In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism. |
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In a strange coincidence, the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything opened the same weekend as Interstellar. |
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She tried to rationalize her grandson's strange behavior by blaming it on the boy's father. |
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Still other critics are baffled that Borges was influenced by such strange and disparate sources. |
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In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles. |
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Yet Agency communications specialists are hardly exploring strange new worlds or boldly going where no man has gone before. |
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I actually found it quite pleasurable, and it prepared me for this strange, gypsy lifestyle of an actor. |
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It was a strange world, or seems so in retrospect, built as it was of equal parts meritocracy and autocracy. |
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But the biographical inattention to his voluminous body of written work nonetheless has been a strange oversight. |
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What if, however, my belief system is just my way of explaining away a strange and annoying syndrome to myself? |
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You were doing what you could in a strange, intense, abridged amount of time. |
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We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven. |
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There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone. |
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In the mornings a strange dyky-looking fortyish woman lies on the beach but does not appear to belong to the hotel. |
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An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician. |
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I didn't think it at all strange that a thirteen-year-old boy in the unreconstructed Southern town of Stamps spoke with an Englishy accent. |
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An assistant arrived with a wheeled cart bearing coffee in an Erlenmeyer flask, cups, and a plate of strange muffins. |
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He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress. |
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And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity. |
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A strange game at the table involves oranges and kitchen implements flying as one or two bored housemates read or slide fetally under the table. |
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So strange a revolution never happens in poetry, but either heaven or earth give some forenotice of it. |
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Through a fugg of drink and fatigue, a strange clarity was starting to emerge. |
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Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable. |
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During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables. |
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The nationalist movement in Scotland is associated with flags, strange costumes, weird music and extravagant ceremonial. |
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There was a strange agitation in Prout's manner, a strange hurriedness in his tones. |
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The results of our model show that the strange and non-strange baryons spectra are in general fairly well reproduced. |
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What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of hypostasis? |
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Is the person acting in a strange manner, behaving illogically and seemingly out of touch with reality? |
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It was a strange conceit, with our owne affliction to goe about to please and appay divine goodnesse. |
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However, rats are territorial animals, meaning that they usually act aggressively or scared of strange rats. |
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The veil was woven of faith, illusion, and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. |
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They arise to a strange and prodigious multitude, if not indefinitude, by their various positions, combinations, and conjunctions. |
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I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes. |
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I was memorising the dictionary, as you do, when I came across a strange word that I hadn't seen before. |
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Mr Lackersteen tottered after her, with a strange ataxic step caused partly by earth-tremors and partly by gin. |
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The autumn of life is also a matter of saying farewell, but the strange thing is that I do not feel it is autumn. |
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He said good night and left her wondering bewilderedly what strange thing her dad would do next. |
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The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness. |
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He wore black three-quarter cargo pants with that same strange belt, except his had a chain running from that to his cargos. |
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The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor. |
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The men too wear a strange Chineselike pigtail and other exotic hair styles. |
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Bozo had a strange way of talking, Cockneyfied and yet very lucid and expressive. |
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Heat the tomato sauce in a nonreactive pan. Aluminum is particularly not a nonreactive metal, it will discolor badly and impart a strange flavor. |
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The navvy was certainly not a pretty sight. His muscular arms and legs were all a-sprawl and his head hung back at a strange angle to his body. |
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Comedies are often filled with witty remarks, unusual characters, and strange circumstances. |
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There they are aided by Tom Bombadil, a strange and merry fellow who lives with his wife Goldberry in the forest. |
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The islands had a very mixed population, of whose habits several strange stories are told. |
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The South American continent became home to strange animals such as pyrotheres and astrapotheres, as well as litopterns and notoungulates. |
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Again Puck translated to Kadmiel in the strange, solemn-sounding language, and at last Kadmiel laughed. |
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The system may seem strange when compared with domestic court processes, but its purpose is to encourage states to submit cases. |
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It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son. |
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A sea floor map will show a rather strange pattern of blocky structures that are separated by linear features perpendicular to the ridge axis. |
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Airborne geomagnetic surveys showed a strange pattern of symmetrical magnetic reversals on opposite sides of ridge centers. |
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The pyrotheres and astrapotheres were also strange but were less diverse and disappeared earlier, well before the interchange. |
