Feeling strangely out of place, DJ fiddled with her fingers in her lap and looked around nervously. |
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I went so far as to admit this fact baldly in a recent declaration which was commented upon most strangely. |
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Astaire was famous for incorporating a strangely elegant mix of tap and ballroom. |
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After spending years in art-house theaters to avoid cheesy blockbusters, I was strangely comforted seeing American film culture here. |
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Button mashing your way through little scuffles feels strangely satisfying since most games of this type don't allow you to get your hands dirty. |
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I am strangely drawn to a scungy flophouse which, as the night advances, turns out be a brothel. |
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I waded through the taxi-park bedlam into a matatu, and was squashed up on all sides by strangely comforting fat hips, warm arms, moist breaths. |
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It is cheap and strangely enjoyable, but no match for a genuine blockbuster. |
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Beyond that, her soprano is strangely colorless, and her projection of the text flat and matter-of-fact. |
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Shara saw Deidre looking at her strangely, as if measuring her words for duplicity. |
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While he is strangely compelling in this role at first, the red and self-pitying eyes get old after the first 30 minutes. |
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It's a rather chirpy little guitar-pop song with a melody that is strangely reminiscent of the Postman Pat theme tune. |
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Its childish simplicity, with cheap cha-cha beatbox rhythm and wobbly guitar, is both disarming and strangely poignant. |
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During our one week cooling off period after signing the papers, I was strangely serene. |
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There's a certain amount of a strangely fragrant and singing and dancing and calling out substance about, even in comments boxes. |
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I also found myself strangely unable to go to bed while building a model house with a roof of valleys and gables. |
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His joyfully mysterious grin strangely comforted her because it made him appear gentler, less severe. |
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More impressive still, its microstructure is strangely bound up with the way in which it is consulted. |
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It felt strangely comforting to towel off and put my worn, old, casual clothes on. |
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Ray arrived and ordered a pint of shandy, Mark looked at him strangely and then noticed the car keys Ray had put on the bar. |
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The early morning sun filtered through breaks in the canopy, casting strangely shaped shadows over the ground. |
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The pork cutlets also looked good, although the shashlik I ordered was strangely cold. |
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Ultimately, he is strangely apolitical, incapable of transcending the limits of the entertainment industry. |
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Presentation of the food was also flawed, with the lamb bhuna sauce, for example, strangely dark in colour and, utterly unappetising. |
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She doesn't need to articulate as much, her hooting, strangely mirthless laugh says it for her. |
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As we filled our pockets greedily, the family playing cricket in the wind looked at us strangely. |
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It was one of those strangely placed stores in shopping centres which crop up more and more nowadays. |
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There you'll find about a hundred cartoons, many with strangely poetic mistranslated English text. |
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A Siamese had only a stub of a tail, a short-haired spotted cat walked strangely, with only three legs. |
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The smooth, hour-long journey along the highway with tunes blaring was exhilarating but strangely relaxing. |
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When the big money shot in the movie leaves you strangely unmoved you know you have a problem. |
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Single player games, while strangely entertaining, end up being little more than turkey shoots. |
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His wide, crooked blaze was unique, giving him a goofy, yet strangely appealing look. |
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The valley that had been echoing with battle cries, shouted orders and loud curses fell strangely silent. |
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Bridget was riding her bicycle on the sidewalk when the silver-haired old man called out to her in his sweet but scratchy, strangely dusty voice. |
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Although the planet is strangely Earth-like, you soon discover that it is ruled by intelligent and ruthless simians. |
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It was mostly a number of the lecturers that refused to believe the notice, strangely enough. |
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Outlined against the setting sun, the silhouette took on a strangely surreal beauty, as if a shadow's penumbra and umbra were fused together. |
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The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed. |
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About two-thirds the way through the opening credits, the screen fills with a blurry, strangely soft image. |
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They were puzzled at the undemonstrativeness of the conquered people and thought them strangely sullen. |
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Around and around she spun, gazing into his black eyes, her head spinning, her mind strangely muzzy. |
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It even comes with unique packaging, strangely wrapped in a cardboard slip case and inner artwork that resembles a little starship. |
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Though she sings with a glorious range of tone and pinpoint accuracy, hers is a strangely uninvolved performance. |
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This is because a strangely named religious institution was at the heart of the scandal. |
