Sometimes that came off as witty and sometimes petulant and sometimes even mean, but it never came off as silent.
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Rather than passionate, Sanders came off as just plain loud.
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Carson came off as more jester than that cogent candidate.
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Republicans and Democrats often came off as repetitive as well.
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Pence came off as steadier and calmer in the beginning.
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Yellows in particular came off as more green than yellow.
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The fruity aromas likewise came off as artificial to me.
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The party leadership came off as weak and lacking direction.
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He came off as a man shouting down a woman.
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The comment "came off as defensive and conceding ground," he says.
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He said it jokingly and it came off as good-natured.
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Mr Kavanaugh came off as stolid, unpolished, perhaps a little wooden.
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But it came off as him being a dick or whatever.
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"He always came off as a huge family man," she adds.
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And yet, their images came off as sexualized rather than empowering.
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Sacca's apology to the industry came off as disingenuous to many.
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He came off as forthright and friendly, a man without pretension.
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Cunningham and his contemporaries came off as tricksters but prized clarity.
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The wins during the Globes, King included, came off as similarly apolitical.
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Either way, Trump came off as a sore loser conceding the inevitable.
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But in hindsight, I think I came off as a weird nerd.
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But Microsoft's attempts to make it both just came off as lame.
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Clinton, in that moment, came off as more respectful to Republican history.
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Yet she never came off as someone who was superior or aloof.
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"He came off as a normal dude, not a trafficker," Buemi recalls.
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I apologize if my comments came off as dismissive of his faith.
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When he met suspects, he always came off as the good cop.
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Still, some parts of the speech came off as rather old hat.
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While the post came off as insensitive and elitist, Chase has a point.
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He didn't hide his lower-class roots, and came off as somewhat sleazy.
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She was caught off guard, but she came off as dismissive to me.
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Bernie Sanders also came off as dismissive to BLM protestors earlier this year.
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It came off as a direct rebuttal to Sweden's objections over Gui's treatment.
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Biden came off as more presidential and spoke directly to the current emergency.
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"It just came off as very disingenuous," Mr. McKoon said of Delta's statement.
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Days earlier, at the debate, Bloomberg came off as dismissive of the situation.
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At the time, many thought that Gates came off as cocky and dismissive.
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And so the slide show came off as an amateur commercial for Lindblad.
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On air, the moment — particularly the last sentence — came off as genuinely sincere.
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" As Baltimore's City Paper wrote afterward: "Whatever the intent, it came off as slumming.
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Biden stumbled over his talking points and came off as far too old-fashioned.
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If Gates came off as credible to the jury, then Manafort is probably sunk.
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No matter how ego-involved he was, he came off as a sweet man.
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The late-night hosts all covered the altercation, saying Trump came off as impulsive.
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"I apologize if my comments came off as dismissive of his faith," she added.
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It just came off as a caricature, a better lit, less funny S.N.L. skit.
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But his answer lacked specifics and came off as buck-passing and excuse-making.
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Rubio came off as the anti-Romney, and brought to mind Obama in 2008 At Timberland, Rubio came off as the anti-Romney, extensively drawing on his family's working-class background to argue that he understands and cares deeply about working people's struggles.
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HARF: It&aposs not-- WATTERS: I didn&apost think it came off as a joke.
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" Ms. Gette said the marketing attempt was flawed in that it came off as "predatory.
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She had spunk but came off as standoffish and mean because she couldn't express it.
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He at times came off as arrogant and sarcastic during the deposition, the transcript suggests.
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Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting came off as a sign of political desperation.
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That sounds like a big reason why everything came off as well as it did.
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Booker's "West Wing"-inspired soliloquy came off as tone deaf given the current political environment.
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Far from being robotic, Rubio came off as quite personally appealing and adept at reaching people.
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I thought he came off as very defensive, very flip, but he played the victim card.
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And he came off as basically crazy at the end, even by rich white man standards.
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To some, he came off as robotic and repetitive — which, you could argue, was the plan.
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Tim Kaine, who came off as canned, too-clever and nervous, interrupting Pence throughout the debate.
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Nicole Gonzalez said Tuesday that 35-year-old Gary Lindsey came off as polite and friendly.
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Even her embrace of mainstream pop came off as a sort of fame-based thought experiment.
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A senior White House official told CNN that Giuliani's performance came off as "clumsy" to them.
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He came off as nervous, scared and almost painfully polite, a man overwhelmed by his circumstances.
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Obama came off as a hip, likable, carefree guy who truly cared about the American people.
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He also came off as substantially more competent and professional than much of the Trump team.
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Next to Pence, Kaine came off as irascible and unable to stop his interrupting and over talk.
