1.   But it was the Bush and McCain point-counterpoint that seemed most telling.

2.   Hutchinson made a number of points that seemed telling, though it was not possible to determine whether they had any impact on the senators.

3.   Hutchinson made a number of points that seemed telling, though it was not possible to tell whether they had any impact on the senators.

4.   It seems telling that America should comfortably co-opt these victims of society as spunky comic heroes.

5.   Only a confident McNair made himself available to the media afterward, which seemed telling in itself.