They come across as a little bit unhinged, a little bit posh, but actually quite charming and disarmingly open. |
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They come across as stiff and uninteresting, but that's exactly what the director wants from them. |
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The ones that have been on TV lately are out of practice and come across as lame. |
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There are platoons of child actors who don't come across as childish at all. |
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In isolation, the stifling homogeny of the album doesn't come across as strongly, and the crooning doesn't get as tiresome. |
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If the characters intermittently come across as embodiments of ideas and author mouthpieces, the performances go far towards humanizing them. |
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That may come across as cold and passionless but that's only because I don't agree with most political philosophies or politicians. |
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Often, their very human needs come across as clunky impediments to economic progress. |
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I'm not a public speaker to begin with, and so what if I just embarrass myself, or come across as inarticulate and incoherent? |
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Hence, some of the lines don't come across as winsome as they might otherwise have appeared. |
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But he actively engaged in bureaucratic ploys so he could come across as the loyal soldier and cover his tracks. |
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Her character didn't come across as compassionate and concerned, except in how it directly influenced her. |
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As a result, our songs tend to come across as sounding looser than they actually are. |
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To come across as being an intellectual, one should appear to be very well-read. |
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But those in control, although they want to come across as one of the common people, aren't prepared to give up their handle on power. |
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If you introduce a pre-show element, be sure it relates to the show and doesn't come across as a cheap marketing gimmick. |
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Many, however, come across as parodies of the cheerfully uninformed American undergraduate. |
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When all is said and done, they come across as a rock 'n' roll Motown wall of sound. |
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After all, I appeared to be a bookworm sort of fellow trying to come across as tough. |
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This puzzles me since I'm told I'm not unattractive and I think I come across as friendly. |
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But quite a few of the others come across as frivolous, apathetic, foolish or all of the above. |
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Indeed, compared to their Hollywood counterparts, most of the cartoon fish come across as rather dull, failing to make a real impression. |
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They are also blissfully unaware that, to serious thinkers, they come across as the kids we hated in high school. |
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I expect it would come across as a very cold, blustery place, but yet with this sort of eerie beauty of Saturn in the sky. |
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The documents issuing from Rome and diocesan offices come across as totally abstract and divorced from real life. |
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It would come across as being contrary to the romantic notion of the sharing of wine. |
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This leaves us with the realists, who come across as sensible, pragmatic moderates. |
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They are a genial, amiable lot, and they come across as personable and excruciatingly ethical in the course of the series. |
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Both these people have talent but far more than that they come across as nice, decent, genuine young people. |
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Yet, the argument does not come across as ideologically motivated or doctrinaire. |
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I don't think you come across as a dork in e-mail at all, although you sure do send a lot of it! |
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He can come across as intensely serious about the game, even dour in the eyes of the fans, but this is as much a myth as so much in football. |
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He wants to be just anti-war enough to appeal to anti-war Democrats but just pro-war enough that he doesn't come across as weak-kneed. |
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If more people went to the opera, we'd come across as more emotionally mature. |
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It's kept up in an old barn that was redone so as to come across as a school. |
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I figured everyone else was in the know so I didn't want to come across as an idiot by having to ask. |
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To some he is difficult to take seriously, and he may come across as the sort who shoots from the hip with little thought for the consequences. |
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See, I may come across as secure and confident or whatever, but in reality, I have a love-hate relationships with my sexuality. |
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He supplies almost no autobiographical material and tries to come across as just a regular guy. |
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Despite the occasional jab at bigots, however, the movie does not really come across as a political statement. |
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He seems able to frighten the life out of MPs and really does come across as being as mad as a box of frogs. |
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And yet, this manages not to come across as math, and only barely sounds like an avant-garde experiment. |
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These seem like odd responses since she doesn't come across as materialistic, but perhaps that's why. |
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He can't come across as the bad news bear, lest people decide they don't want to listen to doomsday prophesies for the next four years. |
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Hunt had always come across as such an earnest fellow, betrothed to his majesty's fleet. |
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In a story set at the dawn of transglobal travel, the ship's mutineers come across as the template for all marauding Brits on holiday since. |
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The transparent attempts to come across as wise and selfless only increase my distaste for this woman. |
