almost as if

It was almost as if he didn't exist, which, for a Confucian official, amounts to a state of grace.

It was almost as if I could smell freedom in the air.

It was almost as if he had taken possession of her, in all of her dimensions.

Eric Cantor, G. O. P. congressman from Virginia and Republican chief deputy whip: It was almost as if panic had struck the capital.

It was almost as if he were saying, "I wish. "

A country that has been built on immigrant labour is now building fences and demonizing foreigners, almost as if it did not need them.

It was almost as if we were a big family. All of us come from different places and different backgrounds, but we are all Spartans .

I bet he will glance your way, crouch down, and move away from you almost as if to say, "I can tell you're angry and I'm not sure why. "

He felt upset and almost as if he alone were responsible for what had happened.

Yet the site retains a somewhat light feeling, almost as if it were a desert spa or re sort.

It's almost as if the higher the rating of a financial institution, the more likely it was to contribute to financial catastrophe.

(Para. 2) His voice had a surprising tone of respect, almost as if he were addressing the Supreme Court instead of a group of youngsters.

seem: It seemed almost as if the poor man wanted to give us all he knew before going away.

It's almost as if you knew that he was going to tell her that the melanoma was back.

And right up until he was taken back to Russia, he kept begging me over and over to take care of his family, almost as if he was delirious.

It was almost as if I had left China and stepped into a different world, one rather familiar to me.

It's almost as if these strips of paper are flowing, one by one, from the Ertix River into the Heilongjiang, he thought.

Somehow, he felt like he was home, almost as if God had been waiting for him there.

In the Bermuda Triangle, it's almost as if the lost planes had gone into a hole in the sky.

I am actually relaxed with few things that have to be done. It is almost as if I send out a signal to her that I am ready for the challenge.

It was almost as if the Italian police had a private agreement with the Roma fans to stand off them and let them wreak havoc.

It is almost as if it were rescuing, say, California from a looming default.

But I thought they had such a wonderfully lived-in quality onscreen, it was almost as if you'd seen them together before.

Her lips were set together almost as if she was pinching them tight to prevent words or sounds from coming out.

He felt awkward and almost as if he alone were responsible for what happened.

When the conference opened, the atmosphere was electric, almost as if it were a rock concert for policy makers.

The Decision Still, it was almost as if the Chocomize team was looking for reasons to ignore its better judgment.

The scene seemed almost as if contrived with theatrical artifice to produce an effect upon the beholder.

Almost as if the inner child in us wants to put the rest of the world on hold and just run outside to climb a tree or fly a kite.

Angel's wife felt almost as if she had been hounded up that hill like a scorned thing by those - to her - super-fine clerics.

It is almost as if climate change campaigners are relieved that the US has lived up to its let-the-planet-go-to-hell stereotype.

It seemed almost as if it had grown larger, for it appeared quite to fill the chair.

It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

There has been a sense that something similar is in the air right now: almost as if the antagonism fuels Maradona, keeps him alive even.

The Millers joked and smiled; they talked of Billy and his life, almost as if he were still there.

Why, Becky, you handle the chopsticks almost as if you were Chinese!

in fact, it was almost as if someone were running along ahead of them, sweeping the place clean.

He wielded his pen almost as if it were a toy.

It is almost as if the continent stopped having babies when the European Community, as it was then known, was formed.

It's almost as if he wanted to kill someone with it. And me in particular.

It's almost as if we're being manipulated by Dom Cobb himself, as he effortlessly travels deep into our brain to plant an idea.

It's almost as if their bodies are trying to regain the lost fat.

'It's almost as if they're in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it's keeping the brain in a sort of time warp. '

They think the economy will bounce back to its old self, almost as if nothing had happened.

It's almost as if the light show is just for you reminding you to "Dare to Dream" .

I let myself enjoy the peace. I felt almost as if I were floating, a gentle rocking motion.

Early cartons completely covered the bottles of Coke -- almost as if they were inside a box -- and had a handle at the very top.

He silently pleaded with me, almost as if to ask me why I was so intent on keeping him in the ignorance of childhood.

It was almost as if the brain had been rewired, and connected to the fright, flight or fight area in the brain stem.

It was almost as if it were an echo of the last time I'd stood like this, on a dark street in Port Angeles with strangers.

It's almost as if the writer of James is in a social situation where he didn't have the luxury of teaching salvation by faith alone.

Assange is practically a wanted man these days . It's almost as if he were on the run .

Sometimes you'll meet someone new and you'll feel drawn to them right away, almost as if you were old friends.

If you're architecting for a basic platform, you can approach it almost as if you owned all of the platform yourself.

His presence gives me uncontrollable joy, almost as if he were my sun.

It was terrible, almost as if a judge were to sleep in the same bed with a condemned man.

It's almost as if you need to create two designs: a working design and a future design.

The lady in the picture had such strange eyes that it was almost as if the woman in the picture was watching them.

It is almost as if the computer is a small child, and you are telling the child how to do something like tie his shoes for the first time.

It is almost as if someone wanted to keep you hidden whilst still preparing you for . . . what?

By using NFS, users and programs can access files on remote systems almost as if they were local files.

I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it. '

It's almost as if there are ''good'' billionaires and ''bad'' billionaires in the public consciousness.

Mazzy: I. . . see. Well spoken, gypsy woman. It is almost as if Arvoreen, herself, were perched on your shoulder. . .

It was almost as if everybody had known it.

It looks almost as if the insiders have posted a sign for the outsiders to keep out.

They ticked by sluggishly , almost as if they were doing it just to annoy me.

You say this almost as if you expect me to care.

Such slopping-over of attentionmade me feel cornered and humiliated, almost as if somebody had taken a peep into my pants.

When they were silent she stood up, and startled them almost as if a dead person had spoken.

It is almost as if technology had an ethnic dimension.

It's almost as if the inserts keep reproducing themselves!

For the unaware it's almost as if they don't realise they're always late.

In the public eye , it's almost as if they never happened .

In fact, it's almost as if an entire secondary market is forming around JUnit.

So it's almost as if, when a new house is built, you can't give it an address because you don't have any more.

"I would turn away, almost as if people could hear. "

It is almost as if she has become a part of their lives- a family member.

It's almost as if we're getting back to this starting point.

However, if you also read novels from that period you might get a stronger feeling - almost as if you had lived at that time yourself.

I have heard so much about you, it is almost as if we had already met.

Start thinking about your time and your money almost as if they are the same thing.

It is almost as if their brilliance is directly responsible for their pain.

"For some, when they look at their partner, it looks almost as if their brain is on fire, " said Acevedo.

It's almost as if users finish reading and ask themselves, "What can I do next? "

This is pure speculation, but it's almost as if the squirrel was seeking to maim the bat in some way.

It's almost as if -- could this be?

It's almost as if they don't realize they are handling a sharp blade that is scraping at their face.

When we watch a car chase in a movie, it's almost as if we are subtly having a car chase.

Hailie just smiles and winks at her little sister, almost as if to say-,

You can size and position the external image almost as if it were a regular graphic element. For example

Hailie just smiles and winks at her little sister, almost as if to say-, hailie

ITS ALMOST AS IF SHE HERSELF CAN SENSE THE WEATHER