21.   But the public seemed not to care.

22.   But the public seems to like it.

23.   But what the public seems to imagine it will lose if Clinton goes is more complex, and more peculiar, than that.

24.   Clearly, the public seems affected by the charges and interested in a conclusion.

25.   First, the public has so far seemed ready to go along with a court-influenced determination of the fairest possible recount of the votes in Florida.

26.   For now, the public seems to be accepting the new restrictions on work and travel.

27.   France is awash in corruption scandals involving some of its leading politicians and top business executives, but the public seems to care little about the revelations.

28.   Give us more facts, the public seems to be saying.

29.   He could have added that a good man is not always a particularly good president, a concept the public now seems to get.

30.   He is posturing, rather than truly speaking his mind, at a moment when the public seems hypersensitive to posturing.