I made a few more observations, none of them seeming very relevant or shedding any real light on the mystery.

That hardly seemed relevant, as long as the dog was missing.

His habitual brooding fatalism has never seemed more relevant.

(Perhaps in an era of civil tumult, like the 1960's, it would have seemed more relevant.)

But the overt themes are clear and, given the fractious state of the world, have seldom seemed more relevant.

The lyrics to Big Yellow Taxi, written in 1970, have rarely seemed more relevant.

The trouble was he'd become too swamped in the history to give full attention to details that had not seemed relevant.

"It had never seemed relevant," said David Fishlow, a campaign spokesman.