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
The songs of yesterday, when revived, strike one as being very antiquated, and the songs of the day before yesterday also rarely bear the test; but what of the songs of the sixties?
From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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)
Our new school of writers is reserved, but its reserve does not strike one as being of the former kind.
From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian
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