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He came off as genuine and probably only further endeared himself to a wide swath of voters.
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What was most likely intended to be uplifting came off as backhanded judgement to some of us.
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" Feldman concluded: "In that live moment, it came off as wrong and for that I'm deeply sorry.
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As the 911 caller noted to dispatch, Garretson came off as fairly coherent right after the accident.
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In the end Jawline came off as judgment-free, because I was genuinely trying to understand them.
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I understand the crew being suspicious of Burnham, but Stamets came off as a one-note bully.
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His answer came off as a nice way of saying, in effect, that he has black friends.
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His comments came off as a well-researched way of saying that the Warriors are not unique.
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Beane and many in his front office came off as strident, sometimes to the point of downright arrogance.
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When recently asked about the tremendous success of Wonder Woman, however, his response came off as rather dismissive.
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He came off as incredibly bright and confident in his support of Trump and his Bannon-esque followers.
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Humayun Khan, in the Iraq War in 6900, came off as an attack on all veterans, some said.
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Even when the Vive fell short, it came off as part of Job Simulator's clunky-on-purpose aesthetic.
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The infidelity motif of Parisian boulevard authors, now long pat, came off as rather clunky in German, however.
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Founder Mark Zuckerberg's apology before Congress came off as insincere, Gundlach added, and the company's fortunes are changing.
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Even Mr. Colbert appeared to blanch at what came off as an example of corporate synergy gone awry.
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"It really diminished the Trump brand because he came off as so servile and so weak," said Sykes.
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In that ESPN story, Brady came off as fairly petty when it came to his then-backup Garoppolo.
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"Initially, she was a little shy but she obviously came off as a very intelligent woman," he said.
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It's a rare moment where, instead of just being a narcissistic monster, Trump just came off as amusingly weird.
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According to the outlet, some parents have complained that the characters came off as "too masculine" to some children.
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My seat belt came off!" as he and Conrad's husband went down the ride, called Verrück – German for "insane.
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But for every moment of identification, there were multiple moments where she came off as jarringly out-of-touch.
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Those numbers aren't terrible: They represent a candidate who came off as generally amenable but never really broke out.
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He came off as smug and unapologetic, a trait that is too common in the current White House occupant.
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He came off as humble, authentic and thoughtful, refreshing traits in a presidential candidate in the age of Trump.
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Mueller came off as a sympathetic figure as he explained his side of the infamous run-in with Taylor.
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The critiques weren't only that it came off as just a "bad date," although many people certainly thought so.
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While she didn't provide an overall vision or rationale for running, she came off as clearly qualified, knowledgeable and capable.
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He claimed that he wanted to visit Tokyo Disneyland — and he came off as too Westernized for North Koreans' taste.
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And yet the secretary's chosen phrase of "Trumped-up trickle-down" came off as contrived and too clever by half.
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Cochran's openness came off as routine: he was a public official simply talking about a partnership his agency was negotiating.
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To senior citizen investors around the country, Isaac Grossman may have came off as the second coming of Larry Page.
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Novotna came off as much more vulnerable, much more relatable, which was why her Wimbledon victory struck such a chord.
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Although Doug came off as the chief simulacrum manager for a brand with cultish aspects, I had sympathy for him.
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A 2006 Columbia University report found that male speed daters rejected women that came off as smarter than them. Yikes.
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For the first time in a while, Clinton genuinely came off as proud of her record, which is her strongest point.
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In contrast to recent debates that have been raucous, nasty, and bitter, all four candidates — including Trump — came off as subdued.
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As a kid, the whole situation came off as routine: you get sick, you go to the doctor, you get treated.
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Berman fervently believed in the value of humanistic learning, even when it came off as a bit grand and dust-covered.
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He said it with such nonchalance and matter-of-fact calmness that it came off as natural, not pre-planned braggadocio.
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Cruz came off as petulant rather than presidential as he complained about debate moderators, with Fox's Chris Wallace scolding his response.
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As for Mr. Gibson, well, as the resident kooky conservative, he came off as a kind of proxy for President Trump.
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Yes, anti-Trump sentiment came off as a key national theme for the Democrats running for Congress in the 2018 elections.
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At President Donald Trump's rally in Louisville Monday night, he gave attendees a history lesson that came off as rather ironic.
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Anyway, regardless, it kind of stung seeing that I came off as an asshole or even just was an asshole, I'm sorry?
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But some of his immediate reactions to the Orlando tragedy -- including a self-congratulatory tweet -- came off as tone deaf, or worse.
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Jessica Simpson was confronted by animal rights protesters who crashed her book signing Monday night -- and she came off as pretty patronizing.
