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Sentence Examples But the stark, dystopian science-fiction tale has become a cult oddity if not a classic. Party membership, once only a rarity, is increasingly an oddity, or eccentricity. Thomas Pryor noted this oddity after observing one of the panel discussions in Hollywood. The oddity of this elaborate metaphor involving verse and human feet should not go unnoticed. I once noted the oddity that Hardy had two variorums and no concordance, while Hopkins had two concordances and no variorum. It was, of course, a completely unnatural oddity of physics, but the Weak Hole in particular was worse than your average black hole. Let it be known, I have some whackadoodle friends, so this sort of oddity would be well up their alley. Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity. A few years ago water births were seen as a bit of an oddity, but now they are the norm. One oddity of the new system is the windfall it will bring unionized employers. Typewriting institutes are becoming an oddity, as manual typewriters are swept away by word processing software and computer keyboards. The example shown here is not a selective oddity, many rebated vehicles have low depreciation. The next day though was a real oddity, I found myself lapsing into a darker, and grumpier mood. It's odd to think of myself as an anomaly, a quirk, an oddity, but that's what I am at the moment. We have to put up with the oddity of independent leftists and failed rightists masquerading as clean and competent political players. This makes William Wallace less of an historical oddity for not being a member of the aristocracy when he staged his famous rebellion. I can imagine that this play would have been the hardest to direct due to the sheer oddity of it all. McBurney captures precisely the lonely oddity of individual lives that characterises Murakami's work. One oddity of the place is that they don't do much in the way of fish and chips. Then there's Bernov's trademark balalaika-bass, a four-stringed oddity of the first order, pictured above for your amusement. Show More Sentences The drama of his stylistic transformation, from explainer to invoker, says something about the oddity and confidence of this poet. Yet in many ways he remains an outlier and an oddity on the cultural scene, a cult figure with plenty of worshippers and plenty of desecrators. The oddity of Saintsbury's view may be easily seen in particular instances. The sheer oddity of this fabulous little book may explain why Boyd's writing is not more widely celebrated in Australia, and why it ought to be. The highlanders, with their visible poverty and audible oddity of speech, met with a mixed reception and often sent home unfavourable reports. The most brilliant move by the director was the casting of artistic chameleon and rock-and-roll space oddity David Bowie. A true oddity, it's a film about some twisted racketeers involved with a travelling carnival. As she walked through the corridors, she noticed another oddity about the sub. One oddity that will emerge is the number of types with four-coupled wheels on each motor bogie. The oddity of my catapulting into music made the subsequent speed of acquiring musical knowledge just as strange. What Lenkiewicz brings to the party is an eye for the ramshackle oddity of family life. As the doctor discussed the medical oddity in front of him, Lamb felt a sudden shock shoot through her. It is an oddity that stands as one of the great mathematical mysteries of the 21st century. One particular oddity is that our citizens are held on remand for years on end without any sentence having been passed. Carroll agrees that the main benefit is in its very oddity, even its otherworldliness. And despite this, he would still be an oddity today, a starry-eyed idealist, an ecologist or a utopian in our predominantly materialistic world. Yet – and here's one oddity of Britain's economic situation – it does add up to a case for rate hikes. The course treats the British tradition, not the continental one, as the oddity. Beyond this the Ireland game stands alone as an oddity, a false note and quite possibly a terrible mistake. It is an oddity that the nations which are the strongest critics of NATO's actions invariably are countries with their own human rights problems. Show More Sentences Voluntary modulation is a bit of an oddity, something which has never been tried before in the EU's common agricultural policy. Mr. Bill Casey: Mr. Speaker, I love the member's paradoxical questions on an oddity of life. But this election is not something which makes her an oddity or isolates her from the rest of the world. Tobey Built in the 19th century, the Wendel farmhouse on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue was an oddity in New York. Dudley evolved from a goofy oddity to a devil-may-care ring villain. Fifty, sixty years ago, Will Eisner was an oddity and a weirdo. Their oddity is that Lombardi's craftsmanship is so exquisite that one senses him helplessly luxuriating in the very complexity that he claims to find so suspicious. A blindfold test of this album might yield guesses like Stereolab in their garage days or a guitar-less Zappa, but Need New