I seized the wrist of the first man I came across, gripping on like a drowning sailor as he scowled in disgust and shook my hand away. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They did that cloning on my mother over there,” she said, surprised I hadn’t come across that fact in my research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If he came across a German word he did not know, he looked up its English meaning in the Cassell’s. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was sitting over at the Iruña reading the papers when I saw Robert Cohn coming across the square. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I get up to find a stick but almost immediately come across the arrow that bounced off Cato's body armor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Archie could feel the coldness—more than cold, an icy hate coming across the desk like a deadly ray from some bleak and lethal planet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What comes across in their work time and again is a relishing of the joys of chords for their own sake, the delicious transition from one to another and the effect it might have. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If Scythe Curie had come across Citra on one of those days, would the woman have gleaned her? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was both disheartening and worrisome to know we were out here alone with no hope of coming across someone to help us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Several years ago, I was going through my family heirlooms when I came across a manuscript that was assumed to be a novel written by my great-great-great-grandfather. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If they came across any more monster carcasses, he was afraid he might pull an empousa and try to devour it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He stood up and came across the table to stand in front of me, motioning for me to lie down on the little cot he used when he was working all night. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now and then, in the tall grass, they came across statues of little men. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even gold came across as gold on a black-and-white television set. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When Lupin had lived here, you were more likely to come across a specimen of some fascinating new Dark creature he had procured for them to study in class. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He came across the gym like a thunderhead bearing down across the valley and grabbed the clipboard out of my hands. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

What had he entered into, by coming across the world? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was literally overwhelmed when, in reading the works of Russian revolutionists, I came across descriptions of the “holiday energies of the masses,” “the locomotives of history,” “the conditions prerequisite for revolution,” and so Forth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several years ago, I was going through my family heirlooms when I came across a manuscript that was assumed to be a novel written by my great-great-great-grandfather. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only hunter- gatherers and slash-and-burners in Amazonia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Given their fear of loud noises, the bonobos had probably fled to the far side as soon as the gunfire started, so I didn’t expect to come across any for a while. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We come across a third hall, perpendicular to the one we’re in. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But there was no news of them, and after a while we didn’t know any of the people who came across the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Farther ahead, Curly came across another footprint— and then another, and still another after that. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently he came across an inner-page story that won his entire attention. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you truly were reading that book when I came across you in the library.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you stand there and tell me what you didn’t mean! Never in my experience have I come across—” Now she was in for it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When you come across old students from Hailsham, you always find them, sooner or later, getting nostalgic about their collections. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several hobbits fell, and the rest were wavering, when Merry and Pippin, who were on the east side, came across and charged the ruffians. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’m not the same Niamh who left her gram and aunties and uncles in Kinvara and came across the ocean on the Agnes Pauline, who lived with her family on Elizabeth Street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever come across any members of the Armstrong family?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate what they had or came across or had a craving for. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’d come across movie posters glued to abandoned buildings, but they would be for black-and-white films. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A tractor came across the meadow in my direction, and in addition to the man at the wheel there were two others hanging on the rear. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Course he hadn’t, but he said he’d come across another purse in the kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the notes of the interviewers putting together a history of West Virginia, I came across this entry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the extremely unlikely event that he even came across a hog, he figured, he’d allow it to study devilment in peace. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The car that came across the intersection was an old Mustang painted black. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrolling further down the screen, Charles came across a rather unusual annotation: “You didn’t really think we’d make it that easy, did you?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Just an hour after we started out I came across the first village houses. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not much later, then, that he comes across the paranoid pilgrims. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A woman in a pink striped frock and a hair-net came across the grass towards us. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Or suppose they were to come across one of the really big dragons? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A look of compassion came across Alec’s face, something Mark hadn’t seen often. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

While everyone else continued to pack, Anya cleaned the blood off Ivan’s face so he wouldn’t horrify any other travelers they came across. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Having strayed farther afield than usual, I was hurrying back home, lugging my burlap sacks when I came across a dead rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The voice returned, “Quite right,” and the window was shut again, and a young lady came across the court-yard, with keys in her hand. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later I come across the source of the odor: a plastic garbage bag filled with feathers, down, and the severed wings of several birds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her, as neutrally as I could, about how Tommy and I had come across it that day while she’d been gone with the others. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small chance his father would come across him—he was at work at the plastic shop. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I come across the remains of a cat. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day I came across a newspaper article about the retirement of an English professor at a nearby state college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would lie about inside his blotter, and he would answer it weeks later, one Sunday morning in a hurry, before lunch, having come across it when he paid some bills. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Anya brought up the rear, stopping at every door she came across and slipping her key into the keyholes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, hauling net, he came across a fish thrashing hard enough to elicit a cracking thump when it banged off the Islander’s transom. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Together, they followed the fence around the clearing, searching for a door until they came across one. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know Glenn Burke wore number three until I was researching him and came across the photo of his 1978 Topps baseball card. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

As he was searching online, he kept coming across one name: Dr. David Strayer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And there is Januka, coming across the iron bridge to hug me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While Johnson wrestled with another agonizing decision, a copy of the troop request came across Ellsberg’s desk. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had been on his way home from his first day in the Pipeworks when he’d come across the cluster of people gazing up at the roof of the Gathering Hall and laughing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s been checking it for people she knows, but hasn’t come across any—least of all her uncle, to whom social media means sitting in a crowded room reading a newspaper. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once, Grandpa led Zack and me through the woods until we came across a huge piece of green foam that was half buried in the thick brush. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But then...I come across something on the beach I never expected. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

An odd look came across his face as he read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across, but what can you expect from a strangler. Why won’t my arms move?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here I came across a pecan tree downed by the snow, its raw, flesh-tinted core the only color in the otherwise black-and-white landscape. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We walked for about ten minutes, then we had the good luck to come across a little creek with a wooden bridge running across it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My favorite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word that he didn’t know. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And as you search, you may come across a few surprises. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Each letter came across the wire sharp and pointed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We couldn't climb straight down, and we couldn't take the more gradual slope that led down close to the boathouse, because we'd still come across him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice came across rapid-fire, bouncing, like a rabbit dashing across a warren. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’d come across the picture of her under the ink blotter on Daddy's desk the last time I'd sneaked into his office. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I try to sound strong, but it comes across as awkward. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But I also didn't want to come across as a stupid kid, so I just went with it and prayed something would happen to distract her. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Richard closes his eyes and a look of pure sadness comes across his face. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was always conscious about how I would come across to my white teammates and my white coach in this mostly white sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I sat at my desk, looking for something to distract me, when I came across Abuelo’s box. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

J.T. called out as he came across the parking lot, stuffing a pack of caramel creams into his pocket. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They walked for what seemed like a very long time, and still never came across the Mary Lou. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was many years later, and far away, when I came across this passage in The Waste-Land: The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A long piece of wire came across my shoulder. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the air felt hot, and die breeze that came across the raft was warm. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came across as so hard-core, so rough and tough out on the streets. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had come across Iorek, he had been at the very last of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So far, we’d come across a black-capped chickadee in Pigeon Cove and a spotted salamander in a rainwater pond in the woods. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Since coming, everywhere I had been in the tribal reserve I had come across very few able-bodied men. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came across a broad flat stone in the muddy earth, remarkably free of termites and ants, I decided to stop us early for the day. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I came across her picture tucked under the blotter on my father's desk in his home office. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Some lied and said they’d gotten rich, or sent pictures of themselves as younger men; at any rate, wives came across the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Stannis has landed men on the tourney grounds, and there's more coming across. Hie Mud Gate's under attack, and they've brought a ram to the King's Gate. The Imp's gone out to drive them off." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She comes across to my bed and picks up the bottle. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Pierre went to great lengths: he planted stories about the Patriarch of Antioch in Dutch and French newspapers on the offchance that Boyle would come across them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had been vain enough to worry about coming across as too educated for the jobs I sought, but no one even seems interested in finding out how overqualified I am. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d come across a fox run over by the side of the road near his house. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The ground feels extra solid beneath my feet, and a slow smile comes across my face as I bring a spotlight up on Tanasia, who is walking toward the microphone with a guitar. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

If he kept walking in a new direction, he also might come across a dirt road. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. So, sorry if I come across callous sometimes. Or, I don’t know, defensive. Most of the time I’m just confused.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It would be a float plane and it would land on the water and come across the lake and the pilot would be amazed that he was alive after all these days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day as I was flipping through a history book, I came across a brief section on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the New World. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I finally came across her, holed up in a dense thicket of bee myrtle close to a little seep spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if we come across some cops and they know who lam? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across—hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Carl Orff came across an African xylophone, and developed a way to transform the xylophone into an instrument for the children at the school to play. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The plane came across rough winds, and it shook. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In there we came across the remains of a small park. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got around to putting my clothes away in the dresser, I came across a box that said ERIK’S TROPHIES. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness we don't meet many people like her in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he Googled “feral pig,” from which he learned that wild pigs were so widely disliked that the state of Tennessee pretty much allowed you to shoot one whenever you came across it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Diana would have recognized her and come across to speak. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer screamed, coming across the table and pulling Sammy by the collar until they were nose to nose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could I after all the fuss?” began May, but she did not finish, for Amy’s voice came across the hall, saying pleasantly... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I am going to shoot us a fine meal as soon as we come across anything worth eating!” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did come across a collection called Mysterious Words from the Past, which he read for a while. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They told us they first came across the shorties a couple of months after they started patrolling The Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a phrase which you sometimes come across in country districts even nowadays, which sums up a good deal of what he might have tried to say. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw Robert come across the lawn I knew it was the telephone and I felt physically sick. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Julia had come across to his side; together they gazed down with a sort of fascination at the sturdy figure below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking how, ’bout a year ago, I was fooling around up on the ridge and come across a dead dog. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon prowled, cat-formed, a little farther afield, and came across four heavy sandbags broken open, with the scattered sand already freezing hard. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then you might come across a doer of bad deeds serving time in the stocks, but that was generally as exciting as it got. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He came across the meadow, moving into the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The long wire came across my shoulder, and the fire went away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the old Flint Barracks, he came across a dozen men pelting one another with snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Those had been my favorite tales as a kid—you didn't come across many Arabian heroes anywhere else. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

You come across a whole platoon of Breathless Ones in the forest sometimes, I’ve heard. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One day she came across a rabbit, purely by happenstance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Francie came across a bonanza: the bottom of a discarded wash boiler. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we were to come across the artists of the Stadel Cave, we could learn their language and they ours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick is talking about how well Gale came across on camera. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A puny arrow connects the filler who with a gap right next door, and the reader gets instant gratification: no sooner does she come across who than she knows what it’s doing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists who come across these 110 skeletons may too easily conclude that most fell victim to some natural disaster. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Sefia’s relief, they hadn’t come across any more men on the way back to Hatchet’s camp, but she kept them off the trail and covered their tracks all the same. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, somewhere west of the Batangan Peninsula, we came across an abandoned pagoda. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s very possible that Nott, in reading about yellow fever epidemics from the past, had come across Rush’s mention of those little red spots on patients called petechiae that “resembled moscheto bites.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Hardly has he spoken than we see Bate and his friend coming across the road toward us. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After scouring the yard for half an hour, Kendra and Seth had come across various articles of furniture from the house or porch in unexpected locations, but they had found no other life-sized painted statues. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Whenever we came across the creek, Vonetta wheeled JimmyTrotter’s bicycle out of the barn and rode it in circles around the barn and house while Fern chased after her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He fed the colt a high-quality strain of timothy hay, cultivated in Northern California, which he had come across during his first days as a trainer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Harry squelched along the deserted corridor he came across somebody who looked just as preoccupied as he was. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Her father came across from the long barn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about the same time, one of the large blue lizards came across the body of Father Gomez. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had come across an ocean to get left behind! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No wonder Dauntless had come across unscathed even when they were in the wrong position. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“In a magazine you come across a full-page color picture of a nude girl.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

During the first days they did not come across any appreciable obstacle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A gloominess was cast over our day, as though a cloud had come across the sun. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Child; sweet child. I have a knife. I have my sword. I did not come across the world to lose you now.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She came across as stuck-up at first, I know, but that was just her insecurity. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Dukakis, by the very way he looked and acted, embodied every bad stereotype of a liberal—brooding, clenched, frowning, swarthy, hairy, a man who came across as one gigantic, furrowed eyebrow. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned again and sun came across the water, late sun, cut into his eyes and made him turn away. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We came across the two boys right after the accident happened, and I thought we should stay with your son until you came for him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Just let me know if you come across it, and I’ll find a better hiding place.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Still, when I came across a pair of workers sharing a cigarette between them, it took all my confidence to meet their eyes and nod. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t expected to come across a boy. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

One day during the investigation, White came across guards pummeling a pair of prisoners. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t worry that Brian and I never kiss, not once, no matter how much mind control I exert on him, no matter how much I beg God, the trees, every molecule I come across. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Hermione was skimming through all her notes, hoping to come across one of the enchantments they were about to try to break. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I overheard the three black policemen, as they came across the street, say to each other. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When some teachers call you Mister or Miz, it comes across as either patronizing or too formal. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then I saw an ambulance coming across the mountain from Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that he might have come across something rather profound, something to take back to England. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you come across this?” she said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He came across the gallery to the archway where I stood. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She began to look for her through friends and by asking the various delivery men who came to the house and might have come across her, but no one had seen a trace of her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, more likely, did they say that race didn’t matter because they wanted to come across—especially to potential mates of their own race—as open-minded? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

While turning around, she came across a group of boys playing soccer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Like she had no idea how they had come across the stowaway currently sprawled out by her feet. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was echoed by all black people I had come across. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes across to me and puts his arms around my waist. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1630 Thomas Hobbes, who had received a conventional humanistic and scholastic education at Oxford, came across a copy of Euclid’s Elements ‘in a gentleman’s library’ in Geneva. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In her daily life, Terryl came across a lot of horrible situations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She asked further, and learned that Iofur had been alone on the ice as a young bear, on his first hunting expedition, and had come across a solitary bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

After some time, they came across the house of an old man. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was Mala who consoled me when, reading the Globe one evening, I came across Mrs. Croft's obituary. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before he let himself rest, he set about collecting wood, and soon came across a circle of charred stones in the grass, where someone else had made a fire long before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Emily sighed with frustration as she came across what was probably the twentieth typo. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I still use it to check my spelling when I come across words that have an e and an / next to each other. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had Wello memorize my father’s e-mail address so if he ever came across Internet access he could send him a message to let him know I was alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later, higher in the mountains, we came across a baby VC water buffalo. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a month later, the same neighbor who had awakened Thom from his enchanted sleep came across the farmer again, except this time he would not awaken, for he was dead. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got up and poked around, and soon they came across a plant whose branches were laden with the purple fruits, about the size of small beets, only softer. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Scipio suggested as they came across their own footprints. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear her coming across the floor and when she stands over me for the spit I open my eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A woman who used to go out to cut grass for thatching once came across a place where there was a great deal of grass. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

My mother, though — everything she came across adored her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, I guess I thought I didn't really need to concern myself with this type of thing because compared to him, I don't come across as "threatening," you know? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I asked, trying not to lose it or come across like a punk. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her colleagues were of no help, until, on my way out, I came across a newsboy entering the building. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We drive around the snarl of cars until we come across a gas-guzzling minivan. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The woman who owned the bar came across and said, “Oh! Sorry, ndo,” and made to hug her but Olanna shrugged her off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I knew she'd be out there later, looking for that butt before our mother could come across it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“If I may say so, sir, you will have your little joke. But it is easy to recognize a judge of wine when you come across him.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early that afternoon, they came across the first evidence that the desert was receding: a few stunted trees near a shallow pool of muddy water. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What would a traditional villager think if he came across us on a dark path?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two months later, on February 2, 1982, Alaska State Troopers came across his camp, looked inside the tent, and discovered the emaciated corpse frozen hard as stone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would not tell the woman how he came across her. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they had made their way back, Bigwig came across to them from the bushes at the edge of the path. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother came across an unusual one, she would give an “Oh” of joy and tell me its name: daphne, wild heliotrope, pink orchid. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had long wanted to talk to an economist about some of the ideas I had come across in my reading. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Emily sighed with frustration as she came across what was probably the twentieth typo. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When he feels it, it may come across as love. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On one of those walks, I came across my father standing not far from a group of fishermen who were untangling knots in a net the size of a circus tent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They saw farmhouses burning, and then they came across a dozen or so dead English soldiers in the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I came across the term while reading and I didn’t fully understand it.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As we make our way through the maze of kids, corridors, and staircases, we come across another little kid stranded in a sea of gigantic, frantic eighth graders. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

A little while later, when he comes across another interesting bit, he tries again: “You have to read this, Mother!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I know I'm on course when I come across Rue's third, unlit fire. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He came across to the fireplace and rang the bell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I came across realms to do my job. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve come across a few at dinner, one family making home movies and the dentist across the way working on a frightened old lady. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We were disappointed when we came across several plants that had not grown at all. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Vervets have been known to waltz into a thicket, ignoring a fresh trail of python tracks, and then act stunned when they actually come across the snake itself. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is separated from us by a wire fence, but in spite of this the prisoners come across to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was indeed such a source, one that Newcomen is much more likely to have come across than the Philosophical Transactions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Secretary LaHood, who in his four-and-a-half-year tenure as the nation’s chief transportation authority, came across many harrowing tales and difficult safety issues. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He did, however, come across an old discarded rowing machine of Mr. Little’s, and becoming interested in this, carried it upstairs with some difficulty and spent the rest of the morning rowing. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

While I pondered the problem and tried to figure out a solution, I came across a letter in the church’s archives. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don't always find what I'm looking for, but in searching for an answer, I'll often come across bits of information I can use in some later puzzle. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As Wes rummaged through the closet, moving clothes and boxes from one side to the other, he came across a small see-through bag packed with a green substance. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Two boys, each carrying a shovel, were coming across the compound. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the morning when we suppose he must already have long gone to his rest, there comes across to us one last gurgling rattle. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every hundred paces along the path, they come across a big steel cap beneath which a soldier would direct cannon fire at whomever was trying to take the hill. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

European surrealists came across this colorful new art in the first years of the twentieth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here, wait a minute,” said Hazel, pushing past Pipkin and Hawkbit as they came across the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woods had a way of grabbing bits out of pockets and scattering them for other people to come across. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once they came across a couple of discarded oxygen bottles, suggesting that the tents were near, but the climbers couldn’t locate them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo had come across him by chance as he protested in broken Spanish because there were no rooms at the Hotel Jacob, and as he frequently did with strangers, he took him home. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Whereas when you open your mouth, you come across more as sullen and hostile." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Looks like it worked,” I said, coming across a picture of her drinking straight from a champagne bottle, my grandpa Wynton in the corner of the frame, laughing a big laugh. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He had hoped to come across a hunter’s lean-to or even a temple, but no such shelter appeared as the sun began to descend below the treetops. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I see him coming across the lawn. Thank you so much, Mrs. er, Abernathy,” I said, badly flustered and unable to remember the name of her present husband. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The tide was nearly out, the channel little more than a stream, but he waited on the far side, gesturing for me to come across. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“During your sojourn in the United States did you ever come across the deceased?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since they were reading children and read everything they came across, they stopped and automatically read the list of acts playing that week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

More kids came across the battlements to laugh at them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In a box where he stored souvenirs he came across old pictures taken before their marriage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If they came across Palmer in the street or at the park, they continued to harass him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I came across these names in newspapers, magazines and books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said thoughtfully, “I used to play here as a little girl, too. And one day, I came across a fairy who had flown too close to the stream.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But if you say “er...” too much you come across as a right dimmer. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Leaving the river for a day to track a herd of wild horses, he came across a sign warning that he was trespassing on the U.S. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, she had never heard the word spoken, or seen it in print, or come across it in asterisks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had come across the huge magnolia tree while out on a walk with the twins the week before. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had come across them and the notes while looking for some writing paper in her desk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you coming across the road,” she said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we walk, and he talks to me sometimes, tells me the names of the plants we come across in the field. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The head shawl covered the baby, and one end of it came across Juana’s nose to protect her from the evil night air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought perhaps any humans he came across would be way too smart to fall for his schemes.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I protested, wondering if someone had come across my lost table-book. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t the first time I’d come across the rumour about deferrals. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee’s date for the formal was there, having come across the mountain to be properly impressed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So, when they came across a grove of wild apple trees, Amari could hardly keep herself from shouting with joy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of finding what he wanted, he came across an ad offering the domain name BillionaireBratz.com for $65,000. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The caretaker came across the courtyard and told me that the director was asking for me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Are constantly challenged to do what is right and not convenient and come across as questionable in behaviors and dress. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When he came across the calabashes of sour milk which the family kept in that hut, he drank them greedily, making a loud noise as he did so. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And after we discovered irony, whenever we came across any laughably bad work, we’d go: “Oh yes! Straight to the Gallery with that one!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All was smooth sailing till eight weeks into their journey when, on the verge of uncharted waters, they came across the longboat filled with human bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t something that had ever come across my desk. It wasn’t something we’d ever looked at before,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is in fact the first glacial feature northbound hikers come across. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon Madame’s car was spotted coming across the fields, it was windy and sunny, with a few storm clouds starting to gather. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been promptly picked up by a police officer who accused him of stealing it, unwilling to accept that a young black boy would have come across a new bike in an honest way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ll sit over here with Nell, and if you come across any particularly edifying moral precepts you think would do me good, read them aloud.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t know how or where you came across the ridderak—but I think that’s a tale for another time.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t thinking, and so she’s in the second hotel we came across. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Along the way, we come across the cigarette, money, and jacket scabs, and the father rounds them all up and gets them together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I explain to Jaimito that snakes are cold-blooded reptiles, that they need the sun to warm them, which is why sometimes you come across them sunbathing on rocks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he had never come across anything quite like this. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had never come across a five-year-old before, or indeed a ten-year-old, who could multiply with such facility. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When there was important area news— disasters like floods or tornadoes—or sometimes if she came across little stories that seemed cute or original, Alice would call the station news manager in Carrington. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it would come across as confidence, portraying a mystical belief that the scale wouldn’t betray him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When she tries to come across normal like this, it’s so weird. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was as if he had come across refugees from a Nazi concentration camp, and concluded that they belonged to a culture that had always been barefoot and starving. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I didn't know any of the other boys in our freshman class, and Gideon was the only guy I'd come across who not only was cute and charming but also appreciated my dry humor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

While thumbing toward the Bible section, I came across a list of phobias arranged into various classifications. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Once, while rifling through the toolshed, I came across a poster advertising an IBM computer the size of a refrigerator. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And then I came across his hat, the cowboy hat that he’d worn for almost as long as I’d known him. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But with Ma, a person who can't walk, it comes across as a hurry up, which is rude. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

If the drawing-room they would be able to see me as I came across the lawn. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

You just didn’t come across victims like Westley every day of the year. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If Toby came across a rabid dog, if it bit him, he wouldn’t stand there and take it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We’d never come across anything like that before and didn’t know what to think. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a chance that the mother tiger broke loose and came across the river,” Baba said. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They repeat a word over and over to make sure it comes across all right.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

One year later, when Shipton returned to Everest, his expedition came across Wilson’s frozen body lying in the snow at the foot of the North Col. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Recently, I came across the name and address of the most likely candidate. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the book, the rabbits had come across this warren—this community—that accepted food handouts from humans in exchange for accepting that some of them would be killed by the same humans in return. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was trolling the Internet in search of something with some real content, not just a bunch of flashy graphics, when I came across an article you wrote entitled "Defining Geekdom." Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also mentioned that at a library in New Mexico I had come across notes from an unpublished interview with the Fairfax town marshal, who had investigated the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At Piccadilly Circus I discharged my cab, and walked westward; beyond the Junior Constitutional I came across the house described, and was satisfied that this was the next of the lairs arranged by Dracula. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the fourth lap, he came across the starting line first. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Approaching the wrought-iron gates, we came across the relics of a strike. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The porter says he won't come across. He says he will wait there for Sir Lancelot.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa Hoffman, one of the seventh graders, starts roaming around and comes across a radio, right by the entrance doors. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make sense, what Pet had come across worlds and through a broken canvas to say. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Now, Dr. Malone, it may be that you have come across one or the other of these children. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishtar stood beside me, and there, surrounded by shadows and deadly weaponry, she came across very differently. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Every now and then at flea markets, or in the occasional photography book, I come across one of Plantagenet’s old pictures, usually erroneously ascribed to the twenties because of the Daimler. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the routine of checking the reports, McShane came across the description. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t safe,” George says, his eyes on the bent-over tree line, in parts looking like a giant lawn mower came across the earth, flattening trees in its path. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the opposite side of the coffee farm was a small banana farm, and there we came across a man cutting down hands of ripe bananas. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In my reading I’d come across a lot of information on malaria and none of it led me to believe the disease was as harmless as Nigel seemed to think. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Going through a rack of clothes, he came across a sweatshirt that was identical to the one he was wearing. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I put my poncho on over Otto, hoping whoever I came across would assume I was wearing a pack. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A glazed look came across her face; she smiled. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Within the copse he came across a scene so beautiful it made his heart ache. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother stared at the card, a huge smile coming across her face, then handed it to the lawyer, who scanned it, then nodded and murmured, “This is good. This is good.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He pushed me through the first door we came across, which led into an empty billiard room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was well into October by then, but the sun was out that day and I decided I could just about make out I’d gone strolling aimlessly down there and happened to come across Tommy. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my reply came across cool as ever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father was coming across the room just as he lifted it. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

One day soon after the trip, Gay came across a contest announcement in USA Today. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I was still rattled from seeing Mom, the unexpectedness of coming across her, the sight of her rooting happily through the Dumpster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he read, a startled expression came across his face. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ernestine was running idly through them one night, while Mother was reading aloud to us from The Five Little Peppers and How they Grew, when she came across a batch of intelligence tests. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Gale and I come across a tracker jacker nest, we immediately head in the opposite direction. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He nickered when Jody came across the stubble-field, and in the pasture he came running when his master whistled for him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I overheard her talking to August one night on the back porch as I was coming across the yard to go to the bathroom in the pink house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep, so I took my board up the mountain to watch the sunrise. They went right over me, twenty hovercars at once coming across the ridge. But what’s happening now?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘I have come across many pictures of the President in various houses near where you live and I remember hearing the name Mason mentioned,’ said Doctor Copeland. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I did not see her again until the afternoon, when, as I say, I came across her in the dining room, replacing crockery into the sideboard. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A little while later he saw Mr. Pendanski and two strangers, coming across the lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

What was there to prevent those people from coming across those railings and dragging him into the street, now that Max was not here? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What they called Rovers, consisted in going for a walk with their bows and shooting one arrow each at any agreed mark which they came across. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go through the notes from the last League meeting, and come across Hilly’s envelope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Luke came across the room and held out a hand to each of them to help them up, and Eleanor, moving awkwardly, almost fell; Theodora rose in a quick motion and stretched and yawned. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the forest of the apple tree, indeed at the very foot of the tree itself, he came across a lady riding a white palfrey. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were nine seconds left when the ball came across the midcourt line. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she shrugged and said Dog Things. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Irritated by the interruption, the King answered brusquely, “There have been some sightings—nothing definite, mind you—but it seems that some of the Xi have been coming across the borders into our lands.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

You come across clumps of ’em floated together sometimes, or caught snagged on a bramble. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He came across the one he sought almost at once, the young Dumbledore and his handsome companion, roaring with laughter at some long-forgotten joke. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then she came across something that made her think of the alethiometer again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie, on the other hand, didn’t seem to be looking for anything, but when he came across this lady who was making these weird dolls—at least they looked like dolls—he stopped. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I heard her feet coming across the carpet and the door opened. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Papa’s hand was shading his eyes but I could see that a smile was coming across his face. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Duggan considered Temptress the most outrageous name he had come across. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now that wasn’t the way on all plantations; there were good masters and mistresses, as I’ve heard tell, but I didn’t happen to come across any of them.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came across his name while I was researching,” she said carefully. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Leaning back, tilting his important-style chair, he rummaged among the contents of the envelope until he came across what he wanted: the collected, extant data on the Nexus-6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Down below, a gardener was coming across the lawn with a wheelbarrow. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn, and Aimee and Michael are coming across the parking lot. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They waited in silence, until the sound of scrambling feet came across the rocks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Racing downhill in early evening darkness through cornfield stubble, Shin came across a farmer’s shed half buried in the hillside. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Relief washed over her body, hearing her mother’s voice coming across a whole continent and three time zones right into Aimee’s bedroom. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Dad gripped the edge of the table as if he were going to get up and come across the kitchen after me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour into this channel, we come across people who have set up camp on either side of the aqueduct, and it doesn’t look like a new occurrence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Slowly, they descended along a rocky trail into the gorge, the sheep moving single file, and, once in the gorge, they came across a rattlesnake, which his father killed so Joe could skin it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it said inside, a grim look of satisfaction came across her face. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wounded were coming into the post, some were carried on stretchers, some walking and some were brought on the backs of men that came across the field. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Up in the dormitory, he came across Ron. said Ron brusquely the moment he walked in. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s not every day you come across someone with such a Talent.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The spectacle which they came across was one for which they were not prepared. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had come across the little frog by chance, in the clearing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

One person seemed to have shown slight improvement, coming across on the graph as an anomaly, an expert multitasker. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They’d spent long days slogging through the snow, freezing nights in whatever rudimentary shelter they could assemble or in the deserted huts of whaling camps when they were lucky enough to come across them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In another scene, years hence, Cora walked down a busy street in her city and came across her mother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As he continued to widen his hole, his hand came across a smooth, round object. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Like you were the Snowy Heron and you could feel that something was wrong but you weren’t sure, because you hadn’t seen the hunter with the gun coming across the horizontal yet. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The church, she said, was like no other she had ever come across. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That every person you come across lays down in a bed, under the covers, and closes their eyes at night. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I tuck my napkin under the edge of my plate, wondering if he’s going to come across the table at me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid I can’t help you with that, any more than telling you to try it in every lock you come across. I could always make you a copy, if you’d like.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anything much to eat there, either, but on the way back to Otto I came across a short tree with glossy leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down a hollow, round the bend, I came across a thatched cottage made of sooty bricks and crooked timber. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Sorry if you come across a little annoying in this next part." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Just then Officer Mac came across the parking lot. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked the fence line, Curly was pleased not to come across a single cottonmouth moccasin. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had noticed our old rocket-candy rockets wobbling when they broke the plane of the mountains and got caught in the wind stream coming across the ridgeline. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would come across very strong about rights. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

This smile slowly comes across her face and starts to fill it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I have come across so many problems, Stephen, that presented the same alternative. I think all problems do.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

During whole stretches of this work the music comes across as agreeable and charming. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z

These sections, created by the fine playwright Eisa Davis, came across as didactic. ‘Trade Practices,’ a Collaborative Show With Funny Money 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

There Erpenbeck has the temerity to affirm the humanity of contemporary refugees — in particular the families coming across the Rio Grande. Review | In ‘Not a Novel,’ Jenny Erpenbeck continues to evolve 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The singer was obviously trying to not-so-subtly convey that complaining about receiving a free U2 album is a first-world problem, even if his execution inadvertently came across as him being a typically self-important do-gooder. Leave U2 alone: Why did one of our best rock bands become so loathed? 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Nowadays, everyone involved in the anti-Sinead protests comes across as a screaming idiot, of course. Beyoncé wins again: She faces protests for her politics, but like the Dixie Chicks and Sinead O’Connor, the right’s proven wrong again 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

“She comes across as authentic, and that’s something that Hillary Clinton has never been able to do.” How Michelle Obama talks to voters in a way Hillary Clinton can’t 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Yes, Chavkin — who comes across as an exacting thinker as she chats at Round House — considered a career in law. ‘Great Comet’ director follows Tony nomination with D.C. premiere 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The group’s energy came across in the short piece it performed, but it was doubtless better represented by its own concert this week. Around the (Spanish and Portuguese) world in 80 minutes 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Those dreamy passages of overlapping melodic lines came across like mystical ruminations. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z

Zao comes across here as an artist who brought an Asian element to Abstract Expressionism — a style already indebted to Asian art — in a reverse cross-fertilization similar to that of the Japanese Gutai group. Zao Wou-Ki, an Abstract Fusion Master 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Young got the idea while researching strange songs for Mr. Letterman to play on air, coming across “Go Fly a Kite,” a convention recording commissioned by General Electric in the 1960s. New Movie Musical Planned for Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

He says Dax is so used to seeing him introduced on stage that whenever he comes across a microphone, he feels compelled to do the honours. Bill Bailey: Bill's excellent adventure 2013-04-19T14:00:00Z

Nothing here is like anything you come across in the real world, outside London SW3. Made in Chelsea; The Prisoners – TV review 2013-04-09T06:00:00Z

We came across a line of three policemen in black uniforms standing in the road. In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a lovely moment, attractively lighted and sweetly played, yet it also comes across more like a strained, self-conscious attempt at cinematic lyricism than like the private ritual of two isolated children. In ‘The Wonders,’ Tasting the Nectar of an Artisanal Life in Tuscany 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“As a work,” Mr. Corgan wrote, “‘Aegea’ is experimental in nature, and comes across as more a soundtrack to some lost foreign film than the kind of music I’m usually associated with.” ArtsBeat: A New Album From Billy Corgan, but Only 250 Copies 2014-04-09T17:51:39Z

This comes across in sequences showing the ramblings of an amiable prison director at the time, Alfredo Elias, and in visits with a prisoner nicknamed “the colonel,” who hailed from the United States. ‘Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles’ Review: A Prison in the Amazon Jungle 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to tell from one episode — Lamb mostly comes across as uptight, marked by an unsettling squint. Television Review: ‘Vegas’ on CBS, Starring Dennis Quaid 2012-09-24T21:48:27Z

I came across this late last year and watched it to the end of season three in only a few days, despite an effort to slow down and extend the pleasure. From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

The movie revolves around the fact that Banks must convince every single character she comes across that she, a “good girl,” isn’t a sex worker. Walk of Shame: A Movie That Might Just Offend Everyone 2014-05-07T11:10:35Z

We came across an article following a travelling abortion doctor. "On the Divide" profiles three people at a Texas abortion clinic and asks: "What does choice mean?" 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

That came across as a little overworked, and David Schweizer's new production for Long Beach Opera does away with all that. 'Hydrogen Jukebox' a timely illumination of the American experience 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Roberts, who can come across as stubborn and a bit defensive about past affronts but also has a strong Pollyanna streak, does have one big hit that is public: “March of the Penguins.” Jordan Roberts and His Comedy ‘3, 2, 1 Frankie Go Boom’ 2012-10-01T22:16:24Z

In interviews from that time, she comes across as defensive and prickly. Helen Hunt: ‘An Oscar's not a big game-changer. It's not like your worries are over’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Here is a look at five of the most intriguing coasters I came across on my journey. Taking the Plunge on California’s Coasters 2013-08-01T20:30:31Z

She searched “housemaids in Nigeria” and came across articles detailing the violence, mistreatment and low or nonexistent pay that are often part of their working conditions. For Her Debut, Abi Daré Confronts ‘Dreams and Intelligence That We Kill’ 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Portrayed here by the gifted Rebecca Brooksher, Anna comes across as a blunt-spoken, unmistakably American woman and a confused person trying to make sense of a world that has bruised her badly. Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z

Grossberg has said he recently came across the tapes again after forgetting he had stored them away. Beatles' 1962 Hamburg tapes headed to auction for $300,000 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

It is hard to come across as a fun person and as polite when you are steering such a beast, and with limited time. Steve Jones asks "X Factor" fans to chill out the hate 2011-12-06T21:23:06Z

The Melodia movement came across here as a searching melodic line with now and then a high echo of some curious phrase fragment. Patricia Kopatchinskaja in A Little Night Music 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

“I was scrolling through travel forums searching for remote islands with little tourism and deserted beaches and I came across it,” she answered. Next Stop: Indonesia’s Karimunjawa Is a Watery Wonderland 2012-05-25T19:27:33Z

It comes across as though this secret is what makes him the bad guy. The Bastard Executioner: latest medieval drama won't slay you 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

He came across the work of Roque Dalton, the Salvadoran poet and activist who wrote unflinchingly about oppression, class struggle, freedom and love. Javier Zamora Carried a Heavy Load. He Laid it to Rest on the Page. 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Addison Hood, 9, thought it was cool to see artifacts virtually and come across them physically throughout the exhibit. Who ruled the world? In ancient Egypt, often times it was a woman. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Once the stone is broken, she marries the first man she comes across. Louise Erdrich on the Power of Stones 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Occasional self-deprecating references to the show’s own sloppiness come across as an unconvincing tactic to forestall criticism. Review: ‘Drama’ Contains Many Things. But Drama Isn’t One. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

With this vetted mix, you’re sure to come across something to spiff up your home away from home, or perhaps even a treasure worth hauling back to the city. The East Hampton Historical Society Hosts Annual Antiques Show This Weekend 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

In addition he seems to regularly pore over all kinds of printed matter, tracking down or coming across the odd bit of ephemera that may have a use that only he can see. Review: Robert Gober Conjures America 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

She remembers being in a Nashville coffee shop -- she lives in the city with her country music star husband, Keith Urban -- reading the paper when she came across a review of David Lindsay-Abaire's Broadway play. Kidman finds power in wrenching 'Rabbit Hole' 2010-12-22T23:19:00Z

Another early Police song, “Next to You,” came across as gawky Pops fare, while “She’s Too Good for Me,” originally a roadhouse shuffle, was winningly kinetic. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z

The Abigal is awesome and coming across the abandoned overturned sailboat in episode one was all kinds of creepy. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

They share an air of relaxed intricacy and matter-of-fact experimentation, coming across as neither precious nor arcane. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

My husband, Brian, and I came across it during a weekend hunt for the more unusual outdoor art projects in a city with no shortage of public art, be it official or unofficial. Detroit’s unexpected — and unexpectedly moving — outdoor art scene

He, however, kept himself on a leash, galvanising the tireless OAE musicians but overplaying nothing, and the music's joyous invention came across the better for it. OAE/Norrington ? review 2011-03-07T21:45:01Z

And I thought, You should hire every immigrant who comes across the border. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Their fear is, basically, that he’s going to come across as totally unlikable,” Gray said. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z

He’d come across it after walking by some ladies of the evening, and somehow the name of a character from the work became fixed in his mind and set his imagination alight. Sting, the tireless troubadour

You might succeed with a discreet word to someone in HR or a woman who mentors the offender, assuming you come across as charmingly embarrassed, rather than incensed. @Work Advice: The case of the offensive cleavage 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

At worst, bands inadvertently come across as self-aggrandizing or overly pleased with themselves and their accomplishments; at best, artists might reshape their own mythologies using rose-colored glasses. How The Cure endures: This is how a band turns 40 with style 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

I just want her to understand the value of a filter to temper how she comes across. Perspective | Don’t blame genetics for daughter’s sassy demeanor. It’s more nurture than nature. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

His English is halting and experimental; he speaks with much less severity than comes across on the page. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

All of the casas de música, which sold new accordions that glistened in glass cases, said that to come across one in my price range — which was not high — I would have to look secondhand. He’s the Brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City’s Accordions 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Throughout, Don Carlo’s advocacy on behalf of the oppressed Flemish also came across as muted without the first act’s sketching of diplomatic intrigue between France and Spain. Review: The Met Brings Back a Shorter, Weaker ‘Don Carlo’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The sly jokes about Issa’s being forced to speak for all black people at work come across as almost meta-commentary on the show itself. ‘Insecure’ Series Premiere: Single Black Woman 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

So they came across in 1922, settled there in San Antonio. The Democratic Presidential Candidate Eager to Challenge Trump on Immigration 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

That finale, which begins with a spiraling flourish that leads to a joyous theme, usually comes across as almost giddy in its exuberance. Review: Murray Perahia at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Most of the others, even those that promise well, ultimately come across as generic, accomplishing little in terms of revealing character or driving plot. Kinky Boots – review 2013-04-05T09:57:07Z

I found it next to a ruined farm building I came across on a rambling holiday in Shropshire. Some Kind of Explanation: nature, nurture and Hotter than my Daughter 2012-08-24T06:00:01Z

Almost all of his films come across as radically low-tech. Excavating Chinese History, One Harrowing Film at a Time 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

He initially seemed like an appealing alternative to Frank, but eventually came across as a different kind of politician who still shares many of Frank’s qualities. 'House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 12: White House and Chill 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

To a friendly audience drawn together in a community of unspoken political agreement, every remark and gesture came across with political overtones, even among the singers. Review | ‘Justice at the Opera’: Ginsburg takes center stage at WNO and brings down the house 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

For all his diabolical brilliance, he often comes across as a Beverly Hillbilly in designer slacks. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 8: New Money, Old Rules 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

In these dazzling, rhapsodic and nuanced performances, Mr. Boulez’s thorny pieces came across as radical, yes; extreme, for sure; but stunningly inventive and supremely musical. Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

During an interview she comes across as friendly, witty and not angry, just self-possessed. A young playwright's quest to ask difficult questions about race, class and gender 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

"It's the fact that it has young people at the heart of it, and that comes across on the air," she says. A day in the life of Peckham youth radio station Reprezent 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z

And then later in my 20s, when I started reading his writings and then later when I started running the business, I came across the actual pages. "People don't know this history": Shannon Lee on the Chinatown Tong Wars in Bruce Lee's "Warrior" 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z

“We came across the arches purely by chance,” Mr. Rousku said. Heads Up: Under London Railway Arches 2010-10-22T19:16:00Z

My friends and I have never had to play around a dead body, but if we ever came across one I’m pretty sure we’d keep playing, too. The Joys of Golf, No Matter the Weather or the President 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Until one day when a friend who was a former flight attendant and knew of my search came across a winsome Air Force flier and offered to bait him and toss him my way. 2010-01-08T20:02:00Z

They had the luxury of imitating no one in particular, and so could come across more fully as individuals. The Growing Emptiness of the Star Wars Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

I was heartened when I came across a comment by philosopher and historian Jean-Pierre Dupuy: "It was inevitable that meaning would force its way back in." James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z

At first glance, such proclamations come across as painfully naive, at least in terms of the tenuous connection between the canon and general populace. A canon round for democracy: The literati’s power in a populist era is limited, but vital 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

He was as game as anybody we came across and was hanging right on our tail at 120. P.J. O’Rourke Wrote With High, Cranky Style in a Shrinking Tradition 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Layton came across the story while flicking through a magazine at a friend's house. The Imposter, a tale of identity theft par excellence 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z

“Dietland” envelops the excerpts of bliss that Plum allows herself to enjoy in a sensuality that comes across as innocent and sinful all at the same time. Unpacking the violent desserts of AMC's "Dietland" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

He adds, chivalrously, that she was “one of the most extreme cases of misplaced self-confidence I have ever come across.” Review: In Robert Hughes’s ‘The Spectacle of Skill,’ an Aesthete’s Unsparing Eye 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The podcast is where I first came across her – it’s won a British Podcast Award, a Gracie Award in the States and was named as the Number One podcast by GQ. Esther Perel: 'Fix the sex and your relationship will transform' 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

He comes across as a rather attractive loner. How Asian art came to America: ‘The China Collectors’ 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

And we’d occasionally come across good catfish in Mississippi or chili in Texas or whatever it might be. ‘Roadfood’: Michael Stern reflects on more than 30 years of American eats

Fundamentally it was made by a bunch of guys with a handy-cam who came across a story on the internet. DIY film-making 2011-04-04T08:03:08Z

But in other countries or cultures, this is not always acceptable or comes across, at first, kind of strange. A Solo Traveler’s Guide to Meeting People 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

“While reading a novel, she’d once come across the phrase ‘wanton woman.’ 'The Widows of Malabar Hill' is a thrilling mystery set in a changing India, a century ago 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

I think what comes across in these photos is that they are real people. Britain's hidden homeless and the death of Michelle Conroy 2013-01-20T08:00:00Z

I'm sure if I had come across it at the right time, it would have been pretty compelling, to me too. "WeWork had all of the bad red flags": How a visionary sales pitch turned into yoga-babble 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Yet even with equal time and the band’s guitar crunch, Mr. Timberlake, from Tennessee, came across as a talented apprentice and pop sweetener. Music Review: Street Smarts Meets Old-Fashioned Showbiz 2013-07-20T10:48:52Z

What comes across in his journal as romantic exuberance for the beauty and harshness of the Lapland countryside is not overstated. A Botanist in Swedish Lapland 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The bad news in his book comes across loud and clear. Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

However, she spent too much time with her eyes down, looking at her score, for the directness of either work to come across fully to the audience. Proms Chamber Music 3: Les Talens Lyriques/Rousset ? review 2011-08-02T18:16:50Z

"We did the whole album together and that definitely comes across in the music." Nas and Marley mix rap and reggae inspired by Africa 2010-05-21T20:47:00Z

“We realized that if we played the ‘manga is great’ card too heavily, it would come across as condescending in such an international venue. How Emoji Got to the White House 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

This might be expected to sow confusion, but the actors are skilled at shifting gears, and the textual nips and tucks are so deftly handled that even scenes that pose obvious challenges come across cleanly. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z

His colleague Eugene Lee Yang volleys the question to the 23andMe analyst: “Do you always come across white people being disappointed that they’re not mixed?” The Racial Spectacle of DNA Test Result Videos 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

One hero's arc ends with a decision that is meant to seem romantic and moving but comes across as uncharacteristically shortsighted and selfish. "Avengers: Endgame": Sloppy plot holes distract from an otherwise cathartic epic 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Cranach’s focus on the bitterness of life comes across most strikingly in his preparatory studies for portraits. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z

He’s a pro at well-placed pop culture references and, where some elite athletes seem otherworldly — made from different stuff — he comes across as the relatable Olympian next door. Review | Adam Rippon’s path to becoming ‘America’s sweetheart’ was not all fun and (Olympic) games 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

He never comes across as mean-spirited or as an ugly American and his humor transcends the cultural and language differences in surprisingly touching ways. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

The first one we came across was slender and manicured, like a path for floating golf carts. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

He took the opening section so fast that too much detail was lost, but that only made Liszt’s overheated imagination come across as all the more fantastic. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

I bridle when I come across articles about "looking for meaning in a pandemic" or "shelter-in-place is an opportunity for gratitude." A Mother’s Day scream into the void 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

Some episodes of “How I Met Your Mother” in particular come across as a string of catch phrases, mini-sketches and outbursts intended to be replicated ad nauseam online. Television: ?Parks and Recreation? and Other Sitcoms? Hashtags and Memes 2011-12-09T22:31:54Z

Even at his most switched on, he tends to come across as tetchy and distracted. Next question: rewatching the most awkward movie press tours 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

If you poke around online you might come across his little poem “Daytime Drinking,” which offers a useful warning. Review | ‘Throw Me to the Wolves’ is both a caustic social commentary and a riveting crime novel 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

But in 2018, when Offset interrupted Cardi B’s headlining set at a music festival to attempt a reconciliation, it came across as a move from an outdated playbook. Offset’s ‘Toxic’ Apology to Cardi B Sets Off Social Media Outrage 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

I think most of my rooms, to whatever point and whatever the client wants, do come across as sensual as well. Just the tips: "How To Build a Sex Room" host wants to spice up your life with sensual design 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

Funnily enough, never having come across a Hobbit, kids flying on broomsticks, or squids big enough to sink ships I'd noticed the same "tell-tale" signs myself. Beowulf, Shakespeare and the plausibility of fiction 2012-07-25T17:04:25Z

But by putting you in her shoes, and keeping down the tone of Ms. Raluy’s performance, Sonia comes across a heroic fighter who remains sympathetic even after shots are fired. Review: Health Care Bureaucracy Runs Amok in ‘A Monster With a Thousand Heads’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Is she the rather tetchy character that interviewers and fans sometimes come across? Comedy gold: Sarah Millican's Chatterbox 2012-11-08T10:37:20Z

He didn't like the thought of anybody else coming across the book and finding motivation in it. Rereading Stephen King: week four – Rage 2012-07-03T12:59:44Z

In perhaps the game’s low point for literalness, Walker and his men come across a tortured, charred body dangling upside down from a piece of rope. Video Game Review: Spec Ops: The Line, From 2K Games, Makes Killing Personal 2012-06-25T16:34:27Z

I mean, if you’re lucky enough, when you’re making one of these movies, you come across absolutely spectacular exchanges between people which are as funny, as sad, as tragic as things in great literature. Frederick Wiseman on Censorship, Small-Town America, and Why He Dislikes the Word “Documentary” 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

The first time I saw it was in the office of the Whitney Museum curator Chrissie Iles, but I also recently came across it on Instagram and was brought right back to it. The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

I won’t reveal the outcome of their investigation, except to say that they come across a cast of colorful characters whom we will meet again when the book takes a far more serious turn. ‘Not Too Far From Watts’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

I soon realized that we were surrounded by thousands of sand dollars, many of them blending in with the fine white sand — it was like coming across a field filled with four-leaf clovers. Next Stop: Indonesia’s Karimunjawa Is a Watery Wonderland 2012-05-25T19:27:33Z

Still, this practice sometimes comes across as obsessive. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Once, when Marble and her husband were out jogging, pushing their year-old twins in a stroller, they came across a huge, slightly injured boa in the road. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

But poke around a little harder and you might come across the Target gift cards that truly keep on giving. The gift (cards) that keep on giving 2012-06-22T00:00:00Z

Though in person he comes across as genial and thoughtful, on screen Corddry has a special flair for playing jerks, creeps and losers — albeit weirdly likable ones. Rob Corddry jumps back into the whirlpool for 'Hot Tub Time Machine 2' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Lee publicly insisted that there was no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman, leading many critics to say he came across more like a defense attorney for the security buff. Report: Police sought to charge Zimmerman 2012-03-28T03:13:00Z

The new “Boris Godunov” opened on Monday night, and it came across strongly as Mr. Wadsworth’s production. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z

I came across fresh figs from Mexico this week...that’s something new. Most of America’s Fruit Is Now Imported. Is That a Bad Thing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

"Unfortunately, when people are writing about the project, it comes across as being extremely complicated," she says. Nature's way 2011-07-28T08:18:35Z

“Ah, that’s the question. I’ve never come across a definition that satisfied me, though there are some very good ones”—he glanced in the direction of his books. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Was there anything in particular about her – not a fact, just a quality about her – that you hadn't seen before or doesn't come across in news interviews? "Hillary" director reflects on the "self-fulfilling prophecy" on women running for president 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

And for it to come across on screen the way it does and film so beautifully. From logos to gender fluidity, what "Station Eleven" costumes reveal in the aftermath of apocalypse 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

We first came across the towns in an article on Spiegel Online. What’s the Eiffel Tower doing in China? 2013-05-19T14:00:00Z

In each of these shows there are moments and situations that are meant to seem authentic and relatable, but instead come across as an off-putting and insular display of creative-class kvetching. How Netflix’s ‘Flaked’ is just one more drop in L.A.’s ocean of hipster miseries 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The adolescence study found that parents view themselves as warmer and more supportive than they actually are, which may be why they often underestimate how their words come across to their teens. Parents underestimate how angry they seem to their teenagers 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

But Voiculescu comes across best, as a man put in a complicated, possibly untenable position, hoping to right a sinking ship. "Collective" is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

He's also obsessed with astrology, space and UFOs, but what comes across most in his music as Big Black Delta is his unashamed love of electronic rock at its most pompous and preposterous. New band of the day – Big Black Delta (No 1,332) 2012-08-16T15:21:42Z

But her story gets lost amid what comes across as a bold attempt to write the great California opera — a sweeping tale of the mad quest for fortune that was the mostly disastrous Gold Rush. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Recently I looked her up online and came across what I think is her phone number. Carolyn Hax: School teammate rose to an occasion, but there were no cheers 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

I recently came across the envelope, and it has been gnawing at me. Ask Amy: Son wants to peek into mysterious envelope 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

By this point, all the participants had exchanged e-mail addresses, and Hafizah said that she had come across Stephanie’s maiden name online. My Strange Literary Fellowship 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

And while Lamar does plenty of self-scrutinizing in his lyrics, he often comes across as an artist weighed down by the burden of his own greatness. The sound and the fury of Kendrick Lamar at the Kennedy Center 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Oliver took the tough circumstances and was able to mine barbed comedy from them without coming across as exploitative. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

More often than not, it’s been because Twitter and Vine are some sort of apex of human creativity, and I’ve come across something genuinely funny. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

But as a visual concept, it comes across as too-obvious satire. Theater Review: ‘Far From Heaven,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-06-03T02:00:01Z

The movie comes across as a deliberately, almost defensively, inane trifle; a cupcake whose icing reads, “Enjoy the tooth decay.” ‘The Royal Treatment’ Review: Heavy is the Head (and Shoulders) 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Whether that message will come across in a cursory glance from a pedestrian remains to be seen. New Loop installation spells out message: Go do good 2011-05-24T18:37:00Z

Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across, and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people. Bob Odenkirk: ‘All people are sad clowns. That’s the key to comedy’ 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Aureliano had come across him by chance as he protested in broken Spanish because there were no rooms at the Hotel Jacob, and as he frequently did with strangers, took him home. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z

No doubt thanks to his experience with children with special needs, Agatha never comes across as stereotypically helpless or “inspirational.” Teenage Heroes in a Mythical Land Fight Monsters, and Stereotypes 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

That his act might come across as too chaotic for some ears was a risk worth taking, and the degree to which it addressed what is wrong about the Oscars was worthwhile in itself. Review: Chris Rock Anchors the Most Weirdly Successful Oscar Broadcast in Years 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Almost all the conversation among the adolescents comes across as flat and mechanical, no matter how many “cools” are inserted. 2010-02-11T23:49:00Z

Then they came across the five-bedroom house and pounced, being bowled over by the thick cypress hedges that enclosed the two-acre property as well as by the architect’s attention to symmetry, proportion, and atmosphere. Designer Douglas Durkin Refreshes A Bay Area Home 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

The resulting scenes are painful: Diana really does come across as a lamb to the slaughter, a description she once used of herself. ‘The Crown’ Has Had Its Scandals, but There’s Nothing Like Diana 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

“He’s walking in Brooklyn, and he comes across this little tree trying to grow in the shadow of a factory, wedged between the sidewalk and a building,” she said. An Urban Painter’s Fantastic Floral Visions 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

When cultures mixed, the British came across as snobby, the Americans as braggarts. The slog of war 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“You come across as very shy, with the music inside you,” he told one. ArtsBeat: Lucerne Easter Festival: Haitink Holds Up a Mirror for Promising Maestros 2011-04-18T15:00:28Z

If you don’t live near a coast and aren’t dedicated to the search, the chance of coming across fresh — never frozen — wild-caught shrimp is pretty slim. What Are We Supposed to Think About Shrimp? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Was that a fear that you came across often in speaking with family members of participants? Netflix's heartwarming "Love on the Spectrum" helps "bust the myths" about dating with autism 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

“The number of books you come across with a young blond woman who gets mutilated and killed,” said Paterson, Harper’s editor, with a sigh. As a Reporter, She Wrote About Business. As a Novelist, She Writes About Murder. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

It is to the credit of Mr. Barker and this production that none of these characters come across as a fool, or not only that. Review: ‘Scenes From an Execution’ Features Jan Maxwell as a Difficult Artist 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

So you don’t come across like a dirty old man? | Walter Pfeiffer 2011-03-01T20:24:23Z

Such moments come across as energizing highs amid draining stretches of endless train travel. She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’ 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

So is ennobled suffering, though he imbues his characters with enough flawed humanity that they come across as people, not icons. For David Oyelowo, the Time Has Come to Play Othello 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Hughes respected teenagers, and this came across in his characters, particularly those played by Molly Ringwald. Why Lady Bird should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

If you wait a week, it just looks like you’ve been waiting a set amount of time; the next day looks like you’ve casually come across the account and decided to drop them a follow. Selfies, Snapchat and sassy ladies: a teen's guide to social media 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

When shopping for any sort of canned coconut product, you'll come across a few different options: light coconut milk, full-fat coconut milk, and coconut cream. 11 sour cream substitutes for the creamiest, dreamiest vibes 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

In rehearsal they come across as ethnographers researching their own religious lives and displaying the movement artifacts they’ve found. Whirling Along The Borders Of Israeli Life 2011-01-16T03:00:04Z

I came across several compelling theories about their origins and a 2011 documentary called “Resurrect Dead” that dives into the mystery. Using Pokémon Go as Your Tour Guide 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

As an example, Mr. Howard cited a sequence in which Lou comes across an accident and  moves the victim’s body to get a better-framed shot. Below the Line: Scoring 'Nightcrawler' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

That conviction comes across but it never seems arrogant. The documentary “Tickling Giants” is a chronicle of weaponized satire and the Arab Spring 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Swift is unlikely to endorse a political candidate, and her refusal to do so will inevitably come across as calculating. The Book on Taylor Swift 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

