How To Use Oddly In A Sentence
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IHSB: The way to describe the first pro season for the most oddly named man alive (Allen Lorenz Pollock = A.J. Pollock?) is solid but unspectacular, which is disappointing given that the organization expected him to rip through Mid-A South Bend given that Midwest League Competition wasn't foreign to Pollock, given that Notre Dame plays an exhibition game against the SilverHawks at the beginning of each season.
AZ Snakepit
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Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
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Oddly, for the first time all year, the meeting had a public audience.
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`You've been an angel," said DeDe, sounding oddly like a clubwoman from the peninsula.
FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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It was an oddly sly glance, as though suddenly he were a different person -- or rather I was seeing the obverse of his personality.
HIGH STAND
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In much recent art, the object itself is secondary to the dialogue which surrounds it, which makes it inaccessible to those who don't follow theoretical discussions and oddly irrelevant for itself.
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Stunted, twisted growth and oddly distorted flowers are the symptoms of aster yellows, a disease which often shows up in midsummer.
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Oddly enough morning stars have other names as well, being called “holy water sprinklers” due to the fact that they somewhat resemble the aspergillum used by the church to sprinkle parishioners with holy water, and “goedendag” or “good day”.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1043
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Without benefit of notes, visual aids, gestures or humor she spoke for ninety oddly mesmerizing minutes.
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The oddly jointed pectoral fin armor is a memorable feature of the placoderms, especially Antiarchs.
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Oddly, they don't return my cheery waves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Solid acting oddly enough, only the train falling is totally impossible (like the Viper scenes happen every day in LA) I mean the rest of the unrealism is in check with their abilities.
Sound Off: Wanted - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net
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I got up quickly when I realized, but Faith was, oddly enough, not within my sight.
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Oddly, it's insanely comfortable, and this kind of peripatetic lifestyle (while anathema to my wife) totally fits my A.D.D. quest for constant adventure.
Lucy van pelt holds the football
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The 'minx' shook her curls, and flirted through the window with a handsome but ill-tempered looking man on a fine horse, who praised her 'golden locks,' as he called them; and oddly enough, when Melchior said that the man was a lout, and that the locks in question were corkscrewy carrot shavings, she only seemed to like the man and his compliments the more.
In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
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Oddly, Hopkins makes perfectly realistic graphite drawings of anemones, tulips and ranunculuses that have the delicacy of drypoint etching; he also paints straightforward Japanese watercolor ‘portraits’ of flowers.
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In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
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A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder.
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Importantly is also a valid sentential modifier, although oddly important is not.
2010 March « Motivated Grammar
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The Chalin sway, where Titus appears, is modeled after feudal China, and lends an exotic yet oddly familiar feel to that portion of the Entire.
REVIEW:Bright Of The Sky by Kay Kenyon
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The fingers were too long and there were seven of them; the limbs looked oddly jointless.
The Eagle And The Nightingale
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He cannot, as it were, imagine his manly project without an enemy, and oddly enough, the woman reader stands in for this enemy — literally, the effeminated reader rather than the female one — instead of standing in for the ennabling reader, she who urges the knight onward or who needs to be rescued by his valiant acts.
Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
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Oddly, eating meat didn't make me feel squeamish or sick.
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Small-town folk were the backbone of the country, then they were daffy oddly-accented backwoodsmen.
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Oddly, they don't return my cheery waves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oddly enough, though the wounds haven't bothered him in years, Jonnie is abruptly aware that his shirt collar is chafing at the rough scar tissue left over from that old attack.
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The tunic lies crumped in her lap, and she looks oddly naked in just a T-shirt and jeans.
THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE
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In real life characters often remain stubbornly immune; life-changing events can leave lives oddly unchanged.
Sarfraz Manzoor: My family said they would boycott my wedding
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Oddly, my nightmares weren't about fugu, they were about Todai, an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant.
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She had always seemed able to think along several lines at once, bringing oddly disparate facts together to make a pattern others missed.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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I must have been a sight in my blood stained wedding dress and shoes that were still oddly contorted from the crash.
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June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was oddly inscrutable, like he knew what all the questions were.
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I felt oddly powerful, and threw myself into my stretches with impressive enthusiasm.
