Sentence:  So while Ralph generally <WSD>seems</WSD> to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he's never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.