She came across as both painfully vulnerable and unfathomably strong, which is to say that she came across as human.
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"\ Continues the star: "I came across as terribly bitchy.
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To poor voters, he came across as aloof and professorial.
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For general audiences, Thanos came across as, at first, laughable.
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She's a very strong woman and came across as such.
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He came across as a rude, overbearing and nasty man.
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The segment came across as authentic, relaxed and hugely entertaining.
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The whole thing came across as a poorly planned embarrassment.
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In real life, Wilder came across as a gentle soul.
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Poor water, its agency partially stripped, came across as mean.
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"Dialogue of Wind and Sea" came across as downright dangerous.
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He came across as a happy, nice guy, she said.
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The comments also came across as extremely dehumanizing to women.
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Ms Spanberger, by contrast, came across as cool, approachable and engaged.
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The rippling finale came across as infectiously spirited but never breathless.
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To me, Spurlock's post came across as self-serving and disingenuous.
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The government came across as politically capricious and unsure of itself.
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In the first two books, Cicero came across as a hero.
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Yet he came across as a low-energy Sunday school teacher.
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Mr. Corbyn himself came across as a shambolic and petulant grouch.
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The attorney general came across as a Trump puppet on Thursday.
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Five composers from different eras came across as fearless fellow radicals.
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Together, the band members came across as thoughtful, courteous and unified.
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But Sánchez said Bloomberg's take on immigration came across as honest.
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But, quite frankly, he came across as the adult in the room.
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To a skeptic like myself, Zayner's good intentions came across as misguided.
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They came across as bland, try-hard Grand Theft Auto rip-offs.
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Do you think that you came across as yourself on the show?
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Over all, however, many came across as adolescents playing at being terrorists.
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He came across as poised and well-versed in his channeled outrage.
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Over breakfast, he came across as a blunt, unsmiling party foot soldier.
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But he came across as thoughtful, not ideologically rigid, Mr. Schoen said.
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The California Democrat occasionally used what came across as sarcasm, senators said.
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He came across as advertised: kind, respectful, dignified, decent and highly informed.
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In the end, I came across as just another agitated talking head.
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Sanders came across as more unwavering and moralistic, but also less specific.
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Hodes said Avenatti came across as someone who is seriously considering a run.
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"I hope we came across as in love and passionate tonight," he shared.
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On the positive side, Ivanka Trump came across as warm, poised, and thoughtful.
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In tone and style, he came across as more measured, poised and statesmanlike.
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"I hope we came across as in love and passionate tonight," he said.
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Rubio came across as humorless and earnest to the point of being insufferable.
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When cultures mixed, the British came across as snobby, the Americans as braggarts.
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"Well I think she came across as very human," he told the BBC.
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And it came across as they were trying to bully the city council.
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If I came across as not being supportive of you, that wasn't my intent.
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He came across as overly programmed, one-dimensional and itchy to go to war.
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The suggestion that Serena Williams doesn't respect the game came across as a microaggression.
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Unfortunately, in the streams she appeared distracted, repeated herself and came across as confused.
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The winemaker knew he had a successful product, and he came across as arrogant.
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Essentially lobster salad wrapped inside Boston lettuce, they came across as bland and uninspired.
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Passage after passage came across as excessively frenetic, overheated, not to mention over-orchestrated.
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It was a disaster: the royal family came across as stuffy and over-formal.
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She was strong and came across as a solid journalist who'd done her research.
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In three nationally televised debates, he often came across as a blustering, barracking bumbler.
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Dylan came across as a born leader — confident, humble, thoughtful and full of purpose.
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But what came across as "mission accomplished" made many people feel left out. Forgotten.
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Murray just came across as a good guy, Holloway told VICE Sports last week.
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He came across as loving camera time, so that's something to keep an eye on.
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His supporters probably enjoyed this, but stylistically he came across as rude, snippy and snide.
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It came across as menacing, generally surprising, but also a bit of a head-scratcher.
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The former governor of Florida came across as reasonable and conciliatory most of the time.
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I told Mark he came across as insensitive and he seemed oblivious to my concern.
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But it also came across as if the economic benefits of college were a given.
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Clinton, for her part, came across as a steady hand, at once patient and resolute.
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In an interview with Politico earlier this year, he came across as a Clinton fan.
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Where Basquiat and Keith Haring seemed shy showmen, Ramm came across as a nutty professor.
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But I thought, in style terms, Pence's temperament came across as more mature and measured.
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On the stand, Mr. Wildstein came across as soft-spoken and even ready to atone.
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But the Go-Go's spirit, their tough, reckless attitude, came across as sharp as ever.
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That happened on Monday in Greer Grimsley's Wotan, who came across as detached and bitter.
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In those days, Google came across as the most honest search engine on the planet.
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At one interview, a woman buying an apartment for her sister came across as dishonest.
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While the three witnesses came across as unusually admirable, they're not atypical of their breed.
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However, Biden, the former front-runner, came across as mostly an afterthought in Wednesday's debate.
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Yet each dance movement came across as an outlet for Bach's ingenious strands of counterpoint.
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But this last-minute program came across as another thoughtful recital, in the Lisztian sense.
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He came across as cramped, frustrated and forced to plead when he'd much rather command.
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She came across as secretive and perhaps not quite punctilious in her observance of the law.
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More than anything, Bennington sounded pissed, but it never came across as threatening or overly macho.
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But I understand that I came across as condemning those who disagree with my political preferences.
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Clinton came across as warm, and had what I call a "conversational quality" to her answers.
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He is an innovator who in 2016 came across as rather a stick-in-the-mud.
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Substance aside, he initially came across as caring about those who have lost jobs to trade.
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" A Duterte spokesman said Tuesday morning he regretted that "it came across as a personal attack.
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It came across as a joke, but represented the only avenue of attack Republicans had left.
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TO HER contemporaries, Charlotte Brontë came across as a "little, plain, provincial, sickly-looking old maid".
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He was obsequious to the stone-faced Russian leader and came across as unprepared and outmatched.
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In contrast to Phelps, whose blinkered focus could be off-putting, Lochte came across as accessible.
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Now, however, compared with Donald Trump he came across as a scholarly, caring, intelligent, superstar orator.
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Mr. Trump, who styles himself a master of television, thought his nominee came across as weak.
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For the first time, the importance of onscreen diversity came across as more than lip service.
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"Ruhe, meine Seele" came across as stormy and claustrophobic at once in Mr. Goerne's powerful rendition.
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Mr. Weiss said that Mr. Ross came across as over the top at their first meeting.
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"He came across as an eccentric but I grew to deeply respect him," Mr. Stiles said.
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The South Korean curlers came across as having a closeness and a camaraderie that was enviable.
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Trump's gestures of goodwill came across as contrived, made-for-TV political choreography and empty rhetoric.
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Some critics felt "Vampire Academy" (2014) came across as a cheap translation of a magical series.
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Its blend of spoken voice, soprano and Mr. Cruz's vocals came across as maudlin and gauche.
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"I guess we're stuck," I said with what I hoped came across as a sympathetic shrug.
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Buttigieg, at times, came across as overly rehearsed -- a consistent problem for him in these debates.
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" In his post, Anderson said he regretted that his comments "came across as disparaging or unsupportive.
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Others have also acknowledged issues related to China's financing practices, but came across as more upbeat.
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Cole came across as dead weight for the team, but she didn't seem like a threat.
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Clinton came across as more cautious and equivocal, but also more interested in nuance and policy.
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It helped that the messengers, in all three cases, came across as authentic advocates of their positions.
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UNINDENTIFIED MALE: They came across as playmates on a soccer field more than they did international rivals.
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"They came across as playmates on a soccer field more than they did international rivals," Acosta said.
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"He came across as very sincere," Clifton said, but added that she will not be supporting him.
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He came across as not only dreadfully unprepared for the debate, but dreadfully unprepared to be president.
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In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, he came across as halting and unsure of himself.
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But René-Charles' heartbreak also came across as he spoke, leaving many at the Mass in tears.
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"Call the Police" and "American Dream" came across as updates for the faithful: lengthy, histrionic, self-aware.
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Sometimes you walk out of a room and say, 'I think we came across as too desperate.
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In person, Mr. Wang came across as a disciplined executive — he arrived at exactly 8:59 a.m.
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At other times, he came across as willfully obtuse, the product of an alt-right echo chamber.
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Mr. Pichai came across as evasive and unwilling to acknowledge the legitimate concerns about Google's business practices.
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Throughout the referendum campaign, he came across as out of sorts, queasy and there on sufferance only.
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With her crisp British accent, she at times came across as an exasperated adult chiding naughty children.
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It is, like, unless she came across as an insane person, he was going to be 'toast.
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Whether he convinced the questioner or not, he certainly came across as sincere and willing to be engaged.
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My remark regarding the inclusion of transgender models in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show came across as insensitive.
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Watchable, initially, came across as more of an experiment with attracting cord cutters, rather than a serious effort.
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Abel, who is also deputy prime minister, added he felt Pence came across as a little too aggressive.
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Through his prepared statement, memos of conversations with the President, and sworn testimony, Comey came across as credible.
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Ted Cruz gave some fine answers, as on health care reform, but came across as petulant and snarky.
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Unfortunately, Rubio at times came across as petulant and desperate, like a Chihuahua nipping at a German shepherd.
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But the pitches Mr. Norman piles up came across as precisely chosen for their astringent beauty and impact.
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Jealous came across as genial and earnest, never letting his audience forget the seriousness of the political stakes.
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On and off the court, her attitude emerged as an issue; she sometimes came across as downright petulant.
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He came across as the suffering one, a god who already feared his time had come and gone.
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Physically, the show is hugely demanding, which could be why he at times came across as rotely professional.
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"Biden came across as more calm, cool, and collected, more than Trump did," Democratic strategist Brad Bannon said.
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And so it came across as a coherent speech and it's intended to be a big-picture agenda.
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For activists who have been grappling with these questions for years, the comments came across as ill-informed.
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As so often happens, television changed everyone: Andri Snær's constant ironic half-smile came across as sweetly embarrassed.
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If less of a shocker, this outburst came across as genuinely despairing, the cry of a broken man.
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We know how that played out, and Zuckerberg came across as defensive, unapologetic and, perhaps worst of all, naive.
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For many seasons of Game of Thrones, the Night King mostly came across as a bastion of pure death.
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Neighbors who were interviewed by ABC7 said that until his murder-suicide, Camara came across as a loving father.
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But at a Beverly Hills interview about his newest film, Annihilation, he came across as confident but surprisingly humble.
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Instead of being a joker above the fray, he came across as petulant and peevish, often yelling incoherent answers.
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When compared to the juvenile behavior of those in charge of his inquisition, he came across as almost saintly.
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It came across as suspiciously and infuriatingly evasive, and she walked anew into a trap she'd stumbled into previously.
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Their solos came across as the voices of animated objects in a way that marvelously suited Berlioz's macabre vision.
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It came across as curiously flat, willing to go in for frolic yet missing the vital element of sympathy.
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Over lunch at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, Mr. Gabai came across as bookish and a bit introverted.
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In June's debate, Biden came across as unsteady and unprepared to deal with the attacks from lower-polling rivals.
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In doing so, we not only failed to take advantage of religious argument, we came across as anti-religious.
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After Crane and some Astros players issued measured apologies that came across as insincere to many, the discontent grew.
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Susan Collins of Maine said the formerly bombastic lawyer came across as a "very different guy" during his appearance.
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Their performances then came across as splendid works in progress, but on Tuesday they delivered on all their promises.
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Spiegel led the meetings, and came across as a "visionary type" to many investors, people familiar with the meetings said.
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If I came across as bossy, that was because I was filling a role I thought needed to be filled.
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During the national campaign, Mr Kaine occasionally came across as a snarling partisan hit-man, mostly interested in lancing Republicans.
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While trying to seem like an informed, likable, regular guy, the Facebook CEO came across as none of the above.
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That posture came across as bitter, not to mention false — especially to anyone who had seen the deeply mediocre film.
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I had never seen her speak on on stage before, but she came across as poised, tough, likable, and knowledgable.
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McCarthy came across as a bullying, shifty-eyed and leering zealot, contradicting himself, casually inventing facts and ruining innocent lives.
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While the gang members had long criminal records, during their trial they often came across as bumbling and ill prepared.
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Early on, she sometimes came across as a stern Harvard professor eager to grill you about an obscure tort case.
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Still, whole stretches of the opera came across as splashy and grandiose, an impression reinforced by Mr. Zeffirelli's overblown production.
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NOTTAGE What I was saying, and what I was getting at, is that the men came across as very believable.
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They came across as friendly and harmless, so I went with them, accepting what seemed to be a new friendship.
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Multiple Hill Democrats said Milley came across as trying to match the bombast of the President in defending the strike.
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As world-weary as Gloria Grahame, she never came across as fragile, particularly in her subsequent work as a director.
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Mr. Artan, who spoke English with only a slight accent, came across as smart, thoughtful and engaging, Mr. Stankiewicz recalled.
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To markets, he came across as excessively dismissive of the message that turbulent stock, bond and commodity prices were sending.
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"Amber came across as one of the most credible people you could ever hear testify," says Frey's then-attorney, Gloria Allred.
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Trump plunged in the polls after the presidential debates, where he often came across as uninformed, angry and disrespectful to Clinton.
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But it came across as "weird," said Jim Joseph, chief integrated marketing officer at communications and public relations agency Cohn & Wolfe.
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The company also came across as fairly skeptical about today's market for these sorts of over-the-top streaming TV services.
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She came across as hawkish on Iran and cautious to avoid specifics about when she would withdraw American troops from Afghanistan.
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" The president came across as more hectoring pastor than visionary leader, Bacevich argues in "America's War for the Greater Middle East.
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She had heard, she said, that the movie might stretch the facts, and that her character possibly came across as aggressive.
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He also came across as a long-term public servant with a passion for protecting the United States against foreign threats.
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In the wild post, Yusupov flew off the handle and came across as someone no one would want to work for.
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Duterte said on Tuesday he regretted that his comments to media on Friday "came across as a personal attack" on Obama.
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Whether or not you think that award was merited, the Navy and specifically Navy legal leadership came across as tone deaf.
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Ms. Green countered that when Dr. Blasey first testified, President Trump had told aides he thought she came across as sincere.
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"At times, it came across as he was very excited about what this was going to do for patients," he said.
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Roh's lawyer, Gregory Nicolaysen, said O'Kelly came across as a "very neutral, very technical" witness in stating that they could not.
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The ad came across as "weird," said Jim Joseph, chief integrated marketing officer at communications and public relations agency Cohn & Wolfe.
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In his first hearings, he came across as calm and deliberative -- a cross between a Boy Scout and an altar boy.
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"He came across as more peace-prone, reform-minded and denuclearization-prone, which I think is a ruse," Mr. Lee said.
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During one encounter, "Thanh came across as a potential mental health subject and no criminal behavior was identified," Deputy Nathan Smith said.
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Herman Talmadge of Georgia and James Eastland of Mississippi came across as especially questionable since both were staunch opponents of civil rights.
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Zuckerberg came across as calm, in control, and ready for battle; Warren got to make another entrenched interest look scared of her.
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The app's emoji suggestions for famous names came across as more logical, with 'Taylor Swift' including various musical note emoji, for example.
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With some notable exceptions, Congress came across as prepared, serious, and thoughtful — especially compared to prior outings, when technological illiteracy reigned supreme.
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Zelensky has responded to reports that he came across as clueless in briefings with diplomats by promising to surround himself with eggheads.
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"I've always been a pretty good judge of character and he just came across as a genuine, good kid," Carreker tells PEOPLE.
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But it's a testament to the creators of the show that these moments came across as funny instead of smarmy or patronizing.
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During a Battlefield session pitch, a project-organizing app index came across as general and helpful but not as critical or necessary.
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At the same time, I also hear and agree with… just the whining and money they spent certainly came across as disingenuous.
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Iran came across as "reckless," savage and not to be trusted despite an Obama-era agreement to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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Basilio came across as the operatic prototype of a cynical, modern-day political operative whose repertory of dirty tricks has hardly dated.
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In the beginning, he came across as that progressive young Democrat and now he's being more like a pragmatic, new-era politician.
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"Zuckerberg's testimony last time came across as hard hard to access," says Anthony Johndrow, CEO of reputation advisory firm Reputation Economy Advisors.
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"I regret that my comments about potential Senatorial candidate, Mitt Romney, came across as disparaging and unsupportive," Anderson said in a statement.
