Even women who always "made an effort" came across as sweet rather than sinister.
Compared with the harsh lens of mainstream pornography, the videos come across as sweet, earnest, languid, playful and deeply human.
She comes across as sweet and lovely – and she is – but then she'll come out with something outrageous and we'll be hooting with laughter.
Occasionally I come across rhubarb sweet enough to need only the meanest spoonful of sugar - especially the delightfully mild forced rhubarb of midwinter.
Taking the Marvin Gaye of "Sexual Healing" as his model, and merging Gaye's undulating grooves with a touch of Sade, Maxwell comes across as sweet but virile, with touches of mysticism and eccentricity giving depth to his come-ons.
But with or without some official diagnosis, I seem to have stumbled across the sweet elixir to my napping happiness.
Suddenly, you could come across a sweet clip from Beyoncé or Arcade Fire, watch it for a few seconds, then pop it into the corner of your feed and just listen.
Photographer John Crane was out hiking around a few days ago, and came across a sweet ice cave that he felt would look great if he used a green filter on the flash.
Even slogging through that pile, Romney came across as sweet, good-natured and, to the best of her ability, genuinely empathetic.
Eldad Hagar, Hope For Paws founder, and his friend Lisa Arturo, were touring the streets of L.A.'s South Central neighborhood when they came across a sweet but skittish stray.
