Yet the 27-year-old teacher at the center of attention seems utterly alone.

At times, the characters we have come to know and love behave in ways that seem utterly unlike them.

He seemed utterly without affectation and with a highly developed sense of the ridiculous.

I seemed utterly alone in a world of ambivalent loneliness.

It's enough to make the search for an obesity gene seem utterly beside the point.

Prost seemed utterly at ease with the pressure being put on him.

But Midori seems utterly at home; she is finally in her element.

Peter Zwack sometimes seems utterly at sea in the modern world.

He licked his lips, nervously, and seemed utterly at a loss for anything to say.

Instead, it seems utterly beside the point, whatever the point may be.