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"I would like to apologize for the other day when a caption and comment were posted that came across as insensitive," Unglert wrote.
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They regularly put the game above their would-be identities, and they unexpectedly came across as more human than the established reality archetypes.
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Instead of adopting Facebook's flavor of over-rehearsed confidence and robot-like answers, Pichai came across as human, very competent and fairly sympathetic.
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If she didn't always tell her audience what they may have wanted to hear, she still came across as thoughtful, prepared, and accessible.
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"I hope we came across as in love and passionate tonight," Viall, 36, previously told PEOPLE of the After the Final Rose special.
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Exhortations to always try your hardest and maintain a positive attitude were punctuated with other signs that came across as slightly more sinister.
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Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said on the same panel with Wallace that Ford came across as an "exceptionally credible" witness.
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" Charles Bierbauer, who served as CNN's senior Washington correspondent during the Bush years, told Stelter Sunday that Bush always came across as "informed.
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"He's a great speaker, but he came across as totally scripted and kind of robotic," Bush said, referring to Rubio at the debate.
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Gates came across as a jetsetting cad who stole from Manafort while pursuing as many as four affairs involving expensive travel and accommodations.
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"Rajoy came across as someone already in election mode," said Vincenzo Scarpetta, a political analyst at the Open Europe think tank in London.
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Before tonight, the Captain came across as a racist, sexist, homophobic Irish cop stereotype who followed his corrupt orders with no questions asked.
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It made for a halting performance, in which he came across as less forceful and sure of himself than others on the stage.
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There were flames, smoke, lasers and balloons — pink ones — at Ms. Grande's disposal as well, yet the concert came across as relatively unadorned.
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Not only did Bloomberg not provide effective comebacks, he came across as peevish and irritated at having to participate in a democratic process.
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"He came across as sincere and knowledgeable about immigration and the need to get that done and make it a priority," Sanchez said.
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Ford "certainly came across as an accomplished professional and someone who isn't fabricating her story," acknowledged one party operative working on the midterms.
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Having come from Amazon, where the culture was numbers-driven and competitive, he says, Medina initially came across as "a bit abrasive" at Microsoft.
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The same month, Arizona's legislature passed a state RFRA, but it too came across as a license to discriminate, and the governor vetoed it.
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"He came across as a more soothing and empathetic voice than (Fed Chairman Jerome) Powell," said Karim Basta, chief economist at III Capital Management.
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It's because a man who long came across as a robot armored with overly polished chrome has revealed himself to be human after all.
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Tim Kaine of Virginia, came across as reassuring, reasonable and conservative in ways that, before Donald Trump came along, Republicans had grown to expect.
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In 2004, Dick Cheney did something similar to John Edwards, who came across as callow and cheap next to the Vader-ish elder statesman.
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In American Crime Story, Chris Darden came across as stingingly conflicted about his seemingly opposed roles as prosecutor and member of the black community.
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Kaine tried to cast Pence as a bigot unsuccessfully and instead came across as overly chipper and eager to hold the moral high ground.
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Maybe on the island it came across as me being like, 'Ah I don't get it so we need to tear these guys apart.
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Despite his tremendous accomplishments, including playing a key role in ending the Cold War and reunifying Germany, he came across as a regular guy.
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"It came across as Bartolo Colon for Lee Stevens and three minor league players," said Huntington, who worked under Shapiro for almost nine years.
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She came across as sincere -- even more so when she said that what she had done to help Manafort obtain bank loans was wrong.
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He seemed incapable of angst, and came across as a gleeful and self-effacing hero who appreciated designer labels and room-temperature Bud Light.
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The president's words came across as a sincere and humble sermon that addressed unpopular topics without being overly preachy or demanding, Mr. Trelles said.
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"I thought he came across as a good family person, good, decent human being," Mr. Manchin said of his initial reaction to Judge Kavanaugh.
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During the recent CNN head-to-head debate with Sanders, Biden's experience and practical approach to handling the outbreak came across as sufficiently presidential.
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It came across as unnecessarily cruel, once again playing into a longstanding sense that the Conservatives aren't really interested in helping Britain's most vulnerable.
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Judge Kavanaugh repeated some of the same scripted lines repeatedly, to the point that some of his allies believed it came across as robotic.
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"But I understand that I came across as condemning those who disagree with my political preferences," Albright added in her op-ed on Friday.
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Chris wrote that he came across as well-versed on the issues, authoritative and possessing the necessary gravitas to serve as commander-in-chief.
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Although some ventures tried to be inviting, others came across as elitist, like the International Composers' Guild, of which Edgard Varèse was a founder.
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" The day after insulting Obama, Duterte released a statement expressing regret that his comment "came across as a personal attack on the U.S. President.
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YouGov also found that 54 per cent thought Mr Johnson came across as more prime ministerial, compared with 20163 per cent for Mr Corbyn.
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" As for Bannon, when Green first met him in 2011 he came across as a "political grifter seeking to profit from the latest trend.
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His open letter to fans, explaining why a free game would suddenly charge $30 for its follow-up, came across as genuine and heartfelt.
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I came across as very serious on TV. I made fun of those guys a lot and I wish they'd kept that stuff in there.
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The fact that he harped on his own abusive past, broken home, and depression came across as an effort to make excuses for inexcusable behavior.
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And while his unceasing commitment to solve this case came across as honorable, his negligence in getting treatment may cause the entire investigation to unravel.
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Trump's comments about all three men came across as a resounding message to hang tough and to defy Mueller's investigators and any pressure to cooperate.
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Blacks saw Obama as a man who came across as unthreatening but was still treated as if he was, says Stidhum, the writer and director.
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These came across as tedious sonic streams of consciousness, in which the language of experimental jazz was subjected to the centrifugal forces of extended technique.
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How do you respond to people who say you're the wrong messenger for the cause, and that your letter came across as "entitled" or "whiny"?
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Trump's remark that Pelosi could fly commercial came across as irresponsible given that she is second in line to the presidency, after the vice president.
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In the second movement, she rendered one ostensibly sunny theme with such spidery lightness that the consolation it offered came across as a mere mirage.
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Mr. Barr's news conference on Thursday, remarkable for the attorney general's fawning deference to his boss, came across as little more than a spin session.
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Imposing, adamant, the image of restraint, this plaster Washington came across as an act of subtle opposition by New York's most old-school of museums.
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But if the godfathers of nonbinary pop — from Freddie Mercury to Adam Lambert — paved the way, their personas often came across as glam-rock caricature.
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In someone else this might have read as false modesty, but she came across as someone who knows better than to trust other people's admiration.
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When Castro asked Biden "are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?" it came across as over the top and a bit mean-spirited.
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Mr. Pretti, who has a warm, mellow voice, came across as an earnest young man, in awe of the glamorous Violetta, and a bit clueless.
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News Analysis At recent Senate hearings to fill the Supreme Court's open seat, Judge Neil Gorsuch came across as a thoroughly bland and nonthreatening nominee.
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At times she came across as a tough, sharp prosecutor that many Democrats wanted to see take on President Donald Trump on the debate stage.
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When West débuted as a solo artist, in 2004, he came across as an Everyman striver whose petty arrogance masked a deeper set of insecurities.
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She came across as a sympathetic figure given Trump's decision to yank her out of Ukraine as his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was smearing her.
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But as they piled up higher than even the most majestic Trump-envisioned border wall could ever reach, he came across as strident, mocking, condescending, bratty.
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That may have affected his public posture in the press conference, when he came across as more forgiving than warranted in terms of known Russian misdeeds.
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Though he paid tribute to outgoing President Barack Obama, the President sketched a vision of America that came across as a repudiation of the last administration.
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Even a digital short in which Che gave "Reparations Emmys" to black performers snubbed in decades past, which should have worked, came across as oddly forced.
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"We recently turned down a show with a band because they came across as somewhat right wing," says Lex Noens of all-trans band 4th Curtis.
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This was a pivotal moment in the campaign, since it was the first time millions of Democrats saw Sanders, and he came across as a mensch.
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Sanders generally came across as prepared and amiable (yes, he faced that same old question about how he would pay for his free public college programs).
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Following reports that the President was frustrated and furious about the new twist to the Russia intrigue, he came across as calm and self-contained Thursday.