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The bursting tree buds looked strangely familiar to those who had botanized among the garnishings of the fish course of a forty-cent dinner. |
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The narrators are often strangely limited third-person or unreliable first-person narrators, or there are multiple, shifting narrators. |
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When I fired up the computer it was to find the world of the Internet strangely quiet and largely unreachable. |
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They're the little plastic figurines where the hair is removable and strangely boofy. |
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I still feel like upchucking, but I'm listening to the Katy Rose album and strangely it's making me feel better. |
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And this has a sagging effect on the story, which launches itself with such brio and yet is strangely underpowered. |
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After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money. |
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Most reports of the now public autopsy results sound a strangely triumphal note. |
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Mr. Harris had not spared any expense, especially now with his wife acting so strangely. |
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The artist will contrast vermilion, fuchsia and a yellow, and the painting will feel strangely crepuscular. |
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When I saw the painting, strangely executed on the upper glass panes of a door, I was spellbound. |
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As the spiderlings mature and begin to mill about, the mother becomes strangely subdued. |
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As far as I can see, it's strangely similar to the process that is used to engineer artificial languages out of vowelless alphabets. |
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At that time it was noticed that the defendant was behaving strangely, said the prosecution. |
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A steel drum or Hawaiian guitar burbles in the background, strangely haunting. |
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For an article trying to drive home the point that more critical approaches are necessary, the content is strangely off-topic. |
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And strangely enough it is one of the temptations of old men and old women. |
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The sun had begun to set, making the sky and clouds a strangely ominous pinkish hue. |
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As she looked up, her blonde hair cascading over her shoulders, she saw a tall strangely familiar man standing in front of her. |
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After breakfast I went into our Canberra office and caught up with some old colleagues which was strangely reassuring. |
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His account shows how race was a strangely literal category of analysis at the time. |
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Throughout China, large strangely shaped rocks are grouped outside entrances to new skyscrapers. |
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For all its specificity in certain areas, the painting remains strangely vague in others. |
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It seems oddly ironic that one could build an exterior of strength, that being strong seems strangely easier than being weak. |
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The brilliant orb of light was strangely captivating, perhaps in part due to the strobing effect the lizard's rapidly fluttering wings created. |
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While I'm not saying that he deserved to die, those last few stumbles of his into the swimming pool now seem strangely satisfying. |
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You emphasize that some of those magazines from the past are strangely not outdated. |
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Searching for the bar through the haze, I see many people bustling about, strangely all similarly outfitted. |
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When I picked her up from her first school dance she was strangely subdued and even shaken. |
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Her mind strangely quiet as she followed, the well-lit and clearly labeled works of oils, watercolors, and charcoals were barely noticed. |
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There is something strangely mesmerising about a snake-charmer's snake but, at the end of the day, you realise it is just another cheap trick. |
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She raised a finger to her lips and traced them, strangely she could taste the sour but sweet taste still there. |
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Mary placed the muzzle against his forehead and when she spoke, her voice was hoarse and sounded strangely foreign to herself. |
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He strangely felt like a nervous school boy picking up his homecoming date. |
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It contrasts strangely with the view of the Japanese who freely admitted that it was the Chindits who forced them to abandon northern Burma. |
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An abundance of natural honey and beige shades are mixed with tones that strangely complement each other, such as brilliant red and pale blue. |
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If you're ever honeymooning in a foreign land, odds are strangely good that you'll meet other honeymooners who live remarkably close by. |
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It was strangely haunting and surreal and somehow gave the impression of being French. |
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Three strangely dressed men stand in the moonlight by three panting camels. |
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All she heard was a strangely familiar tune, softly hummed in time with the steps. |
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And most of the blonde wigs seemed to drain me of colour, making me look pale and strangely hung-over. |
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The strangely murky waters of the UK's broadband market were stirred up once again last week, making things clear as mud, as usual. |
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Mason patted her on the arm, a strangely paternal gesture, and sauntered past her father with barely a tip of his hat. |
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Four of the heads wear masks of applied gold-leaf, and it gleams strangely over the green patina of the ancient bronze. |