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Like beating your dad in an arm-wrestle, this has been an oddly deflating victory.
Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay
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Indeed, it is nowadays oddly daring for a real artistic talent (that is, one properly attentive to considerations of language and truthfulness) to "confine" itself to this task.
New Fiction
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Occasionally heads sit oddly on their bodies, and swollen limbs meet their trunks awkwardly.
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Cello, saxophone, contra-bass, viola, trombone and piano converse in a tone at once astringent and oddly assuasive.
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Guard memos, the O.O.O.F. which oddly enough resembles the sounds made by the testees for the torture memo clause is likely a forgery – sinc the rest of the Constitution is not printed on Walmart watermark Bond paper and in Arial font.
Firedoglake » Give Me Liberty — A Patriot’s Case Against Appeasement
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Students spilled out of the classroom, some of them looking at me oddly.
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The introduction - oddly named as it contains many major spoilers - is a welcome chance to hear the effervescent, elfin man discuss his themes and modifications to Gorky's work.
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Oddly enough, the train beggar managed to control his gnawing hunger for long enough to keep begging.
It *is* heroin, right?
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Chuck does an oddly contrapuntal kung fu chop in the aisle.
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The room swam before her, and his voice was oddly muffled in her ear.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Alec Baldwin appears to be channeling the hammier aspects of his current role on "30 Rock", and Steve Martin gives an oddly muted performance that only comes to life during a brief party sequence involving marijuana.
Home Theater Forum
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Jesse, suspended from his job as police chief of Paradise, is a drunken recluse, much to the disgust of his oddly unaffectionate dog.
Tom Selleck, 'Jesse Stone' keep doing what they do best
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He uttered a string of oaths, so oddly at variance with his usual smooth and civilized manner.
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He's loose-limbed and dorky enough to work as an oddly romantic lead.
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Oddly, the vision I have of the newly divorced woman flinging herself onto a bed covered in currency is not born out by the figures.
Archive 2007-10-14
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A hydraulic thumb or clamp allows you to grasp rocks, tree stumps, and other oddly shaped objects, while a grapple makes it easy to handle brush and other bulky material.
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He uttered a string of oaths, so oddly at variance with his usual smooth and civilized manner.
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It was oddly therapeutic, touring the shops, buying up boxes of twee foil-wrapped bunnies and bags full of tiny bright eggs.
GO!
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Stadium MK is still oddly indistinguishable in texture from the Ikea megastore with which it shares a plot, its main entrance reminiscent of the marketing suite of a rather swish new suburban residential development.
Dietmar Hamann aims for the top again – with or without MK Dons
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_Lentibularia_ is an old generic name of Tournefort's, which has been superseded by _utricularia, _ but, oddly enough, has been retained in the name of the order _lentibulareæ_; but it probably comes from _lenticula_, which signifies the little root bladders, somewhat resembling lentils.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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The strong dark eyebrows give his face an oddly menacing look.
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Her old life meshed oddly with her new, creating so many conflicts Syd felt as if she were on a drug trip.
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It was her turn to smile, the palest, ghostliest of smiles, and even for so much she must have been oddly moved.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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He uttered a string of oaths, so oddly at variance with his usual smooth and civilized manner.
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The writing seemed oddly familiar, but Sakura couldn't remember who wrote like that.
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He left her feeling oddly light-footed, pleased to have an errand from her.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Oddly, he looked familiar and with a closer inspection she realized who it was.
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Oddly, we have reached the stage where there might still be a singular vision, but too often it is being micro-managed at executive level to the point of blandness and is often hobbled by an unhealthy mix at executive-committee stage of half-understood notions of political correctness tied to an essential distrust of viewers 'intelligence.
Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men?
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It has a bleak, haunting charm which, while not fully compensating for some gauche and cheesy passages, is oddly appealing.
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Oddly enough, he found himself reluctant to share any specifics of that night.
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Oddly enough, if I know for certain that the scuttling thing isn't arachnoid in nature, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
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Her eyes found him, and their gazes locked for a moment, brilliant blue meeting, oddly, yellow dotted in red-orange.
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The test pilots found the double-slot flaps and quick-release engine cowlings most admirable but, oddly, armament was only briefly checked out and one of the things they did not like was the periscopic system for the twin turrets.