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The range of characters depicted by the museum—users, abusers, victims, dealers, smugglers—came across as individuals caught up in a larger system beyond their control.
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Its controls were wrong, the world was bare, and the whole thing came across as a strange cargo-cult emulation of what Sonic used to be.
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In his note to investors, Levin came across as cautious, but resolved and ready to gear up for a fight to maintain dominance in the space.
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He came across as so trigger-happy during the campaign that experts were wondering where Donald Trump would start the next war: Syria, Yemen or Iran.
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"It kind of came across as: we decided to sell, because building a sales team is difficult, and Google already had a sales team," they added.
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That the concerto came across as the strongest piece was because of Mr. Serkin's splendid performance, which inspired the orchestra to its most solid, textured playing.
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From his sarcastic waving to to his over-the-top injury faking, Marchand came across as… well, not remotely likable, but at least vaguely self-aware.
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The symphony came across as the brashly original work of an ambitious, if still-evolving, young composer — conducted here by a young but already compelling artist.
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That's the way it felt recently when Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" came across as a disturbingly pertinent exploration of sexual abuse by entitled, powerful men.
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For all Mr. Roche's delight in creating crisp, nimble architectural shapes in glass, some of his most notable early work came across as anything but light.
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"She came across as extreme and, especially on the euro, as having no polices, just lashing out," said political scientist Catherine Fieschi immediately after the debate.
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His performance featured a debut of sort of a new, countrified Timberlake that was supposed to present a more authentic self, but came across as clearly manufactured.
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Re-reading Vaughan and Alphona's original comics arc, the parents all came across as a sort of unrelieved blank evil mass where everyone had the same voice.
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"Sometimes it was like he thought he had it in the bag and it was really frustrating, 'cause it came across as a little arrogant," she said.
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"Far from the 'madman' the media portrays, Trump came across as perfectly normal, smart, and well-mannered," read one of the more than 1,200 posts on Naver.com.
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Trump came across as less trustworthy than in previous debates, not because he's "flexible," but because he did not seem as clearly defined compared with previous debates.
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If The Young Pope came across as a joke in all the hype leading up to its premiere, that joke is not lost on the series itself.
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When announced in April, the move away from Best Foreign Language Film was done because the old name came across as "outdated within the global filmmaking community".
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And with the Iraq War raging in 2004, George W. Bush's Vietnam-era billet in the Alabama Air National Guard came across as a penny-ante scandal.
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While this American tenor has long been a Met stalwart, with an elegant way with long Mozartian phrases, he sometimes came across as a little anonymous onstage.
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Tasting victory in the Palmetto State, Biden stopped acting like a confused, past-his-prime senator shuffling towards his umpteenth term and came across as a winner.
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By the narrator's interruptions during the following movement — a witty modernization of a crooner-and-orchestra number — the transitions came across as forced and a touch repetitive.
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The white bigots portrayed here came across as so sneeringly ignorant and dastardly that there was no chance that anyone watching the show might identify with them.
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Even the more extreme Salome, in Asmik Grigorian's intense performance, came across as a woman coolly exploring the reach of her power in a rigidly patriarchal society.
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Warren appears to be aiming to be Sanders' running mate Bloomberg was not the disaster of his first debate, but he came across as aloof and cold.
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And as Riccardo, a Puritan colonel who had been promised Elvira's hand, the virile baritone Alexey Markov sang with dark-hued richness, yet came across as bland.
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Morris came across as well-intentioned, but his assurance that inmates were getting their "basic needs" met was disputed by a source who spoke to me confidentially.
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With no pressing need for the recognition, it came across as a blatant political gift to Netanyahu -- one of many in the closing days of the campaign.
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Ms. Benjamin recalled Mr. Friedman came across as "a character" with "a strong presence" in 2011 as he interviewed her for a job at the Seasteading Institute.
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Not biting or hostile, Mac came across as laid-back and creative — everything Apple was telling its customers they could be — and left PC flustered in its wake.
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What seems to have propelled Mr Fillon into the lead was a convincing performance in the televised debates, during which he came across as measured, sharp and trustworthy.
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From the beginning I knew there was something about him that came across as manipulative, and I had a feeling he wasn't with her for the right reasons.
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B-ROLL OF MSNBC'S CHRIS MATTHEWS: Comey came across as an honest man under oath against a president who really doesn't focus much attention on telling the truth.
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The actress says she wanted to make sure Nya came across as a believable activist due to the importance these women have in communities all around the country.
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But he actually came across as an introverted, understated sort: slightly weary at answering questions, and making grumpy mutterings about his electricity bill being affected by my visit.
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I was often told by colleagues that I came across as compassionate and caring, but also someone that pushes the status quo and isn't afraid to speak up.
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Clinton's steady rise in opinion polls, came across as repeatedly frustrated as he tried to rally conservative voters with hard-line stands on illegal immigration and abortion rights.
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Trump speech likely to split the nation To Trump's supporters, his address likely came across as a decisive and bold move to face up to a national challenge.
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The swinging lights are sensational in the theater, giving a sense of both climax and danger, but on the broadcast the technique came across as sort of puny.
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In "The Accidental Billionaires," the identical twins — hulking, 6-foot-5-inch Olympic rowers — came across as well-intentioned overachievers who fall victim to the ruthless, brilliant Zuckerberg.
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But in 2018, when Offset interrupted Cardi B's headlining set at a music festival to attempt a reconciliation, it came across as a move from an outdated playbook.
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"I didn't think they'd do it, but they came across as more dovish than what was expected," said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist for Wells Fargo Asset Management.
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Even her emotional apology came across as having a touch of self-interest: she blamed herself for poor judgment, but acknowledged no criminal wrongdoing on her own part.
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It is that the driver they call Junior never came across as pretentious at a time when other drivers started seeing themselves as a brand to be marketed.
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Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.), a former CHC chairwoman who was in the meeting, said Bloomberg came across as "very sincere" while discussing Latino voters, multiculturalism and immigration reform.
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It came across as an effort to prevent Trump from defining her and introducing herself to Americans on her own terms if she decides to run for president.
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In one almost impossible-to-follow interaction, he came across as rambling and out of touch when he was asked about his past attitudes to historic racial discrimination.
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With its high sentimentality quotient and wisecracking briskness, it came across as an honorable, gender-tweaking variation on Neil Simon's classic cash-cow comedies of urban Jewish anxiety.
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As the head of Trump's legal team, he gave the public what the President wanted to hear, even when he came across as bombastic or not fully put together.
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He came across as measured, sharp and trustworthy—and, at the age of 62, a younger alternative to the disliked Mr Sarkozy than the 71-year-old Mr Juppé.
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He repeatedly interrupted both Pence and the moderator, insisting on getting a word in in a way that may have been intended as confident but came across as desperate.
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The presentation from the American Chemistry Council at the meeting "kind of came across as an infomercial for the great new ways they are using these chemicals," he said.
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Trump, awkward and unfamiliar with the empathy required to make this sort of call, came across as callous and uncaring to Johnson and Wilson in an entirely unintentional way.
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I also wanted to tell a story of a psychiatric ward, though I don't think it came across as sad and devastating on the show as it really is.
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He stood about 6-foot-232 but came across as "low key and relaxed, a good guy," one of the real estate agents recalled, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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"My remark regarding the inclusion of transgender models in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show came across as insensitive," he said in a statement released on Twitter by the brand.
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A Republican backlash For a man who has appeared overly focus-grouped and airbrushed throughout his career, during his speech on Wednesday Romney came across as unvarnished and authentic.
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Kamala Harris also came across as composed and forceful, most of all when she spoke on foreign policy and quipped that Mr Trump "got punked" by North Korea's dictator.
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His grotesque, stage-hijacking Engineer came across as the flaming, smoking soul of corrupt capitalism, rather in the mold of another uneasy but immortal cultural stereotype, Charles Dickens's Fagin.
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During a few delicate passages in the final movement, Ms. Argerich's pianissimo was so clear that it came across as almost booming — a display of both grace and power.
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The President's move came across as an attempt to legitimize and normalize the pressure he imposed on Ukraine by simulating a similar kind of maneuver, publicly, this time with China.
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A reasonable point, but one which came across as special pleading for Germany's distaste for hard military intervention, particularly when contrasted with speeches by France's prime minister and defence minister.
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The Sonata No. 1 came across as a work of jarring originality, especially in its rhythmic character, as the music unfolds with nonstop intensity through sweeping bursts and organic gestures.
