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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
• Some zoomers say this can come off as passive aggressive or cold.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 12 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
• Want to come off as more confident while walking through the office?
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
• So many of these efforts come off as lethally diffident and anxious to please.
  — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Against the odds, however, Lord Rollo doesn’t come off as a villain.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2022
• Likewise, King is trying not to come off as too conservative.
  — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 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
• 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
• 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
• Because of that context, Manion said the word can come off as patronizing and demeaning.
  — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Clermont-Tonnerre deftly weaves these ideas into the narrative, but her actors never come off as mere mouthpieces for concepts.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Stegner’s writing can come off as paternalistic all these decades later, but his outrage is palpable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• 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
• The film’s final moments come off as confusing although this seems equally attributable to directing choices.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 22 Nov. 2021
• But a side effect is that Soviet characters come off as either wholly corrupt or naively devoted to a dying ideology.
  — WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Ads that use interested search data and browser history will come off as less creepy than ads using information picked up from apps that capture what the consumer is saying when their microphone is turned on.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 3 Aug. 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
• 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