| For many others, learning Chinese is not for business but a life skill that helps conquer the feeling of strangeness in an unfamiliar city. |
| Yet, just as in a Chinese painting, the wildness of the scene, and its strangeness, accentuates the impression of harmony and civilisation. |
| There was an aura of strangeness around the set, a sort of quiet eeriness to it all. |
| God forbid the eccentrics should start eating the mushrooms because then the strangeness really gets out of hand. |
| The two instruments are tuned a quarter-tone apart, and it's incredible how soon the ear becomes accustomed to the strangeness of this tuning. |
| Eccentricity, strangeness and individuality I like, conformity I flirt with. |