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Pell-mell they rushed for Inverness and safety, leaving the strange battlefield to the stalwart five. |
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The old smell of dead whale permeates everything. It is a strange and curious place. |
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An insatiable traveller, he wrote picaresquely of strange places and stranger men. |
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Its aim is to observe a situation without imposing any deductive structure or framework upon it and to view everything as strange or unique. |
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Many peoples have dismissed alien cultures and even rival civilizations, because they were unrecognizably strange. |
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Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. |
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Then he went off into his own updated, posteverything style, full of explicit dissonance, repetition and strange dynamics. |
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If one notices a strange noise or feels threatened, a warning bray is sent out and all others become alert. |
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The Netherlands, however, was a land whose culture and language were strange and difficult for the English congregation to understand or learn. |
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When Grimm's law was discovered, a strange irregularity was spotted in its operation. |
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Sandwiches arrived from outside, strange granular bread, the butter on it liquid, some sort of beige meat paste that hinted at ptomaine. |
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It was strange to see me standing there with those two wild Punjaubees waiting for the man who was coming to his death. |
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The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange kind of mesmeric fascination upon the mob demagogue or would-be putschist. |
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It seems strange that this hill should be associated with snakes, though adders are not uncommon in the Lake District. |
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It may be thought strange that I could abstain from a woman who to most people was so attractive. |
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However, he soon becomes disenchanted with her British accent and her penchant for strange footwear. |
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Tacitus describes it as a strange cultivation method, practiced by the Germans. |
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As Zac walked over to the sausage sizzle, he noticed something strange. The guy flipping the sausages was staring right at him. |
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How strange to discover the only novel to be Peter Benchley's outrageous tale of demonic sharkdom, Jaws. |
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He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper. |
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I smartassed and smack-talked half of the interview, but as I relaxed a bit more and genuinely talked with them, a strange thing happened. |
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The strange man with the large head spooked me out so much until I realized it was only a picture. |
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Then he paused a while, and Adrian seemed to hear certain strange squeakings proceeding from the walls. |
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She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in. |
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I never saw him, but Jackie Langley told me Kerouac was a strange bird, stayed drunk, talked crazy, brooded. |
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The high intricate ways of the Keep had a strange power of suasion, an ability to carry conviction. |
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Strickland seemed to bear in his heart strange harmonies and unadventured patterns, and I foresaw for him an end of torture and despair. |
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But the hoopla over it reflects some strange and antiquated thinking. |
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The tower radioed the flight leader, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr., and requested that he engage and attempt to identify the strange visitor. |
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The sacristan was a strange little creature, with a pinched Mongolian face and only a few wartish hairs blossoming on his chin. |
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Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character. |
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The Russian presence, represented by an armored personnel carrier parked sideways across the road, created a strange situation. |
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Your child dives into the deep sea and meets a wonderworld of strange creatures! |
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I am lying head down and legs up in a very strange, what-feels-like water bed in the only vacant spot in the hospital. |
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Such admiration for the American system sounds strange in this era of gridlock and bickering. |
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It is an intense feeling going on stage to that many people and with the added wooziness it was quite strange. |
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These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying. |
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Well, mass'r, I can't say for Lucinda and Dinah, but I should feel like a cat in a strange garret. |
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They've got a live one in the crowd, he's scary, he looks dangerous, demon possessed, he doesn't know who he is, he speaks in strange voices. |
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We sat in the car for about ten minutes watching that strange magnesiumlike glow. It did not budge. |
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Mica, Kai, and Matthias find themselves at the epicenter of miracles, strange majick, and disaster. |
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Mardi-gras was ushered in with various ceremonies, offering a strange mixture of devotion and profaneness. |
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At night, in the king's palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's strange habit of sleepwalking. |
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In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality. |
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It must have been very strange for him being alone after they had been married for more than 50 years. |
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Martin Amis, an important novelist in the late twentieth and twentieth centuries, carried into fiction this drive to make the familiar strange. |
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I sat down on the wooden side of a mill-dam and thought over the past night and the strange adventure in the entrance-hall of Agnes' house. |
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The choice of a Tory publication was regarded as strange by Disraeli's friends and relatives, who thought him more of a Radical. |
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She sobbed herself to sleep and then dreamed she was walking on a beach on a moonful night, a strange but distantly known city on the horizon. |
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Her memoir gives some insight into the strange environment in which Thomas worked as a young priest. |
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So many characteristics that had been strange and unfathomable to me before, took, as it were, their right proportions. |
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I feel a lot of women think you're a freak if you feel like that, and maybe I am strange but I never got that feeling. |
