“He can strike one as being a very formal person, and he has cultivated that to some degree,” said Marie Arana, a Peruvian-American writer and former editor of The Washington Post’s books section.

This experience of his no doubt would at first strike one as being very strongly in favour of his theory; but on going deeply into the matter, its bearing on the fish’s powers of vision is not so great as it appears.

The title is an awkward fit; although Wasserstein was named for J. M. Barrie’s heroine, Wendy, most of the “boys” she befriended don’t strike one as being particularly lost.

Yet when one looked more closely at him, he did not strike one as being the sort of man who would idle his life away on the pavements or in the clubs.

This storekeeper informed us that the emigration from Norway to the States was enormous just now, 325 especially to Minnesota and Wisconsin, and that no less than sixteen men had gone this year from the little village of Vaage—a place which does not strike one as being likely to contain that number of able-bodied men at one time.