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" The Washington Post lists the moment as one of the "worst debate moments ever," saying "Lazio came off as bullying and inappropriate.
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I don't think Patti came off badly in it, I thought she came off as a cool chick and an authentic artist.
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In our initial look at Continuum on a Lumia 950, the feature came off as an impressive start — but a start nonetheless.
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Anyway, regardless, it kind of stung seeing that I came off as an assh— or even just was an assh—, I'm sorry?
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In early prep sessions, he came off as uneven and stiff, so extra people were brought in to help get him ready.
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Whereas in London Mallory had sometimes seemed like a British satire of American bluster, in New York he came off as British.
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Though every one of them required nerve, not all the stunts she attempted came off, as she seems to recognize, looking back.
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He came off as believing that the will of the people is one thing, but the will of the Senate is another.
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One source involved in Thursday's event said the attacks on Hazelgrove -- who's worked tirelessly for Chicago kids -- came off as reverse racism.
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Of course, in the end, the piece, by refusing to express anything, came off as extremely expressive—of an anti-expressionist position.
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Burnham came off as more shy and reserved (at the very least she was edited that way), while Kufrin was super confident.
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People treated you differently because of your proximity to whiteness, meaning you came off as more classy, rich, educated, well put together.
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"We found out a lot of them didn&apost do as well because it almost came off as an ad," Auerbach said.
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Whether that public-relations gesture had any effect, or if it just came off as a gimmick, is a matter of conjecture.
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On Tuesday night, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly held a segment on his show that came off as a little … white supremacist.
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Rewatching the movies is pretty painful: Looking back, what once came off as playful and raunchy kind of just seems misogynistic and racist.
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"President Trump came off as a very warm, engaging guy, he makes you feel really special," Radd Seiger, the family's spokesperson, told CNN.
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" Indeed, the researchers tried to figure out what people, exactly, might be responding to when they felt Trump came off as more "presidential.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, barely registering in polls among the crowded field, came off as the most aggressive Wednesday night.
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And if you, like I, thought Comey came off as imperious in television interviews for that stupid book of his, check out this tweet.
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His puffy report from North Korea earlier this year in advance of the Olympics was poorly developed and came off as North Korean propaganda.
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The pundits Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, in successive sit-downs with Mr. Trump, came off as sympathetic at best and sycophantic at worst.
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Oftentimes, these reflections came off as a variation of mansplaining: Men who believed they had done nothing wrong seemed angry, defensive, scared, and ultimately confused.
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Yet to his credit, Mike Pence dished out his flurry of lies with calm confidence -- while Tim Kaine, the truth-teller, came off as ruffled.
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That obviously wasn't the case — I came off as incredibly aloof, the guy never called me again, and I went to the museum exhibit solo.
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With the obvious exception of Donald Trump, no one came off as badly during Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee as Attorney General Sessions.
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Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategist, said Rosenstein came off as "cagey" in his defense and raised questions about what he may be trying to hide.
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With the media following closely behind, the mayor came off as both aloof and tone deaf to the pain and anger of local black residents.
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And it just came off as kind of corny for most people, where it felt like they were trying too hard to win over millennials.
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Online, however, Pai's jokes about "colluding" with his former employer and being Verizon's "shill" came off as a bit more authentic than he had probably hoped.
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Isaiah Wright was a stud running back at East Mississippi Community College -- and came off as a really happy, sweet kid on the Netflix docu-series.
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It might have seemed like a funny comment to Pall at the time, but it came off as insensitive toward many members of The Chainsmokers' audience.
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Former Grindr employees said this lack of interest manifested itself in other ways as well, often in decision-making that came off as callous or inappropriate.
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Where previous special counsels like Whitewater's Kenneth Starr recommended impeachment, Mueller remained frustratingly opaque in a way that on Wednesday came off as obtuse at times.
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These vignettes of Jackson as a barnstorming revolutionary, which at times came off as batshit crazy, had to be balanced with coverage of his political life.
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His statement of "praying" for the LGBT community also came off as a bit patronizing, and didn't really address the core issue that fans found problematic.
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EPA officials responded that the meeting would be primarily for state regulators -- which she said came off as "patronizing" and discounted her role as a stakeholder.
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Compared to other locations catering to the Midtown crowd, though, the Gramercy location came off as pretty nice if you're looking for a convenient, nice location.
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In interview after interview and song after song, Prince consistently came off as very insightful (although he did at times make ugly remarks about gay people).
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Bush, who was president at the time, came off as though he didn't care about or have time to listen to the concerns of regular Americans.
