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• Apr 24, 2015 ... But because he got all of the biggest names in the world, it came off as weird. I think that's why people were turned off. He gotta get an ...
• Apr 24, 2015 ... "But because he got all of the biggest names in the world, it came off as weird. I think that's why people were turned off. He gotta get an ...
• Aug 27, 2015 ... It came off as his own struggle. Derricks and the rest of the cast served the story with gentile affectation and humor, and I was frequently brought ...
• We tried to explore a hybrid of line-art illustration, but it came off as forced. We even tried to place colorized filters on top of photographs to make them one- toned, ...

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• 4 days ago ... That may be due to the fact that when she appeared on an NBC interview with Andrew Mitchell last month, it came off as a hit piece which was ...
• Aug 7, 2015 ... At times, it came off as a little over the top in terms of his delivery. If I have a criticism of Cruz, it's that sometimes his deliveries seems too ...
• It came off as a poor marketing attempt to ape the All Blacks and get some street cred. At a time when England was seemingly putting more effort into off the field ...
• Apr 30, 2014 ... For most reviewers, it came off as a bombastic, amateurish, murky tale about a man finding his exact replica in a rented film. It's been described ...