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It came across as a desperate attempt to justify a flip-flop — in this case a double flip-flop, as Rubio would later flip back against a pathway to citizenship.
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Thanking her fans for doing these things just came across as very insincere and basically is just perpetuating this online culture of cyberbullying and tearing down people over the internet.
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Mr. Taylor, like Mr. Mueller a Vietnam combat veteran and career public servant, came across as the anti-Mueller, confidently marshaling his facts from memory and readily offering his observations.
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Wearing a dark blue sport jacket, khakis and sneakers, he came across as a very fit college professor and gave answers that were far closer to lectures than sound bites.
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They were more personal than policy-based and he just came across as angry rather than thoughtful...he needs to do something more original than simply attacking the front runner.
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While Biden came across as profoundly compassionate and pragmatic, Sanders, who has been consistently strong in articulating what is wrong with America, remained hyper-focused on his ideological, revolutionary position.
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At one point, he told me I came across as very knowledgeable and in another he complimented my ability to recall an obscure Chicago Bears quarterback from the early 80s.
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Until this scene, Greg came across as a sort of living Op-Ed page, rehashing the liberal hopelessness and outrage that has filled those columns for the past two years.
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Me and Millie, on weekends, we'd have sleepovers and stuff — I think that's why our onscreen relationship came across as very genuine, because of how close Millie and I are.
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Aquino in a television interview said Duterte came across as being pro-poor and the continued high rating of him also reflected "exasperation with the way things were before him".
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Mr Bush viewed the devastation of New Orleans from the window of Air Force One to avoid disrupting relief efforts; this came across as unwillingness to get involved on the ground.
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"The idea we'd be using our time grabbing 18-year-olds who came across as unaccompanied minors—regardless of the TVPRA—was not something we should be doing," Sandweg told me.
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In Saudi Arabia, the President came across as a statesman, choosing to jettison some of the sharper rhetoric that peppered his campaign speeches in favor of building bridges with Muslim allies.
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Larry is an unabashed pickup artist, a creature from a different era, and what once came across as the crass gropings of a lovable loser probably won't play as well now.
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Released at a moment when Nintendo was at the top of its game with the wildly successful Super NES console, the movie came across as a shallow, half-baked tie-in.
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The letter betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of what the terms "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces" mean, and came across as an embarrassing attempt to deflect attention from serious issues on campus.
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I enjoyed four beguiling songs by Stanislaw Moniuszko, who came across as a sort of a Polish Schubert, and Karol Szymanowski's "Six Songs," music of searching harmonic richness and mystical allure.
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Among other matters, these stories drew attention to a 22016 essay on gender stereotypes Sanders had written that came across as crassly sexist, and which Sanders was subsequently made to disown.
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The moderates: Biden, Klobuchar and Pete Buttiegieg -- always polished and impressive -- came across as much more reasonable, knowledgeable and able to make things happen in Washington and on the global stage.
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People like Paula, seen last season, and Gavin, who led the group that met with the Kingdom a couple of weeks ago, came across as pragmatists just trying to get by.
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That was the broad gist of the Democratic message, in which the only honorable exceptions, like Maryland's John Delaney and Colorado's John Hickenlooper, came across as square dancers at a rave.
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By reputation, Sanders is a shouter, but on this occasion he came across as much quieter than Clinton, who gave forceful, directed, and impassioned answers to some difficult questions from Iowa Democrats.
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Farenthold may have thought he came across as bold by saying he would settle the matter "Aaron Burr-style," evoking a historical figure presented as a villain due to the Hamilton phenomenon.
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At least Ben Carson, with his meandering, absent-minded answer, came across as positive — not by his policies so much as by his soft-spoken, easy to laugh, slow to attack demeanor.
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If anything, the music came across as hopeful, mysterious, beautiful, expressive, touching, and sad — the soft, vulnerable sounds one can make in the face of an indifferent universe and increasingly callous society.
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" After the meeting was canceled, Duterte expressed regret for his outburst, saying in a statement through his spokesman that he regretted "it came across as a personal attack on the US President.
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Later Tuesday, The Philippines said that Duterte regretted his comments that came across as a personal attack and led to the cancellation of a meeting between the leaders of the allied nations.
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" Days later, Razek walked back his comments on Twitter and in a statement said: "My remark regarding the inclusion of transgender models in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show came across as insensitive.
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"Rolls-Royce and Airbus are joined at the hip so they must know him well, and he them," said Agency Partners analyst Nick Cunningham, adding Schulz came across as "open and realistic".
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In Mr. Fitzgerald's debut collection, "The Late Parade," his exertions came across as simultaneously tentative and opaque, as if the words were getting in the way of what he wanted to say.
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And the administration's determination to make the moment a new front in its war with the media came across as another clumsy distraction from the human tragedies unfolding before the nation's eyes.
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Against all odds, hellas and all, the bumbling teenagers came across as deeply authentic, and by the end of the game, storms swirling, you were deeply invested in the two of them.
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In all, Barr came across as what he is: a conventional conservative and a competent officeholder, who would have been at home in any other Republican Administration since the Second World War.
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During its run from 2002 to 2018, the old museum became a popular gathering place for authors and speakers on spying, but some of the displays came across as slick and superficial.
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And his hostility toward Daryl came across as a combination of quasi-concern and projected self-loathing, Daryl's inner strength a rebuke to the moral compromises Dwight made for his sandwich privileges.
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His bracing candor, disregard for convention and willingness to offend whole sections of the population to make a point came across as refreshing truth-telling to many Americans disenchanted with Washington elites.
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Sanders, who won't release his medical records after a recent heart attack, came across as an angry old man hectoring his opponents with a polarizing vision for a country impossible to obtain.
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Her feelings came across as genuine and heartfelt, and it would not be unusual to see her get choked up when it came time for the unenviable task of sending bakers home.
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Heineken may have intended to tout its light beer with the tagline "Lighter Is Better," but the ads came across as racist to many, including Chance the Rapper, and were eventually pulled.
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Although Dorsey and Sandberg could have internalized the questions Senate members asked them and become upset, Cobb says that by being emotionally intelligent, they instead came across as respectful and not defensive.
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The necessity of classifying each person one came across as vous or tu , outsider or insider, potential foe or friend, seemed at best a pomposity and at worst an act of paranoia.
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But Ms. Menin, who has been the director of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, sounded lawyerly in a 45-minute interview; she came across as measured, decorous, meticulous and assiduous.
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Here he is explaining that pivot to Alan Sepinwall in September 2009: We got some feedback that Leslie came across as "ditzy" sometimes — that surprised us, because we didn't intend that at all.
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When the show joined Fox's prime-time lineup in September 2017, it came across as something a gifted 12-year-old Star Trek fan would pen if assigned to create a space show.
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His blankness, his sense of being lost and unwanted, his eagerness to please—to people of a certain disposition, Kyle came across as a wounded puppy, just waiting to be given a name.
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Throughout the hearing, on the SEC side, Clayton struck a relatively solemn tone focused on ICO fraud concerns, while the CFTC's Giancarlo came across as genuinely enthusiastic and curious about the emerging market.
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Like Ojeda, Scholten pulled off one of the largest partisan shifts in the country, in large part because he came across as an acceptable hyperlocal alternative to a congressman in office since 2003.
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When she delivered it in the debate, saying that people know she is not a natural at this like her husband or like President Obama, it came across as authentic and rang true.
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And there's an argument to be made that Mr. Biden's rambling is preferable to the rhetorical stylings of his younger days, when he often came across as a senatorial blowhard — which he was.
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He came across as a the leader of a nation in crisis, calling on its citizens to unite in an outpouring of collective action that might temporarily paper over deep national political divides.
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Mr. James, Mr. Durant and Ms. Champion are black, and many commentators noted online that Ms. Ingraham's use of the word "they," and her comments about Mr. James's intelligence, came across as racist.
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In an exchange with Julian Castro over a section of text in immigration law, Castro came across as the one who felt the issue more deeply and had thought about it more exhaustively.
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More than anything else, she came across as a woman who reluctantly upended her life because she felt it was her "civic duty" to provide relevant information on a matter of national significance.
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His promise to give a Freedom Dividend ($1,000 a month) to 10 families around the country at the start of the debate came across as gimmicky rather than a piece of provocative policy.