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It came off as a quintessential example of Ryan glibly blowing off what could be a monumental abuse of presidential power and a potentially gigantic crisis.
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The broad consensus from dozens of Iowans at events for both politicians was that she came off as sharp and cutting, while he showed his age.
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An August article in the New York Times Styles section about Mr. O'Neill's workout routine came off as oblivious, and he soon left the company too.
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Even Connors's frequent coach, the wise Pancho Segura with his striking silver hair, tan and warm-up suit, came off as both strategist and corner man.
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Mr. Buruma gave an interview after the publication of the Ghomeshi essay that came off as cavalier about the omissions in the piece, fanning the controversy.
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A Microsoft recruiter in 2016 promoted a party for interns using language that came off as a bizarre effort to look hip and recruit young people.
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"When I lived in America and sent messages to my friends, it came off as really unfriendly that they didn't respond with an 'x,'" she said.
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After months attempting to silence women's claims about his behavior, Trump telling the nation to listen to sexual assault survivors came off as nothing less than disingenuous.
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He and other men remember a doctor who came off as an impressive authority figure to them and their parents, but exploited his power behind closed doors.
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After writing on Twitter about how what America needs right now is unity, Dillard replied to a Twitter user who suggested that he came off as hateful.
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Ingraham hasn't clarified what her intention was with that tweet, but to most readers it came off as an adult leveling a baseless attack on a teenager.
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But to many in attendance, his remarks came off as tone deaf, and his inability to read the room foreshadowed sweeping changes that would soon transform Etsy.
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Speaking quietly, Beckham came off as critical of the team's effort, the Giants' play-calling, and the performance — and even the arm strength — of quarterback Eli Manning.
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I wouldn't care what it was called if it were delicious, but like some of the other attempts to loosen Korean custom, it came off as timid.
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But Mr. Nelsons's measured account of this frenzied work — which typically runs about 70 minutes but approached 80 on Monday — often came off as timid, even ponderous.
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Of course, Adele turned heads earlier this year after debuting her post-divorce look at Drake's birthday party ... where she came off as a completely different person.
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Adam Cancryn: Booker and Gabbard trying to jump in on the inevitable "age" question came off as completely contrived and was painful to watch in real time.
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His recent comments related to Booker were foolish, and his defense of China during an interview with Margaret Hoover came off as out of touch and misguided.
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Earlier that year, in April, the men critiqued Michelle Obama, saying that she would be a "problem" for the new president because she came off as too black.
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In Washington, she often came off as overly solicitous in her introductions, and her fervent offers to connect made some uncomfortable, people who met her told BuzzFeed News.
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Many commentators were expecting it would cost Trump dearly if he came off as too domineering or bullying — and that he would moderate his style as a result.
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After writing on Twitter about how what America needs right now is unity, Dillard replied to a Twitter user who suggested that Dillard sometimes came off as hateful.
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But, as programmed by the Takacs, it came off as a young Viennese composer's homage to his forebears, like the second work, Schubert's String Quintet in C (1828).
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A video game heroine turned media franchise, Lara Croft, with her pneumatic breasts and heavy guns, always came off as an onanistic cartoon for 12-year-old boys.
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Consequently, the tone of the meeting came off as a commercial by each of the companies asking for government assistance in getting their medications to market more quickly.
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I thought Zuckerberg came off as smart and respectful, and I don't think anyone would watch this and be more angry with Facebook than when the hearing started.
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Although the burrito-delivery drop came off as more of a PR stunt than a drill aimed at refining a new drone program, it isn't Project Wing's only test.
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His foreignness came off as a French lover boy, and, at least to American eyes, his movements — and some memorable bikini briefs — made him a bit of a caricature.
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And the result was that Witness, regardless of how personal it may or may not have felt to Perry, came off as an attempt to ride the sociopolitical zeitgeist.
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Discussions about a stranger's marriage are usually just gossip, and it was striking that even serious comments about who Pence was allowed to eat around came off as jokes.
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There is an impressive spicy tuna tartare appetizer, for example, which combined some very fresh fish with cucumbers and avocado, and which came off as cool, light, and delicious.
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Whereas Durant came off as prickly and unwilling to answer questions in Oklahoma City, he's appeared a lot more transparent and keen to talk after moving to the Bay.
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"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" was a ticket-selling machine in 2008, but fans generally hated the story; it came off as a cynical money grab for all involved.
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Healthy packaged snacks, she says, "fell short," and came off as either too "granola-hippy, made for babies or super modern and minimalist" — none of which appealed to her.
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And a candidate and campaign that cycled through slogan after slogan and struggled to stick to a consistent message came off as too poll-tested to many other voters.
