It seems a crime to know of such a thing, and to keep it to myself.

Our lives are so short that it seems a crime to squander any of it by forgetting.

The Neapolitans are so essentially an out-of-door people and a leisurely people that it seems a crime to hurry.

Every barricade seems a crime.

And they're so damn tight it seems a crime not to make 'em pay up when they have to.

"Killing, even to bring the One back to the people as it was intended, seems a crime."

"I will admit that I am poor, and yet it seems a crime to accept money from an American."