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

Placed as they now are upon a simple ledge, they strike one as being too near the eye, and out of harmony with the architectural tone of the building.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

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

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)

Unfortunately, his two personalities have become so confused that his later books sometimes strike one as being not so much a game played with light as a game of hide-and-seek between light and darkness.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert