Sentence:  Without saying or <WSD>seeming</WSD> to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner 's chief concern is social criticism , we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect