Though the outlook may have seemed disappointing, there were a few silver linings.

The long-term outlook would seem to favor the owners.

Tobin's creativity and positive outlook seems to have taken hold of the team.

The preliminary outlook seems to be: keep those hatches battened down.

In addition, the outlook for South Korea seems to be improving.

Critics have pointed out that their political outlook seems to be dominated by a strong Spanish nationalist ideology itself.

Almost daily, the outlook for Japan's economy seems to worsen.

Yet his outlook seems not to have been a hopeful one.

And the more he thought over it, the worse the outlook seemed.

Nevertheless, at first, the outlook of the new king's officers and counsellors seems in no way to have been bleak.