21.   Months of confinement have turned the defendant pallid and ashen, but his mood seemed almost light-hearted.

22.   Mostly, though, the mood here seemed gloomy.

23.   Still, the mood here seems to be warming toward Beijing.

24.   The mood seemed barely one of bipartisan standoff, however.

25.   The mood seemed more curious than hostile.

26.   The national mood seemed to be captured during the recent mayoral election in Vladivostok, where a majority voted against all the candidates.

27.   The mood seemed closer to one of bipartisan standoff, however.

28.   The Senate mood seemed to be relaxed, for all the off-the-floor contention.

29.   Their political mood seems to be swinging in precisely the opposite direction.

30.   Tyrone Williams, whose mood seems to change when the topic switches from football to the shooting, said he realized he needed to mature.