"I came across continuity pictures from the movie and was really taken by the level of the photography and by the actual photographs themselves," she said. Actors ready for close-ups in 'Styling the Stars' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

She came across photos of then-2-year-old Lily, born with half a heart that was backward, upside down and on the wrong side of her chest. ‘Their story is so incredible’: A family with seven kids – five adopted – recovering after house fire 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Portman is queenly enough as the crafty Anne, but her charm doesn’t really come across in corset pictures; she never seems to merge effectively with historical backdrops. Natalie Portman's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

When we came across that school of hammerheads, we’d been down for 40 minutes, seen nothing and were getting bored. Why I love ... scuba diving 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

A magnet fisher in Michigan came across an unusual find when he pulled a set of WWII-era dog tags from the Grand River. Fisher finds WWII tags and returns to veteran's family 50 years after they were lost 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Everett came across as shallow, manic, desperate for love and attention. Blackadder marches again and Zach Galifianakis votes for Boris 2012-10-10T08:11:05Z

But there is not much payoff for trying to unscramble the pile-on of bustling contrapuntal lines that Mahler writes, which came across here as textural and impetuous. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z

Then, in December, she came across a Facebook post linking to a group called Emerge America, a national nonprofit that trains Democratic women to run for elected office. This group trains women to run for office. Here’s how one outraged, post-Trump class fared. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Explaining will come across as backpedaling and excuse-making and spin to someone disinclined to believe you. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A 40-something who thinks her sister ruined her life? Oh, brother! 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Clients also say that Mr. Clegg comes across like a writer himself — introspective and measured — and not given to the usual pretensions and histrionics of agents. A Book Agent?s Descent and Ascent From the Ashes 2010-05-28T22:45:00Z

I have never come across anybody in the general public who knows about it. Endometriosis: hidden suffering of millions of women revealed 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Most of the texts Mr. Sellars has selected come across onstage like statements or speeches, a device that becomes dramatically stilted. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

And I realize that you, having written “Hoax,” probably came across some real doozies for that. "It was damning": Brian Stelter excavates Fox News' culture, the Big Lie and Tucker Carlson's exit 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z

Truth be told, Mr. Hilfiger has always come across as a little bit of a square. Tommy Hilfiger Wants His Style Back 2010-05-15T00:32:00Z

That might sound like cynicism, but in the play it comes across as calm rationality — with maybe a touch of hope. He's big in L.A.'s small theaters: Tom Jacobson, master of puzzles, surprises and brain-teasers 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

That’s why when they joke about death, it can come across like a friend’s sharing intimate secrets. A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

If it's tepid froth you crave, by all means drink up this warm remembrance of a leader who comes across as dangerous as lactose. TV review: Whitlam: The Power and the Passion 2013-05-27T00:10:21Z

That sense of DJs – not musicians, but technicians – striving too hard to get the sound and atmosphere they want but not quite achieving it comes across in some of their music. New band of the day: Cherub (No 1,545) 2013-07-03T14:27:49Z

This is one of the most inspiring stories I’ve come across in a long time. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The characters encountered are a bit more colorful than the ones you are likely to come across in real life, but not so much that they seem overtly allegorical. Review: ‘4 Days in France,’ With a Little Help From Grindr 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Together, the band members came across as thoughtful, courteous and unified. The xx Lets the Sunshine In 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

If you watch the press conference they held when they issued the report, that certainly comes across. “The facts are not enough” 2014-04-09T12:45:00Z

“Not as relaxed as she comes across. And obviously very talented.” Perspective | The low-key, high-style approach to crafting gardens for the stars 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Despite the angst, Ms. Higdon, 47, comes across as friendly, down to earth and upbeat. Jennifer Higdon Basks In Her Music Pulitzer 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z

Even the brassy, agitated outbursts came across as majestic. Music Review: New York String Orchestra, Conducted by Jaime Laredo, at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-31T21:05:36Z

Dear Amy: While I was browsing Facebook the other day, I came across photos my niece "Sandy" had posted of her enjoying her baby shower "with friends and family." Perspective | Ask Amy: Boyfriend has elaborate explanation for suspected cheating 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

In Debussy, that kind of stasis is a rare skill, but in big symphonies it comes across as aimless. RSNO/Den?ve ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:46Z

Below are edited excerpts from the conversation: How did you come across this story? ArtsBeat: Bumpy Rides: Brendan Koerner Talks About ‘The Skies Belong to Us’ 2013-06-26T18:26:46Z

Throughout season two, moments of mayhem are often followed by on-the-nose commentary that comes across as timid, rather than self-assured. Insatiable: has Netflix's controversial 'fat-shaming' show fixed itself? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

These movers and shakers may have been caricatured for comic effect, but the sickly-sweet flavor of their lives comes across with an authenticity that suggests long and intimate exposure. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s important to make it clear that this woman comes across as delusional at best and felonious at worst. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

She enabled Douglass to survive personally and professionally, managing and raising money for the newspaper and for the food that came across the Douglass family table. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

But the part of the 44-year-old Identity Thief actor that most comes across is the seriousness of his directing plans. Jason Bateman: First Time Director, Toronto Hit 2013-09-09T18:00:59Z

"He's a Russian doll of a character, and I wanted that to come across immediately," he said. Actor Hartnett takes on mystery and monsters in 'Penny Dreadful' 2014-05-11T22:58:16Z

The effect isn't angst, but instead comes across as Moore dusting off his amp following his 2011 acoustic solo album and last year's interminable collaboration with Yoko Ono. Review: Chelsea Light Moving a Sonic Youth stopgap 2013-03-06T17:31:04Z

People who usually read the liner notes of R&B albums have probably come across Avant’s name before. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Black Godfather 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Number One Song” and “Sure Thing” didn’t play like offerings from a nationally recognized musician; in a good way, Varner came across like the talented newcomer testing her chops at the local open mike. Elle Varner shines despite technical difficulties at the Howard Theatre

To my regret, I frequently come across jealous people. Elena Ferrante: ‘I don’t believe people who swear they’re not the jealous type’ 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

Patt launched From Numbers to Names in April 2021 and began downloading photos from Holocaust museum collections when he came across them online. A stranger called. He had photos of her family from the Holocaust era. 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Remarkably, none of this comes across as creepy or offensive, simply as Matt’s bumbling attempts to be a caring expectant father. ‘Together Together’ Review: A Conceivable Plan 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

When I came across the footage, I considered making more traditional doc, and describing this history, but then I wondered what it would feel like cut together uninterrupted. Short docs, big Oscar hopes: "A Night at the Garden," "My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes" and "Los Comandos" 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Yet even when the film wanes, its subjects still come across as remarkable. Review: ‘Defying the Nazis’: An American Couple on a Rescue Mission 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The adrenaline of true art lovers flows fastest when they come across masterpieces by famous artists working in an unusual style. Drawing Outside the Lines of the Times 2010-03-26T13:30:00Z

The West Coast contingent has been hip to this dark tidbit from the get go, because of the high number of post-suicide zombies they have come across. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

If you were looking for evidence of the demise of the diva — at least of the stereotypical variety — it’s true, neither of these seemingly genial, generous women came across as imperious. A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Perhaps negative inference doesn’t come across well in print. ‘You talkin’ to me?’ Why Robert De Niro turned into a raging bull 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

He came across Amanda's recipe and immediately knew it was what he was looking for. Amanda Hesser's beloved peach tart has one unlikely crusader 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Sometimes you find artists coming across structures that scientists are also finding. A new discovery for science and art: the cultural divide is all in the mind 2012-11-24T16:02:57Z

In the film, he comes across as shy, almost taciturn, barely uttering more than a few words. In ‘Presenting Princess Shaw,’ two strangers make beautiful music together 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

She comes across, onstage and in interviews, as both elusive and genuine, qualities that are, lately, in short supply. The Misreading of Mitski 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

When she came across a listing for an airy two-bedroom apartment in a lovely prewar Greenwich Village building, she flew in for the weekend to see it. A Greenwich Village Penthouse Designed by Rafael de Cárdenas 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Imposing, adamant, the image of restraint, this plaster Washington came across as an act of subtle opposition by New York’s most old-school of museums. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The idea for the project arose when Kevin Carrico, the special projects engineer for Third Man, came across an online video of a camera being sent into near-space on a balloon. Third Man Records Sends a Vinyl Record Into Space 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

I came across the painting of Captain Kidd murdering a mutineer in my dog-eared 1970s copy of a Ladybird Book of Pirates. The violence of Ladybirds | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-31T11:50:00Z

I have come across the diagramed deal, which is close but no coconut. Bridge: A Lead With a 24-Trick Difference 2012-05-21T04:14:02Z

Still, A.C.O. concerts, rather than feeling like exercises in special pleading, typically come across as celebrations, Tuesday’s included. Review: Celebrating 40 Years of Championing American Composers 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

I came across one this summer, quite unexpectedly, which made the discovery even more thrilling. A bonnie glimpse of the exotic 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Live, the work packs a terrific dramatic punch, which came across vividly in the only previous recording, by the Fires of London and conducted by the composer. Maxwell Davies: Vesalii Icones; Linguae Ignis, etc ? review 2011-08-04T21:00:00Z

For my whole adult life, whenever I came across Chaplin, I thought only of endless rows of Little Tramp plastic figurines and the overrated Robert Downey Jr biopic. Bravo Charlie 2010-07-30T11:15:00Z

Last August, she was browsing TikTok when she came across a video teaching people how to give themselves freckles using sewing needles and ink that were said to fade within six months. You May Not Want to Get Your Beauty Tips From TikTok 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Poised and professional, she comes across more like someone in her mid-20s, though after a day of rigorous “How to Rock” rehearsal, she acknowledged that she was a little hyper. Nickelodeon Turns to Cymphonique Miller in ?How to Rock? 2011-12-26T22:20:04Z

The series’s infectious spirit still comes across in the hourlong show, which Alison Beatty has directed with a breathless energy that often sends the young-adult actors — all terrific — hurtling into the aisles. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The ways in which the last number attests to this creed is one of the most ingenious and affecting finales I’ve come across in years. Dave Malloy's ‘Ghost Quartet’ at the Bushwick Starr 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

More unexpected was how deeply human it was, and how much more meaningful than it comes across on recordings. Three Days, Four Helicopters, One Bone-Shaking Opera Marathon 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Some of his appetizers in particular come across like repetitive variations on themes. Review | A chef known for finesse follows his dream to Rappahannock County 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

What comes across instead, as in “TwiLight,” is a sense of a continuity. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits explore the many meanings of blue 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

But this time it was Bach who remained tongue-tied in performances that came across as academic and dry. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

This mainly involves asking everyone I come across if they have a biscuit, like a 15-year-old hustling for cigarettes, and going to Pret a Manger every few hours. 'We tenderly drop the vibrator into the bin': how I Marie Kondo'd my whole life 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

This entitlement comes across in Live From New York!, particularly in interviews with SNL writer Anne Beats. 'Live From New York!' Tackles SNL's Racist, Sexist History 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Angelou later recalled her saying: "You will never love poetry until you actually feel it come across your tongue, through your teeth, over your lips." Obituary: Maya Angelou 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Her voice has all its old scrapes and hollows; she’ll never come across as too cozy. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z

She comes across as both approachable and unknowable, as paradoxical as that sounds. 2017’s best dance: The year when powerful women seized the spotlight 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The central point that comes across is her versatility. Dance Review: Wendy Whelan Embraces Modern Dance at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-08-18T22:05:35Z

It’s a testament to Williams’s energy that even in an unfortunate part as an angry, alcoholic dad he comes across as the most vivid member of the cast. Movie Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Until the very end, when he loses his smiling cool, he comes across less as a supersmart psychopath than a riled-up good old boy. Review: A Cool-Tempered ‘Othello’ for Warm Central Park Nights 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

In Fernbach’s translation, Hazan — a former surgeon, publisher and social critic who wrote “The Invention of Paris” — comes across as a highly cultured, bemusedly cranky old radical whose eloquence can change how you see. A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

But in actuality, if these suburban cops weren't investigating these drug dealers, then they never would have came across these cops, the heroes. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

A day before I sent Malcolm the email saying I wanted to break up, I came across a term online: solo polyamory. My Choice Isn’t Marriage or Loneliness 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

A few days later, Jimmy came across a note she left in her checkbook for him to find. Husband Finds Note from Late Wife Reminding Him to Smile 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Under Giulini the orchestra breathes with the singers, without ever coming across as some Verdi backup band. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

I first came across it at the elementary school where I taught English, where they served it for lunch. Summer calls for pisto manchego — with a fried egg on top 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

But we were very fortunate to come across this story that does very much resonate now: these fearmongers who ply their trade on the citizens of any enlightened country. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

At Philip Johnson’s Thanks-Giving Square, I came across a group of South Americans searching for a mall. Dallas is the most affordable go-to travel destination for 2015 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

By contrast, the characters in “Blood and Gifts” never come across as proxies for the author, re-enacting his view of the events for our edification. | 'Blood and Gifts': ?Blood and Gifts? at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater - Review 2011-11-22T03:02:13Z

A few months ago, he came across the term “uncle fan” and realized that that described him—which left him with mixed feelings. K-Pop’s Unlikeliest Fans: Middle-Age Males 2013-09-02T09:45:55Z

In online interviews given before the surveillance story broke, Poitras comes across as low-key and cautious despite her willingness to put herself at risk for her work. Filmmaker takes center stage in surveillance story 2013-06-14T06:53:07Z

"I don't want to come across like I'm trying to be some hero soldier." Debra Granik tells a Vietnam veteran's tale in 'Stray Dog' documentary 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

So when art that looks like photography materialises in a museum full of bizarre old paintings, it's like coming across a bit of home in a strange country. Johannes Vermeer is a pearl – not a diamond 2013-06-20T13:56:50Z

More often, they come across as delusional individuals, whose shallow desires for money, youth and fame mean that their unhappiness is their own fault. Lauren Greenfield Tries to Capture the Meaning of Money 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

It was every auctioneer’s dream: Sorting through the usual clutter in the attic of an old New England home, Dan Meader came across a trove of objects far more precious and rare than expected. At Auction, Unknown Warhol Sculpture That Was Gift to Boyfriend 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In her afterword, Carol relates an anecdote about their daughter, then 2 years old, one day coming across a dead bumblebee on the ground. ‘Mortality,’ by Christopher Hitchens 2012-08-31T22:50:05Z

When we come across mention of his obsession with “digression’s hospitable embrace,” he is, for once, speaking in understatement. Review | In the loopily expansive ‘Figure It Out,’ Wayne Koestenbaum ponders everything from Robert Rauschenberg’s shoes to the notion of the line 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Yet as Ms. Fleming described this new undertaking, it too came across as an experiment, another special project. Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z

There's no denying that your first photo - i.e. the one potential matches see when they come across your profile - is how you catch another user's interest. Tinder's most 'swiped-right' man on how to get more dates 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Constand I watched while covering both trials came across as naive and often befuddled — hardly a master extortionist. Review | In ‘The Moment,’ Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby’s courtroom accuser, tells a story larger than her own 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

“I think about how often I’ve communicated to my daughter and it’s come across the wrong way because I haven’t taken the time to think about her perspective,” she says. In Arrival, Amy Adams Takes a Listening Tour of the Universe 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

It reads the way soldiers and Marines talk, so the profanity comes across as poetry. On the Ground in Afghanistan and Iraq 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

In person, he comes across less like the mac daddy of disco, and more like its avuncular Mr. Magoo. Giorgio Moroder Still Feels Love at 77 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

This regal Isabella comes across as a larger-than-life figure from a long-ago epic, which clashes with the more naturalistic turns by the other actors. Games, both old and new, power this reboot of ‘Edward II’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Yet Anomalisa comes across from the very start as deeply strange and unsettling – because its actors are all puppets. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

I go looking for the people I came across during previous times in Baghdad. Baghdad, Iraq: 10 years after Saddam 2013-03-17T00:05:30Z

Mr. Keiran graduated from James Madison University and comes across as self-deprecating, likable and funny. Winning Her Over With Easy Conversation and Home-Cooked Meals 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

In the stirring main theme Nielsen comes across as a Danish Elgar. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z

They're all male They're all female Dinosaur contraceptives They just don't fancy each other What breed is the 'ill' dinosaur the visitors come across on their initial tour of Jurassic Park? Quiz: Jurassic Park – test your film knowledge 2013-06-11T12:14:50Z

Their cohesion, intense and unforced, comes across with articulate bluntness. Ambrose Akinmusire, Drake, the Roots, St. Vincent 2011-12-17T03:03:14Z

And she often comes across as scripted — perhaps not surprising considering the vast number of strategists and staff scrambling behind the scenes for her every appearance. Why comedy as a weapon could be such a force in the 2016 election 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

By comparison, the political and legal machinations we see in “The Good Fight” come across as old-fashioned, even cute. Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Tony looks like many other mafia characters we may have come across, but he's seeing a shrink. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

Seeing it on the big screen, how do you think the issues came across cinematically? A Minute With: Julianne Nicholson on drama, schizophrenia and Julia 2014-01-29T17:06:20Z

I was running out of US and I still hadn’t quite found perfection although, for the first time, I was coming across Trump posters – none for Hilary. In search of the funkiest little town in America 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

And if Snakeoil comes across as less combative than some of Mr. Berne’s previous bands, that’s not to suggest it treads lightly. Review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil at the Jazz Standard 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

These days, our fears rest not on wariness about that new plant we just came across in the wild, but on fears about what has been done to our food before it reaches our tables. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

Another specialty type of flour that you may come across when baking is self-rising flour. The best substitutes for cake flour and self-rising flour in baking 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Disinterested, however, is not how he comes across. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Steven Brill's 'Class Warfare' 2011-08-19T21:07:00Z

In person he comes across as both open-minded and skeptical; he understands all the arguments for separation and appreciates the alternatives the Great Lakes Commission and others have put forth. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z

Her mum wasn't terribly pleased about the way that came across. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z

In interviews, he comes across as shy and uncomfortable, and despite his fans' attempts to engage him with shout outs at Sunday's show, he maintained the curtain on his emotions. 'Sugar Man' Rodriguez plays to adoring NY crowd 2013-04-08T18:54:09Z

Pooh was the name of a swan that they came across. Pooh returns 2011-04-18T07:22:39Z

Stripped naked, it comes across as blunt and bland. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

In his new incarnation, however,  he comes across very differently, interviewing old guests with nothing major to report, sometimes unsuccessfully trying his hand at Kimmel-like video-skits, and never quite settling into his former cool confidence. Memo to Arsenio: The 90s Were Great, But They’re Over 2013-09-10T09:45:57Z

I was walking through Central Park last year when I came across a comic on a bench selling jokes for a dollar. Catch Charlie Barnett and Other Rising Stand-Up Stars Who Never Hit the Top 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

In the course of making the film, he said, he kept coming across people with deep and long-standing connections to the material. ?John Carter,? Based on ?Princess of Mars? 2012-03-04T23:25:48Z

"When you first listen to techno and you come across Detroit, the whole universe opens up," says Andrews, whose heavy eyelids frequently open in animated excitement. Raime: 'We wanted rawness' 2012-11-22T20:00:02Z

In the miasma of one New York Post article about Hunter, alleged text messages presented as part of the incendiary package instead came across as the tender missives of a worried dad. Perspective | Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the politics of unconditional love 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

If Pileggi finds solace anywhere it is in stories, and he has a compelling one in Vegas, which he came across first when he was researching Casino for Scorsese. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z

Just when I start to think there’s no shock value left on the internet, I come across something that makes me marvel at human ingenuity. Nutscaping, the latest selfie trend: Dudes shoot their balls inside beautiful landscapes — because they can 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

He comes across as an acutely solitary figure: he has lived alone in Brighton since divorcing in the 1980s, and traces his preference for solitude back to childhood. Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not' 2012-10-01T18:31:02Z

You don’t want to come across as too gregarious. Skin Deep: Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Face Shrinking Job Market 2013-01-23T19:30:45Z

She was sorting through her grandparents’ cast-iron pans and old furniture when she came across a dusty boot box filled with wedding announcements and newspaper clippings. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

Before long, he came across a blog called Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome. Food Sherpas Guide You to a City’s Culinary Secrets 2013-07-30T19:16:51Z

I came across the beverage midway through my trip, when two of my high school friends joined me for a minireunion. Frugal Summer: Highs and Lows 2010-09-16T02:13:00Z

The little book’s prose is strong and clear, and Wouk comes across as still a fairly lively fellow. At 100, Herman Wouk re-emerges with a memoir, ‘Sailor and Fiddler’ 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Working in Hollywood, Mr. Parker said, “you come across a lot of people in this town that are just, like, ‘We don’t want to do that because we don’t want to rock the boat.’ ” Norman Lear’s Memoir, ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

When she stretched a phrase, however, it never came across as some expressive tug but always as an attempt to reveal the overall shape and character of a phrase. 2010-02-11T08:29:00Z

“We come across a line that doesn’t make sense, and Eduardo gives us a lecture on Cuban history at that particular moment.” Olney swings for the fences with Moisés Kaufman’s jazzy ‘Carmen’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The publication of his correspondence with Williams was intended, in part, to set the record straight, but Williams took offense at the way his character came across. Donald Windham, Novelist and Memoirist, Dies at 89 2010-06-04T05:37:00Z

Marville also comes across as a striver, a tireless promoter of his talents and his medium. Art Review: ‘Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris’ Debuts at the Met 2014-01-31T00:01:15Z

For drivers, gas is gas, so if you come across off-brand gasoline, don’t be afraid to buy it. 7 rip-offs you need to know about 2013-09-11T15:25:00Z

This symphony, especially the first movement, comes across at times as a self-conscious “major statement.” Music Review: Baltimore and Albany Symphonies at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T21:11:30Z

For Asperger, “autistic psychopathy” was an umbrella diagnosis, covering profoundly disabled children and others who, in spite of their difficulties, came across as very bright. The man who wants us to embrace autism 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z

The most charitable conclusion is that this is seriously protean stuff capable of speedy adaptation to suit whatever environment and host it comes across. Prometheus: what was that about? Ten key questions 2012-06-08T15:27:22Z

"I must say not all of it is good. … If I come across a piece that I don't think works, I'll withdraw it. I've done that." Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the depths of Siberia, a villager comes across a young man with a high fever and no memory in the forest. Calling a Dead Man by Gillian Cross - review 2012-07-17T14:00:00Z

One quality that your best-known characters have in common is that they’re supremely ignorant about how they are coming across to other people. Why Catherine O’Hara and Cecily Strong Love Oblivious People 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

One day, not long ago, I came across that black-and-white photograph of my sister and me, the one where I am scowling and leaning away. Modern Love: A Family Label, Ungarbled 2010-02-27T02:32:00Z

She continues: “The really shocking thing is that they can do what they want to do. I kept coming across the phrase in the scientific literature ‘cellular decision-making’.” When do you know you're old enough to die? Barbara Ehrenreich has some answers 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

The director also wanted to make sure the Bellas came across as underdogs. A word-of-mouth hit? The perfect pitch for 'Pitch Perfect 2' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

“For most of the shots, the movement comes across as subliminal, but we hoped it would help loosen up the environment so that it would feel in motion, rather than being perfectly static,” McGaugh said. ‘Mortal Engines’: How the Filmmakers Created a Roaming London 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

When she came across “The Man Who Lived Underground” in its entirety, Julia Wright said, the idea to publish it “was a no-brainer.” Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

But Jonathan Kent's 2006 production is already almost a Sussex fixture now — this is its second revival in five years — and it comes across better than ever. The Turn of the Screw ? review 2011-08-12T17:01:45Z

While rummaging through her father's papers a couple of years ago, Jardine came across something that caused her to question her image of him. TV review: The House That Made Me 2010-12-10T08:00:00Z

"Our Deal" concerned shyness; "The End" addressed hidden emotions; "Crazy For You" came across like a diary entry weighing the pros and cons of a relationship. Wavves, Best Coast turn up the heat at Lincoln Hall 2011-02-09T16:28:38Z

And what if they come across the sympathetic articles about Lance? ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mathieson came across the memorial on a weekend stroll around the park with his daughter. Bringing Home the Spanish Civil War 2013-06-28T14:37:52Z

Because Cho’s 5-year-old daughter, Ruby, is so little and doesn’t always like to choose all her things, “I get stuff knowing that we need it or as I come across things,” Cho says. From preschoolers to college-bound teens: Back-to-school must-haves for kids of all ages 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

I also wanted to tell a story of a psychiatric ward, though I don’t think it came across as sad and devastating on the show as it really is. Maria Bamford Mines Mental Illness for Her Sitcom, ‘Lady Dynamite’ 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

I wanted it to come across that I was listening to her music and expressing what I was feeling. Star ballerina Tiler Peck is in L.A. to prove that BalletNow goes far beyond ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

I’m inclined to agree; lovely as it is, the sweet aniseed flavour comes across just as well in the plant’s far cheaper seeds. How to make the perfect porchetta 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Because he is seen as a font of preternatural heroism and dignity, the movie Mandelas can come across as remote, flawless and superhuman, but too ethereal to be fully human. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z

But the bigger liability is Anderson as Lincoln, who’s supposed to be the show’s emotional lynchpin but who comes across whiny and pouty. TV Tonight: The River 2012-02-07T13:30:49Z

The wisdom in “I Was Born, but...” comes across as a difficult balance of optimism and resignation. | 'I Was Born, but...': Yasujiro Ozu?s Silent Tale of New Kids on the Block 2010-06-24T23:03:00Z

Mr. Gyllenhaal came across “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet” a couple of years ago, after attending a play reading of a friend and asking around for new scripts to read. Jake Gyllenhaal Makes New York Stage Debut 2012-08-23T12:00:00Z

But Mr. Greilsammer comes across as inspired not by some intellectual agenda but by a genuine desire to share the resonances he hears between music of different eras and styles. The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-06-21T21:28:20Z

Mostly, they just came across as likeable and sane. Radio review: The Story of Arcade Fire 2010-08-03T07:00:00Z

The dishes taste fine, but the combinations come across as if the chef were working from a mystery basket of ingredients rather than a definite idea. Review | I want to cheer for Pom Pom. But it’s complicated. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Slim, with close-cropped gray hair and rimless glasses, Mr. Parks comes across as amiable, even as he expounds on what he sees as the terrible mood in Italy, gripped by recession and political stalemate. In ‘Italian Ways,’ Tim Parks Again Tries to Explain Italy 2013-06-07T21:25:53Z

And yet for all of their education, none of these characters comes across as especially philosophical or theological. A Lifetime at a Church, Filled With Faith and Drama 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Here's a volume that serves as a fine introduction to Fowler, if you haven't come across her before — and one that will deeply satisfy fans who've been with her from the beginning. Karen Joy Fowler's fine new story collection, 'What I Didn't See,' moves from ordinary to fantastical and back 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z

They could come across “something that, possibly, they’re the first person to hear it in 50 years,” he said. Piecing Together the Visual and Audio Puzzle of ‘Apollo 11’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Britten read these words when they were reprinted in the Listener, and came across a volume of Crabbe's poetry at around the same time, in a Los Angeles bookshop. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z

Her focus is on social inequities, yet there’s such a surreal ingenuity to her work that it comes across as more mysterious than didactic. Art exhibitions to check out in Seattle this fall 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The relationship forged between Davies and Mewbron, in a beguiling turn as Miranda, comes across as an affectionately evolved bond; there’s a payoff, it seems, to being a stay-at-home dad on a desert island. Ethan McSweeny’s “Tempest” casts a bright, uplifting spell 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Members of the alliance, which exists to help brain-injury victims and their families, might consider how their award comes across to family members of NFL players whose horrific brain injuries Goodell tried to wish away. Salute to NFL leadership is a real head-scratcher 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

But this art didn’t come across as polemical. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

A bit farther, I came across a small cluster of houses that included a few restaurants. Frugal Traveler Blog: Day-Tripping in Segovia (and Counting Euro Pennies) 2011-08-30T19:50:50Z

We were hours into the country’s interior when we came across a solitary hunter. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z

Too often, however, the piece’s extended dramatic interludes come across as static and, over the course of 21 / 2 hours, thematic overkill. ‘Collidescope’ has Ferguson in its focus

In Covent Garden, he happened to come across Jeff Turner, on his first day of trying his hand at a bit of street comedy. British duo bring hit Potter parody to NYC 2012-06-01T15:24:14Z

