Olbermann said that his previous employer had all sorts of motives for making him seem more difficult than he is, but admits there's something in it.
"I hate to tell Mark Green, I don't have a disease, OK?" This week, Green broke his silence and responded to some of the criticism, going after the "liberal left" for making him seem like an LGBTQ "hater".
This is a great choice for McCain, making him seem more human and sophisticated than his stump speeches.
Although he was born in Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Trillin has written about New York for The New Yorker for more than 40 years, making him seem more the quintessential New Yorker than most native-born residents.
Scheijen deserves credit for narrating Benois's grievances without making him seem a whiner.
And his elegant, if slightly quirky, work for Rochas made him seem like a reasonable fit for the legacy of Elsa Schiaparelli, whose midcentury work included many collaborations with the Surrealists.
It's all very well being 'controversial' – Yonkers proved that he's got it in him to balance wit and genuinely terrifying menace – but eventually all that jumping up and down for attention makes him seem like a just-evicted Big Brother contestant circa 2005.
Trump's disdain for what he calls political correctness, and often for common courtesy, made him seem uncompromising, even though a passion for dealmaking — that is, for finding advantageous ways to compromise — lies at the heart of his origin story.
As in Wagner, the thick-textured orchestra dominates, slowly churning away under the vocal lines, which are delivered mostly in melodramatic arioso with occasional lyrical flights: echoes of sultry Spanish folk songs for Salud, and Italianate outpourings for Paco that make him seem out of place and not to be trusted.
By his later years, Judt's adherence to scholarly standards, along with his contempt for charlatans such as Louis Althusser and for academic fashion, made him seem a conservative figure to more modish colleagues.
The film promises to do for the US president what Nowhere Boy did for John Lennon, ie make him seem like the world's most insufferable plank.