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Mr Macron was badly damaged this summer by the poor handling of a scandal concerning his former bodyguard, and then by a series of clumsy remarks that came across as arrogant towards ordinary voters.
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During the debate, Trump came across as more serious, prepared and less prone to losing his cool than in the first presidential debate two weeks ago when he was seen as the clear loser.
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" A few days later, Razek walked back his comments on Twitter and in a statement said: "My remark regarding the inclusion of transgender models in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show came across as insensitive.
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Henein produced a series of emails dated after the alleged assault took place in which DeCoutere came across as friendly with Ghomeshi, asking him to hang out if they were in the same place.
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When the older generation of restaurants were designed as visual experiences, they generally came across as kitsch: think of the mid-century hot dog stands and donut shops shaped as the food they served.
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Spencer and Heidi Pratt, for instance, came across as unhinged on The Hills, but knew exactly when to spread rumors about Lauren Conrad, apologize to her, and attack their co-star all over again.
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It could have been a mistake, or maybe even an awkward (but well-intentioned) tribute that came across as an afterthought at best and a cynical attempt to reach a wider audience at worst.
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In person, in Aspen, he came across as a no-nonsense, doesn't-tolerate-fools-gladly kind of leader who also treats his staff with respect and listens carefully to what they have to say.
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Like Klobuchar, he came across as a reasonable Midwesterner, calm in the face of crossfire and quick to talk about solving problems rather than the demons on the other side of the political line.
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He twitched a lot and came across as the bad-breath chemistry teacher you sort of had to love back in high school if you were at all generous with your teen-age heart.
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Renato Sérgio de Lima, director of the FBSP, said Mr Bolsonaro through his rhetoric came across as a Brazilian version of Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, who has declared open season on criminals.
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I was, instead, engrossed by the way Ms. Malkki brought out the colors, intricacies and radicalism of "La Mer" (1905), which came across as Debussy's idea for an alternative kind of 20th-century symphony.
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The fans at East Lake threw their voices behind him with a fervor that came across as much more affectionate than the "You da Man" support he received when he was clinically destroying fields.
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Mr. Gandhi, who entered politics by winning a seat in the Indian Parliament in 2004, once came across as a reluctant politician and faltered when faced with aggressive challenges by journalists or political opponents.
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Harris, meanwhile, came across as Barack Obama in reverse, especially with her scurrilous attack on Biden for the sin of having had a functional political relationship with two former segregationist senators in the 1970s.
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His new demeanor and shabby appearance could've been used to show how people might externalize survivor's guilt, and how even godlike heroes can deteriorate — but instead, the changes came across as problematic and disappointing.
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While the employees said Bonforte's response was given in a joking manner, they indicated that the joke disturbed many on staff and came across as insensitive to lower-level employees concerned with their employment benefits.
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Conservative voters were less swayed by glasses than their liberal counterparts because they prefer candidates who came across as more dominant and in control, two qualities not typically associated with glasses wearers, according to Fleischman.
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" Following the interview's publication – and the subsequent backlash online – Victoria's Secret shared an apology from Razek saying: "My remark regarding the inclusion of transgender models in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show came across as insensitive.
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In Fiscal Year 2016, the region that includes Eagle Pass had nearly 11 million pedestrians legally cross the border at its eight ports of entry, and more than 41 million came across as vehicle passengers.
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In the 20183 primary, he came across as a man out of time: He avoided cultural and social issues, emphasized a large, across-the-board tax cut, and produced ads in both Spanish and Korean.
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Before his late-night intervention, the chief justice came across as a ceremonial presence rather than a judge running a trial -- dispensing vote counts and banging his gavel on the instructions of a Senate clerk.
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The latter opposed cloture, and came across as willfully blind to math and history, namely that the Democrats are in the minority in both houses of Congress, and that shutdowns do not alter policy outcomes.
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True, so did its opponents; but while Republicans sounded, well, deranged in their defense of Trump, Democrats came across as sober and serious, determined to do their constitutional duty even if it involved political risks.
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Then, when the controversy exploded this week, Kelly's reaction came across as jarring and insufficient, especially at a time when American political and public life is being reshaped by revelations of abuse and sexual harassment.
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But somewhere between the two, he came across as the knight of the roundtable in your best mate's flat, dispensing nightlife parables and high-street narratives to a congregation of wide-eyed straight-through-ers.
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Again, she left us wondering, Warren also came across as petty by implying it was not Biden but President Obama who should be credited with helping some of her bills become laws during the Obama administration.
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It came across as yet another moment for the greater LGBTQ community to prop up the words of a white, cisgender — and in this case, straight — man, reportedly before letting any LGBTQ people of color speak.
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While the brand might have meant the chopsticks ad to be a cute nod to Chinese culture, it came across as rudely patronizing, and the harrowing comments from Gabbana's account only poured salt in the wound.
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In this bar-brawling, John Kasich, the governor of Ohio who alongside Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, is one of the last five Republicans still in the race, came across as the only voice of reason.
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The previous White House introduced the measures following violent clashes in Ferguson, Missouri, in the belief that police forces touting military-style gear came across as an occupying force in a way that heightened community tensions.
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Though they were trained killers and deceivers by profession, the title characters of the 1970s series "Charlie's Angels" still came across as the kind of California girls that the Beach Boys wished every woman could be.
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In the same race, Fraser-Pryce, 29, who won gold in the event in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London, came across as vulnerable, running a 10.93 behind Thompson while battling a lingering foot injury.
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Mr. Anderszewski played the opening section of the Toccata, which unfolds like a somber fantasy, with articulate touch and rhythmic urgency; the fugue section that follows, for all its rigor, came across as daring and inexorable.
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More broadly, while I understand the sorrow people feel for a colleague who is self-immolating, the White House's initial comments came across as discounting one of the most common kinds of violence in America today.
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Some readers complained that the French people he wrote about came across as caricatures, but the book, perhaps aided by its vivid descriptions of the region's food and drink, certainly lifted the tourism business in Provence.
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He came across as greedy in a nation that tolerates lots of bad behavior, for example in personal lives or fudging data to dupe regulators, but not, as alleged, lining one's pockets at the firm's expense.
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When she first performed it a few years ago, Ms. Monk's latest work of abstract music theater — its score a mixture of droning instruments, bending vocal pitches and eruptions of yelps — came across as calmly melancholy.
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The opening of her new piece came across as a wash of alluring sounds, effects and colors, with high-pitched strings, fluttering winds and softly wailing brass bustling along — yet with a jolt of inner tension.
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"He came across as somebody who is on the ball, a good listener, and has a view on what needs to be done for the economy," said Song Seng Wun, an economist at CIMB private bank.
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Trump's response, as it often does, made the storm much worse as he came across as more concerned with Porter's lost career than for the plight of the woman who told the FBI about their plight.
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And despite being a part of the exact establishment that Sanders's campaign clapped back on, he came across as being genuinely independent, someone who came to the convention to speak his mind, rather than push an agenda.
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But the Emmys handed out last night came across as a more direct and cogent repudiation to the present-day politics of polarization, though even some of the winners couldn't resist adding some of their own jibes.
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Yet while Mr. Odedra came across as a protean creature on Friday, the evening as a whole suffered from a sameness of tone — dark, stormy, lonesome, yearning — that amounted to a flat portrait of a multidimensional artist.
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The issue was made murkier when the two told The New York Times last month that the two accusers in the film, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, "came across as very believable," as Ms. Nottage put it.
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She came across as Everywoman — an Everywoman with a Ph.D. — at once guileless about politics yet schooled in the science of memory and psychology, "terrified," as she put it, to be at the center of the vortex.
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His quiet tone of voice came across as insincere to anyone who is familiar with the intensity of his rally performances, and his failure to mention CNN, the media outlet targeted, exposed where his heart truly lies.
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Indeed, the whole Oscar broadcast (which managed to get along without a host this year, after some pre-game adjustments) came across as a pep rally for progress with evening gowns and tuxes instead of cheerleader uniforms.
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The pops of dynamic contrast in the first movement came across as shrill rather than exuberant and the long arc of the andante's melody seemed pieced together out of Lego blocks with the seams all too visible.
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In other words, the guy came across as a little overwhelmed with the responsibility of running his massive international data-hoarding conglomerate, and more than a little like he didn't appreciate having to go on camera about it.
