FN: a phenomenon has a transient effect upon an experiencer causing some type of cognitive evaluation or response. As a former pilot , the President was struck by the apparent sophistication of the operation and some of the piloting , especially Hanjour 's high-speed dive into the Pentagon .Those familiar with Safire 's editorial style , reflected in his political columns on the editorial pages of The N. Y. Times , may agree with me in the contention that when he writes about language he seems to be writing on his day off : I can not put my finger on why , but `` On Language '' always strikes me as an excruciating effort to be cute .The other thing that struck me about Bradley 's performance was the somewhat inconsistent quality of what one journalist recently described as his streak of `` civic mysticism . ''The interview , occasioned by McPherson 's 70 th birthday , appeared in the `` Style '' section of Oct. 20 's Washington Post . McPherson was introduced , quite properly , as an important former aide to Lyndon Johnson and author of a `` much-praised '' memoir , A Political Education . Chatterbox will even go along with the interview 's overall tone of deference ( headline : `` The Long View of a Changing Capital '' ) ; from a distance , McPherson has always struck Chatterbox as a kind , thoughtful , and ( for the most part ) honorable man .In one of the strips , one of the characters is jumping rope and says , `` Suddenly it struck me that it all seemed futile . ''What really struck me in Skidelsky 's account , however , was the extent to which conventional opinion in the 1920s viewed high unemployment as a good thing , a sign that excesses were being corrected and discipline restored -- so that even a successful attempt to reflate the economy would be a mistake .That struck me as dubious .This struck Einstein as grotesque , so he added to his theory a fiddle factor called the `` cosmological constant '' that eliminated the implication and held the universe still .If the president was seeing a shrink , that struck Chatterbox as big news .He is also struck by what is left unexplained when size is accounted for : animals of the same size can still show more than an order of magnitude variation in metabolic rate .Where ellipses occur , I have not bothered to copy down the entire list of offerings , selecting only those that struck me as odd , either because of the incongruity of the choice or because I could not , in my wildest flights of dyslexic , schizophrenic fancy , imagine the criteria employed in arriving at the selections .True , they tend to have the emotional autonomy of 8-year-olds , but they 're less of a labor to `` read '' than ordinary mortals : It 's their business -- you might say their existential orientation -- to communicate their thoughts and feelings in an engaging fashion every millisecond . I mention this because the first thing that struck me about the much-hyped satirical comedy EdTV , which purports to show the effect of TV cameras brought into the homes of real people , is that almost no one on-screen seems ever to have met a real ( i.e .'' French handyman '' strikes my American ears as oxymoronically as `` American intellectual '' probably strikes French ones .The facts that McPherson was an old friend of Kaiser 's and a former boss of Janeway 's were noted prominently , and did not strike Chatterbox as disqualifying .Some of them strike us immediately as exotic but others ( shampoo , for instance ) are in such common use that people are often astonished to learn that they have a foreign origin .My worry about Bennett 's lack of teaching experience struck me especially while reading the math section in The Educated Child . Bennett presents a perfectly reasonable sequence of math skills .In 1974 , he exhibited a series of deathbed portraits of his father , a New York clothing retailer , which struck many viewers ( including Avedon 's son ) as an act of unchecked Oedipal hostility .LSC staff were struck by the many innovative systems used across the country .At first , Rea 's hangdog persona struck me as overly pitiable for Henry : A more repressed , formal Englishman would make his wife 's open disregard seem less cruel .Then it struck me : Barry Diller is the Antichrist .No , what struck Jacob as oppressively squalid was the subject matter he was forced to contemplate week after week : fleeting , age-inappropriate sexual liaisons in the Oval Office ; the seep of money into every cranny of the political system ; Trent Lott ; Newt Gingrich .It always struck me as strange that in the period when crime was increasing in cities , politicians blamed the problem on the pathologies in the inner-city communities .We were struck by the similarities between free radical signals that appeared after reperfusion and those noticed by Grech and colleagues ( figure ) .As newcomers to Conference the IBOA delegation was very forcibly struck by the similarity between the problems faced by the Association and those of the wider Trade Union Movement .Every time I saw her , I was struck by her beauty .I was struck by the fact that the majority of people visiting our stalls at summer shows had either not heard of us , or had only the vaguest idea about what we do .I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot .Imbalance of this sort is only to be expected ; for we are very human and our understanding is limited and our perspectives often determined by what has particularly struck us .We are particularly struck by the concern that doctors are now expected to work in multidisciplinary teams , not automatically as their leaders .Both of them were immediately struck by how clean the city was as they walked along the wide litter-free pavement that ran alongside the lake .Franca was immediately struck by Marcus 's appearance .Letterman confided to me after one of our tennis games that my pieces in Manhattan had always struck him as somewhat trivial -- artifices -- until he read my piece ` Drancy , Ante-chamber of Death '' .Armin Jordan is still somewhat under-rated in this country , yet has always struck me as one of the most intuitively musical conductors around .The thought of the bust always struck me as hilarious .She had n't seen him for nearly three months and she was struck anew by his good looks .It had suddenly struck her that he was a stranger in the town , and might have nowhere to go .It suddenly struck me as odd that , close friends as we were with Charlie , I did not know his London address .I am always struck by Pollini 's extraordinary ability to integrate even the most fearless of contrasts into a convincing whole .This individual , however , is not suddenly struck by a brilliant idea .