What I admire about Kinnear is that he pays scrupulous attention to language: one notices his prolonged pause when, trying out a speech before the players, he comes across the phrase "blood of fathers". Hamlet 2010-10-07T23:28:00Z

This all might come across glib if “Barry” weren’t also willing to go dark when necessary, and if Mr. Hader were less effective at finding the drama in his comic character. Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

With the taboo gone, I also learned to talk to my son about what he’d do if he ever came across a real gun. Motherlode Blog: The Play Date Gun Debate: Facing Down a Taboo Topic 2013-04-29T17:02:45Z

“I think the way he comes across in ‘Recess Therapy’ is true to his nature,” she said. In Search of the Meaning of Life? Meet Me at the Monkey Bars. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

It's just that to me, "The Shield" is not the kind of stuff you come across every day. Michael Chiklis' superhero series targets families 2010-09-22T12:28:00Z

His efforts, however, come across as selfish, not well-meaning. In "Pieces of a Woman," Vanessa Kirby survives the worst in a heartbreaking, measured performance 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

When she accompanies herself on ukulele, she comes across as a precocious child playing in Toyland. Music Review: Nellie McKay on Rachel Carson and Mother Nature 2012-03-22T20:41:49Z

No matter how hokey or naïve Rogers may come across onscreen, the man was intensely invested in how the harshness of life affected children. Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. Rogers: Two icons of masculine empathy sorely missed today 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

You can also come across Malay medicine men selling herbal concoctions that can apparently cure all ailments. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z

Where other shows, about truckers or pawnshop owners or crocodile wranglers, sometimes seem artificial, the wardens rarely come across as anything but genuine. ‘North Woods Law’ Offers a Gentler View of Law Enforcement (and More Bears) 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Wednesday’s concert concluded, as planned, with Mr. Gergiev conducting “The Firebird,” a performance so organic, intense and haunting that this repertory staple came across as the pathbreaking stunner it was in 1910. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z

According to what little literature on the cathedral I have come across, the names of all but one of the carvers, an artisan from Toulouse named Dominique Bertin, have been lost to time. Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Burton held his own, but toning down his natural charisma to approximate neutrality made him come across as stiffer than usual. LeVar Burton has a shaky "Jeopardy!" debut, but he's still very much in this game 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

It proposes one of the simple answers you'll come across anywhere, and I mean that as an absolute compliment. Reading group: Wind, Sand and Stars – brilliantly uplifting 2012-11-09T15:57:26Z

Poppea and Salome may have come across with new nuances these days, but the sassy young Isabella of “L’Italiana in Algeri” surprised me by perhaps having the most to say to our current moment. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Robust of posture if not of physique, this Pegeen comes across as far more capable of violence than the putative murderer in her midst. Theater Review: Welcoming Back Synge, and Stomping Along With 'Rock of Ages' 2011-10-04T10:11:45Z

Elegantly handsome with a salt-and-pepper beard, Gavin, 37, comes across as solitary and single-minded, the kind of artist who eschews the art world scene and would rather be in his studio than anywhere else. A Modern Take on the Hudson River School Tradition 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

But in their willful flatness many of the other performers come across as hapless on the one hand, or camp on the other. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z

Finally, seeing the paintings in the flesh lets you savor their texture in ways that don’t come across in reproduction. Review: Seattle Art Museum’s Wyeth exhibit confounds expectations 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

An industrial swagger comes across upon first laying eyes on the new building, its no-nonsense exterior—clad in panels of enameled steel—nodding to the erstwhile abattoirs and warehouses of the surrounding Meatpacking District. Inside the Whitney Museum’s New Renzo Piano–Designed Building 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

It, therefore, comes across as strange and depressing that for a humanitarian act, prompted only by her, Madonna wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude. Malawian government harshly criticizes Madonna 2013-04-10T19:13:16Z

In comparison, his “Ballo” comes across as much less assured, too reliant on the obvious. Music Review: ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-09T21:13:05Z

She comes across Santa and Silverbell, and helps with their heavy load. Perspective | 10 great holiday-season books to enjoy with your little ones 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Rail-thin, he didn’t consider himself a masculine ideal, but, browsing Models.com, he came across bodies like his own. A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Basically, he's a bent mayor in Washington DC, and he just comes across as being incredibly credible. Watch television with Michelle Gomez 2012-08-10T23:05:11Z

Towering over the treetops off Interstate 95 in Triangle, Va., the National Museum of the Marine Corps serves as a Rorschach test of sorts for the veterans who come across it. Military museums grapple with a mission that’s only getting more complex 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

I was six when first I came across Jonathan Swift's in the form of the 1939 animated movie by the Fleischer brothers. Gulliver's Travels ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:20Z

The wary inner warmth that might stitch the whole together never comes across. | 'The Milk Train Doesn?t Stop Here Anymore': Reaper Arrives? Grab a Kimono 2011-01-31T03:01:00Z

If you come across an interesting article, video, blog of tweet you think we'd enjoy, please do post it in the thread. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-01-23T18:08:51Z

But during long stretches of subdued music, Mr. Runnicles seemed to be striving for a Wagnerian spaciousness that often came across as inert and resulted in some tentative execution from the players. Music Review: A Pair of Siegfrieds Complete the ?Ring? 2011-06-20T21:38:53Z

Advertisement Here, Mr. Shepard’s apache dance of a drama comes across not only as exciting theater but also as world-class literature, the kind that balances in-the-moment detail with an echoing sense of eternity. Review: ‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Even for those of us who were pleasantly surprised at how smoothly and strongly the opera came across at City Opera, this new version is vital. Cuts, Big and Small, Transform Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

And in the remembrances of colleagues and a short documentary about him teaching, he comes across as an exceptional person, a path breaker, a force for good. Forced Online, Battery Dance Festival Brings the World to You 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

"I saw family coming across the street looking panicked," Feldt said. 6 dead after shooting at Texas roller rink 2011-07-24T04:10:00Z

I kept wondering how her performance, and the entire production, would come across in a house a third the size of the Met. Susan Stroman’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Every now and then, I come across a rainbow flag flying from a window or rainbow colors painted on building... The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

That might be the best general writing advice I’ve ever come across. Perspective | When I find fiction too draining, I turn to books about books. They can be as thrilling as a whodunit. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Within a roughly three-block radius, you’ll come across quirky shops, a landmark restaurant, one of the city’s oldest bars and a timeless purveyor of books. Bypass congested Times Square for a more satisfying New York City experience 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

I came across “Best-Loved Folktales of the World” . Tracey Baptiste scares up new audiences to learn about jumbies 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Perhaps there’s a message about modernity in “Automaton,” or about Pilobolus and the collaborative process, but it doesn’t quite come across here. Dance Review: Pilobolus Dance Theater at Joyce Theater 2012-07-17T22:04:05Z

I think that he comes across as an almost reasonable man in the film. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Seated with perfect posture, Ms. Hutchins expressed emotion sparingly and came across as analytical and preternaturally poised. Sophia Hutchins Isn’t Dating Caitlyn Jenner 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

A while later, I came across a 7in copy of Space Manatee in a record store and bought it. In the wake of Heavenly's Space Manatee 2010-05-27T21:30:00Z

Put a top-ranking official in a collared shirt and fleece vest, and he doesn’t come across as a top-ranking official anymore. Perspective | What was William Barr’s fleece vest trying to tell us? 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

He’s also been fascinated by Mr. Koons’s work for nearly 20 years, since, as a teenager, coming across an exhibition catalog of his art. ‘Jeff Koons: A Retrospective’ Opens at the Whitney 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

As always, this came across not as a lapse but as a deliberate choice. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, Maurizio Pollini Celebrates Chopin 2010-04-30T20:20:00Z

It’s perfect for a small orchestra, and the music of string quartets comes across with full, lively sound. As the Frick Expands, New York City Music Suffers 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

I’m really happy this year, and I hope it comes across. Kit Harington: Season 7 Is a ’Huge Seismic Shift’ for Jon Snow 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

The tender loving care that has gone into the production in the Terrace Theater is all well and good, but as a one-off enterprise at the arts center it comes across as an oddity. Review | I’m not rejoicing over a play produced by the Kennedy Center. Here’s why. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

As did the fact that the Feminist Press had reissued many of these books, which were otherwise out of print, and I wouldn’t have come across them save their placement on certain remainders tables. The Only Thing I Envy Men 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Though it features several well-drawn and vibrant performances, “Merrily” comes across here as oddly quaint and self-conscious. Theater Review: Sondheim?s ?Merrily We Roll Along? in Encores! Staging 2012-02-09T23:44:16Z

It also helps that Mr. Volle gives her something to react to throughout this long bit of exposition, which can come across as a “Previously on ‘Valhalla’”-type recapitulation. A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

She is practical and competent, but her personality never comes across. This Is Paradise by Will Eaves - review 2012-02-10T22:05:01Z

All that came across, sort of, in a show that consisted of sports-striped trousers, stocking jersey dresses, and zippered track coats in that same filmy jersey. Fashion Review: Calvin Klein, Marchesa, Proenza Schouler, Ralph Lauren, Reed Krakoff — Fashion Review 2012-09-14T01:19:10Z

As a result, it can come across as uneven, more a collection of songs rather than a fluid album. The Dandy Warhols' This Machine: The Indie Rockers Go Goth 2012-04-25T16:00:53Z

For instance, during the holy month of Ramadan, I came across a group outside a mosque waiting to break their fast, just as a party boat full of apparently drunk youths passed by them. 36 Hours in Istanbul: Differences Between European and Asian Side 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Some tombs that Croft comes across are optional excursions, but they're all so well done, it shouldn't be a choice to skip `em. Review: Lara Croft refreshed in new 'Tomb Raider' 2013-02-27T14:12:14Z

For example: A police officer comes across an old man crying in a park. Jerry Lewis Holds Sway at the Friars Club 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Welcome to the Rock,” the vibrant opening song, introduces the evening’s affable vibe and preference for ensemble numbers; the score comes across as a bonding exercise. Review | It’s been 18 years since 9/11, but ‘Come From Away’ will still bring you to tears 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

"I adored Simone when I first came across her, because she didn't fit any typical idea of the feminine voice," Garbus says. Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on life after lo-fi 2011-04-07T21:29:00Z

Mr. Rollins, the tenor saxophonist who at 84 is upheld as one of jazz’s greatest improvisers and a living embodiment of its ideals, comes across as rueful and cowed in the piece. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Bigger, played by Victor Love, is so pathologically sullen that he incarnates a stereotype; it’s both dramatically effective and politically vexing that he comes across like a trapped rat. A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

But in the more than one thousand interviews I have undertaken in east London, I have never come across any of the feckless cockneys of popular lore. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z

During a joint interview in Los Angeles, Mr. Neustadter came across as a type of walking Smiths song: upbeat and downbeat at the same time. The Screenwriting Team Behind ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Authenticity is more important than attempting to seem relatable if that comes across as trying hard. Tyler Oakley on How He Became a Social-Media Star: 'It’s Not in My Interest to Change Who I Am' 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

And when the car comes across traffic or crowds, it is more at home than those who get in its way; it is the master, while everyone else is just a spectator. Last Chance: ?Cars, Culture, and the City? at Museum of the City of New York 2010-07-19T22:03:00Z

In Brooklyn, with the scent of saltwater coming across the boardwalk half a block away, there are tables and cutlery. At Cafe Dushanbe, a Chef Stays True to His Tajik Roots 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the sensitive trio of high strings, this composer’s superb evocations of birds came across throughout the evening. Review: At Carnegie, Going Beyond the Rapid-Fire Vivaldi 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Occasionally, he comes across as little more than a TED Talk himself, spouting chunks of research and philosophical meanderings that, while fascinating, stall the novel. A Novel That Riffs on Sex Dolls, Mary Shelley and Brexit 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Henry comes across as breezy and carefree, but he knows his success is meaningful and arrives at an important moment for black actors. Brian Tyree Henry Finds Wisdom at an Arcade 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

“Because of the work that we do, we come across a lot of interesting information.” These researchers study terrorists. Sometimes, they also stumble across scoops. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

“I love everything about this,” Ms. Murphy, 27, recalled thinking when she came across Ms. Fountain’s profile, fully aware of the dating checklist she kept in her cellphone. Captivated by Her Yellow Glow 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

And others came off as variations on a well-worn theme, such as offhandedly stumbling into a bluntly offensive Jewish joke that came across like a lesser version of a previous bit. Louis CK Performs at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

He acknowledges as much, by admitting he has a tendency to come across as “someone you’d rather borrow lecture notes from than have a beer with.” Review | In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom — and confusion — in the punk rock scene 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

But if the police come across her, they will kill her. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Two 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

Her voice may be gravelly and the countenance may come across as severe, but the delivery is riveting and the line readings redolent of pathos and regret. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

But as a Korean adoptee growing up in Vermont, one of the whitest states in America, I wasn't eager to make myself come across as any more Asian than I already was. It's more than just a parasocial relationship: BTS and their impact on my mental health 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Quinto, for instance, once came across a DVD in a store while on vacation in Hanoi that purported to contain 100 films that had won the Academy’s best picture award. Oscars Watchdog Monitors Foul Play in Stores, Online and on Red Carpet 2011-02-26T00:14:51Z

Whereas the sheer volume of sales of other types of fiction means there are more copies around, so it's more likely someone in five years will come across them. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z

"We were organizing her office area and I came across the 1975 roster photo," said Chapman. Bing Russell's grandsons explore his 'Battered Bastards of Baseball' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

There were moments of exquisite beauty, when you would come across an isolated cove that took your breath away. Just a baby ultra? Qualifying for the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

I first came across Samuelsson in 2009 when I was judging Top Chef Masters, a US TV show in which big name chefs competed for a $100,000 cheque for charity and bragging rights. Marcus Samuelsson: the restaurant king of Harlem 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Many years ago while living in South Africa I came across a Romanian kilim. On the Rug Route in Romania, Kilims and an Enduring Culture 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

In other hands, this might come across as just a front for unsavoury humour. Louis CK – review 2013-03-21T13:39:14Z

By my late twenties, in the early nineteen-nineties, I was in graduate school at Columbia University and came across Rich’s recently published “An Atlas of the Difficult World.” Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

More than a decade later, particularly in the context of the #MeToo movement, the situation comes across as a demonstration of the victim-blaming that sustains male privilege. Justin Timberlake, Back at the Super Bowl. What About Janet? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

And in this box, as you say, I came across this little black book, and it was tied with cream ribbon. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

The excellent early chapters set up a distinction between the way a character is perceived in the libretto and the way he or she comes across in a performance. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z

The only thing I come across of note are a series of short news stories from 2002 about an Adeel Akhtar who was arrested on a transatlantic flight to New York. Adeel Akhtar: ‘I thought, Ah, there is a power to this’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s just one of the takeaways from the documentary — a tunnel vision that drove him and sometimes made him come across as aloof. Rock star: After ‘Free Solo,’ climber unsure of next journey 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

But like probably most Americans, we had never heard of the End to End until one day early last year, when Margaret came across a British cycling guidebook on the journey. Going to great lengths: Cycling Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groats 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

In other scenes, Reatard speaks calmly and passionately about his music and comes across as nothing more than a confident perfectionist who expects the same. 'Better Than Something: Jay Reatard': garage rocker's turbulent life 2012-03-01T20:53:03Z

As I mentioned back when “The Last of Us” premiered, I have never played the video game, so I can’t compare the show’s action sequences with how they come across in the original. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1 Finale: A Deadly Operation 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

Usually it’s the music that comes across as straightforward. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z

Opera, as it always has been, is here a home for emotions that could come across as flatly, implausibly extreme, but which are rendered newly mysterious and natural. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Shortly after Archie's birth, the couple came across a tweet of a black-and-white photo of an unknown couple, meant to represent Harry and Meghan, carrying a chimp. "Harry & Meghan": The 11 biggest bombshells from the final part of Netflix's tell-all docuseries 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Just last week, he came across a dead dolphin. The truth behind the spin: What BP doesn’t want you to know about the Gulf oil spill 2014-05-04T15:00:00Z

Sebald’s narrator is surprised when he comes across a Nazi propaganda film that promises that silk production will bring “the best and cleanest of all worlds.” Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

"Are his arms long enough to connect with me if he comes across the table?" Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z

She throws her last exam, and who does she come across out on the street? TV highlights 21 December 2010-12-20T00:35:01Z

AJ has a boyfriend and gay friends, but he doesn’t want to wear anything too feminine or come across as “too gay”. Queer Eye's Tan France: ‘The word gay was never mentioned in my parents’ home’ 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Although the Hawass line has been in development since last year, it drew attention only recently, when Egyptians on Twitter came across a blog post by the American photographer who shot the Egyptian artifacts. Using History to Sell Clothes? Don?t Try It With the Pharaohs 2011-04-18T22:49:26Z

And though it may not be the most wrenching interpretation of this pillar of Western literature that you’re ever likely to come across, it more than capably gets the job done. A well-played, compact ‘King Lear’ at Folger Theatre

Maybe that was why my heart leapt when I came across works by Gibbons this summer, especially a certain tumble of faces and vegetation above a fireplace in Kensington Palace. Grinling Gibbons: the wood-carver who took root in England 2010-09-08T09:51:00Z

“Every interview that I’ve done, I’ve been asked, ‘How do I get the cool, hip Manhattan people to come across the river?’ ” FarmBorough Festival, a Country Music Kickoff in the Big City 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Without a narrative structure the book comes across as scattered, with different ideas placed one after the other with no particular logic. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

I assume the lead instrument was the synthesiser but the playing came across a little bit simple. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z

Wandering alone, Torak comes across an orphaned wolf cub, and adopts it as his companion. Emma Barnes's top 10 books with wolves 2012-08-09T13:42:22Z

I’m hypercritical of how I look, how I act, how I come across in interviews. Chloë Sevigny: ‘Make lists after break-ups or have a passionate fling 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

The performance, no surprise, was exhilarating, even that crushing finale, which came across here as an angry, slashing lament. Review: Chamber Music Society Performs Ligeti’s Trio 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

It's a pity he sometimes comes across as more cocky than cockney. Me and My Girl ? review 2010-12-21T21:29:00Z

I’ve spent hours trying to think of any man I’ve ever known in my life who treated a woman like these men did, or even anyone I ever came across who screamed at subordinates. Pigs in Hollywood: Moonves is as bad as Weinstein 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

In a field often characterised by flamboyant theorists, genetic fundamentalists and ideologues, he comes across as a sort of chartered accountant with a good grasp of statistical theory. Are We Getting Smarter? by James R Flynn – review 2012-09-28T09:02:01Z

We came across his former lover's brother sitting with a group of other Arabs. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z

It is the type of place one comes across when straying off the paths that guidebooks such as Lonely Planet have etched deep into the landscape of the tropics. Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:00Z

They’re dressed in an assertively tangy, garlicky mixture, including a bit of soy sauce, enough to mimic the deep savoriness of anchovies without coming across as distinctly “soy sauce-y.” A Salad for Crouton Lovers 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Brown seems so determined to ignore his past crimes that his album comes across as brash at best and, at worst, insulting. Chris Brown's Fortune: A Mix of Beats and Ballads, But No Regrets 2012-07-03T14:45:47Z

In the book, Cook comes across as low-keyed, easygoing and, toward Trumbo, a bit worshipful, but in the late 1970s he also gave off a slight hipster vibe. ‘Trumbo,’ soon to be a film, tells the tale of one of the Hollywood Ten 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

When I first came across today’s news article, I misread the boy’s age to be 2 years old. Motherlode Blog: A Little Boy Drowned Yesterday 2011-08-23T20:22:28Z

I really was looking forward to this list and enjoyed reading it until I came across the words "highly Instagrammable" in describing a place. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

I leafed through them quickly and unaccountably put them away, carrying them from move to move across the country, until one day about five years ago when I came across them again and started reading. In Berlin, Unraveling a Family Mystery 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

I first came across Mo's work when researching worker unrest in China. Mo Yan's storytelling is as surreal as China 2012-10-11T14:16:53Z

She was funny and mean, clever and sincere; most of all she was political to the bone or at least that’s how she reads on the page and came across in talks. ‘Raise Hell’ Review: For Molly Ivins, Writing Was Fighting 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Solomon’s first chapter, entitled “Son,” is as masterly a piece of writing as I’ve come across all year. Books of The Times: ‘Far From the Tree,’ by Andrew Solomon 2012-11-13T13:00:24Z

The book felt like a natural progression for a woman known to her friends to be a vivid talker, though Ms. Gilpin is wary of how she comes across in print interviews, at least. Betty Gilpin Is a Vivid Talker 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

It is sometimes strange to come across the palimpsest of Stow's London as we wander its streets today. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z

This “Caroline Unplugged” — as Harmony France, Firebrand’s artistic director, called it in a preshow announcement — came across with full force, in part because of the scale that at first seemed an impediment. How Chicago Is Changing Theater, One Storefront at a Time 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

One reaffirms "Red Table Talk" utility as a family marketing tool, presenting a message that is overtly crafted and controlled yet strives to come across as honest. Will Smith presides over the most bizarre "Red Table Talk" yet – to talk trauma, but avoid the slap 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

In the end, Mr. Noth’s Faustus comes across as a man who doesn’t actually have a soul to sell. Review: ‘Doctor Faustus,’ All That Heaven Won’t Allow 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

He came across the play — about two sisters with contrasting views on how humanity should deal with climate change — last summer, while searching for scripts with the producer Sonia Friedman. For West End’s Return, Cleansing Spirits and an Aching for Change 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Rotunno said she can be tougher in cross-examination than a male attorney without coming across as a “bully,” and that factor could be an advantage. Will having a lead female defense attorney help Harvey Weinstein? The jury is out 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

We tend to like our contemporary Chinese artists to come across as aesthetic tradition-busters. Critic?s Notebook: An Artist Takes Role of China?s Conscience 2011-04-05T22:31:29Z

What I like about his writing is the wordplay, it’s in the vein of David Mamet, his careful choice of words, even though it comes across as very natural. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z

It was this sense of a profoundly personal affirmation of faith that came across most convincingly, thanks primarily to the authority of Roderick Williams. The Kingdom 2010-08-09T20:45:00Z

Daphne comes across as a bit primly Victorian, prickly and unyielding. In This New Caper Novel, a Yearbook Reveals Family Secrets 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

“It’s like when a first responder comes across a scene that is bloody. You can set aside your feelings and do your job.” For Black journalists, working Chauvin trial drains emotions 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

In “Tell Them Who You Are,” his son Mark’s documentary, Mr. Wexler comes across as either a naturally irascible character or someone without a lot of time for blather. Haskell Wexler, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dies at 93 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

These works, like much of late Brahms, can come across as weighty and thick-textured, but this duo brings wonderful transparency to the scores. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

To avoid coming across as "too extra," he sought counsel from friends. Date Lab: ‘She made me laugh a lot. I made her laugh, I think.’ 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Part of what makes the emotional power of the ending surprising is that the film initially comes across as a cool, playful intellectual exercise. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,’ Explores Time and Memory 2014-02-13T23:06:59Z

“Sure. It’s supposed to be a health perk. At least that’s the way it comes across. ‘We care about your health’,” Valerie said with a shake of her head. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

The only other book I've come across like that is Halo, and I must say that Serafina is a much more likeable character. Angel Dust by Sarah Mussi - review 2013-04-02T08:00:00Z

Poorly served by the production’s stolid Victorian-style costumes, she came across as a downcast dowager rather than an overwhelmed young woman. Review: In ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at the Met, Singing Through Sickness 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

The attempted scientific explanations for time travel come across as sub-"Star Trek" level gobbledygook and, frustratingly, the movie sometimes breaks its own pre-established rules. "Avengers: Endgame": Sloppy plot holes distract from an otherwise cathartic epic 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

In spite of her girlish demeanor — 5 foot 1 and petite, with long, curly brown hair and a slightly high voice — Ms. Steele comes across as one of those confident people now. Sarah Steele, Star of LCT3’s ‘Slowgirl’ 2012-06-29T01:00:26Z

Then she came across a Kelly green bag at a consignment shop where she had credit. We asked readers what made their first Kate Spade item so special. Here’s what they said. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

The Debussy came across as more modern than the Piston. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

I came across her work in Edinburgh 20 years ago. The artists' artist: children's authors 2011-07-06T21:30:01Z

As for Bannon, when Green first met him in 2011 he came across as a “political grifter seeking to profit from the latest trend.” How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

I have never come across a piece with such provenance. Album John Lennon signed for his killer to be auctioned 2010-11-24T10:55:00Z

He did come across as a nice bloke and, beneath his bumbling exterior, is probably quite bright with it. Something for Nothing; The Route Masters: Running London's Roads; Iain Banks: Raw Spirit – TV review 2013-06-19T06:00:10Z

Narrated by Edgar, a raven who doesn't much care for any of them, this is a playful and witty gothic series that comes across like the Addams Family reinvented by Joan Rivers. Fiction's best dysfunctional families 2013-06-06T10:44:02Z

Directed with delicacy and fluidity by Saheem Ali, “Kill Move Paradise” is a singularly affecting contribution to a niche genre of theater that often comes across as labored and contrived. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

And it doesn't always come across in a picture, but you can be really beautiful in a still frame, and then, in life, moving around, you're ugly. Kristen Stewart: 'Twilight was so intense. I'm still a very intense person' 2012-05-17T19:00:02Z

The message that comes across, and not just about bats, is the importance of taking care to understand the scarily unfamiliar. The Joy of Bats 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Cleverly, they come across as both familiar and enticingly new. Much of a Dutchness: the Hotel Inntel Zaandam 2010-03-31T20:30:00Z

If I come across a special paste, I won't hesitate to cross the country with pints of mole in my checked luggage. The shortcut magic of mole paste 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

I think those moments of spontaneity really come across in the film.” ‘Hair Love’: 3 Men and a Little Girl (With a Lot of Curls) 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

It is some of the best writing on a particular people and their particular place that you will ever come across. Glenn Taylor's top 10 books of the American South 2011-04-13T09:41:42Z

Rather than celebratory, it comes across as cynical. Weezer is the absolute worst: Is Rivers Cuomo just trolling us all? 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

This Putin is an impenetrable fortress of malicious intent, and if Woertendyke’s Khodorkovsky is able to earn our sympathy, it may be largely because his adversary comes across as so monstrously bloodless. Is Vladimir Putin box-office poison? In a new play, he’s certainly toxic enough. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Yet for all of their crassness and hypocrisy, they come across as appealing and amusing, not quite endearing, certainly, but still, a la Shakespeare’s rude mechanicals, exquisitely comical. Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The fact that as a person she came across as so down to earth despite the Hollywood upbringing, was a triumph for her. 'Carrie Fisher taught me to be my own hero': readers' tributes to the late star 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

What it looks like: Although Bishop says this go-to color comes across as beige in online images, in real life it finishes as more of a muted sage green with hints of silver. 9 expert-approved paint colors for a powder room makeover 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Despite their alleged dietary habits, the wolves are the area’s most appealing inhabitants and not just because they don’t come across as dangerous or damaged as the human residents. Review: In ‘Hold the Dark,’ Wolves, Gloom and Blood in Alaska 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

When she’s playing with “three northern blokes that like to play loud” that really comes across. See Emily Play: New Band Up North #31 2013-06-17T11:48:00Z

Both come across as the products of an inquisitive mind and some earned good will. Music Review: Christian McBride at Village Vanguard - Review 2011-11-30T23:30:42Z

And the concerto’s string parts — which come across as extraneous in some readings — sounded fully integrated here, whether in moments of plucked frenzy in the second movement or in swooning melodic accompaniment, in the third. Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

In Franck’s Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, Mr. Perahia was at his most rhapsodic, especially in the Prelude section, which came across like an improvisation in which a sighing motif inspires explorations of wandering chromatic harmony. Review: Murray Perahia at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

My mother had perfect penmanship, and I'll still come across a little note. Trisha Yearwood on family recipes and the power of love 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

They all chose to ignore this inconsistency and carried on until they came across a Lion. Digested classic: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum 2010-05-14T12:06:00Z

Only coming across the band recently it's obvious their "dream team" formula is working and getting people's attention. New Band Up North 2012-11-12T16:55:00Z

What some took for spikiness came across to me as straight talking. John Barry: The composer who was as pop as the Beatles 2011-01-31T12:49:27Z

If you come across me suddenly you scream: Too many legs, or is it the eight red eyes, the glossy blob of abdomen? Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

“Sometimes he would come across as too lecturing, but he lightened it up and was able to get the message across. ” Seattle: birthplace of Hari Kondabolu’s comedy career 2014-03-21T20:26:10Z