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But where Mr. Mueller seemed unsteady and uncertain last summer when he testified about his special counsel investigation into Russian interference, Mr. Taylor came across as calm, confident and in command of the facts as he knew them.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives widened their lead over the Social Democrats following a television debate in which Merkel came across as more convincing and reliable than her SPD challenger Martin Schulz, a poll showed on Thursday.
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In his first two games at Oracle since his ill-fated tangle with the then-Warrior Zaza Pachulia in Game 1 of the 2017 Western Conference finals, Leonard merely came across as the best player in the world.
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But the energy these musicians project is of a community engaged in an urgent act of soul-searching — even in purely instrumental moments, like the overture's fugue, which came across as a warren of voices intent on debate.
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Flanked by her attorneys as she sat before a ring of senators, the California psychology professor came across as authentic, determined, and also vulnerable, as she recounted the story that has haunted her for more than three decades.
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"During his confirmation hearing, Mr. Kelly came across as this person who would be a moderating voice in the Trump administration, someone who would speak truth to power," said Ms. Harris, a member of the Homeland Security Committee.
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Apart from his shaky performance in Wednesday's hearing, Tillerson came across as a down-the-line establishment Republican foreign policy type who is far more conventional on key questions than the President he will serve if he is confirmed.
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Senator Kaine, who came across as highly intelligent, personally approachable, and slightly nervous, acknowledged that police shouldered burdens of addressing mental health issues, poverty, and other social and economic ills that went beyond their job description as crime fighters.
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Paul consistently came across as one of the most knowledgeable Republicans during the primary season, and I was impressed by the breadth and specificity of his knowledge particularly on foreign affairs while covering his campaign stops in New Hampshire.
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This quote runs contrary to the prevailing storyline of Bruce's demonstration at Long Beach in '64, which has long asserted that he merely executed some fancy stunts and came across as so charismatic that everyone fell in love with him.
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Nova asks Charley if she didn't think he came across as dismissive and disrespectful on the TV segment, and Charley says that honestly, it was just good television, and it got people to listen so they could get their point across.
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The ire stemmed from a series of Instagram exchanges between Stefano Gabbana, one of two designers behind the fashion line, and a model, Michele Tranovo, who pointed out one of Dolce & Gabbana's ads came across as patronizingly and potentially racist.
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VIENTIANE (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Tuesday that President Rodrigo Duterte regretted comments he made about U.S. President Barack Obama came across as a personal attack and led to the cancellation of a meeting between the leaders of the allied nations.
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In the context of this program, Schoenberg's "Friede auf Erden" ("Peace on Earth"), from 1907, for eight-part chorus, came across as music beholden to the German choral heritage while pushing at its boundaries, especially in stretches that exuded Expressionist intensity.
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Among them was Jillian, a 220-year-old who, when she wasn't overwhelmed with anxiety, came across as remarkably poised and adultlike, the kind of teenager you find yourself talking to as if she were a graduate student in psychology.
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At the hearing, Dr. Blasey came across as an Everywoman — an Everywoman with a Ph.D. (Read our profile of her.) Her testimony was a stark reminder of gender dynamics and of the mental gymnastics required of women who speak up.
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"He came across as a jerk," she said, as his words portrayed a know-it-all who planned to single-handedly fix the gap between the tech world and business on Wall Street — not at all reflective of his personality.
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And I really started to second guess all of my opinions and how I felt, who I wanted to be, and who I came across as, and it just got to the point where I had a breakdown in February.
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If Palmer came across as someone who never had a bad day, it was because he realized that in life, unlike golf, the rules are pretty simple: The more you reach out to others, the more you get in return.
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Tulsi Gabbard in a debate over American foreign policy -- a reversal of a showdown between the two at CNN's Detroit debate in late July -- and came across as what her campaign wants her to be: A fighter for the average person.
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The fifth and final movement came across as a mercurial rondo that shifts from stretches of harmonically raw vehemence to subdued yet swinging passages that Mr. Bell, backed by Mr. Gilbert and the orchestra, played with an eerily spectral quality.
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It was another one of these instance in which Mark Zuckerberg just came across as completely cloth-eared, basically tried to push forward, saying they were really doing the right thing for the right reasons, until the backlash became overwhelming.
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In a note to the president, leaked to Le Monde last month, they warned Mr Macron that his government came across as "indifferent" to social issues, and neglectful of the "struggle against unequal access" that had been a cornerstone of his campaign.
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Instead, the show's attempts to engage with race—both on America's television sets and in America's structural racism—came across as half-hearted and, in the case of a subplot involving police brutality against men of color, tone-deaf and ill-advised.
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Here's a recounting of what Mr. Zuckerberg told employees last Thanksgiving about the company's responsibility, from Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein of Wired: According to one attendee, the remarks came across as blunter and more personal than any they'd ever heard from Zuckerberg.
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Ms. Ward and Mr. Thurston are known for writing about their experiences as black people in America, elevating voices they know and love and that Ms. Ward said she rarely came across as a young and voracious reader in rural DeLisle, Miss.
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In Egypt, Mr. Salah's outburst came across as more than just a global star railing at domestic failings: It represented a rare, frontal challenge to the authority of a national institution in a country where dissent of any kind can be highly dangerous.
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But this weekend's tirade came across as even more jarring given his tepid tone on Friday when he said that he didn't think white supremacy was a growing global problem after the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 50.
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Guyett and creature effects supervisor Neal Scanlan spoke with Insider Monday on the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California, about the difficulty of bringing Fisher&aposs scenes to the screen and the importance of making sure her performance came across as authentic.
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The former president might have been trying to refer to Republican obstructionism, but it came across as an unfortunate slag against the sitting president, all the more damaging since Hillary Clinton is basing her campaign on a promise to preserve and extend Obama's legacy.
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Sure, he called the radio show to cast his vote for Clark as a "babe," and he tried to make her feel better by dancing with her, singing to her and writing her encouraging notes, but it came across as more paternalistic than supportive.
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But a second CNN town hall two and a half weeks ago was an altogether different affair: She came across as timidly noncommittal, feeding a growing chorus of complaint from party strategists and political commentators that her footing was unsure and her momentum was gone.
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Biden mostly came across as calm and resolute in the face of dire circumstances that had forced a relocation of the debate to Washington from Phoenix, the elimination of an audience and the addition of an extra few feet between his lectern and Sanders's.
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The fowl aficionado is a woman named Tiara, and despite her bizarre profession and the fact that she has framed pictures of chickens and one of Ben in her home, she came across as a sweet, normal girl who didn't even mention the birds throughout the evening.
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He was candid, friendly and at ease talking about art, which came across as a pleasure and genuine passion, as if the role of artist-connoisseur were not just another identity Mr. Bowie donned and shed but something truly near to the heart of David Jones.
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Ever a vision of Americanophile cool, Harvey, clad in a vest and a pair of prescription aviators which came across as more 70s porn-chic than Napoleon Dynamite, commandeered the room with absolute aplomb, able to look each and every one of the audience in the eye.
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" Being Texas governor "was scarcely a full-time job," and his 2000 victory in the presidential race owed as much to the ineptness of his Democratic opponent, Al Gore — who "came across as wooden and self-important" — as it did to Bush's "ease on the campaign trail.
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The Giants, who did most of their preparations at home before arriving in London on Friday, took the field looking jet-lagged while the Rams, who had chosen to fly overnight from Detroit the previous Sunday for a full week in England, came across as savvy travelers.
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That it came across as such on Wednesday was a tribute to the lucid and vibrant conducting of David Robertson, the stirring singing of the all-black chorus the Met brought together for the work, and a winning cast, which had several new singers on this night.
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But it was not easy — for someone who grew up as the only black girl in a school of wealthy white students, for someone who came across as confident and joyful but was suffering inside as a child — to continue to say one thing while feeling another.
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During the real event in 1969, millions tuned in — it was said London had a water shortage due to toilets flushing during intermission — but while many were intrigued by this insider look, some critics argued the family came across as stuffy and were destroying the monarchy's mystique.
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Maybe it was his constitution, maybe it was his doctors, or maybe it was knowing that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was about to give him her endorsement, but Sanders came across as about the most radiant 78-year-old in history who had recently been in intensive care.
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When Stadia was announced, it came across as a way to play a stream games running on a top-of-the-line PC, but in reality, Stadia isn't just a computer running Steam games, it's a Linux-based platform with its own district specifications—basically, a console!