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So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. |
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The Indika itself contained numerous fantastical stories of people with backwards feet, ears large enough to sleep in, no mouths, or other strange features. |
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In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them. |
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But after the little matter at the mess Billy Budd no more found himself in strange trouble at times about his hammock or his clothesbag or what not. |
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But of the strange and little people, inhabiting that proximitous world beyond the thin veil of time and space, he knew all they all knew in those wild parts of the land. |
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Then they passed by lonely brickfields. The fog was lighter here, and he could see the strange, bottle-shaped kilns with their orange, fanlike tongues of fire. |
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Although this might seem strange, it occurred because plans for the castle had changed since 1070, and more land had been acquired in Clewer on which to site a castle town. |
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She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players. |
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From the start of their strange and embattled marriage, they established a pattern of suddenly pulling up stakes with little notice to family members or neighbors. |
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Her height and massiveness in the low room gave her the look of a huge sibyl, while the strange fragrance of the mysterious herb blew in from the little garden. |
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The main characters, swept by tumults of the earth, the skies and the hearts, are strange and often possessed of unheard of violence and deprivations. |
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I ran the grammar checker on my novel, but the strange names confused it. |
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It came at last with a mother-of-pearl sheen at the zenith, such as I had never seen before in the tropics, unglowing, almost grey, with a strange reminder of high latitudes. |
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He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds. |
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There was a strange quiet in the normally very lively plaza. |
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Some strange noises were coming from up above, but I continued to climb. |
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Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness. |
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So whosoever shall entertain high and vaporous imaginations, instead of a laborious and sober inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange and impossible shapes. |
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You call out the names in this strange incomprehensible language, and you're looking into the glass and there appears to be this little man talking to you. |
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Snitter is the most hopeful character in the book, and the most mysterious, since he can have several strange ramblings concerning his condition and past events. |
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He would often get recognized in public, which made him feel strange. |
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The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a remote land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts, and rich in gold. |
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His jargon of slang was a continuous joy and surprise to them. His gestures, his strange poses, his frank ribaldry of tongue and principle fascinated them. |
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For them the vendange was a feast, a ritual, a time of strange excitement, more intense by far than the harvest of the corn in the north, more religious. |
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I have seen many strange things in my saunterings around London. |
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The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe. |
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How are my powres fore-spoke? what strange distaste is this? |
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Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums. |
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Known locally as the olitiau, the creature that buzzed Dr. Sanderson was similar to dozens of other strange birds said to still inhabit remote corners of Africa. |
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Many genera are totally indentured to the abyssal zone, such as many cidaroids, most of the genera in the Echinothuriidae family, or the strange genus Dermechinus. |
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He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard. |
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It was strange because the boy I was fighting with had developed a reputation for being able to shoot the boots and I was supposed to be good with my hands. |
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A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. |
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Only Peter was out of the picture. He was a strange, disconsolate figure, as he shifted about to ease his leg, or gazed incuriously from the window. |
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Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable, and which the doctor admonished them to keep to themselves. |
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She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged. |
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Over the violence and the proud loyalties, over the sold-out-ness and the cruel indifference, there is light reclothing us in a kind of strange innocence. |
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So she sat, looking at the rain, listening to the many noiseless noises of it, and to the strange soughings of wind in upper branches, when there seemed to be no wind. |
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She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged. |
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So by wildsome ways in strange countries and through many waters and valleys rode Martimor forty days, but adventure met him none, blow the wind never so fierce or fickle. |
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Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and the Boy ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared. |
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In art, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting ranged from the strange work of Hieronymus Bosch to the everyday life depictions of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. |
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Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. |
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He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter. |
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When Hernando Cortes and his 500 men invaded Mexico in 1519, they were captivated by the appetisingly spicy taste of the strange beverage that was alien to their own culture. |
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On cultural grounds, the hostility came forth due to the trade and acquisition of strange foreign goods which stood in contrast to their Confucian ideologies. |
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When the fog lifted that evening, a strange light was seen playing about the dome of the Hagia Sophia, which some interpreted as the Holy Spirit departing from the city. |
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She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee! |
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