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He did grace an early press screening, but oddly my name was omitted from the guest list.
Times, Sunday Times
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After convincing myself that the result didn't matter, I felt oddly disappointed when we lost.
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The signal, which was buried in archived studies of a pair of small nearby galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds, was extremely strong and so oddly skewed that scientists believe it emanated from a cosmic event that took place about three billion light-years from Earth.
Cosmic Ghost Leaves Radio Footprint | Impact Lab
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The test pilots found the double-slot flaps and quick-release engine cowlings most admirable but, oddly, armament was only briefly checked out and one of the things they did not like was the periscopic system for the twin turrets.
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I even used the word "putsch" (which oddly is the word of the day from www. m-w.com).
Whirling dervish
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Nausicaa is set in a post-apocalyptic age, about 1000 years after the destruction of most of the natural environment; humans now live in small, oddly ruralized outposts scattered throughout the world, travelling from outpost to outpost on either large ostrich-like creatures I don't think they were actually ostriches, but that was what came to mind) or airships or gliders.)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
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He also didn't seem paralysed, and while he was oddly moody in his last weeks, nothing seemed physically wrong.
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There is the flavour of the student handbook, designed around an otherwise oddly assorted set of core texts.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As I entered our magnificently appointed multi-storey office development this morning, I caught sight of a box behind our oddly proportioned security guard.
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It was an oddly snobbish thing to say about an international tycoon, and Banks spat out the word 'greengrocer' as though selling food were a form of mass murder.
Fear and Loathing in Europe
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Kyrtian exclaimed, seizing the oddly-shaped chunk of metal that Keman had found as if it were made of begemmed gold.
Elvenborn
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The resultant bug-eyed chaos is hilarious and oddly moving.
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Oddly, his brother invites him to stay at the farm, but we can tell that he's there for more than hominy grits and southern fried chicken.
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My overwhelming emotion was nostalgia, oddly enough; nostalgia for the peculiar cultural nexus that this movie represented.
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Oddly enough, I had made identical calculations thirty-four years earlier for the colinear Earth-Moon Lagrange points ( "Stationary Orbits", Journal of the British Astronomical Association, December 1947) but I no longer trust my ability to solve quintic equations, even with the help of HAL, Jr., my trusty H/P 91OOA.
2010 Odyssey Two
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He straightens and stands oddly for a moment, staring blankly at the man crossing the underground parking lot twenty paces away.
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The dark hair that streamed behind her as she ran seemed oddly familiar.
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At the same time, state leaders are facing countervailing pressures from reform-minded groups that want to lessen the impact of partisan politics on a process that has been plagued for decades by shenanigans - and symbolized by the oddly shaped district maps that take their nickname "gerrymander" from an early 19th-century Massachusetts governor, Elbridge Gerry, who drew the first one in the shape of a salamander.
NYT > Home Page
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The oddly alliterated Fervent Fray of Fraternal Fervor, written and directed by Thomas Thompson, is the second festival offering.
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Oddly enough, I felt only the faintest glimmerings of anger.
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He is the biggest male pop star on the planet, yet oddly bothered about piddly little things.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though oddly it works pretty well, if you tie it in with "stargazing" from last episode.
Pretty, Fizzy Paradise
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Though attired in this barbarous guise, I did not, of course, dispense with my trousers, which, being black, contrasted somewhat oddly with my primrose-coloured ki ton, as they call the smock, and the dark violet clamis, or plaid.
In the Wrong Paradise
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In other news, it's oddly gratifying to take a Belle and Sebastian CD out of your changer and put in Poison's greatest hits, but that's a story for another time…
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It was the size of — and as oddly shaped a trapezium as — a bad West Village studio.
Fire Island, This Time
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The ibis has an exotic air with its burgundy plumage and oddly curved beak.
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Oddly in Nero, I am left with the idea that if the college had not moved Mr Davenport to an all male dorm, summary judgement would have been an easy call on behalf of the college ....
The Volokh Conspiracy » Where, According to Tort Law, Should Accused Criminals and Ex-Convicts Live?
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Oddly enough, in contrast to Mr Anonymous's (teeth achingly-patronising) suggestion that rebellion against Empire leads inevitably to children growing up in a meaningless, nihilistic world (the children! think of the children!), I'm quite happy to judge myself by the accumulated affection and/or scorn that I manage to evoke from the people that matter to me.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR
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Oddly, the more bike-friendly the city gets, the more popular the expensive "survivalist" look becomes.
Consumer Innovation: Putting the Solution Before the Problem
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An otherwise nice exterior design is ruined by the oddly shaped trunk lid.
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The novel itself remains oddly inert.
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He smiled, making her suddenly feel oddly vulnerable.
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Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan
Archive 2009-06-01
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Black women also get oddly, back-handedly criticized for being too functional -- for being the majority of black college graduates and growing old alone.
Farai Chideya: How Does It Feel to Be a Black, Female, Single Problem?
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A show by the Saskatchewan abstract painter William Perehudoff currently at the tiny Poussin Gallery in deep southeast London; the incongruous, and oddly soothing, sound of Leslie Feist's new single being played at a dinner party on a recent holiday in France; the British press hailing Ryan Gosling as "the thinking woman's crumpet" - a title previously held by Michael Ignatieff.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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One kind of shopman was just like another to him -- which was oddly inconsequent on the part of
The Golden Bowl — Complete
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Prisoners shuffle out of their cells and stand oddly immobile during their chorus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the monkeys were friendly, but others were behaving rather oddly.
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It looks great, aside from the usual low-budget stumbles or the occasional oddly-delivered line or ill-fitting costume.
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Her manner was oddly defensive, as he hadn't intended any criticism at all.
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The candle flames flickered oddly, as if some draft was waxing and waning in time with the chanting.
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Don't they project rather oddly throwing their voice?
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The machinery in it looked oddly antiquated, as if someone had taken a lot of cogwheels and pistons and piled them together.
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Oddly, no one questions the elasticity of the Coen Brothers to do frat-housey The Big Lebowski and at the same time No Country for Old Men, but thats another topic.
Wyatt Closs: For Colored Girls, And For Multiple Stakes
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Elsewhere, Astbury's signature blend of metal-god narcissism and shaman-like mysticism is in full bloom on the acoustic "Holy Mountain," glammy "Diamonds" and Bush rebuke "Tiger in the Sun," which oddly resembles the Cure's "Fascination Street.
Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
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But these things obviously run deep and, looking again at that compellingly sensible squad of players, dusting off the freshly crayoned swooshes and exclamation marks, it has all started to look oddly familiar.
Five-pint all-day bloatathon will never be England's cup of tea | Barney Ronay
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On top of the milieu, in wonted Godspeed fashion, an old man recalls a bizarre and oddly moving story of how a penguin is gobbled up by a killer whale.
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Their implications would be only an embarrassing distraction, oddly disjoined from the prevailing paths of technical investigation.
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He feels oddly irritated: what does this qalandar think, that money falls from trees?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Oddly enough, his belief in reincarnation was brought to Cuba by American missionaries from the American Theosophical Society.
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Oddly enough I was the only patient in the waiting room on this dark thundery afternoon.
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The book opens with the gunslinger of the title pursuing the man in black across an endless desert, and continues in an oddly dreamlike (not to say nightmarish) fashion as we learn more of the gunslinger, the post apocalyptic world (that has 'moved on') and his quarry.
Great American Novels
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This altered Romeo strikes us as oddly passive after Juliet is exiled for killing his cousin Tybalt in a street brawl.
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The prefix "an" negates, so the actual meaning of anatman is different from soul, self, spirit, and it is - oddly, the anatman which incarnates * NOT* reincarnates,
Progressive Bloggers
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debauchee," his existence is oddly sexless for long times at a stretch ... unless one counts building elaborate erotic implements as a "sex life.
The Seattle Times
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The inclusion of a cartoon/caricature exhibition in a biennale of fine arts might come as a surprise - perhaps an oddly hilarious one - to many art buffs and critics.
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June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scientists at Japan's National Institute for Genetics were behind the creation of the oddly named "graisin" - which refers to a giant-sized raison programmed to grow significantly larger than its conventional size while tasting the same as its diminutive original.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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I was behaving quite oddly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He reached up, clapping me on the shoulder, oddly bridging the awkward distance in height.
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The book is oddly designed, with gray print that's not the most visible.