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Assuming there was no racial subtext to Jackson's dropping the word "posse" while describing James's management team and friends — and nothing in his long playing and coaching career suggests that there would be — he still came across as tone deaf to the potential insensitivity of his comments.
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He was not just - came across as somewhat arrogant, but he was disrespectful to the members of Congress who had the temerity to question him about those, and he actually lectured Congress at some point when they actually had the right to even ask questions about an investigation.
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One of the issues that we came across as we talked with a lot of formerly incarcerated people was that it's really hard to start up your own business, it's really hard to get a job, it's really hard to reintegrate back into the society, into the economy.
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When they were put together on The X Factor, they came across as funny, raucous and warm – the sort of girls who might hold each other's hair back while vomming in a club toilet, or throw their vodka spritz over some shitty guy who'd wronged one of the others.
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Mr. Peña Nieto came across as civil and stolid, defending the North American Free Trade Agreement — a frequent target of criticism by Mr. Trump — and noting that weak border security also allowed weapons and cash often to flow from the United States to Mexican gangs and drug cartels.
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He came across as a decent, humble family man, in a way that may complicate efforts of liberals to use him as the poster boy for what many see as a new front on the war on women they believe a conservative majority on the court will declare.
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Sanders came across as "authentic" to vast swaths of young, disenchanted Americans not because he effectively focus-grouped the most authentic-seeming catchphrases, but because over a lifetime of thinking, politicking, and legislating, he identified a set of authentic grievances which resonated with significant parts of the population.
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After most of the votes were counted and the victory and concession speeches delivered, Canadians could not be blamed for feeling a nasty election hangover: the speeches by the three leaders came across as almost tone-deaf, with little to calm concerns that the country's divisions are getting even bigger.
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Whenever she did something that seemed to confirm the Cool Girl core of her image (sending dubsmashes to Robert De Niro, forgetting to chill the rosé because she's "new money," or talking about her vacation alter ego, "Gail," who basically just sounds like a frat bro), it came across as performative.
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Intentionally or not, the Stepford Wives book (which was written by a man) and the Stepford Wives movie (which was produced, written, and directed by men) came across as manifestations of the male consciousness reckoning with patriarchal oppression, and with what women had been trying to tell them for decades.
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Meanwhile, Will Ferrell's engagingly goofy portrait of George W. Bush as a know-nothing good ol' boy was later widely cited as a possible reason he eked out the election win, because he came across as much more of a guy that people would want to share a beer with.
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It's not my fantasy — I still think the film's dedication to spraying women with fluids and hefting them around like parade batons is mighty damn weird — but I love that it exists, and that it did well, and that it came across as such a conversation-starter about women's sexuality and women's box office power.
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Where the Bowie of the Spiders from Mars era came across as a confident master of ceremonies, eager to build up our anticipation for his next trick, this grandest reveal of all shows that underneath his artistic rigor, drive for innovation, and god-like status, he is more like us than we'd have ever known.
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In a television interview last October Joe Biden's sole surviving and troubled son came across as a straightforward, unassuming guy: He conceded that he most likely wouldn't have been asked to join the lucrative board of one of Ukraine's largest natural gas companies, Burisma, or been offered other opportunities, but for his last name.
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" Duterte, who has also previously cursed Pope Francis and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, apologized for the remark on Tuesday in a statement read by his spokesman: "While the immediate cause was my strong comments to certain press questions that elicited concern and distress, we also regret it came across as a personal attack on the US president.
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The paper wrote that the team offered to share advertising revenue but provide no other money, and came across as a little desperate as controversy over its obviously racist name was mounting:During negotiations at Redskins headquarters, Huawei representatives were upfront about the national-security baggage that came along with its name, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price tried to patch things up by appearing at Press Secretary Sean Spicer's midday lie jamboree, but came across as squirrelly and unprepared—his main argument for the bill was that it was short, as he stood next to a very tall stack of papers meant to represent Obamacare/big government.
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Framed by the Lincoln Memorial, amplified by a fancy sound system, delivered before a thousand-person press bay with good camera sight lines, King's performance came across as something more than what it had been in Detroit—it was the announcement of a shift in national mood, the fulcrum of a movement's story line and power.
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That's why John F. Kennedy beat Richard Nixon, a genial Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter (who came across as tight and testy), the relaxed and amiable Bill Clinton beat George H. W. Bush, his son George W. Bush beat the policy-wonk-sounding Al Gore, and why in this year's first presidential debate Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump.
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When I first met the Arcane mastermind this past winter—fittingly, at a dimly-lit bar in Alphabet City as a mutual friend played pool nearby—the way Rojas-Masferrer described the things he loves, like certain drum machines and the Criterion Collection (which he owns all of), came across as passion, not pretension or artifice.
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The computer and printer manufacturer HP asked, "Have we lost touch with what's real?" in a recent commercial that came across as a public service announcement warning against the dangers of social media, with images of a couple ignoring each other while glued to their phones and footage of a swarm of people taking smartphone photos of the Mona Lisa.
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Art Cullen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Storm Lake Times, said Mr. Buttigieg appealed to rural Iowa voters because he visited frequently — Saturday was the third time he had been to Storm Lake — and because he came across as inoffensive, without the harder edges of Mr. Sanders or Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, whom Mr. Cullen's newspaper endorsed.
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A focus group told conservative pollster Frank Luntz that former FBI director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE came across as "manipulative" and "petty" during a recent interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
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But at some point in the fall, Thiel's confidence in Trump appears to have begun to waver: Though Thiel was publicly supporting and praising the candidate, according to Mac's reporting for BuzzFeed, Thiel came across as less certain in private conversations, even as far back as just before Election Day: But in at least one private conversation, Thiel admitted he didn't have much confidence in either candidate.
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At CNN's Thursday night town Hall, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro certainly came across as capable, likable, and ready to be commander-in-chief, as the Democrat answered questions on a broad range of topics before a live audience in Washington DC. The question now is whether primary voters will embrace him in his quest to be the nation's first Latino president.
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In the book it made it seem like he was willing to put aside any personal issues that he might have had in order to just put himself into the mission, whereas I thought that throughout the miniseries he came across as very unlikeable, because of a lot of these decisions that he makes that end up causing problems in a way that he then has to deal with.
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House of Cards creator Beau Willimon, who left the show two seasons earlier, wrote awards season hopeful Mary Queen of Scots, a period drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie that grafts modern-day perspectives onto its historical tale of warring queens — "Bow to No One," one of the posters trumpeted — in a way that was supposed to be boldly woke and instead came across as hair-tearingly reductive.
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The Akris show, for example, was titled "A Woman in a Coat With a Bag," and that's exactly what it was: a series of great coats — double-face wool checkerboards, cashmere trenches, techno taffeta parkas, shearlings, minks, a long velvet for evening — and lots of bags (granted, it was a little more complicated; it had been inspired by Rodney Graham's self-portrait, "Coat Puller," but it came across as fairly straightforward).
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It would not be difficult for many people to revile a landlord lawyer, yet over dinner at the Palm Too, a Midtown East steakhouse near his apartment, this lawyer with a penchant for racecars came across as unexpectedly likable as he told stories in sometimes off-color language about risks he has taken, like racing at 2160 miles per hour on the interstate but talking himself out of a traffic ticket.
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One difference between the two artists is temperament, with Warhol being cool and even aloof towards his charged subjects (car crashes, electric chairs, public disasters, and movie stars) while Schnabel came across as either an unabashed romantic or a pretentious jerk who serves up his subjects in an overheated style on a field of broken dishes and later velvet, tarpaulins, sails, animal skins, canvas flooring from boxing rings, and Kabuki theater backdrops.
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On television, CBS ran a public service announcement that showed Commissioner Roger Goodell and other league executives touring the Ebenezer Baptist Church and other landmarks associated with Martin Luther King Jr. For the many Super Bowl viewers who do not closely follow the league, and perhaps many who do, such imagery probably came across as proper and right for a game played in Atlanta, known as the cradle of the civil rights movement.
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While a lot of work must be done to tighten his message and take his campaign to the next level, it is undeniable that the mayor from a relatively small town in Indiana, with little national exposure this time last year, came across as the steady hand that is needed to defeat President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 85033 MORE in what will most certainly be an ugly general election.
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