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He booked big receivables from customers who, strangely, didn't book matching payables. |
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This compilation sounds like nothing else and proves to be strangely hypnotic and fascinating. |
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Sometimes the images appear to be strangely illuminated or may be seen from a peculiar angle. |
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His self-assuredness, cockney accent and slightly droopy bottom lip are strangely endearing. |
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And isn't it strangely coincidental that Scotland Yard were involved in all this, at this particular time? |
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But it seems to us that some of the wishes are strangely coincidental with Microsoft's own wishes. |
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The towers look like beacons in the stormy night, still strangely reassuring in their solidity and familiarity. |
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Then he broke into hearty laughter, and strangely, patted my shoulder in an almost fatherly manner. |
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The concept of a tragic flaw, after all, is strangely comforting, even absolving. |
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The early tone of the picture is strangely incongruous with the horrifying turn of events at the end. |
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Having lived among it in its homeland though, US culture suddenly seems strangely incongruous here. |
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It made me jump at first, but once I was used to it, I found them strangely comical. |
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Their liaison takes place, strangely and indiscreetly, on a bed in a vast open gallery. |
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The umpire looks at me strangely, as a matter of fact, the whole infield of The Indians team was staring at me. |
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It is mildly repulsive in its crude vulgarity, but strangely and inexplicably alluring. |
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I wanted to establish a range of concordances and contrasts between the paintings so the show is strangely animated. |
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I found it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there rolling about in the liquid part. |
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Yet strangely it has no effective role in treating the most common type of anaemia to affect hospital inpatients. |
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Later, journalists tracked him down to the Philippines, but the Filipino authorities were strangely unable to find him. |
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Its sweeping soundscapes, rustic plaintiveness and nods to Curtis Mayfield all added up to a strangely uninvolving experience. |
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They love car rides, of course, and their enthusiasm is strangely contagious. |
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The toy appeared strangely incongruous, almost an antique among the plastic playthings that littered the floor. |
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I look admiringly at the strangely worked beauty of his art while the two men talk intimately together. |
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In another strangely bizarre move, I have also agreed to try out for A's women's five-a-side football team next week. |
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He felt strangely calm, the knowledge of certain death making him more cool-headed than he had ever been. |
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The Tories, however, have moved swiftly from being an irrelevance to becoming strangely fascinating. |
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First came a gravlax-and-tuna combination, crowned with a net of Japanese seaweed salad in a strangely tangy mango vinaigrette. |
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It is not ideology, it is incarnation and when it infects our lives we too become incarnated, real, fleshly, vulnerable, and strangely free. |
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Colleen was standing near the door, smiling strangely, trying to pop the cork on a bottle of Merlot. |
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The vision of her body, flotsam on the water, is at once both corpse-like and strangely beautiful. |
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One of my floor manager supervisor type people has been behaving very strangely lately. |
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American folk songs and patriotic songs played in the background but seemed strangely out of place in such an unfamiliar setting. |
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The batter itself, thinly spread, cooked to almost crispiness and folded in a square, was at first strangely sweet. |
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Even those who merely dallied with the legend found themselves strangely affected. |
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At dawn's first light they reached the wrought iron gates of the palace, strangely ajar. |
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And yet, watching short previews of 30 of this year's offerings at the Fringe-for-all last week, it all seemed strangely familiar. |
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The end result was strangely beautiful and ghostlike, suggesting a lifeless but beautifully frozen world. |
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Hundreds of Maltese commute into the capital which strangely becomes something of a ghost town at night, once all the shops have shut. |
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Then he noticed Andrew acting strangely, grinning and waving, talking gibberish to himself and fidgeting. |
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I looked at him, though still on the floor, his eyes were gleaming strangely with pride and amazement. |
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Yet in the context of 1935, the closing words also seem strangely prophetic. |
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She ran over to the stereo and quickly hit the Next button, ending the strangely prophetical tune. |
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Both sides made enough chances, but the finishing was deplorable, but strangely when the odd score came the quality was top drawer. |
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Today, I caught the super-early bus, which deposited me upon a strangely studentless Swanston Street. |
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But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency charged with safeguarding the nation's 103 reactors, remained strangely purblind to the threat. |
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Those new to jazz will be thrown into one of the most intense, edgy jazz experiences that sounds strangely modern. |
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Backstage is strangely eerie, so I go to my dressing-room for some quiet time. |
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The large painting is strangely diffuse and lacking in structure for that master of tight, well-ordered composition. |
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The fields on either side were strangely empty and quiet, with almost no livestock to be seen. |
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There is no doubt that despair has gripped the cricket fraternity in the Caribbean but strangely none has come up with a remedy. |
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The man beside me, a burly, smelly man with a grizzly black beard and a mole on his nose, was looking at me strangely. |
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She looked blowsy, she looked like an unhappy, beaten-down woman, and she was eating grossly and acting very strangely. |
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Sympathy for what he himself has overcome since last August is strangely thin on the ground. |
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This is a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love. |
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And there is a strangely discontented mood abroad in the land as prosperity has brought its own problems, not least envy and impatience. |
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They're uncomfortable, and sometimes dissonant, but mostly they're strangely fun, which makes all these other qualities more bearable. |
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She walks around with some strange sense of entitlement and ego, thanks to her own narcissism and dumb fans who strangely look up to her! |
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Well, they do say that American politics is strangely dynastic for a democracy. |
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He plays not only his usual double bass but also a viola da gamba which strangely matches the moody quality of the Russian tunes. |
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It was unusual for me to set off on my own and the journey down was strangely lacking in atmosphere. |
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She haltered the strangely docile stallion and tied him up in the tie racks, next to an extremely irritable paint gelding being groomed. |
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Yet in a play that explores spiritual emptiness, the sense of absence is strangely appropriate. |
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As he wandered along the road to the bus station he felt strangely hollow and remained silent on the journey to Horsham. |
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It seems they have a strangely warped sense of what they think is funny as well. |
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It's all spiky and jaggy and it should be off-putting, but it strangely isn't because it has this antenna-like thing about it. |
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Moira McCauley has travelled around the Scottish islands sourcing abandoned homes for a strangely chilling exhibition. |
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And let the last word quoted here be one of Elizabeth's own, illustrative of her strangely mingled temperament of queenliness and insolence. |
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Yet despite the widespread attention these economic woes received, the Japanese public remained strangely quiescent. |
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The bag contained a tunic, a cloth jerkin, a prayer book, and, strangely enough, a book of fairy tales. |
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We've heard nothing but praise for this film so far, but strangely it gets three stars across the board from the broadsheet reviewers. |
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There is something about rainy days that can make you feel strangely melancholic and happy at the same time. |
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Everybody, except Sandara who was busy eating some adobo, looked at Hero strangely. |
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I was concerned, of course, that she'd be a ratbag for the rest of the day, but strangely, it didn't work out that way. |
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It was, rather strangely, his extensive knowledge of astrology that led to his first appointment. |
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For a moment, the murk feels strangely comforting, like walking out of a rave into the balm of an urban winter smog. |
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My vehicle was acting strangely with the gauges not reading the correct data. |
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Both women said they felt strangely invigorated by the reality check of measuring their steps. |
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The rechargeable torch won't recharge, and the adding machine in my office is behaving strangely. |
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As she finished lacing the tall boots and fastening the large belt buckle, she felt strangely different, unfamiliar even to herself. |
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None of us even thought of looking strangely at him, dinning third-year Circuit Theory into our heads. |
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She felt strangely reminiscent of her father gazing at at the glossy surfaces of the jewel. |
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The opus did not now leave the strangely, ambiguously ambivalent feeling it had an hour earlier. |
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Despite a period in hospital for surgery on an enlarged prostate last January, he looks zippy, chipper and strangely ageless. |
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The sense of angst and melancholy conveyed by Lumley, with the aid of director Hugo Blick, is strangely appealing. |
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The enormous fish, which measured nearly 2m in length, strangely offered little resistance and was hauled up to the boat. |
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The strangely pleasant thing about this is that it reverses the law of diminishing returns. |
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Weird images with psycho colours or strangely reversed black and white tones are the hallmarks of using this type of film. |
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I found myself strangely, nay, irresistibly attracted to this shocking and revolting oppressor of women and blacks. |
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It looked to be some sort of leathery tissue, but in a strangely rigid shape. |
