But now polite society (if you want to call it that) seems to be taking a stand.

When society seemed to be opening, experimentation did not create a crisis.

She admits that society seems to have placed more stock in science than God.

This society, whatever it was, did not seem to have access to power.

Today, he said, society seems to "prize everything but brain power."

Yet the larger society seemed not to know or care.

Individual parents may love their kids, but the society seems to wish the children disappeared.

"Under such conditions, the society would seem to be highly conservative."

But lately the society has seemed to be in a holding pattern.

The whole society seems to rise from those primitive roots.