1.   His earlier black mood seemed to have gone.

2.   The public mood seemed to be that more organizations mean more bureaucracy, complexity and expense.

3.   In contrast to the last time she had spoken to him, his mood seem positively sunny.

4.   Although their mood seemed to be fading as fast as the late-afternoon sun, they held on to hope for tomorrow.

5.   Around City Hall, as Council members huddled in internal briefings, the mood seemed relentlessly bleak.

6.   After an hour of free throws and film work, someone mentioned to Kris Johnson that the mood seemed light considering the last-minute loss to Stanford.

7.   But a contrary mood seems at work with the public.

8.   But if the anti-Chechen mood seems more intense in Dagestan than elsewhere, few people outside Russia seem to be aware of it.

9.   But his mood seemed closer to exuberance than depression about it all as the switchboard blazed and he re-opened the microphone after another burst of commercials.

10.   But the mood seemed awkward, as though teetering between sorrow and relief.