1.   Although diplomacy now seems exhausted, there is a faint hope that Saddam Hussein will blink at the last minute and start honoring his international obligations.

2.   Although some visitors say he seems exhausted, he feeds off the attention and is obviously energized by it.

3.   As for Clinton, Sherman said the president seems exhausted but completely focused on the diplomatic issues at hand.

4.   At the end of nearly four hours of intense conversation, our translator seems exhausted.

5.   Beard, who came to the Nets after four seasons as head coach of Howard University, already seems exhausted sometimes, frustrated to a frazzle.

6.   But each of those periods was capped by a retrenchment, a period when the possibilities closed down and the cultural imagination seemed exhausted.

7.   Colin Carew, a dancer not associated with the show, said colleagues participating in the production at the Beacon had told him that Jackson seemed exhausted from rehearsals.

8.   Even the weather seemed exhausted by the latest loss, offering a fragment of spring in a surrender to sadness.

9.   For the moment, at least, we seem exhausted, rudderless, disoriented.

10.   Mostly, everyone seemed exhausted by a presidential election that ran an extra five weeks.