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The house-made desserts were satisfying, particularly the pot de crème, profiteroles (with lingonberry jam) and the splendid clementine crème brûlée, which came off as a kind of decadent Creamsicle.
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But when St. Felix asked Kanye West's former longtime creative director if he had heard anything about Leaving Neverland, Abloh's response came off as more than a little tone deaf.
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There were times throughout the project that his melodies sounded like a more sinister, drug-focused version of 808s era Kanye—which to some critics came off as straight biting.
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Senators on both sides of the aisle said Ford came off as a credible in her testimony, an indication that Mitchell may not have been effective from the GOP's perspective.
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The statement also came off as a shot at San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin-Cruz, who has emerged as an outspoken critic of the federal government's response to the hurricane.
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Elsewhere, Buttigieg came off as the bright, articulate and measured candidate that has earned him rave reviews from Washington insiders and propelled his unlikely ascendance on the national stage. Sen.
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But he came off as a bit nervous, like a frustrated school kid trying to disgorge a memorized speech if only his rowdy classmates would allow him to deliver it.
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No doubt my silence came off as an admission of guilt — little different than vocally conceding to the critics, as the young adult author Amélie Wen Zhao did last week.
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He came off as polite and friendly, neighbor Nicole Gonzalez said Tuesday morning as she returned to her Orlando home after being evacuated more than a day earlier during the standoff.
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Though he came off as articulate and informed, and far more measured and thoughtful-seeming than his shoot-from-the-lip running mate, he did Donald Trump no favors as wingman.
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At the event, it came off as a livestream/vlog a la far-right media entrepreneur Mike Cernovich that will operate in "a streamlined, Steve Jobs kind of way," Scaramucci said.
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Elton John says Michael Jackson came off as "genuinely mentally ill" late in life -- which left the Rocket Man himself believing the King of Pop had gone off the deep end.
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Others, like using paid actors instead of real people, or even hiring celebrity endorsers to express their affinity for a product, came off as "deceptive" or "manipulative," according to those surveyed.
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There was something about Balwani that he found vaguely creepy, but that impression was more than offset by Holmes, who came off as very earnest in her determination to transform health care.
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There's nothing wrong with speaking Spanish on national television in the United States, but O'Rourke's approach failed because his gesture came off as inauthentic and lacking a genuine emotional point of departure.
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But Trump's message about Baltimore and other inner cities, delivered, as it was, to a MAGA-hat-wearing audience in Cincinnati, came off as a political potshot rather than a constructive effort.
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Even the ritual attack by her opponent, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn — "the prime minister has scraped through phase one of the negotiations, scraped through after 18 months" — came off as a grumpy compliment.
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Without a theme to tie all the evening together — or, even a specific major breakout hit in the television realm — each triumph came off as an earnest, agenda-free opinion from the HFPA.
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Meanwhile, Axios' Mike Allen reported that additional aides had to be brought in for former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin, after he came off as "uneven and stiff" in his early prep sessions.
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In the Journal story, Cook and his COO Jeff Williams, who will now run Apple's design team, came off as operations nerds who have steered Apple away from focusing on mind-blowing products.
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At its 1941 premiere, the psychoanalytic-theme plot — in which Liza Elliott, a fashion magazine editor, goes to pieces over a romantic quandary, requiring the services of Dr. Brooks — came off as daring.
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HP never liked the idea of the hostile takeover attempt and the gloves quickly came off as the two companies wrangled publicly with one another, culminating with HP's board unanimously rejecting Xerox's offer.
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The folks behind Veronica Mars came off as blinkered and callous with their show's big death, and they had far less of a justification for that big death than the Magicians producers did.
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It wasn't just that Clinton came off as better prepared, that the majority of viewers said she won, or that she managed a surprisingly artful "shimmy" after nailing one of the debate answers.
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Since then, Trump waded feet first into Britain&aposs approach to countering terrorism after a string of attacks, upsetting both May and the mayor or London with tweets that came off as put-downs.
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Haslam also reportedly nicknamed ex-VP of football operations Sashi Brown, who is black, "Obama" because of his Harvard degree ... which made people in the Browns organization uncomfortable and came off as racial stereotyping.
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But for many of his supporters and Black Lives Matter activists, this came off as ineffectual — they want him to convincingly speak to their passion and concerns about racial disparities in the justice system.
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And indeed, the scene hardly read as an unfortunate sacrifice that Jon was upset to have to make; to many fans, it instead came off as an inexplicably cold exile of a loyal companion.
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Ms. Kelly, ostracized by the governor as a rogue and a liar after her email was exposed, came off as a newly promoted employee who had been eager to please her boss, Mr. Christie.
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Clinton came off as a classically prepared debater who used Mr. Trump's record and words against him at 19 separate moments, while Mr. Trump seemed to be improvising on stage much of the time.
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Where Clinton came off as a levelheaded technocrat — the person she thinks you'd want in charge in a crisis — Sanders's debate answers reflected the same anger and betrayal heard in questions from the audience.
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In a short exchange about how the nominee would counter the hacking attempts of foreign governments, Trump came off as more incomprehensible than usual—regurgitating keywords back at the reporters in generic, meaningless sentences.
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Lindsay Graham's send-up of what he perceives as Democratic foot-dragging came off as hypocritical at best, given Republican's efforts to block President Obama's Supreme Court nominees, and an irresponsible "temper tantrum" at worst.
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Mr. Trump came off as more relaxed but also far lighter on policy explanations, and he faced no questions about his past insults of veterans and their families or his own Vietnam-era draft deferments.
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The revelations about her suicide spurred anguished and angry responses from several black writers, with many saying that Mr. Parker's initial responses to the case — noting his acquittal in 2001 — came off as sorely lacking.
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The perspectival distortions of the floors and walls, which turn the rooms he painted into a collapsing house of cards, no longer came off as mannerisms, but as signifiers of a world losing its bearings.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — In his first extended appearance before the White House press corps on Thursday, John F. Kelly, the former Marine general turned president's chief of staff, came off as very un-Trumpian.
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For his mainly white supporters, he came off as ... not blatantly racist, got the photo op, and maybe even secured some degree of cover from the virulent racism that's permeated the rest of his presidency.
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It came off as a boom, but in fact it was more "playing catch up" after years of underbuilding, said Jay Turner, whose MarketStreet Enterprises developed the now trendy Gulch neighborhood around an abandoned rail yard.
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The upper floor had a lot of light, and the locker room came off as standard issue — except for the fact that it had old lockers that required a padlock and didn't have a digital scale.
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The scenes in which Leo's agent and editor appear came off as satirical, even gossipy; they distracted from what I saw as the real story and made me wonder about Patchett's views of the publishing industry.
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Why Cohn felt the need to say that out loud at a press conference in which he came off as a completely out of touch and simplistic fool—wait, maybe I just answered my own question.
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Framed as under the table jabs rather than an above board argument that 76 is too old, Castro came off as mean-spirited even though polls do show that concern about a septuagenarian president are widespread.
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Maybe. But it's naive to think the recent sparring with the president, in which Brzezinksi came off as unfazed (not to mention more skillful at Twitter shade) in comparison to Trump's jagoff routine, didn't grease the wheels.
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But for many, the tracking function came off as just another in a series of poor decisions and negative looks for Uber including reports of rider assaults, complaints of internal harassment, and troubles at the executive level.
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If she didn't reply to his messages quickly enough because she was doing homework, he would scold her and make her beg for his forgiveness in a way that came off as half-joke and half-serious.
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Yes, the first Democratic primary debates of the 2020 presidential election this week were battles between candidates who could use virtue signaling to present themselves as authentic and politicians whose choice of words came off as insincere.
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In announcing her exit from the party, Bollier pointed to when the Kansas GOP adopted a platform that included the provision, "We believe God created two genders, male and female," saying it came off as anti-transgender.
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George Rice, a 36-year-old libertarian and small business owner, didn't hide his distaste for the Mueller probe at a local Republican Party event this week -- "It honestly came off as a witch hunt," he said.
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There was sexism in these interruptions, critics said, because they were disproportionate: Lauer came off as being much more critical of Clinton, even as Trump made unchecked statements about his earlier support for the war in Iraq.
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When it was his turn to testify, Kavanaugh came off as defensive and angry, shouting and crying his way through his opening statements and turning questions about his adolescent drinking habits back on the senators questioning him.
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Sanders's efforts came off as heavy-handed to some, leading to Twitter users reviving the 2015 hashtag #BernieSoBlack, which targeted him for arguably exaggerating his importance to the civil rights struggle and his closeness to the black community.
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But when Thunberg went to Washington -- into the lights, cameras and lack-of-action that makes up the modern congressional hearing -- the smallest and youngest person in the room came off as the oldest soul on Capitol Hill.
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When Keebler attempted to cultivate a fun internet presence it came off as confusing and a bit creepy, and when IHOP tried to get people onboard with a fresh rebrand to "IHOb," people around the world rolled their eyes.
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Our thought bubble: Perry's comments, which got picked up by numerous other media outlets, came off as inarticulate and opened him up to a barrage of criticism that he was both inaccurate and insensitive to victims of sexual assault.
