Meanings of seems perpetually in English

Like all colonial governors he seems perpetually frustrated by the lack of interest shown in London.

High up in the square brick tower an illuminated clock seems perpetually to be hurrying its pointing hands toward midnight.

He's a middle-aged, medium-size, muscular Australian with a five-day beard and an intense gaze who seems perpetually coiled, even angry, when at rest.

It proceeds through the air in a series of efforts and ups-and-downs, and its long tail seems perpetually to threaten to misguide it into collapse.