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The strangely quiet coffee shop, book shop and supermarket were very much to our liking. |
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If high politics often seems strangely apolitical, everyday life is extraordinarily politicised. |
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She finds a wall mirror and finishes drying her eyes, and then she smiles strangely, admiring herself. |
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Thus rather strangely, the potential arbiter of morality is always the individual, but only when seen in his entire complexity. |
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He looks at me strangely, half with astonishment, and half with what seems to be fear. |
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I am in awe of the atemporal feel that her essays have, and I find her words strangely comforting. |
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A layered and truffled potato cake, and a strangely matched champagne sabayon sauce, could not make the dish click. |
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The very lamentable fact of the nation's interest in two talentless youngsters strangely makes their political apathy less lamentable. |
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She was always strangely content to focus on her job, never talking about her personal life. |
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Stormfront has become a bridge to the mainstream, where controversial comments strangely mirror the rhetoric of avowed racists. |
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It makes for a strangely moving scene, despite or because of the hum of the nearby freeways. |
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The interviews with taxidermists were horrifying, astonishing, strangely touching and stark, staring bonkers. |
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The identity of the artist, strangely enough, has eluded historians. |
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Footwear is in a seductive and strangely combative mood this season. |
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A strangely high proportion of the spam I receive is written in gibberish. |
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With media attention hitting fever pitch, a strangely lupine man called Wolf decides to take up the hunt, interrupting Dusty's incompetent press conference. |
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The modern world takes a strangely ambiguous position on violence. |
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I hate packing, it makes my natural tendency towards anticipatory anxiety all the worse, but the excitement of having a new sponge bag is strangely comforting. |
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Strangely they fail to mention the years he spent living in a communist country. |
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Most strangely, quite a number of them have been from sites in Finnish. |
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During this sequence, Glen, and Wood's alter ego, Lugosi, become male voyeurs who are both disgusted, yet strangely excited, by the activities of the women. |
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The terrain is at once starkly modern, and strangely retro in a pre-feminism Mad Men sort of way. |
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It tasted tangy and strangely sweet, like butterscotch, and caused my normally reserved mother to whisper quiet ululations as she picked at it with her spoon. |
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Voters seem strangely resistant to a campaign based on the Iraq war, the marketisation of public services and new authoritarian powers for the state. |
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Strangely the crowd gave this the same polite applause as they had to the other points he had made. |
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Strangely enough after a bit of argy-bargy the play was transformed and both sides improved as did the quality of the game. |
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The flames constantly multiply, often respawn from inextinguishable red blazes, can never really be put out for good, and occasionally manifest as strangely living things. |
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Strangely enough, the man recovered quickly, and punched Sean, knocking him senseless, and then tore down the alley. |
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Interesting and obscure sports like the omnium and the steeplechase might finally get their due, not to mention insanely popular but strangely neglected ones like soccer. |
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With the first winter barleys cut at the weekend in the Vale of York, harvest has come with a rush and, strangely, this season we are ahead of many of our southern brethren. |
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There was something strangely soothing about having my Aveda Himalayan treatment in a small cave with walls as porous as pumice and pitted as a peach stone. |
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I adapted and my irritation turned into indifference, then strangely, acceptance. |
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Somehow it seems strangely appropriate that this essay is due at about the same time that I am receiving my initiation into the Coven that I work with. |
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I swigged a strangely headless pint of stout, got to know my rather personable and engaging coursemates a little better, and generally had a grand time. |
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Strangely this failure to minute discussions was also mentioned in the Hinduja Report. |
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The journey was short and fast, but strangely uncomfortable. |
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The style is as lapidary as ever, but strangely the mood is lighter than before. |
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To create his strangely evocative forms, he poured a small amount of the liquid onto paper, which he then swirled across the surface by tipping the sheet to and fro. |
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Strangely enough, my executive minuted me that it was very upset about that, but it did not do a great deal about it. |
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In England, the politics of this issue are strangely topsy-turvy. |
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He looked at her strangely, a faint smile touching his lips. |
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It is a strangely ordinary evening in an extraordinary life. |
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Secondary strickles are less obvious but, strangely enough, more important, and therefore more demanding of time, both in selection and execution. |