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LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Stephen Curry all tied as the top scorer in the quarter with 12 points, though Irving came off as the most impressive, hitting seemingly unmakeable shots and scoring four points end of the quarter.
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The mostly failed Google Glass headset from 2013 showed how badly people can react to augmented reality headsets — it came off as creepy, invasive, and elitist, the province of a few oblivious nerds who can unilaterally record or remake their environment.
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Despite the religious conflicts woven within, which mostly reflected our own, it never came off as an anti-Muslim, or pro-Christian film in its many stances; it's just a whole lot of sword on sword, blood-serviced comfort food.
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At a moment when allegations of egregious sexual misconduct against such men as Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., Mark Halperin, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Russell Simmons, and John Conyers were resulting in serious repercussions, Franken's statement came off as insufficiently contrite.
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Those who reacted poorly to his presence, however — who noted that someone who has been credibly accused of rape by nearly 100 women was sitting in the room with them and that this situation was not ideal — came off as shrill, irrational.
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A Kansas City woman has described the terrifying scene as her friend's seat belt came off as he went down the world's tallest water slide – a year before 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated in a horrible accident on the thrill ride.
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While Breslin came off as a street-wise everyman who was not even sure he graduated from high school, a former editor said it was a facade put up by a man who could quote the French Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
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In the press release itself it came off as a bit of hand-patting — reassurance that these sort of things happen all the time, so nobody should get too upset — but Hollywood has had to deal with this kind of situation before.
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Carlson's vision of "a clean, orderly, stable country that respects itself" had an echo of another performance that a magazine writer wrote about long ago: During a speech at the W.E.B. DuBois center in Accra, Sharpton came off as something approaching conservative.
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In what came off as a real-life equivalent of the distracted boyfriend meme, de Blasio held off endorsing his former boss for six months, as he gazed longingly at the Sanders campaign and the stir it was creating on the left.
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Ford came off as credible As Ford wrapped her testimony, both sides praised the 22019-year-old professor for being credible and effective under hours of interrogation by senators and Rachel Mitchell, the lawyer hired to question her on behalf of Republicans. Sen.
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Since I was familiar with Republican lawmakers' negative reactions to Trump's announcement, Sharp's segment, which was primarily dedicated to detailing US troops' deaths under former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, came off as flattering for Trump, but vague and confusing.
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Following a lukewarm monologue and similarly flat bits throughout the ceremony, Che and Jost generally came off as stiff and indifferent to being at the Emmys, an air that only played worse in light of how peppy everyone else seemed to be.
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And frankly, it came off as somewhat bizarre at some points: that after three years of work by the MTA, a roundtable of outside engineers, separate from the MTA, were essentially invited to come in and dismantle the entire thing a few months out.
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My change of heart might have something to do with the upsizing of the Q3 — it's now larger than the outgoing Q3, making the new SUV a bit of a compact/subcompact tweener, whereas the previous Q3 came off as a rather downsized Q5.
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The speakers get plenty loud, and the issue isn't always that noticeable — during a fight sequence in Captain America: Civil War, the effect almost came off as immersive — but films' quieter sequences and, really, most YouTube clips I've watched have been kind of annoying to listen to.
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Tom's delusional idea that Summer is his soulmate solely by the virtue that they both like the same seminal band captures not just the level of his projection, but perhaps also why the film came off as (to borrow a very 90s expression) poser-ish to some.
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Comey came off as something of a savvy Washington survivor who knew how to keep his head above water in D.C. but without the guts or inclination to put a stop to the myriad ways his superiors from both parties kept trying to interfere with his job.
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats came off as (and largely were) hapless idiots who couldn't fight their way out of a political paper bag but who, nonetheless, crowed their superiority to anyone who would listen and a lot of folks who would rather not.
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The problem was, that after she landed the initial blow, she herself wavered on her busing stance essentially adopting the same position as Biden, but even more than that, the whole thing with the instagram posts and the t-shirts came off as way too cute.
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On Friday at Carnegie, with Kelley O'Connor, Michaela Martens and Jay Hunter Morris a less luxurious, more direct trio of soloists than in Los Angeles, the piece came off as more lithe and stark, somehow more austere, its tones less Technicolor-candied but its drama more focused.
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Christopher Wheeldon's "After the Rain Pas de Deux" came off as insipid — without the rest of the ballet, it loses whatever poignancy it might have; "Vespers," by Ulysses Dove, and "The Hunt," by the company's artistic director, Robert Battle, were calculated in their shallow presentation of force.