Body's zany debut is a free-standing oddity. And so, oddity of oddities, one of the beneficiaries of that might be the president. As they went out of the room, Lyenda voiced out one oddity of the palace. Some commentators have noted an oddity in Durkheim's writings. One oddity of the generic preference polls is how volatile they are. Callum nodded, he had noticed this oddity, but blamed it on a mistake. The oddity of what he wore and what he was doing suited him. Ironically, there was already a syntactic oddity in the quoted paragraph. A Gothic screen was also added to the Norman nave at Peterborough, but this is an architectural oddity with no precedent or successor. This is not quite as crazy as it sounds, the plain English translation of this mathematical oddity is that you are holding an object because you are holding it. Just when Exclamation Mark has tied a bindle to his staff and is ready to run away from it all, he meets another grammatical oddity, a question mark, who naturally has a lot of questions for the bemused hero. Another oddity is their away Conference form – no wins to date – though they have won on their opponents' ground in each of their three FA Cup rounds. The plume poppy Macleaya cordata is a bit of an oddity, as it looks nothing like any poppy you may have grown. Show More Sentences But the oddity of this is that EU law ought to be able to provide an answer and it is seemingly failing to do so, even after 20, 30 years that this has been going on. The Echo of Moscow radio station is widely regarded as one of the last bastions of free speech in Russia, a country where political debates have gradually become an oddity. The oddity of the situation was so flabbergasting I couldn't react in time for anyone to see it. The oddity of Obama's being taken to the leadership woodshed by the Democrat who preceded him and the Republican who failed to pre-empt him was not lost on anyone. In contrast, the drosophilas of Hawaii owe their oddity entirely to the whims of natural selection. The successful test-firing is a milestone for a firm repeatedly hit by delays: passenger flights were originally scheduled to begin in 2007. In this section Robodiptera Into the wildwood Space oddity Free-for-all Reprints. For scientific publishers, it seems, the party may soon be over. In this section Robodiptera Into the wildwood Space oddity Free-for-all ReprintsIt has, they would have to admit, been a good bash. Although zorses were not around during Georgian times, fair organisers at Beamish said Zulu was the perfect oddity for this year's event. Africa was supposedly a place to avoid or, at best, an oddity to pity. Monkeys have been taught to solve the oddity problem: presented with two objects of one kind and one of another, they can be trained to select the discrepant one. Then I stopped, because it seemed a pity to smirch the innocence of this object – its sprightly, purposeless oddity – with a neutralising explanation. This caused great excitement at the time, and a special delegation was sent to the Pope to explain the oddity to him. The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart. It contains 24 examples of anamorphic art and a sample sheet of mylar that can be rolled into an anamorphoscope for the viewing of this mathematical artistic oddity. Examples from Classical Literature It was merely an oddity, and nothing morea freak piece of costume jewelry made from fragments of an Arizona meteorite. If he did not seem exactly interested, he certainly behaved with some oddity. There was no mention of the oddity of behavior of shiploads of surplus grain aloft. He has all the genius that could comport with oddity, and all the oddity that could amalgamate with genius. I think that he is right, and that the profitable study of a man is the study which regards him as an oddity, not a quiddity. No one conceived that the telephone would ever be any more than a whimsical oddity of science. Another oddity with whom I was associated was a kleptomaniac. The only oddity, which worked out well anyway, was the bass playing front man. These accurate instruments, it believed, could never be displaced by such a scientific oddity as the telephone. But the oddity in the present case was that he said nothing. The oddity and incongruity of her attire attracted attention. Fancy, in this sense, falls a little short of oddity and caprice. Its oddity struck me, and remained impressed upon my memory. Broussel heard the scream of the young oddity, and, enchanted with this excess of zeal, came down to the first floor, for he was, in truth, working in his room on the second. Those indications of its youth which first attract the eye, give it a quaintness and oddity of character which, to a visitor from the old country, is amusing enough. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of oddity? Words that rhyme with oddity What is the plural of oddity? What is the adverb for oddity? What is the adjective for oddity? What is the noun for oddity? Translations for oddity Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words oddities oddest odder odd behaviour odd behavior oddballs odd-job odd jobs oddly oddly enough oddment oddments 6-letter Words Starting With o od odd oddi oddit