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The sound hasn't radically changed though the mix is strangely muddier this time around, with the instruments sometimes blurring together into a dense, congealing mass. |
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Ryan is Frannie, the cool and cerebral literary academic who, as a murder inquiry witness, is strangely drawn to the homicide detective played by the excellent Mark Ruffalo. |
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Shoppers were enthusiastic about the extra elbow room, long stretches of frozen food, and the strangely fresh leafy greens sitting under fluorescent lights. |
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The sun was strangely warm on my wrists, or perhaps they were tingling from the potassium iodine. |
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Perversely this album recalls neither the studied club groove nor the agreeably dark pop embraced by its predecessor, and consequentially sounds strangely more accessible. |
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All right, first of all, I've been reading your columns and you're strangely optimistic this year and that in and of itself can hex the Red Sox as we know. |
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Bulgaria also interdicts enormous amounts of narcotics and counterfeit currency but, strangely, there are no successful prosecutions of major drug bosses or counterfeiters. |
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Strangely and incredibly, my daughter stops crying, and I am stupefied and comforted by the realisation I am going to enjoy this. |
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At the same time, like the guest house of a Japanese temple, it provides its users with a chaste, yet strangely luxurious atmosphere in which to contemplate nature. |
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Configuration files are critical to a game program's well-being, and it's fairly easy to mistype something that causes the entire game to crash or act strangely. |
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He speaks in a strangely alienating and unattractive mid-Atlantic English drawl. |
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Two weeks in the world of wholesome niceness also leaves you undefended and strangely serene and a bit childlike. |
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The guys were strangely subdued, given the momentousness of the occasion. |
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Strangely enough, the wound in my remaining arm, which still suppurated, was seized with gangrene. |
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Strangely she's the only one who isn't in communication with the rest of us. |
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It's surprising, then, how a couple of strangely touching notes toward the close redeem a work that boldly straddles the line between total hokum and the very stimulating. |
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It was not until I shot a sideways glance at my friend and noticed her strangely grey complexion that I realised not everything in the garden was rosy. |
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Strangely though, this doesn't come over as frosty or nihilistic, but harmless and complaisant. |
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Strangely enough, the stepping out of the body is at once a stepping into the body, expanded by the sense of interconnection. |
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Strangely I feel this too with the early poems, a sense of deliberation, you can almost hear the typewriter keys hit the paper on the platen. |
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Barlow was strangely evasive with the police, refusing to confirm he was the person who called Atkinson, yet he obviously was. |
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Disturbing, twisted, and strangely beautiful, this Alex Proyas masterpiece is a hard film to categorize. |
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Strangely the minute the cameras left the room they all stopped poncing around and ate fairly quietly too. |
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These highly-publicised doubting Thomases are almost invariably in the pay of oil or automobile multinationals, which seem strangely averse to tackling fossil fuel emissions. |
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The check-in line for our flight was short, and the terminal seemed strangely empty. |
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Indeed, it seems that their priorities were strangely warped. |
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In 1841, a Mrs Harriet Hatt noticed a strangely dressed man enter a shop. |
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Originally open parkland on top of a hill, it is covered in a neat array of ornate, almost dreamlike, yet strangely functional Art Nouveau architecture. |
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That thought of being so scared and undeceived, strangely shuddering with doubt gave her a rude awakening to something she never had experienced before. |
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It was crouched on all fours, its strangely formed hands with three fingers and a thumb acting as the forefeet on a crocodile, while the tail slithered like a snake's would. |
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As Sammy's, the place is still a warehouse-like box, with a strangely skin-like material decorating outdoor areas and an identical volleyball setup. |
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To me this place is holy and this ritual sacred, but strangely, however close I feel to Vivian, I feel distant from God. |
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The facade looks promising, but the interior is strangely unformed. |
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It is still radiantly decorated and is a strangely joyous place as if its 15th Century creators wanted to depict the ecstasies of heaven that awaited those who had died. |
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She felt strangely weightless and ready to drift off with the next breeze. |
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But I found it strangely drear and flat with a vastly inflated reputation. |
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The bathroom is filled with soothing, perfumed unguents, strangely shaped tools for massage, oils, candles, a luxury indulgence which can only be matched by Harrods! |
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His traps and poisons proved strangely ineffective for a while, but he eventually saw it off by ramming a huge bag of poison down its hole and covering with a big stone. |
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Bewilderment and helplessness and dismay mingled strangely, played out in a clashing kaleidoscope, vivid against the colourlessness of everything else. |
