squirrels and stoats, while my girlfriend is fascinated by spiders, strange as it may seem.
If you change your hairstyle, you could look ten years younger.
She was supposed to attend the party with him.
I was scared to ask questions because I didn't want to look stupid.
There is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
The populations of China and India dwarf those of every other nation.
Recently "simplistic" is being used more and more often as a substitute for "simple." Such solecisms--presumably driven by a desire to appear learned--impoverish the language..
"Ye too, my servants, hearken my commands. / Outside the city is a mound, where, dear / to Ceres once, but now deserted, stands / a temple, and an aged cypress near, / for ages hallowed with religious fear."
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.