1.   Although initially it seems wonderful, you always regret it in the end.

2.   For a while everything seemed wonderful.

3.   For the Russian immigrants spending their old age in Brooklyn these last three years, the Parkshore adult day-care centers must have seemed wonderful.

4.   On the surface, it seems wonderful.

5.   The piece has seemed wonderful before, but this performance, so exquisitely exact in gesture and perfect in intonation, was a revelation.