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This news is both very exciting and strangely freaky at the same time. |
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The protest we hear is strangely divided, along with repetition of the mantra about keeping food prices high for the benefit of farmers and cultivators. |
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Over Roman armour, he wears, strangely, the robe of a quattrocento patrician, frequently used in depictions of Florentine poets and men of letters. |
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Any further protest on Christine's part was cut off by the roar of machine gun fire, slugs stitching a line of strangely small holes across the wall opposite of them. |
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Other conductors such as Solti and Kempe have brought a clarity and power to the work but at the same, their performances were strangely earthbound. |
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A bronze air vent emerges from the wall, looking strangely out of place. |
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We are dropouts from society, useless dregs who make no contribution, so it is inevitable that people will look at us strangely and with contempt. |
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Cows' heels would not seem to be plump, fruitful, delicious or in any way edible but, strangely enough, they are considered a delicacy by some, especially in Barbuda. |
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Strangely enough, water bears are at the same time among the most unknown and the most fascinating creatures on earth. |
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Maybe it was the long, overprocessed brown hair, strangely arched eyebrows, hard and tough faces, and orange-hued skin. |
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His descriptions are often quite pedestrian and sometimes strangely inept. |
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This is a brave, fascinating book, but strangely unsatisfying. |
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Yet, strangely, we know we aren't in the presence of a latter-day Puritan. |
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I had lunch in Cafe 1001, great for people-watching and toasted focaccia sandwiches, but my cherry smoothie tasted mostly and strangely of banana. |
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To anyone used to cooking their own Indian food using fresh spices, such flavours are strangely mute with no individual spice or flavour discernible. |
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Fear gripped her in icy clutches despite the heat, and then, strangely, it ran down her skin in cold waves like snowmelt down a majestic mountain. |
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It was a strangely shaped block, due to the area once being underwater, and he took it home with him to examine closer. |
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It will feature more than 150 of the top punk and alternative acts from around the world in addition, strangely, to an appearance of cockney icons Chas and Dave. |
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The result was less a dramatic stand-off between humans and animals and more a strangely moving piece of performance art. |
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Even if you do baulk at some of the more outlandish examples of soporifics cited or quibble with a theory or two, Martin's message is strangely comforting. |
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But most strangely, rock's most notorious debauchees are looking incredibly healthy, modelling newly toned physiques and ordering eggs Benedict and mineral water. |
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Strangely enough, this press release also found its way onto some of its member websites. |
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He spends a lot of his time holed up in safe flats, and, peeking out of the window, has a ringside seat at much military action, but remains strangely marginalised. |
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Strangely enough, I had to leave my close comrades-in-arms behind or send them, against their wishes, to distant places. |
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Quite strangely, the telephone linesmen are hard at work, repairing all the lines and replacing broken posts that lead to the very edge of the sea. |
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But strangely, it never crosses our heroes' minds to wonder if the rumoured little green men might be susceptible to a bit of good old-fashioned lead poisoning. |
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I looked at him a bit strangely, and wondered if he'd lost the plot. |
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Strangely I'm proud to be where I'm from but I'd have a real problem defining British. |
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Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke. |
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I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light. |
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As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise. |
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A tale of gangland warfare and filial loyalty in the Glasgow of 1958, Small Faces is an enjoyable but strangely unmoving film. |
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It was a strangely quiet, featureless day in which two welrganised batsmen cashed in their chips against anatta ck that lacked inspiration. |
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Then back at the zoo we marvelled at the giant Andean Condors, the world's largest flying birds and the strangely beautiful King Vultures. |
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Strangely for the staunchly Democratic city, there may be a competitive general election in November. |
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After months of behaving strangely, Tracy finally reveals her plan to frame Charlie so the locals think he's a wifebeater. |
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But things get even zanier when a dog-training app on her phone starts to strangely control all the boys around her. |
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Strangely enough, the only subjects in this study to experience problems with pelvic relaxation were two patients who had cervical prolapse after subtotal hysterectomy. |
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Strangely enough the way in which these chambers have been built means that sounds produced by the human voice can create low frequency standing waves. |
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Strangely enough, this was another immediate, reflexive consensus, excepting Mr. Summers' brief but embarrassing romp off of the intellectual plantation. |
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