21.   Post-communist politics can seem narrow and corrupt, Zika conceded.

22.   Shocking though it is, politics also seems to figure in the health-care debate.

23.   The byzantine intricacies of Legco politics may seem far removed from the real world.

24.   The politics seem glib here, more cynical than in any blaxploitation-era movie, and by the end Shaft has turned into a vigilante.

25.   The public outrage over that Washington is so intense that presidential politics now seems almost malarial, subject to hectic chills and delusional fevers.

26.   The volatile politics of baseball seem far away when you visit the twin facilities of the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres.

27.   Yet American politics seems to defy Newtonian gravity.

28.   Yet politics seems a veneer laid over the film.

29.   Politics seem to have been our main concern, as almost everything is measured against it.

30.   But politics seems lost in a sea of human misery as refugees plead to enter Pakistan.