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• On-screen, drawn out over the course of nine hour-long episodes, her crimes come off as tiresome.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2022
• Her gift is making weighty subjects come off as breezy.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Rowan said that if the crosswalk had been more clean, the tire marks may have adhered better to the paint and wouldn’t have come off as easily.
  — John Spink, ajc, 24 Feb. 2022
• Want to come off as more confident while walking through the office?
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
• Rodgers is aware that her story could come off as poor-little-rich-girl griping.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Against the odds, however, Lord Rollo doesn’t come off as a villain.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2022
• Some zoomers say this can come off as passive aggressive or cold.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• So many of these efforts come off as lethally diffident and anxious to please.
  — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2022
• The same words that come off as critique from a significant other sound like advice from a friend.
  — Hannah Singleton, Outside Online, 19 July 2022
• But in some contexts — in a note, say, to your boss or your mother-in-law — an ! might come off as too forceful or pushy or naively joyful.
  — Florence Hazrat, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• But recalls often come off as nothing more than attempts to reverse the will of voters.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
• Its glumness, meant to come off as a good-looking take on American gothic, gets in the way of its juicier, freakier bits.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
• Spending too much time rehearsing could come off as false -- don't make the mistake of overthinking things.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• But the CMTs occasionally suffered from a general vibe of trying so hard to be liked as to come off as corny.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2022
• Likewise, King is trying not to come off as too conservative.
  — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• But rather than come off as entitled, Wes Unseld Jr. was a sponge for information, Brown said.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• But somehow, Pitt’s cheeky nods to his own stardom don’t come off as desperate to many viewers; instead, his antics seem to endear him to them even more.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
• Futuristic sci-fi can often come off as cold, which works when seeding a dystopian vibe but can also be kind of a bummer.
  — Wired, 9 July 2022
• Pádraic doesn’t come off as tedious enough for Colm to threaten self-mutilation should his former friend so much as wave hello to him again.
  — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
• Because of that context, Manion said the word can come off as patronizing and demeaning.
  — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The content will also be more likely to come off as authentic to both your audiences instead of transactional and be a win-win for both of you.
  — Yec, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The cover of The Last Baron is magnetically good such that the book demands to be read, only for the story inside to come off as a bit dull, and worse, very contradictory.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• In debates, Lightfoot’s pugnacity can come off as disdain, but this was a supportive crowd, and her voice was friendly.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
• Even before any aliens arrive, the characters come off as joke versions of the stars of the movie, who actually played their roles in total sincerity.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
• In last week’s episode, Steven seemed to be getting more interested in Whitney, who has, to her credit, so far come off as a more down-to-earth, genuine person than some of the other bachelorettes on the show.
  — oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2022
• The symphony can come off as an exercise in motivic obsession on the level of Beethoven’s Fifth, and even has that work’s style of a soaringly ecstatic finale.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
• The entire production is the definition of sensory overload, the plot is kind of all over the place, not many of the songs are particularly memorable and the rapid-fire pace of the jokes makes the show come off as a bit too eager to please.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
• Overcalculated playfulness about the subject can come off as a kind of self-marketing, as going there without putting anything on the line.
  — Mark Harris, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• In the worst case, the act of deconstruction, absent enlightenment, might come off as pretension as the diner wonders why this is happening.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2022
• Wynonna may come off as the ultimate super trouper, but the documentary reveals chinks in that armor along the way, or at least moments where the singer plainly owns up to not yet having come to terms with her mother’s death.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024