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Yet it is that ordinariness, oddly enough, that makes the stories resonate.
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Oddly, she titled the works with the names of estranged friends.
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This oddly structured track takes a bit of getting into.
The Sun
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An oddly shaped white and yellow puddle of thinned pigment, its isolation heightened by an expanse of brushy, unmodulated blue, recalls Miro in its comic vulnerability.
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His brown hair was tightly curled, his dark eyes snappishly alive in a face that was crudely hewn yet oddly attractive.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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[T] ense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age and an oddly touching buddy narrative.
City of Thieves: Summary and book reviews of City of Thieves by David Benioff.
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Oddly, there's a sense that some current contenders are simply slavishly imitating their post-punk forebears.
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Every company and state body tries to stay within clearly defined budgets and yet, oddly, most individuals don't practise this simple art.
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Oddly enough, both restaurants are hidden off a main street, forcing the dining party to boldly walk through a small, rather unwelcoming alley.
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Her manner was oddly defensive, as he hadn't intended any criticism at all.
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Despite the modern setting, this story of stifled manners and repressed emotions feels oddly old-fashioned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cello, saxophone, contra-bass, viola, trombone and piano converse in a tone at once astringent and oddly assuasive.
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Lush at this time of the year and oddly un-European - they are not craggy or sharp but rolling - these hills are nonetheless extremely high.
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On my bad days I'm probably more like Joan Crawford, with complete strangers feeling oddly compelled to drop mini-curtsies my direction and call me, "Mommy Dearest.
I Really Do Try to be a Grown Up - SpouseBUZZ
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I think most of the mid-city locations remain shuttered (the CC's on Esplanade, oddly, seems to have given up the ghost even though it had little or no flooding - last time I drove by it appeared to be completely empty with no signs of life whatsoever).
Archive 2005-11-01
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Hot, bothered and befuddled, folk started acting very oddly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is not a bad dancer - his sweeping candelabra arms and rapid footwork bring nuggets of pleasure - but at times he is oddly graceless, his long arms and toned torso mismatched by a pair of surprisingly stubby wee legs.
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These contemplatives, who appeared so oddly out of touch with the world as it was, knew far more about it than those whose days were spent mastering the marketplace.
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Sergent, who knew the pair, wrote the excellent script and takes the part of Bell - whom he rather oddly rechristens Rodney Pump while permitting Smith to keep his own name.
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Julian Cope, former rock god and pagan poet, has an oddly Establishment sideline - he's a whizz on archeology, as his latest book proves.
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Oddly enough, I find I have absolutely no idea what the adjectival form of "clitoris" is, but I bet you it isn't "clitic".
A post that isn't about my mother
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Oddly, given no one else was there, he was seated at the adjacent table.
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Oddly, it is quite hard to distinguish between the timings.
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Oddly enough my wife and my personalties are not at all suited for eachother.
Archive 2007-03-01
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The shop and entresol at that time were tenanted by a tinman; the landlord occupied the first floor; the four upper stories were rented by very decent working girls, who were treated by the portress and the proprietor with some consideration and an obligingness called forth by the difficulty of letting a house so oddly constructed and situated.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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I've got my eye on one or two oddly named brews - I fancy a half of the Norwich Terrier, for instance.
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And book now for Kaufmann, snaffled by Raymond Gubbay for a Royal Festival Hall recital on 24 October – oddly described as a "London debut".
Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra – review
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It is an oddly shaped crystal number, the sort of thing in which your granny might serve up an advocaat, but it has, like all his glasses, been quite deliberately chosen.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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If so, go for quality - cheap ones can contain oddly shaped pads.
Times, Sunday Times
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I feel oddly discombobulated that I don't know whether the moon is waxing or waning.
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Most oddly, while implacably committed to family duties and the bringing up of children, the novel succeeds in portraying both as a burden almost beyond human bearing.
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Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in...
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan
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Peter's sweet-tempered companionableness had been oddly obscured this evening.
The Lee Shore
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Pelchat was 500 feet north of the summit when he noticed an oddly straight piece of rime ice standing five feet off the trail.
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A small callus covered the third finger of the lady's finger, and nails oddly unkept stretched out a bit, glinting in the sun's rays.