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Rather than fire up his crowd of 500-600 with a rah-rah speech that would bring them to their feet and propel them out the door raring to vote for him, Biden gave them instead what came off as a stream-of-conscience Lenny Bruce routine.
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During our conversation, Freeland — who insists that everyone call her Chrystia — came off as acutely conscious of the perils of the moment, of how a provocation or an insult, perceived or real, could damage Canada's relationship with the United States, or at least with the current president.
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When I found out Sadie Dupuis aka Sad13 aka the founder of Speedy Ortiz wrote a book of poetry called Mouthguard, I worried it would be unapproachable for me, a country bumpkin for whom poetry always came off as a little, how do I put this delicately, melodramatic.
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The Trump Collection also faced backlash early this year when it was discovered that many of his dress shirts, suits, and jackets were made in countries like Indonesia, China, and Mexica—which came off as a direct contradiction of his rhetoric about creating more jobs for American citizens.
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Maybe he was wondering if the man was fucking with him, as people sometimes did when they encountered a different culture and, in an effort to tease, came off as incredibly earnest, only to draw information out of the person they were teasing until the person looked foolish.
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"I never spoke with Walter, and I never read the book, but I know I came off as cold to my father and not caring whether he felt bad," Ms. Brennan-Jobs said in late July, sitting in Cantine, a small, vegan-friendly cafe in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood.
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Mr. Franco's character was a listless executive who had sexually harassed several female co-workers, while Mr. Thompson was a security guard who had also lewdly propositioned women — but got a pass because he came off as kindly and eccentric (and ended up being fired for other reasons).
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Kim revealed what her hubby got her for Xmas on her IG story Tuesday, and thank the Lord for the twist here -- 'cause his first batch of goodies came off as pretty lame ... a Mickey doll, Adidas socks, a Netflix gift card, an Amazon gift card and Apple headphones.
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On Thursday, after the father of two — who stars on TLC's Counting On alongside his wife, 22017 Kids and Counting alum Jill (Duggar) Dillard — wrote on Twitter that what America needs right now is unity, he replied to a Twitter user who suggested that Dillard sometimes came off as hateful.
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Another criticism of Mr. Robot's first season was that its hero often came off as if he was cornering you at a party (or maybe derailing the discussion on a Facebook post) to talk about his particular obsessions, many of which seemed to be derived directly from the film Fight Club.
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And the fact that Cruz did include a call for all conservatives to still go out and vote in November really came off as a weak hedge of a statement that Cruz may try to use in his defense when he's inevitably accused of hurting all of the GOP candidates down the line.
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Yet so subtly had Mr. Cox and his partner Daniel Silver manipulated scale, made minute alterations in the formula that is a man's suit (a puffer parka, stuffing removed, was worn under a jacket as a shirt) that their collection came off as an airtight argument for short-form fashion and self-editing.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Seeking to quell concerns he came off as insensitive during a news conference this week, Ohio State's football coach, Urban Meyer, on Friday tried again: This time, he unequivocally apologized to the woman who accused a former assistant coach of domestic violence, in a case that led to Meyer's suspension.
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It follows Beto O'Rourke's Texas Senate campaign, and the reason I kept watching it wasn't for Mr. O'Rourke at all — who came off as arrogant and annoyed in most of the scenes where he wasn't in front of a crowd, and eventually apologized to his staff — but for the volunteers and people around him.
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Not all of the new productions came off as well as Poots had hoped, but the brilliance and experimental daring of the festival brought spectators and critics from London and beyond, and "Monkey: Journey to the West" was booked, after its Manchester début, to appear in Paris, London, New York, and Charleston, South Carolina.
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"There were times that I looked the clichéd part of somebody going through some shit, but a lot of times I came off as fine with no outward cause for concern," says Cox, who used to dig dull pens into his inner thighs until he bled, rather than cutting visible parts of his body like his wrists.
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But while many pundits believed Kaine came off as aggressive and shrill to Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceFEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding Log Cabin Republicans endorse Trump MORE's cool composure, Kaine did his assigned job and maneuvered Pence into making several false denials.
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Even his supposedly best stuff would be torn apart if presented to the poetry practicum she taught every Tuesday, not only on account of its wordy, clichéd, hyperactive figuration but, more fundamentally, because of the soothsaying persona that the singer so readily deployed, a trope that worked fine in a pop song but on paper came off as a shtick.
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He told Rotondo he "came off as autistic on television" ("OK" was the reply), told him that he should have asked for money for his other TV appearances, said that many people like Rotondo "don't just stay in their parents' house, they get recruited by the globalists," and talked at length about time travel and genetics and how we are all the product of our ancestors.
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Rush Limbaugh says Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE came off as conceited during her first presidential debate with Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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