Someone came across them in a garage sale in Philadelphia in 1983, liked them and brought them to one of the city’s galleries, Fleisher-Ollman, for a second opinion, which was, of course, two thumbs up. Art in Review: ?THE MEDICINE BAG? 2011-07-28T19:52:01Z

Morgan's stance on pets has changed lately, and indeed the first animal you come across at her studio is very much alive. Polly Morgan's wings of desire 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z

They come across as vapidly appealing, and, who’s to say, they might someday develop into artists. Dance Review: Out of the DVR and Onto the Stage 2010-10-08T22:00:00Z

He recalls watching the verdict of the O. J. Simpson trial in high school, and the cheers that erupted from a small handful of black students when “not guilty” came across the screen. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

You come across as a risible individual who is symptomatic of everything that is wrong. Because your attitude is: 'We are only trying to sell newspapers.' Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan join war over 'cheap and pathetic' red tops 2011-07-09T19:35:46Z

At that time, I hadn’t come across anybody who paid more. Women’s Work 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

In one entry, he came across a passage that stunned him. In Charles Bock’s ‘Alice & Oliver,’ Cancer Is a Highly Personal Villain 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

A large man with short brown hair and a beard, Mr. Bell comes across as wistful for his youth. An Ode to Shopping Malls 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

"I came across your hashtag and was moved to take action under current circumstances." How 40,000 dumplings empowered solidarity for the Asian community 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

“There will be people who gather on the hour to hear it, or there will be those who will come across it unexpectedly as they rush to get their train.” Diverse Voices to Start Telling Time in Birmingham, England 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

It is delivered with searing honesty, and that is how he comes across today – a great talker, open about everything – which is strange, given that opening up doesn’t come naturally to him. Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

CHERRY: I came across a lot of viral videos of African American fathers that were doing their daughter’s hair, and the numbers were just insane. ‘Hair Love’ director wants to win Oscar in honor of Kobe 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

With just 25 players in the Y’s intimate hall, the music came across grandly, but also with revealing detail. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Having read my children all the available books and come across some really crummy ones, I thought — why not try to write a children’s book?” Review: ‘Inside Charlie’s Chocolate Factory’ by Lucy Mangan

But Michelle Obama has found a third way, coming across as serious and friendly, passive and aggressive. How Michelle Obama talks to voters in a way Hillary Clinton can’t 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Because we have seen these men as boys, their eagerness to join the cause comes across as not much different from joining a gang in high school and enduring its initiation. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Every time when we come across cases like this, they affirm our belief that we’ve provided a safe place to let out negative energy. And we are happy for that.” All the rage: Beijingers vent their stress in 'anger room' 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

Down on her luck Foxy comes across a dance competition only open to birds but does this stop her? Catch us if you Can-Can by Alex T Smith - review 2012-11-20T12:00:00Z

As a researcher, you're lucky if you can come across a contemporary who supported or built upon Dante's tangled reinvention, or documents in which the woman in question is mentioned as mother, wife or daughter. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Hardly a new thing in the world of letters, but one rarely comes across such parallels coupled with such a savage appraisal. Stephen King on Paul Theroux’s Portrait of a Truly Horrible Mother 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

In Bruges, we came across a grand exhibition of musical instruments, where I was thrilled to have the chance to try out a harpsichord. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

And if, by chance, she was invited to use a friend’s bathroom and accidentally came across a wholesale supply of Prozac or Viagra? This Life: Snooping in the Age of E-book - This Life 2011-09-23T21:38:47Z

From Murphy beds to haunted Disneyland rides, here are eight other strange locations where people came across corpses. 8 bizarre places where bodies have been found 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

Well, the fact is that the great majority of people who are in the United States as so-called illegal immigrants have not come across the Mexican border. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

It may all sound a little dryly didactic, but it did not come across that way, thanks to the ingenuity and ebullience of Bach’s music and to the energy and passion of the Trinity performers. Review: Sacred and Secular, Bach Closes a Festival 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Certainly, it doesn’t come across as a self-conscious revisionist western, an often meaningless category that implies that genres remain static or, worse, that latter-day westerns are more complex than earlier ones. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

I follow prediction videos on YouTube and recently came across an interesting theory, that aligns with my longstanding hope: an overthrowing of all the royal houses in favour of the people, or the realm. 'Arya will kill Cersei wearing Jaime’s face': your Game of Thrones predictions 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Guardianmusic.tumblr.com is the place where our writers post songs, videos, pictures and other music-related odds and ends they come across during their incessant web trawling. This week's top five music links 2012-06-29T10:27:48Z

Even the Sense8 panel extolled the greatness of Netflix and its dedication to quality, which came across as slightly awkward as Netflix actually has yet to renew the series for a season two. Can Doctor Who's Steven Moffat keep schtum? What we learned at the TCAs 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

In the summer of 1967, the Summer of Love, a friend came across Gunn in Golden Gate Park, this book tells us in a footnote. In ‘The Letters of Thom Gunn,’ an Unusual Mix of Pleasures 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

The artist Alma Warren and her brother Michael come across as the most realized of the ensemble. Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

I first came across Arvo Pärt's music in the late 1980s. The artists' artist: modern composers 2011-08-03T21:29:01Z

In one such purchase, he came across a tape of a movie called “Squirrels to the Nuts” and added it to his eBay listings. Peter Bogdanovich Had a Vision for This Film. Now It’s Finally Being Seen. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

We would come across Don in the building in his full regalia, decked out in robes or yachting clothes. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Drained of purpose and, what’s worse, my baseline optimism, I had retreated into a silent despair when I came across Mark’s story. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

In contrast, Bristol seems to have loosened up a bit and came across as much more relatable and comfortable this week. "Dancing with the Stars": Sarah Palin makes a cameo 2010-09-28T12:30:00Z

So, I left it in my bedroom and came across it a couple of days ago and thought that I would read it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - review 2013-04-26T14:00:00Z

Some of the “Queer Eye” guys’ advice like this can come across as platitudes on first listen. "Queer Eye" for the purity culture survivor: On the Fab Five's healthy approach to being selfish 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

The book of the dead would act as more of a manual than a complete text, complete with diagrams of the potential foes the deceased could come across and the spells that could defeat them. British Museum to recreate Egyptian journey to the afterlife 2010-06-17T15:21:00Z

The performance lacks emotional thrust and stature; Lear’s towering rages often come across as indiscriminate shouting. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Nothing I came across offered even the slightest suggestion of how paella came to be Spain’s culinary calling card to the world. How paella got punked – and the Valencian chefs trying to save it 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Chávez comes across as a rough-hewn but good-hearted man of the people whose bullheaded determination is softened by a sense of humor. | 'South of the Border': Oliver Stone, Tour Guide 2010-06-24T23:25:00Z

Some will no doubt regard Goldsmith as an unreliable narrator, but O’Brien, the man in Hoffa’s shadow, comes across as a deeply tragic figure. Made Man: ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Replays a Famous Disappearance 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Singing with velvety yet focused tone, Ms. Leonard comes across as prim and pretty rather than formidable as Ada. Review: ‘Cold Mountain,’ at Santa Fe Opera, Recounts a Separated Lover’s Arduous Journey 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

His Beethoven had heft and rectitude but it came across as ponderous and imposing, somehow above it all, rather like the hall itself. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

So what are the big ideas that come across? One Thousand and One Nights ? review 2011-08-22T12:34:36Z

At its best, this opera comes across as an anguished requiem. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

"NO SAINT" The Sowetan newspaper praised the powerful acting in the film, but said it came across as a series of sketches. South Africans warm to Mandela movie, critics unimpressed 2013-11-29T11:55:56Z

Perhaps it was just the festival context, but this sacred work came across as Russian in some elemental way. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z

“Dana comes across clearly to our members and gun owners,” Mr. Arulanandam said. The National Rifle Association’s Telegenic Warrior 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

When I come across a character like Gus -- a complex man whose motives are often hazy -- I prefer to imagine the forces that made him who he is. "Breaking Bad" 4x8, "Hermanos" 2011-09-05T14:06:00Z

Lace knows that she’s coming across as crazy, and wonders aloud, “Will Ben never know about Lace?” Kevin Hart and Ice Cube Gatecrash a Hot Tub on 'The Bachelor' 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Through the entertainment industry and doing stand-up, you are educated on how you come across. Jim Gaffigan’s second act is much richer than his Hot Pockets persona 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Doesn't exactly come across in print – and I have no idea how you spell it – but the noise made by Jay and Neil every time Simon mentions Tara. The Inbetweeners: series three, episode three 2010-09-27T21:35:00Z

Yet too many recitals today fall far short of the Lisztian ideal; they come across as just a string of performances of this and that. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Typically, when the city’s code compliance officers come across illegal short-term rentals, they ask renters to contact their hosts and ask to be relocated. Airbnb and Miami Beach Are at War. Travelers Are Caught in the Crossfire. 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

This traditional Turkish breakfast is delicious even without the milk crumbs, but I’ve loved them since coming across them at the brilliant Tulum in Melbourne. Yotam Ottolenghi’s chilli butter recipes 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

I doubt that anyone ever asked my college friend’s father what else he did, or what his real job is, but I’ve come across very few bartenders now who haven’t been interrogated in this way. There are rules in my bar — Yes, even you, who called yourself the Angel of Death 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rose’s La Roche comes across like an old-time movie mogul, a Samuel Goldwyn, rightly claiming credit for finding the talent, grooming the stars, getting the directors in line and putting out the films. Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z

My business partner came across the Adele video for “Rolling in the Deep,” with all this broken pottery in it. For This Tearful TV Potter, It’s All About the Clay 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

On the Clarinho river, we came across friendly giant otters, most of whom greeted us with a sound that the more immature might compare to a whoopee cushion. Frugal Traveler Blog: It's a Jungle Out There: Wildlife in the Pantanal 2011-10-18T19:05:50Z

Instead, the symphony came across as a predecessor of “Rite of Spring.” Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

The stuff you come across is just great. A heart to heart with Cuba Gooding Jr.: The film he really wants to make and why it’s not about... 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

But what comes across in an actor’s performance is often reflective of their qualities, and the scripts I’m drawn to are those roles where the characters are working through something. Alia Shawkat: I’m more than Maeby Fünke 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

“At this point, I want to come across as being settled into this new identity, but the truth is we’ve just been in survival mode,” she says. The strange and lonely transformation of first-time mothers in the pandemic 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

In Salon's recent conversation McClarnon came across as humble, down-to-Earth and dedicated to always being student regardless of where his work takes him. From "Fargo" to "Dark Winds," Zahn McClarnon keeps perfecting his art – but don't call him an artist 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

Just after seeing it I came across an illuminating example of something being shown to an inappropriate audience. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

No one, not even the military official who arranges a mock execution of Politkovskaya, comes across as a monstrous caricature. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

“As we drove along this road, lost in time, my fingers came across the splendid old radio on the exquisite wooden dashboard,” he recalled. Radiooooo: The Hit Tune Time Machine 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

“If it comes across as just a game all the time, the kids are going to think it’s just a game.” Kendrick Lamar on His New Album and the Weight of Clarity 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

That the concerto came across as the strongest piece was because of Mr. Serkin’s splendid performance, which inspired the orchestra to its most solid, textured playing. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Paul listens to the essence of the character in a way that I rarely have come across.” Paul Sparks Hones Tragic Persona in ?Dusk Rings a Bell? 2010-06-19T06:39:00Z

What comes across most clearly in the show is Pesce’s mastery of his materials, simultaneously organic and technical, sometimes the consistency of bubble gum freshly adhered to a Manhattan sidewalk. | The Legendary Gaetano Pesce on Work and Life 2013-05-08T22:13:22Z

Whatever those might be, they don’t come across onstage. Review: ‘1599,’ a Mini-Marathon Devoted to Shakespeare’s Work that Year 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

That section still comes across like the fugue to end all fugues, with outbursts of sputtering rhythms, obsessively hammered attacks and tangles of wayward counterpoint. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Ultimately, Argerich comes across as many contradictory things at once, without any of them being contradictions. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

As world-weary as Gloria Grahame, she never came across as fragile, particularly in her subsequent work as a director. Ida Lupino, a Woman of Spine on Both Sides of the Lens 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

That boldness also comes across in the piece’s location. Storm King to Add a New Commission to Its Permanent Collection 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

“That amount of artwork was not something you come across in every investigation.” As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

She comes across as determined, if prone to self-doubt. After the Quake, Dana Schutz Gets Back to Work 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Photograph: BEI / Rex Features/Henry Lamb Rachael Ray does not come across as a natural star in the crowded field of TV chefs. Rachael Ray, the new queen of US cookery ? and she can't bake 2010-12-05T00:07:00Z

But if you suddenly come across something unexpected – a model guillotine from another museum's collection – I think it inspires a double take and a pleasurable moment of curiosity and reflection. What's in store: how First Time Out opened our eyes to new possibilities 2013-06-07T10:55:00Z

In less capable hands, such material could come across as maudlin, but Ms. Wainwright has a light touch and an eye for telling detail. Martha Wainwright Tells a Few Stories She Might Regret 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

She wasn’t even particularly interested until she came across a trunk of letters in her grandfather’s wine cellar. Can’t Afford a Shopping Spree at Cartier? This Book Is the Next Best Thing 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

From Greymouth it was a short drive up the stunning Great Coast Road to Punakaiki, where I came across the only tour buses I saw in a week. On New Zealand’s Stunning West Coast, the Beauty Doesn’t Stop 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

The most striking thing about them is how little he has changed: on stage, he comes across as a nervy, neurotic fast-talker given to flights of surrealism. Michael Keaton: ‘There was a lot of bad taste in the 90s and I contributed to that’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Later, watching a screening of filmed performances and other videos, I come across Kelley himself as the devil, naked and writhing on a bridge at night, some sort of teenage rite. Mike Kelley: the nonconformist's whole life is here 2012-12-18T18:00:31Z

“He comes across as brash and very off-the-cuff, but he’s a down-to-earth genuine guy and he does care about Montauk, his family and the kids in the community,” he said. Montauk ‘Prince’ Still Wears His Crown 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

When Coastal Living style director Heather Chadduck came across a fresh floral fabric by Victoria Hagan Home Collection, it inspired a large-scale makeover. Restful Bedroom Retreat 2010-12-26T06:50:08.797Z

Mr. Henry does not come across as a great designer pushing his creativity to the limits. Fashion Review: At Balenciaga, Alexander Wang Does Bags 2014-02-27T14:11:07Z

But his television voice doesn't come across on the page. 'God'll Cut You Down' misses the mark in Southern murder case 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

A visit now should seem predictable and dated and maybe even mildly embarrassing, like coming across an old photo of yourself in a dress over bedazzled jeans. At Nobu Malibu, Dream Time With the Famous and Almost Famous 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Anna comes across immediately as Henrik’s opposite: warm, capricious, witty, and confident.  Ingmar Bergman, novelist 2013-02-17T19:00:00Z

This comes across in Trouvelot’s lithographs in which scenes of celestial phenomena seem to become extensions of biological form. ‘Extreme Nature!’ Review: Horror and Beauty in the World Around Us 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement And not coming across as likable, or someone you want to have a beer with, can cost you an election, as Al Gore and Mitt Romney can probably attest to. Political GIFs Are the New Sound Bites This Campaign Season 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Shortly after defection, Mikhail came across a book of old Chinese proverbs. From Russia to Pittsburgh with classical music 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

There is often a strangely likable beef tartare with littlenecks and so much of the clams’ steaming juices that it almost comes across as some kind of mutant chowder. Without Calling Itself a Wine Bar, Cervo’s Acts Like One 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

For a president who vows to raise the level of political discourse in the nation, it all came across as tone-perfect. Perspective | America yearns for an era of good feeling. The inaugural ceremony launched one. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

She comes across as a quietly stubborn woman of good, if sometimes misplaced, intentions, who understands herself less well than she thinks. Review: At Hartford Stage, Expectations of Love and the Weight of Memory in ‘An Opening in Time’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

And in person, during an interview in the mezzanine bar of the Paramount Hotel near Times Square, she came across as warm, matter-of-fact and seemingly without vanity, her conversation punctuated by big, generous laughs. A Tough Mama Tries to Find Her Inner Diva 2011-06-23T23:07:53Z

Ms. Hinkle’s Sara may come across as a little too poised and glamorous to justify the frequent references to the sadness she is said to radiate. | 'Graceland': Grieving as an Odd Family Affair, From LCT3 2010-05-18T04:59:00Z

His drawings reveal exactly what the artist came across. Glory be to Gossaert 2011-02-22T15:05:42Z

Mr. Lang’s boldness, on the other hand, often comes across as self-indulgent, seemingly stemming from a young virtuoso’s yearning to milk music for all its expressivity. Music Review: Vienna Players Shine at Carnegie Hall 2010-09-30T06:26:00Z

A distinctive figure on the theater scene with her bright red curls, black-framed glasses and generous hugs, Kubzansky comes across in conversation as passionate, inspired, funny and erudite but unpretentious. Pasadena Playhouse's 'Pygmalion' is more a rethinking than a revival 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

It all began with Therolf, now a reporter for UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program, who exhaustively covered Gabriel's death for the Times, and through his investigation came across some disheartening statistics. How the fallout from Gabriel Fernandez's harrowing murder inspired Netflix's must-watch docuseries 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

At times, she comes across as earnest, if slightly oblivious; at times it seems like she knows exactly what she is doing, which is goading her dad. When Dad’s the president — a look inside Ivanka Trump’s complicated world 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

“One of the things I hope comes across, said Clarke in an interview, “is how great a filmmaker he was. Cannes 2015: For Steve McQueen, a posthumous French return 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Each character is a survivor, including Titus, who comes across sashaying and stereotypical at first, but is also grappling with growing older as a struggling actor and a single gay man in New York. Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Is Must-Stream Comedy 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The most important thing is life, the things you come across when you live it: the sadness, the happiness. Heartbreaker 2011-07-16T23:05:12Z

And if he comes across as just a bit cocky, he knows it is a trait that will serve him well. Keeping It Real With Aliens in the ?Hood 2011-07-22T14:00:00Z

His musical response to the death of his former wife, it came across with haunting beauty and directness, sung by soprano Claire Booth. Total Immersion: Oliver Knussen – review 2012-11-05T18:13:16Z

The dancers, in their shorts and miniskirts, look and move like celestial athletes, and “The Golden Section” can come across as a parade of heroes. Ailey dancers skip gala after inspiring opening performance 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Over all, the music comes across as at once exhilarating and dangerous. Music Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2013-05-31T22:04:08Z

The mom of two said she is a "rule follower" and doesn't want to come across as anti-mask. Mom says Southwest flight attendant told her to 'glue' mask to toddler's face 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Pieri noted that, like the first lady, Malia has a style that is often based on bold colors and patterns, but one that also makes her come across an “approachable teen.” Malia Obama Follows Her Mother Into the Fashion Spotlight 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

“The last thing I want to do is come across like … You know, I’ve been in situations where I’ve been uncomfortable with my boss’s behaviour but I’m not gonna say …” He changes tack. Josh Hartnett: 'People genuinely thought I'd been thrust on them' 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Gravel, in his appearances, comes across as avuncular, eager to share ideas but even more eager to encourage young acolytes. ‘American Gadfly’ Review: A Candid Candidacy 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

But there was something surreal about coming across them all bound up like that: the shot captures a moment of harmony and clarity in an ordinarily messy world. Chloe Dewe Mathews's best photograph – Uzbek migrant workers 2013-06-12T18:30:01Z

In her travels, she rarely came across another woman her age. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

This is not a subtle show, and its dialogue comes across at times like sermonizing — not least in Emilia’s final, fiery speech, an exhortation about the transformative power of harnessing righteous anger. Review ‘Emilia’: An Elizabethan Poet Takes Her Rightful Place Onstage 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

A few months ago, I came across my final paper for the course, twenty pages on Ernest Hemingway’s “The Garden of Eden.” The Indelible Substance of a Semester with Toni Morrison 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Similarly, the film of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica and his friends dancing while wearing his painted capes needs to be screened larger for the euphoric, languid energy to come across. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z

I have massive piles of books, things people send me or that I come across in bookstores, like everyone’s favorite place Three Lives. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Speaking of high-pitched noises that people get too old to hear, I came across a video online earlier this year that felt like a cricket that someone was holding out to me. Riff: Dealing With Your Own Cultural Irrelevance (at Age 28) 2011-11-13T08:48:07Z

Like such an undergrad, he thus often comes across as trying too hard to be clever. All-male Egyptian sitcom leaves women out of laughs 2013-06-18T14:15:00Z

As I looked at my Google Maps to see the incredible beauty of the ocean and all the little islands, I came across Dry Tortugas National Park, although I didn’t know it at the time. West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

In fact it was only by chance that I came across her on Later ... with Jools Holland on BBC2 last night. John Prescott on Rumer: 'She sang only one song but it moved me' 2010-09-22T12:12:00Z

But inevitably the orchestra, especially Mr. Gilbert, came across as artistically diminished. Critic?s Notebook: Andrea Bocelli, Philharmonic and Friends in Central Park 2011-09-16T17:41:13Z

The setup in “Shoplifters” seems more ordinary and straightforward, and its family — an affectionate, likably chaotic group — initially comes across more as eccentric or freewheeling than anything else. ‘Shoplifters’ Review: A Family That Steals Together, Stays Together 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

But it’s not like running a race where one person comes across the line first. Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender on the Problem With Picking Winners in the Arts 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

This is an old-fashioned idea, but it is so foreign to the way music is usually recorded today that it comes across as startlingly fresh. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

When the two exit the room, and continue their journey down the hallway, they come across another sarcophagus. "Moon Knight" episode 4 ending explained: Who is the hippo? (Is she a goddess?) 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Art Official Age” comes across as a concept album diverted by second thoughts. Prince Releases ‘Art Official Age’ and ‘PlectrumElectrum’ 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

But in at least one case they come across as sincere homage, like the film Ms. Antin made as Yevgeny Antinov, a film director exiled from Russia for supposed Trotskyite sympathies. Art Review: Eleanor Antin’s Selves at Columbia University 2013-09-05T21:49:22Z

“She hesitated before she spoke. So there was this processing behind what she was doing. And she just came across as really, really smart.” Regina King Has So Many Stories to Tell 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

As you’ve been putting together the book over the last year or two, have you come across anything that you regretted rejecting? Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z

I, well, we wanted it to come across as a love story and show how this man's actions affected his family. Chloe Sevigny 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

Not surprisingly, in person, the team comes across as quirky as the City of Pawnee's staff. A day in the life of "Parks and Recreation" writers 2010-06-07T05:51:00Z

Although children’s TV executives watered down the Turtles comic books, which were quite violent, the smart-mouthed prankster characters still came across as a slap in the face from some underground counterculture. ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Retooled for Nickelodeon 2012-09-26T18:35:17Z

Sometimes, Smith comes across as a modern flaneuse, combining a ­photographer’s ­visual acuity with the boulevardier’s appreciation of the ephemeral, pointillist details that create the sprawling canvas of a peripatetic life. In her memoir ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith opens up about her life and loves 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

As I walked around assessing the injuries I came across a girl who looked about seven years old. David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Just about everyone behaves badly, yet the characters are handled with such compassion and humor that none of them come across as bad people. Chicken with Plums: Savory and Sweet Film From the Creators of Persepolis 2012-08-16T12:00:32Z

As he plays, Hawke cuts to shots of Bernstein at home and Bernstein giving master classes, and then adds Bernstein’s superimposed voiceover, in which he delivers what comes across as a credo: A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

It was a touching story, for onstage, where it matters, these two driven performers come across as nothing short of fearless. | 'An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin': ?An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin? - Review 2011-11-22T03:01:03Z

On your journey through the tunnels and the occasional foray to a very harsh surface world, you come across Communists, Fourth Reich Nazis and ordinary folks inhabiting the heavily-fortified train stations. Review: 'Metro: Last Light' a can't-miss shooter 2013-05-16T14:41:10Z

He came across in small groups as attractively modest, playful and smart. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z

But that is not his worldview; he comes across as a true believer. Tom Sachs: Rocket Man to Renaissance Man 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Clabaugh, 76, only learned his planet was being invaded on Aug. 11, when he came across an unsettling message on the Alienstock website’s “About Us” page about Rachel. Did Storming Area 51 Teach Us Anything? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

"They may come across as having normal social skills, but when we look more closely, we find they have lost their executive function, or their ability to plan, organize and remember details." Mickey Rooney's heartbreaking elder abuse story 2011-03-03T21:04:00Z

Their language is unique and has evolved since it came across the water with the first indentured workers. History, harmony, and the only Muslim island in Australia | Ben Stubbs 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

In fact he has come across it twice before, and the clue was there in the title. Doctor Who: The Snowmen – Christmas special 2012 2012-12-25T18:15:00Z

The performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night came across as new enough, bold enough and exhilarating enough to startle even an Angeleno. L.A. Phil brings new 'New World' to Asia 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Maar would never say what the clawed, scaly creature was, nor where she had come across it. The Voraciousness and Oddity of Dora Maar’s Pictures 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

There are operatic flourishes in the songs, though mostly they come across like stylish, personal pop pastiches of the art song repertory, from Schubert to Fauré to Debussy, with hints of folk and jazz. Critic?s Notebook: City Opera Begins Season With Rufus Wainwright 2011-11-18T21:43:07Z

But these elements come across as abstract puzzles themselves and don’t do much to help the audience make sense of who the girls really are. ‘The Silent Twins’ Review: Keeping the World at Bay 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

In person, the actor comes across as a natural fit for Marcus, not despite, but because of what appears to be his mildly angsty temperament. In his directorial debut, James Schamus tackles the famously difficult Philip Roth 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

When Christopher John Rogers was an aspiring designer in middle school in Louisiana, he came across the work of the Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten. Two Fashion Designers on Staying Inspired and Independent 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

But the director acknowledged he was lucky to come across a media friendly official. China documentary directors say they enjoy freedom 2011-07-02T13:16:05Z

“Most people don’t like when they see themselves on camera or hear their voice. I don’t find it cringeworthy at all. I think we come across great.” Their Thai Cave Rescue Film Was Done. Then 87 Hours of Footage Arrived. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

No wonder that when Reed came across Ahlert and Drake’s script, he was immediately drawn to its throwback spirit and visual specificity. ‘Down With Love’ 20 Years Later: Celebrating the Phoniness of Rom-Coms 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

But watch Smith and Jones' sketch, and it's comedy's new generation that comes across as puritanical, and the mainstream that's giving offence. The Two Ronnies: the double act's popularity is still booming 2010-12-23T10:30:00Z

Still, it came across as a performance in progress. At Avery Fisher Hall, Dudamel on a Joy Ride 2010-05-21T22:43:00Z

Growing up, Burgess wasn’t really aware of any out black gay men in the media, until one day he came across the drag queen RuPaul on TV. All hail Tituss, breakout star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The result is a show that comes across as slapdash and careless about the very problems it proclaims to take seriously. 13 Reasons Why: what the controversial drama gets wrong 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Clue Arises Regarding Lost Photo of Mahler Twenty-five years ago, when the daughter of Arnold Schoenberg was working through his archive for a book project, she came across an empty picture frame. A Clue to Whereabouts of Schoenberg’s Missing Mahler Photo 2012-10-10T22:10:07Z

I came across a colleague of mine from the Russian Word. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

And, in this period setting, the visibly contemporary labels on the bottles of bubbly come across as yet more lazy summer-stock falsity in a staging full of it. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

Detective Rick Wheeler, who was already haunted by an unsolved gang shooting that had come across his desk, was called to the scene and became determined to find Crystal's killer. In Netflix's "Why Did You Kill Me?" a California mom uses MySpace to hunt her daughter's murderer 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

So a lot of the characters in the story are portions or behaviors from real people that I’ve come across in my life. The “Power” of 50 Cent: “People are going to be at the edge of their seats going, “Yo!’” 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

The idea is that they represent a morally decaying society, which certainly comes across in their aggressive partnering, silent screams, clawing skirmishes and the periodic expulsion of one individual from the group. Dance Review: Rioult Dance New York Performs ‘Martha, May and Me’ 2014-02-16T21:29:33Z

Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times that the production was “disappointingly saggy,” and that Mr. Booth and Mr. Sadleir “come across as arch and affected, mostly ignoring the real pain in the brothers.” But Can Their Moms Tell Them Apart? 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

The piece is strongest when the songs come across like modern echoes of their sources. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes’s Ojai Festival Riffs on ‘Tristan’ 2012-06-10T21:47:09Z

The quartet did a better job of demolition on Ellington's theme than any other group, band or orchestra I have come across. From the Observer archive, 29 November 1959: how to take pizzazz out of jazz 2012-11-24T00:05:25Z

These days, he recoils at some of the images he comes across online. These Images Tell the Stories of American Blackness 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Cavill, typical of the actors chosen to play superheroes these days, comes across as a narcissistic hunk who wouldn't recognise heroism if it bit him on the biceps. Spider-Man's lost lustre 2011-08-05T19:00:00Z

In this context, TenPenh can come across as the middle-aged dude trying too hard to fit in with the cool kids, who see through this transparent attempt at relevance. A ‘pan-Asian’ restaurant may seem dated. In fact, the trend is hotter than ever. 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

He doesn’t see her coming across the street. What an elderly man selling his poems on the street knows about love

At the time, one on one, it was soothing, but in public now it comes across as borderline sociopathic.” Record Label Severs Ties With Embattled Pharmaceutical C.E.O. Martin Shkreli 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Does he otherwise come across as a pleasant and sane chap? Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z

The Christian communities that they come across are poor and petrified, worshipping in secret, often after dark: shades of the catacombs, where believers used to meet in the earliest days of the faith. Martin Scorsese’s Strained “Silence” 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

During what turned out to be Dr. Walker’s final year, Elena Dubinets, the vice president of artistic planning and creative projects at the Seattle Symphony, came across interviews in which he had discussed “Visions.” A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

But the character comes across as alternately a dispenser of high-toned, dryly ironic jokes or a lecturer on ethics. Theater Review: ?Gore Vidal?s The Best Man? at Gerald Schoenfeld Theater 2012-04-02T02:17:15Z

There is a kind of natural energy they possess, and this often comes across as a beautiful warmth of sound and balance. At Town Hall: Joshua Roman and the Biava Quartet 2010-04-09T23:03:00Z

She comes across as pretty, smart, hesitant, insecure, confused, determined — all at once or in no particular order. Film: Greta Gerwig?s Breakthrough Performance in ?Greenberg? 2010-03-26T19:34:00Z

Gated, walled, bestowed with abundant renewable energy and picket fences on generous 1-acre lots, Alexandria is the safest safe haven the group has come across yet. Walking Dead Recap: OMG This Show! 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

From even the most prominent of string quartets, a program of Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven might come across as stolid. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Sipping water in a theater district hotel before a recent performance, in a braid and Doc Marten lace-up boots, Lester did come across as preternaturally comfortable in her own — admittedly callow — skin. Julia Lester on Her ‘More Knowing’ Little Red Riding Hood 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

But for the most part, “The Last Days of New Paris” comes across as an elaborate thought experiment, rather than a compelling fiction. China Mieville's 'The Last Days of New Paris' makes the surreal real 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Alas, this scene comes across as tepid because of Mr. Adamo’s languid and lyrically meandering music. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z

Greenpeace International expressed regret that “we came across as careless and crass.” How to Apologize the Right Way—in 4 Steps 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

In an early scene of "Beyond Eyes," a young girl, Rae, comes across a highway. Ten games that made a lasting impression at E3 2015 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Home from college, he came across “The Last River: Life Along Arkansas’s Lower White,” a photo book documenting houseboat communities, mussel fishermen, pecan sellers and other vanishing Southern breeds. Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z

Russell Armstrong had come across as cold and anti-social in the first season and was criticized by the five other women on the show. "Housewives" husband feared being "crucified" on show 2011-08-18T17:48:03Z

I think people get pretty wide eyed when they see the numbers come across the screen. 'Commercialization won out': will legal marijuana be the next big tobacco? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

One day, in the course of her investigations, she came across newspaper reports of a certain Miss Constance Kopp. Review | In ‘Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit,’ being one of the first female sheriff’s deputies is tough business 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

This next band was one of the first Sheffield unsigned bands I came across. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-06-20T11:08:43Z

Before we look at your five books, for the few people who may not have come across it as a term, can you tell us what the Jazz Age refers to? Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

From one perspective you could say that practice makes perfect, but if you never come across new ideas you’re just as likely to be making the same mistakes over and over. Seven ways you're ruining your food, and why knife skills are life skills | Adam Liaw 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

He is often the only professional actor onscreen, yet his performance comes across as utterly natural, humanizing a role that is often reduced to stereotype. Mahershala Ali? You’ve Surely Seen His Face 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Her homes were decorated by high-society designer Sister Parish - the same interior decorator Jacqueline Kennedy hired for the White House - but it's Astor who comes across, not the decorators, she said. Contents of Brooke Astor's homes going to auction 2012-09-23T21:16:04Z

That exhaustive, full-body sorrow, what Saul Bellow called “the rock depth of heavy trouble,” simply doesn’t come across in shots of mournful faces or sad-looking actors staring vacantly into the middle distance. ‘No Future’ Review: On a Downward Spiral 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Fern may often be alone, but she never comes across as lonely. In Chloe Zhao's wandering "Nomadland," Frances McDormand journeys to an Oscar-worthy performance 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

“But it’s also his charisma. He has a warm personality that comes across to the audience, and a joy of dancing and generosity, as a man and as an artist.” The Washington Ballet let Brooklyn Mack go. He landed at the Metropolitan Opera House. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

"You guys are coming across great, it's just magic on screen." "Daniel LaRusso felt like someone I knew": Ralph Macchio on the eternal appeal of "The Karate Kid" 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

He’s a one-man industry, and though he comes across as kind, genial and scholarly, his success is underpinned by a smart sense of business. The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

He came across an interview with the screenwriter Budd Schulberg vaguely mentioning that Louis B. Mayer used to meet with a German consul in Los Angeles to discuss cuts to his studio’s movies. Scholar Asserts That Hollywood Avidly Aided Nazis 2013-06-25T21:59:09Z

Whether intentionally or not, Arthur comes across as a hysterically laughing supervillain, stereotypically “mad” to the untrained eye; a murderous clown laughing alone on a bus. Why Joker's depiction of mental illness is dangerously misinformed 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

What comes across clearly is Bhatti's sense of isolation as her representative on stage confronts a welter of pride, prejudice and ignorance. Theatre review | Behud (Beyond Belief) | Belgrade, Coventry | Michael Billington 2010-03-31T01:35:00Z

There, just before getting a molar pulled, Baudier came across a series of photos of reedy men with fishing rods and nets, lolling in boats and along the banks of lagoons. “We Are Not Used to People Thinking We Are Beautiful” 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Tom: There were a number of things that came across that were interesting. Date Lab: They hit it off, but can that overcome geography? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

It comes across as a good-natured chat – Taylor's questions are probing rather than challenging – as Starkey discusses how he travelled from being an academic to a media personality. The Delicious Miss Dahl 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z

His looks are accessible — handsome but not in a wax museum way — and he comes across as charming and smart in interviews, which captivates women. Storming the Box Office in His Jammies 2011-06-11T02:12:16Z

With his head of laid-back angel curls and Neil Young mutton chops — the excellent playlist includes several of Mr. Young’s songs — Doc comes across as a counterculture holdout, the last of the pre-Manson hippies. ‘Inherent Vice,’ Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

When she mentioned she worked for the Libre Institute, a conservative think tank, it came across to Mr. Dorsey with all the noise as the Labor Institute. Donkeys, Elephants and a Samoyed Puppy 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Canadian authorities investigating a fatal May fire in the small Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie came across something curious when they ran the name of a witness through a police database, officials said. Lake Co. man accused of arson in U.S., Canada 2011-09-17T03:02:00Z

Like Mr. Ferry, he came across as effortlessly cool and ever-so-slightly world-weary, a hipster who believed in better days to come. Yukihiro Takahashi, Pioneer of Electronic Pop Music, Dies at 70 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

English-speaking audiences rarely come across dubbed films and television programmes. The political history of dubbing in films 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

This, at least, is how he came across Tuesday night, when he played the Korngold concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on the first night of their U.S. tour. How a great orchestra started its U.S. tour: Carefully. 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

After the election, I came across graffiti on a poster. Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

Hiking in the hills just north of Lake Geneva this year, I came across a small wooden sign near a village saying Via Francigena. 10 of the best pilgrim routes in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

I swear to God, I did do my homework, however it comes across. ArtsBeat: ‘Breaking Bad’ Creator Vince Gilligan’s Next Project: An Appearance on ‘Community’ 2014-03-12T15:01:30Z

Stop faffing around, he said, and came across as absolutely sincere in his support and passion for public libraries. The fight against library closures: will you be protesting? 2011-02-01T13:00:01Z

He came across as a really nice guy, a really nice guy. Alleged murderer cast as policeman in Australian murder thriller 2012-07-04T13:30:41Z

Cooper comes across well as he explains the changes, and is a radio person through and through. A week in radio: Chris Moyles' breakfast show departure 2012-07-12T20:00:03Z

Back in December, he came across the thousands of shoes and called up his sister, since she worked in the arts in New York City — she would know what to do with them. 11,000 Free Pairs of Shoes Will Dance Across New York 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Yet the score also comes across as beholden to the French heritage Chausson was born into, especially Franck and Massenet. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

But now, in a market with Call of Duty on one side and E.A.’s own Battlefield series on the other, Medal of Honor comes across as mediocre. Video Game Review: A Clear Winner in the Battle of 2 Combat Games 2010-10-19T16:31:00Z

Even with his flaws, Sam comes across as heroic in this regard, and Casey a deeply affecting conveyance for that notion. Theater lovers will get hooked on the marvelous moviehouse play ‘The Flick’ 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

“I told my wife and my kids, ‘Don’t come across America because this is not going to happen,’” said Johnson, who teaches at Stanford. Ta-Nehisi Coates' meditation on race in America wins National Book Award for nonfiction 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

They come across an abandoned but not deserted orphanage in the woods and mayhem ensues. Splintered 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Skin hunger is not a phrase I had come across before last year, nor a problem I ever imagined facing. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again? 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

It comes across one way or another in nearly every object, most consistently when he contrasts pieces of agate finely striped in red or brown. Art Review: Johann Christian Neuber’s Gold-and-Stone Bonbons at the Frick 2012-07-12T21:49:03Z

His playing is changeable, but never comes across as improvisatory; there is always a sense of deliberation, sometimes in tempos but always in approach, a palpable sense that everything has been thought out. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

After learning of the White House secret taping system, Kissinger rightly feared that he would come across as a “perfect fool” for his groveling. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

“I came across Meghan’s page, and she seemed crazy,” he said. Perspective | The bride is a Harry Potter fanatic, and the groom loves her for it. Of course they had a wizard wedding. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

And “Freak Scene,” the greatest hit of greatest hits, came across satisfyingly. Seaport SludgeFeast: Dinosaur Jr. at 4Knots 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

I came across multivolume Chinese novels from the Ming Dynasty like The Golden Lotus, a sordidly realistic novel from Shakespeare's time. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z

None of us have heard of this game before we started doing research, and then we came across this woman from Berlin. Netflix's "High Score" creators set out to reveal the diverse, unsung heroes in video game history 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

I do agree that certain rooms that do come across as utilitarian. Just the tips: "How To Build a Sex Room" host wants to spice up your life with sensual design 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

Regrettably, this does not lead to keener insights into his plays, and sometimes Winters’s efforts to demythologize Shepard come across as the desire to take him down a peg or two. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

As we digitize The New York Times’s photography archives, we often come across images that resonate in unusual and unexpected ways, even after a century. Viewfinders: 10 Y.A. Novelists Spin Fiction From Vintage Photos 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

But the pitches Mr. Norman piles up came across as precisely chosen for their astringent beauty and impact. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian Go to a few country houses, National Trust properties and picturesque garden retreats this summer and chances are you'll come across an outdoor theatre production. Outdoor theatre needs a breath of fresh air 2010-06-25T11:23:00Z

When I started researching, I came across the incident of the Great Spill. If the Shoe Floats 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

Carla Hall is that variety of celebrity whose efforts to put one at ease don’t come across as a learned expectation management technique. Carla Hall corrects the record with “Soul Food” 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

When Bacharach came across her, he flew her to California just to hear her sing. First sight: Rumer 2010-07-08T22:58:00Z

Dan makes many references to the gruagach, a mythical figure who comes across as some blurry combination of grim reaper, devoted protector and mischievous devil on the shoulder: This Novel Recounts a Haunted Sibling Relationship in Epic Verse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

At first glance, Ms. McCormick’s note, forwarded to me by a nonplused recipient, came across as offensively extraterrestrial. The Art of the Pitch in the Midst of a Pandemic 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

But Yoakum’s colors are so vivid, his scenery so vibrant, that the unstable feeling comes across almost subliminally. Joseph E. Yoakum Isn’t Who You Think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Shopping in New York retail shops, I came across 10 Savoie whites that I would highly recommend. From Savoie, White Wines That Refresh Like Mountain Air 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps because “12 Years a Slave” arrived at the ceremony without the air of historic inevitability, Mr. McQueen came across as a bit timid about seizing his place in the history books. ‘12 Years’ Enjoys a Seemingly Narrow Victory 2014-03-03T21:12:52Z

Made In Britainby Evan Davis Davis, a presenter on the Today programme, comes across as a soothing economic agony uncle in this engaging TV tie-in. Made in britain by Evan Davis – review 2012-05-29T11:00:24Z

On casual acquaintance, she came across as low-key, even demure, and meticulously put together. ‘Greer Lankton,’ a Retrospective at Participant Inc. 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

He comes across as a very attractive character, somebody you would get along with. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z

Eventually their unwittingly selfish reactions come across as inappropriate under the circumstances. Review: ‘Childless,’ a Film of Connected Monologues, Stars Joe Mantegna 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

She’s talking about their reclusive white neighbor, Boo Radley, but the African-Americans of 1930s Alabama come across as singing spectators, thankful for the moral heroism of Atticus Finch. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Diana’s “I could use a prince to save me from my prince,” rather silly on paper, came across as a primal scream. In Defense of ‘Diana,’ the Show We Didn’t Deserve 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Freed from the self-consciously weighty air of his recent roles, he delivers a sparky and sinister turn seemingly without care for how he might come across. Don’s Plum: the film Leonardo DiCaprio would rather forget 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

In Jacobsen’s research, he came across new-­to-­him discoveries like the Chestnut Crab, which he went “bonkers” for and wound up grafting in his own orchards. Washington’s favorite fruit, re-examined 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Here, at last, was a kindred spirit, one who served as a rebuke to pretty much every other character in books or TV shows I came across as a kid. Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

There's no sign of his boyfriend, a graphic designer with whom he lives, but in the loo I come across a life-size model of Matt Lucas's severed head in a glass case. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z

Its globe-trotting, indefatigable author comes across as the life of a lifelong party. Books of The Times: ?Life Itself? by Roger Ebert - Review 2011-09-22T21:53:06Z

Mr. Braugher, currently starring on the television series “Men of a Certain Age,” skillfully manages to keep the noble Simon from coming across as too saintly. | 'The Whipping Man': Candles, Matzo, Wine and Some Unusual Hosts 2011-02-02T03:30:37Z

Though Mr. Donaldson himself seems to have been no worse than dull, that comes across as a refreshingly pertinent comment on her own marriage. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z

I told her that when I spoke to Arnold, he seemed quite gregarious, and that she came across as quieter. Date Lab: He’s into ‘Breaking Bad.’ She’s into ‘The Good Place.’ Can it work? 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Beam comes across as a latterday prophet, casting his gentle eye over capitalist, warmongering western society with sorrow and kindness. Iron and Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean ? review 2011-01-20T23:20:01Z

Late in the evening of the day we walked together, Joe Bell and I came across a butterfly on the side of the road. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z

On the subject of “Open Casket” she seemed aware that to act too chastened might come across as courting unearned sympathy; to be defiant would add fuel to the fire. After the Quake, Dana Schutz Gets Back to Work 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The Frenchman’s obsession with Built has a pivotal impact on Clearday’s public- relations emergency, but Marcel’s role comes across as false and facile. Review | ‘White Pearl’ is an amusing take on the beauty business. But watch out — things get ugly. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

At the time, he came across as gracious and well heeled, particularly on the tennis court, where he spent much of his time. The Price of Privilege 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

In the first report, you came across a baby called Trump. Samantha Bee, the new heroine of American political satire 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Spielberg comes across as a perplexed optimist, an essentially sunny person on whom the pain of the world has forced itself. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lombardi doesn’t quite come across as the pugnacious but lovable nerd that Tom Bosley, who originated the role, certainly did, even on recording. Review: ‘Fiorello!,’ the Mayor Who Fought for the Little Guy 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

This was hardly how she came across on “The Daily Show,” where from 2012 to 2016 she played a no-nonsense correspondent who fearlessly addressed issues of racism, sexism and Beyoncé criticism. Jessica Williams Charts Her Course: ‘I Know What I’d Be Incredible At’ 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

“She didn’t come across as unpleasant or pessimistic,” stressed Jeremy, but he noted that she seemed a tad “jaded” about the whole process. Date Lab: She may be as close as you can get to being a professional dater 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

The second season doesn’t come across that way. Love and loss in L.A.'s Eastside: Just by existing, Tanya Saracho's "Vida" is a political act 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

They come across less as actual people than as categorical deployments in a fiction — heroic doctor friend, plucky dying woman — acting as agents of plot. A Zombie Novel for Our Virus-Stricken Times 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

“She is somebody who in her quiet way is one of the most remarkable people I have come across in her ability to do incredible things on a global scale.” Arts Center in Ethiopia Links Local and Global 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

In fact, I came across two stills that appeared to be from the very real “1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick” murder video. Where cannibal role-play lives 2013-02-25T22:31:00Z

She comes across as an expedient device, a convenient way to give Scalia a sparring partner. Scalia and his audience 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The challenge, Ms. Steele said, is that she hasn’t come across much great writing for twentysomething women. Sarah Steele, Star of LCT3’s ‘Slowgirl’ 2012-06-29T01:00:26Z

I didn't want to embarrass myself, because I looked up to everybody; my nightmare would be to come across as some idiot kid. How did Judd Apatow learn comedy? He asked questions 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

What comes across so clearly is the immense difficulty of making such objects at that time. Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – review 2013-02-10T00:05:45Z

Usually he comes across as stilted and a little awkward, but basking in the attention of these new fans, he lit up. House Proud: Pink Robots at the Gate 2013-08-21T22:22:38Z

What comes across most in this film is the feeling of possibility food gives you. “A Taste of Sky”: A post-food documentary about one man's vision and new purpose for fine dining 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

In fact, so can a great, dumb one, as Ellie finds when she delightedly comes across a Mortal Kombat arcade machine, a relic of an age when battling to the death was casual entertainment. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

I first came across the combination of pineapple and tomato in a salad in Oaxaca, Mexico. The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ chickpea pancake with nettles – recipe 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Though the sequence of events is outrageous, it doesn’t come across as a great injustice so much as an eyeroll-inducing reality that is starting to change thanks to shows like “Better Things.” These television shows turn the spotlight on racist, sexist Hollywood auditions 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

His characteristic self-conscious refinement, which in some of his performances comes across as mannered, here seemed just another level of stylization. Music Review: Songs of America, With Beauty and Gusto 2011-05-01T21:21:11Z

"It was such an extraordinary phenomenon in publishing terms. Apart from JK Rowling, I have never come across anything that redefined a genre for readers in the way he did." Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z

Yet “Underground” hardly comes across as a studious piece of PBS fare — or even a fancy miniseries such as the “Roots” remake expected from the History Channel this spring. WGN’s thrilling escaped-slave drama ‘Underground’ is overdue — and right on time 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

Nearly 30 metres down in the depths of the Indian Ocean, I knew we were about to come across something big. Why I love ... scuba diving 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The admittedly excellent pages about “Crime and Punishment” come across as material repurposed from some larger, never-published study of that novel. ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

She came across a lot of "weird guilt from people who hadn't been taught to grieve properly". How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z

His instrumental contributions were limited to a pair of brief piano-plus-vocal moments, which were affecting in their vulnerability but a touch too tentative to come across as secure. Review: Henry Threadgill’s Music From Two Perspectives 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

She writes about secrets and incongruities, yet comes across as bracingly forthright. AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud' 2013-06-07T19:00:03Z

“I came across his work completely by accident,” Mr. Danziger said, “and realized he was very much a missing piece of the puzzle between the nexus of photography and contemporary art.” For Jean Dubuffet, the Art Brut Founder, a Gallery Show 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

It may come across as more three-dimensional in two dimensions, though I doubt it. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Freedom to Explore in 'The Cherry Orchard' 2011-07-28T16:30:46Z

Slaughter: I remember Alan Simpson talking about all that stuff coming across the transom in his office, some awful things about Anita. Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Though Mr. Flórez made a wily impostor with his boyish face protruding from a scraggly black wig and beard, he came across as dangerously manipulative. A Lively, Stylish Met Debut For Rossini?s Last Comic Opera 2011-03-25T14:01:52Z

It reminds me that however I talk to someone, however I perceive something, however I come across, it could be important to how someone else takes it. David Chang Loves Beethoven’s Ninth (but Won’t Finish ‘Infinite Jest’) 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

The evening’s final half-hour, as a result, comes across as flat and pat. Review | Despite top-notch cast and crew, ‘Dave’ dissolves into camp by second act 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

I tell her I came across this great quote – when she started working in theatre with Mendes, the Sunday Times called it "a steely act of oedipal severance". Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z

In the most intriguing and distinctive of the pictures, she also comes across as highly competent: both performer and director, she poses before a mirror and a camera, or sits at the typewriter. Bunny Yeager, a glamour girl and glamour photographer in one 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

When we meet today at his house in north London, Blumberg comes across as sweetly neurotic, living more like a middle-aged eccentric in New York than a 23-year-old in Stoke Newington. Hebronix: the master of reinvention 2013-07-29T11:31:40Z

A performer of great unforced naturalism, she has always come across more like a character actor than a star, even when she has the lead. Review: On Violence and the Pain of Others in ‘Three Billboards’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

“That probably doesn’t come across in the final show.” Jon Hamm Stars in ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Special 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

You take this material and if you present it the wrong way it comes across creepy. 'Fifty Shades' musical is hornball heaven 2013-04-02T21:17:11Z

He said he wanted to come across as “just a guy who enjoys the opera.” Peter Allen, a Voice on the Radio for the Met Opera, Dies at 96 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

By the narrator’s interruptions during the following movement — a witty modernization of a crooner-and-orchestra number — the transitions came across as forced and a touch repetitive. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

One wishes that, in this play, she came across as less of a dramaturgical Fidel accessory. Review | She might get top billing, but ‘Celia and Fidel’ at Arena Stage shortchanges the female revolutionary 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

But much of the album also comes across as merely frenetic, desperately trying to connect with memories of adolescent adrenaline. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

And that's how the work came across at its latest reincarnation on Thursday. Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera 2012-05-19T10:33:09Z

If they come across as correcting the diner, is that a reflection of the server’s demeanor or the diner’s insecurity? Perspective | When restaurant wine lists intimidate even the dining pros, something needs to change 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Stravinsky’s counterintuitive choral setting of the word “alleluia,” which opens the third movement with chords that sound yearning and almost hopeless, comes across with affecting poignancy. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

They're speaking words from Newton's journals and from the writings of his contemporaries, and it doesn't come across as very natural. Newton: The Last Magician and The Security Man – review 2013-04-13T06:00:50Z

So, when you come across that work, it’s like water in the desert.” New York Flop Becomes a Hit Everywhere Else 2010-12-18T03:00:31Z

On paper, April is confused and awkward, but not for one minute does any teenager in this movie come across as being at a loss for words or less than fully self-assured. ‘Banana Split’ Review: Preparing for the Worst and Finding a Bestie 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

I came across a notepad from that time. The one ingredient that has sustained me during bouts of leukemia 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

Face to face, Novak, who turns 43 on July 31, comes across as easygoing and effortlessly humorous. B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

It's the only time Dirty Projectors come across as a typical indie outfit. Dirty Projectors ? review 2010-12-12T22:30:00Z

We might come across nurseries of new born stars … For if there are new born stars there must also be stars of middle years. Variable Stars by Christina Koning - review 2011-08-26T21:55:03Z

In context, it comes across as an earthquake. Review: In ‘The Height of the Storm,’ Two Stars and an Enigma 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

If she weren't extremely warm, genuine and, more than this, conscious about coming across as genuine no amount of gorgeous shots of copper cookware against white marble countertops would make this work. How Joanna Gaines and Ina Garten deliver a one-two punch of comfort (food) TV 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Her pragmatism is tougher than that, even if it will come across as especially frustrating to those who believe that centrism and civility are no longer enough. In ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama Mostly Opts for Empowerment Over Politics 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

But the movie’s vision of human nature vying against technology—realized with some of the world’s most sophisticated audiovisual technology—comes across as disingenuous. Review: The Authoritarian Populism of “Incredibles 2” 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

A former marine who began working for the government in 1964, Ellsberg was shocked when he came across internal documents that were later to become known as 'Pentagon Papers'. Meryl Streep's newfound politicisation fires up timely drama The Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

While contemplating suicide, a man in England comes across a portal to Namibia, where he remakes his life. A Novel About Refugees That Feels Instantly Canonical 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Was this something you came across a lot while filming this series? "Last Chance U" director on Coach Beam's "Yoda-like" wisdom & the Oakland team's sacrifices 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Emond’s Linda, on the other hand, comes across not as the usual devoted doormat but as a big, brimming life force. Theater Review: ?Death of a Salesman,? With Philip Seymour Hoffman 2012-03-16T02:11:33Z

They just came across as two polite, charming and forthright middle-aged businessmen. On the Runway Blog: Kiss and Tell: Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley Talk Shop 2014-01-12T01:29:01Z

And perhaps that doesn't come across in the book, but it was taking up a lot of my consciousness. Take it from the youngest winner of the toughest horse race: "We all have a bold mode" 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

But one of the women in Ludlow’s case comes across as genuinely troubled. ‘Unwanted Advances’ Tackles Sexual Politics in Academia 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

But it's all done with a big-hearted sense of fun, such that Cho's gynaecological and scatological routines come across as cuddly, rather than queasy. Margaret Cho ? review 2011-08-08T17:30:02Z

It wasn’t the first time since the president and first lady tested positive for the coronavirus that she has come across as the responsible one. Melania Trump is having a hard time distancing herself from the president 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Not long ago, I was reading another Virginia Woolf essay, about the Brontës, when I came across some lines about Emily that made me think of Bush. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

In his 1996 interview, he comes across as an immensely likable opportunist, whose genius seemed to be finding every angle in any situation. ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and the History in Historical Fiction 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

At the University of Florida in the late 1970s, Jungles was thinking of becoming an architect, but then he came across a textbook with photos of Burle Marx’s early works. This Brazilian artist and landscape architect was bound only by the limits of his imagination 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

The mystery deepens when he comes across a message hidden inside a brass acorn and subsequently befriends Hannah Relf, an Oxford scholar. Philip Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’ is an enthralling prequel to His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

He'd have died of hypothermia if we hadn't come across him. How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship 2010-12-26T00:05:09Z

“I studied the clothes and of course I came across the Clover Dress,” he said, referring to the Clover Leaf Dress of 1953. Scene City: Inside the Met Ball And After Parties 2014-05-07T17:53:58Z

You'll typically come across the terms "clingstone" and "freestone" with peaches. Bet you didn’t know all of these were stone fruits 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

At first, this new endeavor — which involves blowing up a plane, among other hurdles — comes across as quixotic, but it soon starts to feel like self-promotion. Review: In ‘Raiders!,’ Two Boys’ First, Great Movie Crush 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

"With music, sometimes you come across something and it's a gift from God and it's channeled through you," he said in a 2011 interview with the website Pennyblackmusic. Henry McCullough, who played guitar in Wings, dies at age 72 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Despite such grand ambitions, Garfield does not come across as a pretentious artiste. Andrew Garfield contains multitudes 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Yet his deep love for his work, the animals, the people and the region come across clearly, even as he worries about the future. In the stunning yet grim "The Last Ice," melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

She is particularly engaging when channeling Ariel, who comes across as cocky and easily amused but who can turn furious in an instant. Two classic Shakespeares, each with ups and downs 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

It’s neither a new nor an original observation, and Wasson’s other attempts to reach for something deeper to say about America in the ’70s come across as awkward and heavy-handed attempts at sociology. My Sister, My Daughter: Behind the Scenes of a Great American Film 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The Second Quartet, probably the least often played, came across in this lucid, majestic account as the most ingenious and intricate of the three. Review: At Carnegie Hall, Brahms Piano Quartets, With a New Baby as a Coda 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

“She’s held it very clearly in her head for all these years, and it comes across in her writing. Reading Claudia is like going somewhere.” Traveling the World for Recipes, but Always Looking for Home 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

If that display of honesty still came across as charming, other gestures felt coy. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Yet this was not the message that came across if you did not closely look at the works on offer and check their expected performance. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z

I don't want to come across as a guru or someone who has all answers. "This is a dead wife movie" that isn't maudlin says "The Secret Art of Human Flight" filmmaker 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The restrained opening of the first movement came across like a hybrid of a Bach chorale prelude — complete with a walking Baroque bass line — and a stirring Romantic fanfare. Review: Thomas Dausgaard Should Be a Philharmonic Regular 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

When the Hinklers decided to move to Los Angeles about a year ago, they came across an ad for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, which champions emerging artists each summer. The identical twin stars of 'My Sister' came to L.A. with acting ambition and real empathy 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

His stage manner is gentle, and as a result the dance comes across more like a contemplative exercise than an almost punk self-revelation, as it was when Morris danced it. A New Incarnation of Mark Morris’s Singular Dance 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

At its foundation, this is a storybook tale with a pair at the center being agents of chaos slowly infecting everything they come across. "Dicks: The Musical" puts two narcissist bros under a joyous, filthy spotlight 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

"One of the absolute best affordable Pinot Noirs I have ever come across, Tobiano delivers way above its price point in terms of quality," Moll says. Chillable red wines may be synonymous with poolsides, but they're equally great in long sleeves 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Other times he came across as a fragile, fearful man, at ease only when making music. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

When she came across this description of "Casablanca" — "Cafe owner Rick helps an old flame and her husband escape from Nazis in Morocco" — we thought, Wait a minute. Silly Movie Summaries contest winners -- we're still chuckling 2012-03-23T21:22:23Z

Because “A Magical World” aims to be briskly concise, it does risk coming across as facile and cursory. Review | How scientists came to be 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

The results engender some sympathy for overworked artists, but come across as an epic fit of procrastination. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The pilot of Revolution comes across better than either of the aforementioned shows, but there are still too many forgettable characters, stock scenes and flat patches of dialogue. TV Tonight: Revolution 2012-09-17T12:00:09Z

Mr. Grey first came across Street Etiquette while in college. Pushing the Boundaries of Black Style 2011-08-17T23:25:33Z

Mr. Roach said that when his team came across photos of Ms. Turner’s designs, they were surprised. The Brand That Won’t Stop Trying to Be Cool 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

I hear a collaboratively composed mixtape that proffers a chill aesthetic even as it comes across as carefully chiseled in its execution. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

Not much concern for the preservation of cultural monuments came across at the sales. Special Report: Asian Art: 'Islamic' Culture: A Groundless Myth 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

How well do you think that comes across in “Pistol”? ‘Pistol’ Tells Steve Jones’s Story. With a Touch of Showbiz. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

His solos went snaking up and down the distinctive melodic modes of Ethiopian music: minor scales with non-Western chromatic turns and dissonant zigzags that often come across as both mournful and adamant. Music Review: Hailu Mergia Performs in Brooklyn 2013-12-20T23:17:50Z

That was before he came across an image from inside one of the detention centers in 2014. When Daniel Sawka began making “Icebox” he had to convince people child migrant detention was... 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

A little under a week ago, I was scrolling through Facebook and came across a photo taken in the aftermath of the Kenyan campus massacre, at Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya. Black bodies on the ground: Shocking images spark #BlackLivesMatter outrage — but at what price? 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

When I come across someone with the same name, especially when that person is in the public eye, I consider it a form of trademark infringement. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This comedian is invading my territory. And he’s good. 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Fifty years after conquering the United States, Mr. McCartney and Mr. Starr didn’t come across as self-congratulatory, or weary, or simply going through show-business motions. Critic’s Notebook: CBS’s ‘Grammy Salute’ Belongs to McCartney and Starr 2014-02-10T10:19:55Z

And this is particularly noticeable in “Judgment Day,” when the passions of protesters run white hot and most of the politicians deciding their fates come across as frustratingly unconcerned and out of town. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

My heart twinges every time I come across the sight. I am a souvenir hoarder: I’m the guy who can’t throw café napkins and hotel stationery away 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Hypnotic Eye” circles back to the lean, handmade sound of both the 1970s Heartbreakers and the band’s 2010 album, “Mojo”; it comes across as a band playing together in real time. New Music From Tom Petty, Shawn Mendes and Hermán Olivera 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

But the prime minister is one of the most private figures you'll come across in public office. What Borgen's prime minister tells us about Julia Gillard 2013-06-13T01:16:44Z

These things may be traditional, but they don’t come across that way. Where The Times’s Restaurant Critic Likes to Eat 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The song, with its springy wordless melody and clockwork overlay of meters, comes across as a deft piece of work, current in its thinking and light on its feet. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z

One afternoon in 2005, he told them, he came across an article describing the breakup of a multistate sex trafficking ring, which regularly drove through Texas with captive children. Texas police have rescued 341 children after anti-trafficking training. They hope it goes nationwide. 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

“When a name comes across your desk you run it through every system you have access too, that’s just status quo, that’s what everyone does,” Rambo was quoted by Yahoo News as saying. Watchdog; Federal anti-terror unit investigated journalists 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

The second part of the album comes across as two postscripts. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z

You don’t want to come across as judging others for watching these shows. You don’t like violence but want to watch ‘Squid Game.’ These tips can help. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

But in three hours at the Rubin, he came across as thoughtful and genuinely searching — a digressive, intellectually curious conversationalist, and easygoing once the camera was gone. Josh Radnor Is ‘Existentially Restless.’ And That’s O.K. 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Jackson came across a "piece of the world" that was also an element of Mansfield's journal – a kowhai flower between two pages in a notebook: Handwritten diaries may feel old fashioned, but they offer insights that digital diaries can't match 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

“People don’t live in this valley, but we might come across herders,” Kiboya said. In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

At such moments he comes across as diffident, courteous and a bit embarrassed to find himself in our company. Theater Review: ‘A Celebration of Harold Pinter,’ Directed by John Malkovich 2012-10-17T02:00:10Z

It was along the lines of: where I work and how my work comes across is something that critics and writers don’t always quite know what to do with. Christopher Nolan objects to Warner Bros. release plan, but he’s happy you can watch ‘Tenet’ at home now 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Lost in the woods, they come across a supine and unconscious Fernando. Review: ‘The Ornithologist,’ Cast Adrift on a Surreal Journey 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Do you come across a lot of people like that in your work? The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Tabatha Coffey 2012-02-09T17:57:39Z

It came across as impolite, too easy and almost laughable. On the Runway Blog: For Plus-Size Men 2012-08-20T22:31:39Z

Writing a book about the quest for ethical perfection, Schur risked coming across as unbearably pedantic or worse, sanctimonious, but he grounds his overviews of abstract doctrines in self-deprecating digressions. Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Someone was also apparently worried that the film’s depth of field wouldn’t come across, judging from the ubiquitous particles suspended in the air, as if some unseen Greek had just dusted. Movie Review: In ‘300: Rise of an Empire,’ Greeks Under Siege Again 2014-03-07T01:38:02Z

What does come across is a bleak, wintry, poor, boundariless prison, and it doesn't make sense why anyone would want to go back to that once he had tasted the other side. Why can't Hollywood get Jews right? 2010-05-27T19:45:00Z

It’s a really fun part – and you just don’t come across those. Jennifer Jason Leigh: ‘I've been at this precipice so many times' 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

"Why do they hang him so high?" asks Mattie, as they come across a corpse hung near the top of a tree. 'True Grit': The Coen brothers' solid, faithful retelling of the classic Western 2010-12-21T18:25:57Z

The character mostly comes across as a caricature, with few human contours to complicate the impression. Theater Review: Kathleen Turner in ‘Killing of Sister George’ at Long Wharf 2012-12-07T23:03:45Z

On the road we came across a pair of dead horses, the black arrows that had slain them still protruding from their swollen hides. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

We came across my “Make It Big” cassette, turned it up, and sang. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

This is still an unwelcome trend, in my view, one that can come across as pandering and artificial — yet that doesn't mean all fan service-based movies are bad. You should see "Into the Spider-verse" 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Some of the statements come across as hackneyed in this 90-minute revue, the only piece in the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, “Peepshow” declares, written, produced and performed entirely by women. Review | ‘Peepshow’ declares women aren’t tolerating the Harvey Weinsteins anymore 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

C.P.E. came across as his father’s son, especially in the intricate double fugue that concludes the piece. Review: A Rare Showcase for Bach. His Sons, That Is. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

It is perhaps not too surprising that, in interviews, Black has tended to come across as a close approximation to his onscreen incarnations. Jack Black: 'I was getting tired of the frat-guy comedies' 2013-04-18T16:00:01Z

Through all this I never got her into therapy because she was uninterested at first, then later it came across more like I was threatening her with it — my super-bad. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How can you tell an adult child that she needs therapy? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

The couple's natural reaction to this can't help coming across as anything but personal, since these trolling efforts helped to escalate the death threats Meghan received. Even if Harry and Meghan "win" for Netflix, they lose 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

In the summer, Ms. Reid came across a quote from Octavia Butler, an American fiction writer whose novel “Parable of the Talents” explored religious intolerance. How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

In interviews, Apatow comes across as pleasant, thoughtful and surprisingly grounded. This Is 40 – first look review 2012-12-21T11:16:17Z

To insist on the facts made us come across as cruelly negative. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The next, they grapple with Woolf’s intricate style, which comes across as bombastic by contrast. A French Festival Focuses (Timidly) on English 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

It is after one of these trips that she comes across a soca dance group and is mesmerized. ‘She Paradise’ Review: Coming of Age Through Soca 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Over all, however, the production came across as tentative, as if Ms. Stroman were struggling to find a balance between respecting the idiom of the work and charging it with fresh theatricality. Susan Stroman’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

When "If I Stay" came across his desk, he found himself embarrassingly moved by it. Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler says he's here to 'Stay' 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

These are not just the garden variety of ant you might come across at a picnic. Marvel comes up big with playful 'Ant-Man' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

But then I came across a kid’s bike trailer, parked it in my kitchen with lots of treats and acclimated Hammy to it gradually. Pet trailers that let you bring Fido along for the bike ride

I came across several of these images in the book “The Changing Fantasies,” by Bruno Vercier. | The Curious Case of Pierre Loti 2011-07-12T18:32:08Z

The main thing that comes across is Schwarzenegger’s obsession with his image and how he controls it, and the implied insecurity. From the archive: the inside story of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rise to power 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

It comes across as an oddly muted, nuanced time capsule — a reliquary, really — of an electrically creative moment. ‘Living With Pop’: Capitalist Realism at Artists Space 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The music bears out this point, but subtly, without coming across like an exercise. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z

A: About six or seven years ago, I came across an Air France poster from the 1950s in Paris. When Airlines Looked Cool and Showed It 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

I’m kind of a cinephile and I’d come across the info that in old black and white movies, they used Hershey’s chocolate syrup as blood. ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ at the Met’s Costume Institute 2013-04-25T11:55:00Z

He was great as a sulky brat in The Kids Are All Right but in Journey 2 he comes across as wooden, dull and though not yet 20, too old for roles like these. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island?The Rock's Latest Family Role 2012-02-09T14:30:12Z

He thinks it might be his politeness that gets mistaken for complicity, and I suspect he may be right, for even off-camera he has a kind of courtesy that can come across as intellectual timidity. Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic' 2011-01-30T20:30:00Z

"Whether or not it is all part of a marketing campaign, the point is that it doesn't come across like that." Rihanna: evolution of a style icon 2012-07-17T16:37:03Z

Albarn's own series of songs fares well enough, but little of what the protagonists sing comes across at all. Dr Dee – review 2012-06-27T11:01:40Z

“When I came across the dental records of Jack Ruby’s mother I felt a surge of admiration,” DeLillo said. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

Detectives checking the computer came across what they believe is a photo of the burglar. Cops say burglar left photo on stolen laptop 2011-08-31T16:04:00Z

Whenever the public feature in these programmes, they almost always come across as ungrateful and naive – expecting to be ferried on a magic carpet to Menorca if their aircraft's wing has fallen off. A Very British Airline: an unflattering snapshot of the UK psyche 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

And while the terrorists do sing and poetize in a mode similar to that of the other characters, they don’t come across exactly as humanized, or even as human. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Everyone I came across was kind and welcoming . Captivated by Egypt since childhood, a traveler finally visits the Great Pyramid 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Stein is suitably callow and buffoonish as Dom, though the character’s digressions into religious proselytizing come across as extremely contrived. Slight ‘Shoplifters’ alights at Arena Stage

“The good thing is it doesn’t come across as Ted Cruz preachy.” Of course Ben Carson has a campaign staff. But only one adviser truly has his ear. 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

“That’s what, when I come across them, gets my heart beating a little bit faster,” she added. Maggie Siff on ‘Billions’: ‘I Might Leave Marks’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

So many times I come across an envelope that somebody has taped shut. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Happy birthday, United States! 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

It gives depth to the queen, who might otherwise come across a simple fairy-tale villain. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The latter you'll still come across, in shops run by Indians from Chennai. 2010-01-07T14:25:00Z

Indeed, among the armor, I came across a breastplate with “Tim Pigott-Smith” written on a label; the British actor died in April. Ball Gowns, Lace Ruffs and Fairy Wings: Theater History for Sale 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

If the lyrics’ probing political sobriety might come across as something of a bummer, the music’s rousing invention is a kind of reminder not to curdle into passive cynicism. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Wander around Times Square long enough and you might come across this bulb of Christmas cheer in a shop window. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Some kind of message seems to be coming across the emptiness of space and along the kinks in the fabric of time, offering a twinkle of hope amid humanity’s rapidly darkening prospects. Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar,’ with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

I sat in the car, and the radio in the car – all kinds of things are coming across. A Black Cop on the Silver Screen 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Soon after, he comes across her when her car breaks down and helps her out — revealing his chauffeur past and that he’s more a man of the people than she suspected. Downton Abbey Recap: Comings and Goings 2014-02-17T03:15:42Z

As embodied in three excellent performances, the friends and lovers of “Betrayal” come across as tougher, rawer and lonelier than usual, and the playing field for their power struggles seems, for once, pretty even. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Surprised by 'Betrayal' 2011-07-13T16:31:48Z

Even with a brisk run-through of 16 tracks in just over 15 minutes, what should sound like a sprint comes across as a leisurely jog. Off!: Off! ? review 2012-05-17T20:00:01Z

Another pleasure of the book that Sorel treated me to is a quote of Dorothy Parker’s I never came across before, and I am a devoted Algonquin fan. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

You can't buy a piece of fruit because mostly you come across what we call party store which sell nothing but junk food. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

As delivered by singers who connect with the lyrics as if they had just thought them up, the emotional intricacy and shading within the score has seldom come across so poignantly. Review: ‘Oklahoma!’ Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

She comes across as simultaneously suburban and bohemian, locked into the usual roles and yet also stubbornly liberated from them. Movie Review: ‘Stories We Tell,’ Written and Directed by Sarah Polley 2013-05-09T21:37:27Z

However, the callous attitudes toward certain groups of people — and certain scenarios these moves played up for laughs — don't come across well in the modern world. Danke schön! "The John Hughes Mixtapes" sheds light on vibrant and essential movie soundtrack gems 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

Ramsay certainly begins the interview in the manner of a man working hard to come across well. Gordon Ramsay: appetite for destruction 2012-06-08T22:01:04Z

A few weeks ago, visiting a rare book library, I came across a volume of pressed plants and was particularly struck by a specimen of primrose. Perspective | Dead plants’ evolutionary secrets might save the planet, or at least take its pulse 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Although this was a project that Slater said “wouldn’t normally come across his desk,” he added that he related to the character in many ways. WATCH: Christian Slater explains how James Franco’s sex scenes challenged him: “If I’m going to do this, let’s do it” 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

And, 'tis the season for graduations and speeches, and this morning I came across this one by Amy Poehler for Harvard's Class Day. A SIFF weekend, and a few words from Amy Poehler 2011-05-26T17:24:07Z

But he comes across as the antithesis of a hip Hollywood comic. Eddie Pepitone's Bloodbath – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T14:22:58Z

Q. In your research, did you ever come across an actual case where a drug company used a relief agency as a "screen" to test drugs overseas? Lit Life: Author Mike Lawson on his latest Joe DeMarco thriller 2012-06-29T21:09:08Z

Mainly I was distracted by my appearance, voice and how I came across. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

DiAngelo, for all the outrageousness she documents, never comes across as anything other than preternaturally calm, patient, and lucid, issuing prescriptions for a better world as if from beneath a blanket of Ativan. A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

What challenges did you come across when making the documentary? ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival Q&A: Whoopi Goldberg 2013-04-23T11:53:10Z

On the conservative side, in addition to Friess, there are the Koch brothers — who come across in your book as having distinct personalities. Kenneth Vogel on billionaires, politics and his book 'Big Money' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

So it’s a very whittled down list — I came across a far larger number of ideas, but I just wanted the ones that I thought were most relevant. Buy less, do more: 5 reasons why experiences make us happier than things 2014-03-08T21:00:00Z

Letterman is a funny man, but his ability to come across as genuine is a talent that has stood him in far greater stead. David Letterman says goodnight with sincere thanks, fond memories and a few final great jokes 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Against the backdrop of multiple “Merchants” and “Macbeths,” Mr. Edelstein said, “Timon” would “come across like a new play to people,” yet also deliver insights into the human condition that theatergoers appreciate from the playwright.” All of New York Is Shakespeare?s Stage 2011-02-17T23:26:20Z

"Unless you've ploughed through the entire Christie canon it's unlikely you will have come across this story before now." Whodunnit? 2010-04-16T07:23:00Z

He never heard of the play until he was in high school in Plano, Tex., and came across the script on the bookshelves of his drama club teacher. ‘Maybe I Am Arnold!’ How Michael Urie Agreed to Fill Harvey Fierstein’s Shoes 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

I was very interested in cafeterias, so I was trying to understand the history of cafeterias in America and that's when I came across Horn & Hardart. Director on the appeal of "The Automat," which was "the coolest cafeteria of them all" 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

On “WWHL,” night after night, he could not be more engaged and fascinated with what all the bravolebrities coming across his stage have to say. Andy Cohen: Oozing, desperate, likable 2012-06-07T00:00:00Z

You regularly come across eggs where the ingredients have been gussied-up in a supposedly gourmet fashion that is initially seductive. How to eat: scotch eggs 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, we were walking in East London and came across a new men’s line called D.S. T Magazine: French Trotting 2011-01-21T15:00:14Z

Ms. Carter came across the manuscript in August and negotiated the book deal with HarperCollins. Harper Lee’s Ability to Consent to New Book Continues to Be Questioned 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

The opening of her new piece came across as a wash of alluring sounds, effects and colors, with high-pitched strings, fluttering winds and softly wailing brass bustling along — yet with a jolt of inner tension. Review: At the Philharmonic, New Music for a Changing World 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

It found a way of handling parenting in a show without it coming across as cute or “don’t kids say the funniest things?” Insiders’ TV: writers and producers share their tips 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Old musicals tend to run long and come across as strangely convoluted. ‘Peter Pan Live!’ flies clear of Twitter’s crocodile jaws

When Josie, Paul and Ana come across the site of an abandoned silver mine, they decide to make it their home for a while. Dave Eggers offers a sneak peek at his new novel, ‘Heroes of the Frontier’ 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

My mind would run through the list of reasons to keep quiet: I would come across as unreasonable, nagging or needy. No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

When asked on camera if he regretted his decision, he replied: "With the wisdom of 20-20 hindsight …" Which came across as a rather evasive way of saying: "No". Hillsborough: How They Buried the Truth; The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars – TV review 2013-05-21T06:00:17Z

Many of the earliest works in the show come across as wry, layered tributes to Modernism’s illustrious past. Art Review: Thinking Outside the Canvas 2011-04-26T23:58:11Z

As a kid, Jones would dig through piles of his mom’s books looking for inspiration, coming up short every time until he accidentally came across James Baldwin's novel “Another Country.” Saeed Jones on "How We Fight For Our Lives" and writing with "skin in the game" 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Yet time and time again in California I came across things which were not commercialised at all. Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z

She was the first black woman superhero that I came across, and I wanted to learn more about her. In Philadelphia, a Comic Book Store Dedicated to Diversity 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

“We just talk-story” — the Hawaiian term for chatting informally — “and encourage the sharing of stories, whether it’s about the trails, or the birds or the medicinal plants we come across.” Next Stop: Hiking in Hawaii?s Waimea Valley 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z

In the research she came across, Bankston found that kids his age shouldn’t wear a mask "because it compromises their immune system." Kentucky mom who resisted school mask mandates says she was 'fighting for' her child 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Singapore A month or so ago I had been browsing the Harry Potter Website when I came across something new, saying that JK Rowling was going to be making a special announcement. Pottermore: your experiences 2011-08-16T14:51:48Z

“Most important,” Dallek observed, “whether on television or in person, Kennedy came across to the public as believable.” Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

And you know, the interesting thing is I was actually very young at the time, but I come across as this 35- or 40-year-old executive type. Fran Drescher reveals the role she turned down out of principle: "Who am I if not my word?" 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Neither side, not the French colonials nor the guerrilla National Liberation Front, comes across as saints. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

It is rare to come across a writer who enjoys such intimacy with not just the land but also the customs that govern the lives of the people who live on it. How Perumal Murugan Was Resurrected Through Writing 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

I'm the kind of person who always wants to know what happens after the fairytale has ended, so I was delighted to come across this fabulous "twisted" take on the Goldilocks story recently. Lucy Coats's top 10 bear picture books 2013-03-21T12:47:16Z

The characters very rarely come across as real, perhaps because the story itself is so contrived. Review | ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ shows how adults can really mess up teen angst 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

As they swill their drinks, lounge about and pontificate, they often come across as homophobic, sexist bores, ignorant both biologically and psychologically. Video artist Gerard Byrne: the great pretender 2013-01-17T06:30:01Z

Some sort of allegory about scientific developments and Faustian pacts, Neil Burger's ingenious, extremely violent centres on Eddie Morra, a blocked writer who accidentally comes across an experimental drug that increases his brain power exponentially. Limitless ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:28Z

Driving one night, Ethan comes across a deer carcass, and inside he finds a squirmy little creature, a cross between a spider and a lobster. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

It was rare, Ms. Duncan said, to come across a character as complex as Meg in film. Lindsay Duncan Stars in ‘Le Week-End’ 2014-03-07T20:37:18Z

On the point of your question, I hope that’s not what comes across. After a tumultuous run in the White House, Sean Spicer is ready to talk now 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Walking along a riverbank one day  towards the end of fishing season in her small coastal Alaska town, artist Cynthia Gibson came across a pile of fish carcasses — and saw something beautiful. In Alaska, a new life for old bones 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Later on I came across Mahler's letter of farewell to the Vienna opera orchestra in 1907 after a turbulent and unwilling resignation. If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z

But then neither did the BNP come across as one-dimensional racist bullies. True Stories: The Battle for Barking 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z

He first read "Fifty Shades" when it was still fan fiction, coming across it on Facebook and a site for "Twi-moms." Men are fans, too, of `Fifty Shades of Grey' 2012-04-26T12:49:08Z

With dialogue so heavy on rhyming slang he comes across like a pearly king, Cheadle's wretched twang makes his scenes genuinely unwatchable. One Day: accent-uate the positive 2011-08-17T10:12:00Z

"Just a Kiss," the album's first single, is heavy on drum and guitar and comes across as an overstuffed pop ballad. Lady Antebellum leads fall album releases 2011-09-13T00:40:46Z

The same entitlement that can cause DC Comics fans to complain about unpopular actors or unfavorable movie reviews can also, if they harbor certain prejudices, come across in more harmful ways. Toxic white male nerd avengers: What’s really behind the “Suicide Squad” super-fan freak-out 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

“The great story that he would tell was that this was about imagining what it would be like in a blacked-out city to come across this brightly lit diner with people in it,” she says. Those who say Edward Hopper is the artist of social distancing may be wrong 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

All his subjects come across as complex presences, living parts of the living world — whether human, architectural or natural — animated by his thick, quietly vibrating surfaces. Leon Kossoff: Looking at Life With a Loaded Brush 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

"All things considered, this is the most thoughtful list of its kind I've come across," said Sidney M, who was not paid for his contribution, honestly. Film Power 100: Your reactions to our list 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

But hers does not, on first perusal, come across as a serious work. The East Is Red, White And RosÉ 2010-02-25T07:55:00Z

That was like a hidden treasure when I came across it. Carrie-Anne Moss on the ‘Matrix’ Movies and Playing an Action Hero in Her 50s 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

When you watch a movie starring Valentino today, his persona comes across as eerily feverish, both disturbed and disturbing. Theater Review: ‘Silent,’ by Pat Kinevane, at Irish Arts Center 2012-09-10T02:07:31Z

At the end of the spring semester, while trying to grade final projects to be submitted to the registrar's online platform, I came across a student's review that scared me. Are we witnessing the death of the writer? Facing the AI crossroads in class and on the page 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

And I’ve got to tell you, that desert — the early morning sunrises or the sunsets, or when the thunderstorms would come across that New Mexico desert, or the wild horses would run by? ‘Better Call Saul’: Jonathan Banks Says Goodbye to Mike 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

The others, for all their undoubted virtuosity, come across as little more than the creations of a diversity committee. Political Mother 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z

His latest is sure to win over any voter who comes across it – it’s too affecting to be ignored. How Sundance will factor into next year's Academy Awards 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

I used to buy tapes in Camden market and even now I'll trade with people when I come across someone who's got things I don't have. Prince is still king, say Hot Chip 2012-12-11T18:55:00Z

Since I've made my peace with this compromise, I groaned a little bit when I came across a copy of "Dinner: A Love Story" by Jenny Rosenstrach. Motherlode Blog: When Family Dinner Doesn't Work, Embracing the Family Breakfast 2012-08-07T21:57:17Z

Ms. Chiaverini, the author of 21 novels, said that as she was researching earlier books set during the Civil War, she kept coming across secondary sources that relied on Mrs. Keckley. It’s Elizabeth Keckley’s Year in Civil War History 2013-01-09T23:54:36Z

While there is some fury to the layers and layers of accumulation, the works ultimately come across as dispassionate. In Kevin Appel’s paintings, windows to utopia are partially shut 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Now that Ridley has trained loyal viewers to expect a layered approach to moral ambiguity, “American Crime” comes across this time as a much broader story built entirely on cues, hints and nuances. Review | ABC’s striking ‘American Crime’ returns with heavy tales of human exploitation 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

That is the recording Hurwitz came across in a Parisian record store in the 1980s. An ’80s rock star, a beat boxer and a Bulgarian folk choir walk into a studio 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

When I get upset over the problems that we come across, you calm me. "Love, Linda": Reading my late mother's love letters to a man who is not my father 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

That came across very early on, plus this natural quality and great voice. How to cast Emmy-worthy reality shows 2010-05-27T00:21:00Z

King delivered his introduction ahead of deadline, and has written about how he first came across and read Lord of the Flies as well as giving his critical perspective on the novel. Stephen King joins William Golding centenary celebrations 2011-04-11T14:35:18Z

But she also comes across in this thoughtful biography as constantly searching and frequently torn between different worlds — not just black and white but also ­working-class and elite. ‘Michelle Obama: A Life,’ by Peter Slevin 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Throughout the barrage of consistently brilliant gags that follow, he oozes a quiet disdain, while paradoxically coming across as a rather likable guy. This week's new comedy 2011-07-15T23:07:12Z

In person, the two finish each other’s thoughts and come across as fiendishly smart and uncommonly nice. Lord and Miller, Directors With a Golden Touch 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Are these words so moving and so necessary that I feel I will come across the country and give up my dogs and relocate to go onstage every night to say these words?’ Oprah Winfrey Dreams of a Broadway Debut (Just Don’t Expect Her to Sing) 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Gervais’s dialogue comes across as though he’s scripting arguments for his surrogate to win, like the Aaron Sorkin of being a jerk. Review: Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’ Is the Tearjerking of a Clown 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“A lot of people I come across don’t agree with it,” says Destany, who moved to Atlanta three years ago, and now visits the house most nights, and takes the children at weekends. Kaleb and Kordale: meet America’s new modelfamily 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

After missing a flight to Spain in 1991, she ended up at Victoria Station in London and came across a book of cemeteries. Hurry to see a cemetery while you still can appreciate it, says author Loren Rhodes 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Somerstein, after graduating from college, took up a career in science and more or less forgot about his Montgomery pictures until he came across the negatives in storage in 2008. Stephen Somerstein Photos in ‘Freedom Journey 1965’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

He said he spent time at the Guthrie frequently rethinking his choices about how Haywood should come across. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

Sometimes these snapshots are illuminating, though often they come across as padding for a book whose focus is on Egypt, and Cairo in particular. Sex and the Citadel by Shereen El Feki – review 2013-03-06T14:00:01Z

Even from the intimate distance of the third row, Mr. Farr’s fog-shrouded “Lear” comes across as cool, considered and professional but rarely moving. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z

There is both a certain distancing and intimacy that comes across.” 2010-01-08T03:16:00Z

Lamarr’s subsequent tenure in Hollywood comes across as tame by comparison. Review: ‘Bombshell’ Tells the Amazing Story of Hedy Lamarr, the Star and Inventor 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

And while Ms. Lampanelli has written four very different kinds of women, the three who are fictional come across as types rather than characters. Review: ‘Stuffed’ Details Fights Women Wage With Their Weight 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Have you come across any organizations that treat workers right in America or during your trips abroad? "We want a contract": Greed and racism are why Amazon denies its workers unions, says labor leader 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

It comes across as mercilessly twee, which is a pity as it portrays Jones as exactly what she isn't – a safe-for-kiddies, sanitised, patronising writer. The curse of swearing in children's books 2010-09-08T13:07:00Z

Might all this strenuous anti-grandness come across as, well, a touch grand? In ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer,’ Geoff Dyer Ponders the Twilight 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

There are scads of self-help books on how to succeed, but I've never come across a single one on how to contend with not succeeding – which is more the form for practically everybody, right? Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z

Yet somehow the piece comes across as a complete entity, as least as played here with such bright sound and stamina. Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

The magnified nicks and dents come across as sculptured texture, introducing the abstracting illusion of an artistic process that never happened. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

It was just because I was shy and scared, but I think because I’m super-self-possessed that it doesn’t come across as scared so much as stuck-up. T Magazine: This is Rooney Mara 2013-08-22T19:30:38Z

Like so many others, I had sensed on Clandestino, Manu's first solo album, a passion and directness the like of which I hadn't come across since Bob Marley. Clandestino: the story of Manu Chao's classic album 2013-05-09T17:33:05Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton To the uninitiated, it sounds like the sort of special-interest nightclub you might come across in certain parts of or Amsterdam. You Me Bum Bum Train gives actors a bad ride, says union 2012-07-13T14:56:46Z

The legend was quite secure regarding his intellect; that came across in his stage presence, too. "Jeopardy!" is likely naming this man you never heard of as host – apparently the job was always his 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Yet, after his death, no trace of such a book was found until years later, when his granddaughter came across the manuscript in a vaguely labelled box while moving. Books to Watch Out For: December 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

“Al Di Qua” is so showy in its stylistic choices and glacial in its pace — it’s tempting to applaud every time the camera finally rounds a corner — that it comes across as amateurish. Review: ‘Al Di Qua,’ Homelessness Through an Artsy Filter 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

She came across as likable, witty and deeply knowledgeable about fashion. Don?t Call Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey a Trophy Wife 2012-04-06T22:18:06Z

What is perhaps most winning and what comes across so strongly in our last few minutes is that he doesn't seem to have it all totally worked out. The devil inside 2011-08-06T23:04:04Z

Venture outside at the crack of dawn in New York City and you may be astonished to come across one of the city’s most bustling, if eclectic, social scenes: its dog community. New Yorkers admit it: their dogs share their beds 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

I found a Moe’s Original BBQ, a locally founded chain of restaurants that had the best happy hour deal I came across in my four days there. Vail, the Thrifty Way 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

There are sharp edges, but it doesn’t come across as a mean-spirited, one-sided caricature. Review | Alexander Strain finds the bright side in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

"Jeffrey and I will come across a channel and it's on, like, every half hour," adds Crane on a recent trip to London, referring to his partner, fellow comedy writer and producer Jeffrey Klarik. Still Friends after all these years: the one about the 20th anniversary 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

If he comes across a company that looks promising, he watches it for a while, reading coverage of the companies and doing other research, and then might buy on a dip. As music sales fall, sax player Kenny G turns to stockpicking 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

And yet, Puig says, "it comes across as effortless and unassuming. 'Boyhood' is an epic masterpiece that seems wholly unconcerned with trying to be one." Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood' nearly perfect, critics agree 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

But there is a certain kind of woman who I come across at parties that will ask me to talk about myself without asking any specifics. How do you pronounce your name? 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

Merrell, at least in this production, comes across as more pathetic than interesting. Another young black man dies, but it’s not ‘the same old story’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Naturally, they are shocked to come across these obviously intelligent apes who even speak rudimentary English. 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' a visual feast 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

“As migrants, you always improvise, attuning yourself to your surroundings, and that comes across in my work,” he said. ‘Artists Are Migrants’: A Nigerian-Irish Dancer’s Multiplicities 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

But we never came across that with our writers. Motown creator Berry Gordy charts his musical trajectory 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

They come across as merely trusting, which led them to rely on those who promised successful careers. Review: ‘An Open Secret’ Spotlights Child Sexual Abuse in Hollywood 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

On Instagram I came across a photo from last year around this time. How Prabal Gurung Plans to Fall in Love This Year 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

As we revisit the area the day before the walk across the city, we come across a young couple with their three-year-old daughter from northern Virginia. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Whether painting the wall of a cabin into which he carves a window, or meticulously cleaning the boat with Natan’s help, Jorge comes across as a hard-working man in perfect harmony with his environment. | 'Alamar': Father, Son and Egret in the Banco Chinchorro of Mexico 2010-07-13T20:52:00Z

But the sense of a world in which everyone is terminally rootless comes across with haunting acuteness. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

Were Brian Blessed to complain angrily and defensively enough that he "didn't come across as effeminate", he would gradually start to seem girly. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z

King made his subjects come across as people – real people, serious people. There's a little bit of Larry King in every decent interviewer, whether they like it or not 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

There are times when Painted Hawaii comes across less like a comedy show and more a really expensive nervous breakdown. Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy gets funnier the more it apologises for its own rubbishness 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Why is Adele so robustly likable, while the equally successful Taylor Swift often comes across like a wounded deer? Women we love to love and women we love to hate 2013-03-22T22:00:00Z

If he came across as more arrogant, you might believe that he is really this confident. Film: Cyberspace Gamble 2010-12-04T23:03:00Z

He came across as subservient in his newspaper ads, promising that commissions “will be thankfully received and punctually attended to.” Antiques: Search for de Soto in Southeast Georgia 2010-05-20T22:44:00Z

One of the things that comes across from the setting and the story of the Sonderkommando is the industrial nature of the extermination machine that the Nazis were running. Director László Nemes on how 'Son of Saul' is a Renaissance-style portrait of a Holocaust victim 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Willimon came across “Balm in Gilead” as a teenager in St. Louis in the early 1990s, when he decided to read up on writers and poets from Missouri. A Theater Is Conjured, Then Leaves Only Memory 2011-06-06T23:01:50Z

Have you ever come across anything like the current president before? Ian McShane on reviving Lovejoy and becoming the saviour of America 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

It sounds as though you’ve come across some unprofessional — maybe unethical — representatives of the profession. Work Advice: When recruiters go rogue 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

For the record, the character of Mr. Murdoch, whose real-life prototype remains alive and active as a media czar on both sides of the Atlantic, comes across here as something more than a satirical gargoyle. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

A lot of PTF songs are funny or cutely hip but aside from an impression that comes across that you're all crazies who are bucking the system, you're not actually attacking anything specific. George Clinton: 'Even now the music scares us sometimes' - a classic interview from the vaults 2012-06-26T17:00:00Z

When I first came across a reference to the accumulator, I was puzzled and fascinated: why on earth would a generation seek to shed its sexual repressions by climbing into a closet? Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z

By the 1990s, Toek Tik said he had teams working throughout the country, responding to tips from villagers who came across relics and deploying metal detectors and other tools in the hunt. He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

On the last full day of swimming, I was exploring an azure bay after lunch when I came across a dark circle, maybe 25 feet below. In Turkey, Adventure Travel Takes the Plunge 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

But as I searched for them, I kept coming across these scraps of denim, because jeans, especially Levi’s, were worn by the silver miners in the late 1800s. Experience: I mine for 100-year-old jeans 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

He always came across affably in interviews and profiles. The power of communal grief: Mourning Mandela and beyond 2013-12-06T16:45:00Z

Where else might viewers come across the many short films it gathers from around the world? The Dance on Camera Festival Turns 50, Embracing Its Niche 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Clearly I was not always coming across the way I intended,” he said. 'I did not assault women': Morgan Freeman responds to allegations 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

Her punchy plays are formally smart and intellectually engaged yet feature themes that come across more vividly than the people illustrating them. Theater Review: ‘Port Out, Starboard Home,’ by Sheila Callaghan, at La MaMa 2012-11-18T22:11:15Z

But he also thinks he can’t possibly be any good as a writer, when—as I hope comes across—he’s in fact pretty talented. Andrew Sean Greer on Writing and Winning 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Her therapist, played by Cheyenne Jackson, comes across as a gentle forbearing soul. "American Horror Story: Cult" is FX's way of saying, "Tag, America — you're 'It'!" 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

Even when it seemed clear to me that my shtick was humor, it didn’t always come across. I wasn’t the next Erma Bombeck. Was it sexism or something else? 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

While it’s easy to be drawn in by the splendor and quirkiness of his line of work, he added, the gritty details of the day-to-day don’t often come across. How to Make It in America as a Professional Falconer 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

The 14-minute piece, in which the player presides over a sprawling array, came across as a strikingly modern abstraction of an ancient ritual, teetering between sober and ecstatic. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

But it’s only a fleeting indication of a mischievous intelligence that might be guiding this musical, which at this stage of its development comes across as far too narratively scattershot and blatantly self-congratulatory. ‘Born for This’: Still an embryo of a musical 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

Through her research, she came across the Instagram page of a speech pathologist named Christina Hunger, who was documenting how her own dog, Stella, was beginning to develop an English vocabulary. The ‘Talking’ Dog of TikTok 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Her enthusiasm could come across as naïve if not for the shrewd intelligence, decades of hard work and ample proof-of-concept backing it up. In ‘With Love,’ Gloria Calderón Kellett Comes Home for the Holidays 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

It would be nice if, as it approaches its 40th anniversary, Hector MacMillan's taut domestic drama about sectarianism came across as a curious relic of a more divided time. The Sash – review 2013-05-07T18:16:31Z

Shields said he first came across references to "Go Set a Watchman" while reading early correspondence between Lee and her literary agent while researching his acclaimed biography about Lee. 50 years on, new book from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

I hope this character will come across as a masterfully manipulative guy, so he needs to be seductive and charming. Paul Giamatti Had a Busy Year of Mad Guys and Bad Hair 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Hopefully the idea comes across that they did love him, but they were lacking in certain things that Colin probably needed in his life at that time. "Colin in Black & White" writer on Kaepernick's parents & awakening: "They didn't see him as Black" 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

The abuses were uncovered by a historian who by chance came across notes in the archives of the University of Pittsburgh. Rules Meant to Protect Human Research Subjects Cause Concern 2011-10-23T22:37:05Z

France is known for its wine and its cognac, but if you ever come across a French beer in the United States, it’s likely to be Kronenbourg 1664, a rather unexceptional pale lager. Beer of the Week: Thiriez Extra 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

"People say I come across a bit hard, but you have to be, otherwise you'd be blubbing all the time," she says. Tony Nicklinson: 'I have a fear of living like this when I am old and frail' 2012-06-23T21:04:49Z

You’re partway to showing sympathy for these friends with your occasional calls and FaceTimes, but this effort comes across more as your throwing them a bone than providing real emotional nourishment. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Not wanting to be quarantined forever doesn’t mean not wanting you 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

To be the great and powerful Antonin Scalia, facing off against a measly college freshman, and to come across so defensive, so hollow, and so very, very wrong. Scalia’s still obsessed with sodomy 2012-12-11T16:19:00Z

“What that does, is it decreases the chance of any human body fluids coming across the counter,” he joked in a profile of McHardy’s for Munchies. New Orleans restaurant introduces pulley system for delivering fried chicken to takeout customers 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

In the second movement, she rendered one ostensibly sunny theme with such spidery lightness that the consolation it offered came across as a mere mirage. Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Pays Tribute to Previn at Carnegie Hall 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

That’s how light the combination of fluffy meatballs and tender brioche comes across. Review | Inside or out, Reveler’s Hour pours on the warmth and the wine 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Walking down the street in downtown Manhattan about five years ago, she came across six young men, all dressed, as they were many days, in matching "Reservoir Dogs" outfits. 'The Wolfpack's' isolated brothers relate to world through movies 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Bainbridge: You come across slightly belligerent punks in the street in the street all the time. Robyn Wrote a Song About Getting Drunk, Doing Karaoke and Jamming with a Metalhead 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

One day our faithful heroes will come across a new group that is right for them, and settle in happily and without tension. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 6: Hey Look, Another New Group! 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

She says it comes across as cocky and self-centered. Happy swiping: This is how to make Tinder work for you 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

The movie pauses just long enough to observe the Crucifixion, which, like every other biblical element, comes across as a rushed, perfunctory nod to tradition, devoid of emotional or spiritual resonance. Review: ‘Ben-Hur’ Is a Savage Update for a New Generation 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

How does that language come across to you at this moment, Wesley? What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

The herd mentality can make Washington theater dully predictable, and may well stifle audience interest as the roster comes across like repetitive white noise. Perspective | Why is Washington theater so predictable? 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

The company tries to delete fake profiles it comes across. Bye-bye trolls? Blizzard forums to use real names 2010-07-07T17:57:00Z

David Koepp's script had them walking in a forest, coming across a tree trunk, then three more, the trunks turning out to be legs – a much more Spielbergian alternative to the version Spielberg gives us. Jurassic Park 3D: revisiting the film that put machismo on the extinction list 2013-04-01T15:07:59Z

Don McCullin talks about the key images featured in the McCullin documentary Link to this video What comes across strongly in the film is that you were there during the glory days of journalism. Don McCullin: 'Photojournalism has had it. It's all gone celebrity' 2012-12-22T20:00:01Z

The humor comes across as gentle and sweet, not quite lame but distinctly lacking in zing. "Kenan," "WandaVision" and the case against forcing laughter into grief 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

After coming across a recipe, he refined it with Hackney Brewery in London and then contracted with Hambleton Ales in North Yorkshire to produce it in quantities. Toast Ale, From Recycled Bread, Is Now Brewed in New York 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Then he came across the story of a Chinese man who had in recent times lived with his wife and family in a 450-year-old Ming dynasty wood temple outside Shanghai. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

All this came across before Mr. Padmore had sung a note. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Seriously, I've come across paper dolls with more depth than this crew. Park Lane by Frances Osborne – review 2012-06-07T10:00:01Z

While clearing out his place, I came across several embarrassing items, including nude photos of his second wife, with whom I have a cordial but not close relationship. Social Q’s: On the Amend 2014-01-23T20:48:57Z

His gay stories never came across as a narrowing of theater’s human focus but as an expansion of it, and by inviting everyone into them he helped solidify the social change he was describing. Terrence McNally, Tony-Winning Playwright of Gay Life, Dies at 81 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

“If anything, I’m sure they were commended for being fierce and tactical, while I was busy worrying about coming across as a brat and not getting my fair share.” Jennifer Lawrence Speaks Out Against Gender Pay Inequality 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Fitzgerald’s debut collection, “The Late Parade,” his exertions came across as simultaneously tentative and opaque, as if the words were getting in the way of what he wanted to say. Memories Distilled by 2 Radically Different Poets 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The character’s and the author’s derision comes across strongly in the original text. The Curious Career of David Auburn 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z

In “My Week With Marilyn,” this visual approach adds nothing and comes across as generic, as do as the jerky, handheld newsreel shots and popping photo bulbs. | 'My Week With Marilyn': ?My Week With Marilyn,? With Michelle Williams - Review 2011-11-22T17:12:23Z

Though clearly aiming to be a major work, “Something in the Blood” nonetheless comes across as part psychosexual case study and part loose and baggy monster. ‘Something in the Blood’ offers plenty of speculation about ‘Dracula’ author 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

But what comes across first is the sheer grace of her voice. Review: Lianne La Havas Sings of Love and Identity 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

What was the most unusual situation you came across on the road? New TV show follows the life singing car journalist 2011-12-02T17:03:12Z

Lugubrious and wistful, Low's music may come across as too melancholic for some. Review: Low continues to soar on 'Invisible Way' 2013-03-18T21:54:12Z

He probably lost his chance to be president because he came across like Mr. Rogers in general. It’s the worst job in politics. But somebody has to do it. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

In addition, if we are concerned about people coming across the Mexican border, the preferred ways to get across the Mexican border are to wade across the Rio Grande or to go through tunnels. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Not to mention the most caring breed of women I’ve ever come across. That awkward conversation about my stripping 2014-03-04T00:00:00Z

I'd come across several works of fiction about translators but the portrayals didn't quite ring true. The vapor between languages: Idra Novey on writing and translation 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

The sincerity of the decisions came across in the movie. Filmmaker James Stern on the era of “American Chaos”: “Worst situation since the Civil War” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

In contrast to her characters Ms. Griffiths, 42, comes across like a task-oriented soccer mom with no time for histrionics. Rachel Griffiths Joining ?Other Desert Cities? 2011-10-09T02:57:18Z

We haven't gone far when we come across a young man having his first casts made. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

It adds a robust bite to the traditional spice mix, which comes across subtly in each mouthful of pumpkin pie. Love pumpkin pie? This unusual ingredient might make it even better 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

When he comes across a poem by Tilo — How do you tell a shattered story? Rigberto González on Arundhati Roy's 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness': dazzling but imperfect 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

"It wasn't until I came across this idea that it seemed that I was." With right tune, musical desk reveals its secrets 2011-08-05T09:39:08Z

Occasionally, he comes across fans of his early material and, he says, they can be aggressive. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

I was thinking of this the other day, when I came across a serviceberry used as a street tree and loaded with delicious fruit. Perspective | How hotter summers and warmer winters are changing the garden 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

He certainly came across that way while choreographing the work. Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

That line appears more than once in “Jaco,” an illuminating, compassionate new documentary, and its hubris comes across as both playful and deeply serious. ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

One of the most daunting presences you’re ever likely to come across is, on some profound level, absent. | 'Master Class': Enough About You; Let?s Revisit My Glory Days 2011-07-08T02:01:43Z

For philistines mystified by the value attached to so many artworks that to an untrained eye look worthless, Mr. Cenedella comes across as a reassuring voice of sanity. Review: ‘Art Bastard’ Depicts Robert Cenedella, a Rebel Artist 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lumet comes across as a mensch, but he was also a complex artist whose often literally dark films were filled with shadows, rage and spit, not just nobility. Review: ‘By Sidney Lumet’ Puts the Director in Front of the Camera 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

In “The Great Society,” staged by the York Shakespeare Company, a complex, conflicted L.B.J. now comes across, among other things, as the biggest Vietnam-era pacifist in the White House. Theater Review: In ‘The Great Society,’ a Conflicted Lyndon B. Johnson 2013-08-13T21:45:35Z

Though it was a joy to hear in this exhilarating performance, “Svadebka” came across as comparably shocking. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z

But his approach came across as overly intellectual. Review: The Cleveland Orchestra Plays Strauss With Abundant Color 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

Metz tells the story of more than a dozen of the world’s A.I. pioneers, of whom two come across most vividly. Can Humans Be Replaced by Machines? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johns came across it in 2002, before the “Regrets” series. Jasper Johns Stays Divinely Busy 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

TV is chiefly driven by personality, and the chief personality on display, Sir Paul Nurse, came across as enthusiastic, open-minded and eminently reasonable. Horizon: Science Under Attack and Tool Academy 2011-01-25T08:00:10Z

Gags like Rob feeling up a teacher in the middle of class are framed as titillatingly transgressive but merely come across as nasty and spiteful. 'Premature' thinks crudeness is a teen's path to success 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

He came across most sincerely as a man who regretted his association with Trump and the impact of his crimes on his family. Perspective | The Michael Cohen hearing wasn’t a hearing at all. It was cheap theatrics. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Stemme, in a burgundy jacket and scarf, and carrying her munitions in a leather shoulder bag, comes across as that frustrated potential hero. Music Review: A ?Ring? Made of California Gold 2011-06-16T22:15:29Z

He came across as a humorless, mean-spirited, almost abusive husband and father. Review: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Wasn’t Lively Enough 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Substantively speaking, Clinton came across as better informed and more skilled at illuminating her policy issues and discussing her 30 years of public service. Even Andy Cohen needed a shower: Watch what happens when Donald Trump turns a presidential debate into a reality TV nightmare 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Walking along West Broadway about a year after he arrived, he came across a stall where a group of potters were selling traditional, handcrafted Pennsylvanian ceramics and, though simple, the blue-and-white spongeware vessels captivated him. A Ceramist Who Draws on His Craft’s Ancient Global Traditions 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

The clean white spaces of Bangsar’s Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery express a confidence that I first came across in Hong Kong’s galleries, just before Chinese art rose to international prominence. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z

Not that the show comes across as anything like a debate or a lecture. Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Warren herself admitted she came across as too soft and hesitant in the Feb. 7 debate that preceded Iowa. Warren fought back at the media erasure that felled other candidates by stealing Bloomberg's show 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

Cooper, who started working for Playboy while an undergrad at California’s Chapman University, comes across as formal and practiced and older than his years. Can Hugh Hefner’s 26-year-old son convince his generation that Playboy is sexy? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Today, maybe more than ever, “Einstein” comes across as an original, visionary and generous work, anything but polemical. Music Review: ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-09-16T22:03:03Z

When I came across a cache of poems that Ono had written as a young woman in the 1950s, I knew almost nothing about her personal history and philosophies. Yoko Ono’s prophetic vision of self-care 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

Lloyd began the work after the death of her mother, whose own childhood Raggedy Ann and clothespin dolls she came across when organizing her effects. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

But then a news alert came across the screen of my phone, three days before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Trump-era anti-Semitism changed my family — we started going to synagogue 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Mostly Ms. Doran’s play comes across as a staged primer in bad parenting. | 'Parents? Evening': Julianne Nicholson and James Waterston at Flea Theater 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z

In doing that research, I came across these statistical drawings and they were so unbelievable. Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

All told, Cardin comes across as a relentless optimist about humanity’s future, which has a certain retro charm. 35 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

But then, what comes across in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is how random it all is. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z

Tuttle comes across as a conservationist and scientist first, a combination of Indiana Jones and Mark Trail second. The Joy of Bats 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

What also comes across is the high price Fugard and his fellow artists had to pay to practise their art. Playwright Athol Fugard: a man of obstinacy and courage 2012-06-03T17:45:01Z

Once she learned that she was a recipient of an act of kindness in Trevor’s honor, she did some research and came across a local story about the project. Random acts of kindness have helped them since their son died 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Mostly, he comes across as a concerned citizen fretting over the planet's ecological decline, a skeptic grappling with a loss of faith, a middle-aged father confronting mortality. Pearl Jam fights for relevance 2013-10-11T20:14:00Z

The first time many young readers will come across an evil dictatorship is reading about the Snow Queen's wintery reign of terror. Emerald Fennell's top 10 villainesses 2013-01-03T12:22:00Z

But then, while out at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts, he came across some local news: Coyotes, native to the American West, had made their way out to the tip of Cape Cod. At the Aldrich Museum, the Coyote Takes the Lead 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Spring, who has written biographies of the American artists Fairfield Porter and Paul Cadmus, became intrigued by Steward after coming across some of his witty and ribald letters. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z

In Brooklyn, this sort of behavior came across as good-natured boisterousness; in Tokyo, it seemed positively feral. How to Parent Like the Japanese Do 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

“In any family that I’ve ever come across, the females are dominant. They just are.” ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Yet it comes across like an interpolated concert aria, suggesting both the strengths and shortcomings of this ambitious new opera. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Then, about two years ago, the British director Mark Wing-Davey, who is chairman of the Tisch graduate program, came across a copy of “Henry Box Brown.” An Unlikely Tony Kushner World Premiere, Courtesy of NYU 2010-10-04T21:26:00Z

Noah comes across as a lovely chap – and a smooth comedy operator. Trevor Noah: The Racist – review 2012-08-16T15:26:30Z

"She said to herself that is not at all the way he came across in the meeting," noted Duffy. Patrick Duffy embraces flawed Bobby Ewing on 'Dallas' 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

From a distance, Asheville, N.C., comes across as the Jan Brady of restaurant markets in the South. Postcard From Tom: Asheville’s more than just the foothills of Southern cuisine

You would think that a 15-year-old horror movie that makes a VCR complicit in a series of murders would come across today as a laughable concept. ‘The Ring’ Told Us in 2002 That the Medium Is the Monster 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Accidentally tossed out on a desert highway, Rango comes across a motley gang of creatures with a dwindling water supply desperately trying to survive in the harsh environment. Q&A with Rango Director Gore Verbinski 2011-03-04T16:50:00Z

They came across the border to fight and die – they came there for us. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

Too much of the famous oratory comes across as eloquent but hollow, as if the king were speaking directly to posterity and not to the men before him. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z

Erivo’s exquisite control came across as a sublime counterpoint to the world swirling around her. Review | Wolf Trap celebrates 50 years of arts in the wild — so what’s another rainstorm? 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Aged eight, Ms Macdonald was already fascinated by falcons, and came across White’s book; it was unlike any other book about birds she owned. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

"I come across compelling stories all the time, but what drives a story for me is the characters, the personal background," Levin says. Local 'Fallen Hero' story to get TV airing 2011-01-28T23:52:00Z

American viewers might find some of "Ode's" scenes a bit sappy or awkward, with characters who don't always come across as authentic. 'Ode to My Father' stirs the box office and debate in South Korea 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

The former comes across as more disputable and “less absolute and overwhelming.” Illuminating Islam’s Peaceful Origins 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Some of that character comes across in her music. New band of the day: Olivia Sebastianelli (No 1,466) 2013-03-06T16:32:47Z

Then a diversion into why he ceased to be involved with the Occupy movement, before summing up: "I think I probably come across a bit dark." John Murry: 'We praise self-destruction' 2013-06-04T18:00:01Z

In the early 80s, while studying Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics at Oxford, he came across two rival interpretations of it. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

This must be why I come across as “unimaginably self-absorbed.” Apology to my former student 2012-08-27T01:00:00Z

Haberman’s most dedicated detractors tend to claim that she’s too kind to Trump, even while he comes across as dishonest, inept and borderline unhinged in many of her reports. Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

I hope this doesn't come across as rude: have you got more time on your hands now Harry Potter is over? Robbie Coltrane: 'My role in Brave is not exactly glam. Not the sort of thing they would have offered to Brad Pitt' 2012-08-02T19:00:01Z

And for all the soft-spoken beauty of his performance, it comes across as fussy and affected. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

A seemingly gentle soul with an angelic singing voice, she comes across as an unlikely perpetrator of such a grisly act. Review | This ‘Agnes of God’ is blessed by a holy trinity of actors 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Ma and Ax come across not like two artists in their rich maturities, but as endlessly curious, still finding new facets and wonders in this music. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

If he happened to come across anything in the typeface, he would look away. Design: The Look of Letters 2010-12-05T15:00:00Z

Those messages are coming across loud and clear much later in their lives than we had originally thought. Parenting a teen is as intense as a baby, but very different. Why don't we talk about it more? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Yet it is true that “Séance on a Wet Afternoon” came across as trying too hard to be an accessible contemporary opera. Opera Review: An Opera Strays Into a Clairvoyant Realm 2011-04-20T15:57:07Z

While the doctors and nurses came across as never less than caring, their insistence on the over-medicalisation of obesity seemed unconvincing. TV Review: Miniature Britain; Weight Loss Ward; Rome 2012-12-12T22:00:02Z

Mr. Gilbert comes across as a modest, serious-minded musician, both in person and on the podium. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z

Awkwardly propped up in a corner of the gallery, the piece comes across as some kind of dream-world military decoy or fanciful war machine. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-15T00:06:09Z