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Oddly, as one reader pointed out, this is also what John McCain did during the town hall style debate bidentate, an adjective meaning having two teeth or toothlike parts from the Latin bi - (two) + dens (tooth) palinode, a noun referring to a poem in which the writer retracts something said in a previous poem.
Pensito Review
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Her short hair was oddly ruffled and then flattened around her head.
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The exhibition begins with three large-format pictures from his "Luxury" series, including "Clare College May Ball, Cambridge 2005," which shows a buff rug on which are some hands, legs, shoes and seven glasses containing oddly colored drinks.
Charmed and Dangerous
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Oddly enough, when most of my friends and relatives were rooting for Dorothy and her crew, I was on the side of the Witch.
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Every lesson ended with the same valediction: ‘I will pray for you!’, which I found oddly comforting.
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His face was flawless, oddly familiar but never the less flawless, his eyes a clear, if not cold, blue.
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Its interaction with glitchery, such as on the opening folk guitar of otherwise electrolytic single "Bootstrap" or on the Italo-western twang of opener "Transient" (the rare attempt at this style within electronica that doesn't tumble Jenga-style into self-parody) where the cigarette burns of the John Ford reel meld with the acetate and celluloid to make Brakhage collage, is oddly interactive, rather than deteriorative.
PopMatters
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Oddly, its performance seems unaffected by whether it's loaded.
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Oddly enough, this finding only applies to chimpanzees.
The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence
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His dress was of blue petersham, looking neat and new, the short coat buttoning square across his breast; and a tall hat set oddly enough on a head evidently not accustomed to the fashion that dictated such a covering.
The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family
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Oddly enough, she would have liked that.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a nice day and with no guests about, the oddly shy pony boy should have been out soaking up the sun.
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Oddly, this cynicism runs alongside breathtaking naivety.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oddly, Disher appears to be oblivious to the fact that she and her classmates were merely the first female midshipmen, not the first Navy women by far.
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Ultimately Black Mamba Serums strikes the listener as oddly anachronistic, but in a good way.
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Oddly today he wore a loose black button-up shirt and somewhat snug black jeans.
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Oddly, this is an issue neither side is wedded to.
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went about oddly garmented
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Oddly enough, the entire enterprise was supposed to be a fundraiser for a swimming pool club.
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He is both stridently laddish and oddly feminine - softly spoken, huge eyes, a coy look when unsure of himself - and this afternoon he is friendly, if a little on edge, his hand trembling from emotion or fatigue.
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Oddly enough, it is this very latex that prevents gelatin from setting when combined with figs.
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Big black clouds of gnats zigzagged above the water in an oddly beautiful insect ballet.
Mercy Kill
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He writes: Watching the jubilation in Kenmore Square felt oddly uncomfortable, as if bin Laden had managed to brutalize all of us just a little.
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Annie's self-imposed starvation and Kelly's gluttony are quests for independence and signs of an oddly admirable discipline as much as they are psychological problems.
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The winnowing of the field to two has oddly helped his electability.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jane, oddly, was showing her motherly instincts as she rubbed each of their backs with her hand.
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I shook my head, but then thought it oddly logical.
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Oddly melancholy for a fantasy epic, the film overflows with sorrow for love lost, love unrequited, and the agony of lovers separated by the void of death.
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He looked at her in a way she found oddly disturbing.
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It seems an oddly apt choice of artwork for the world's biggest software company.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oddly enough, Dominic's love of dogs even extends to street dogs, and he often feeds them.
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Oddly, the pasticheur closest in spirit to Duchamp's double forgery In the Manner of Delvaux was Marcel Proust.
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This obscure assertion sounded oddly familiar, and again I experienced the déjà vu phenomenon which had been haunting me for so long.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The caesura forced by an oddly extraneous comma divides the line into question and condition and calls attention to the metaphysical question of how one's position affects one's knowledge.
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Oddly enough it was Mr Ryan's rant on the editorial page complaining about how the media..the gleaner in particular was ignoring his organization while promoting Pro Choice that caused me to point out just how well his group plays the media game.
Free Speech My Ass
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Their anatomy was half-human, half-animal, and they were confined in a low-ceilinged, windowless and oddly proportioned space.
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There is something oddly compelling about an endemic.
Times, Sunday Times