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Catchers are reluctant sometimes to talk about this because they don't want to come across as a bunch of bleeding hearts. |
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After re-reading this post, I realized that I may have come across as bashing ultracrepidarians. |
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If you want to come across as unbiased and open-minded, I suggest you try a little harder to express it with your choice of words. |
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They come across as skylarking high school and college kids as they cavort in the left field stands at Veterans Stadium. |
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But his funny faces and odd mannerisms come across as forced and unnatural. |
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However, while the ideas expressed in these interviews may lack the benefits of hindsight, they do not come across as offhanded or unstudied. |
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What I didn't like was that Bridget's friends come across as shallow and unsupportive. |
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She is one of those rare people who come across as very smart in person, not just on paper. |
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He may come across as a bit doddery now and then, but when it comes to his one true passion the brain is as sharp as ever. |
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Intended for comic relief, the song and dance numbers come across as uninspired and robotic. |
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We are no strangers to men dressing as women, but they are generally either grossly exaggerated or come across as merely camp. |
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Is he going to come across as stiff and wooden, or is he going to come across as a person that Americans can trust? |
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Sermons preached about economic matters all too often come across as dry, dead propositions pedantically presented to provide proof that we are living the wrong way. |
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While he may come across as disaffected and aloof off stage, he and his band are a powerhouse on stage, and have crafted several sensational albums of anthemic songs. |
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I'd guess they told him to come across as genially disappointed, more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger, and he kind of went off the rails. |
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If he does, he might come across as too wonkish and too aggressive to connect with voters. |
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They come across as the people at a party who are standing in the corner and are just dying to have a dance, only they need one or two more drinks to get the courage. |
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They come across as quite brash at first, but I soon realised they were vulnerable young men with their hearts set on high-flying football careers. |
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These women often come across as uptight or too bothered by small details. |
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I can never be sure whether I come across as witty or buffoonish at work. |
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There is enormous support for these men who have been jailed because they have come across as sincere men who have been put in the most invidious position. |
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I hate to come across as bah, humbug, but I don't find her funny, either. |
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I know some of this opinion may come across as very strong, but it is something I feel so strongly about and it is something which I carry around with me everyday of my life. |
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His hero, Bruce Springsteen, is a gazillionaire, but he still manages to come across as a regular guy, so perception is reality. |
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If you're a glum dour downbeat killjoy who has nothing to peddle but reheated miserabilism, you will come across as a bitter fool, and no one will be persuaded. |
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It's true that blogs can be a useful tool for exploring and expressing ideas, and that they come across as relatively dynamic in today's circumstances. |
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It isn't that the crew members come across as being insincere. |
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Having someone wheel in a slide projector, sit it in the middle of the table, and speak over the noise doesn't come across as professional anymore. |
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I see now that we must have come across as a bunch of know-it-alls. |
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Then McQueen, who can come across as quite intense and dour, magnificently, jumped up and down. |
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Hyde has his uses but he doesn't come across as a team player. |
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It is always interesting asking people about their parents, but rarely does someone come across as such a perfect amalgam of their mother and father as Short. |
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Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt have always come across as cowgirl sophisticates equally comfortable at a hoedown as they would be at a debutante ball. |
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Often, a character talking to themselves can come across as tropey or hacky. |
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A business suit and briefcase help her to come across as the competent professional she is. |
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It's less effective in providing an emotional context for Coward's droll ripostes, which here too often come across as mere icy put-downs. |
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Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity. |
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I know schadenfreude isn't the most pleasant of concepts, but she really does come across as a deeply unpleasant human being. |
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I can see how it would make people come across as cagey or aloof. |
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What might be confidence starts to come across as careless blitheness. |
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In clammier hands, this mixture would come across as a goopy farrago. |
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Indeed, to Mr Cameron and his ilk, we've probably come across as refuseniks as efforts are made to breathe life into economic prosperity of England's northern areas. |
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However, Wade, the last British grand slam winner said the constant disruptions for treatment and winces in pain made Murray come across as a drama queen. |
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