strike one as being
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“He can strike one as being a very formal person, and he has cultivated that to some degree,” said Marie Arana, a Peruvian-American writer and former editor of The Washington Post’s books section.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2018
His features, too, somehow or other, strike one as being those of a gentleman; which is all the more singular when, as a fact, he told me he had been brought up in a workhouse.
From For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
You're very odd, Peter," she said, "but you do say things that strike one as being true.
From Simon Called Peter by Keable, Robert
It does not strike one as being a history at all,—that is, a straightforward, logical, and continuous narrative coinciding with those exemplar types of historical writing bequeathed to us by Macaulay or by Motley.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
This does not strike one as being an unseemly pandering to popular favor.
From Love Conquers All by Williams, Gluyas
