Fashion loves oddness, and it likes to shock.
She credits the pair's enduring friendship to the uniqe oddness of this schedule: "Nobody else, not even my family, understands that experience apart from Celeste," she laughs.
3038b66e-b45e-4231-bad4-d6e44430f012 Though we academics are often maligned for our perceived stuffiness, academia is in fact teeming with humour, wit, and general oddness.
Some of the terms I collected mingle oddness and familiarity in the manner that Freud calls uncanny: peculiar in their particularity, but recognisable in that they name something conceivable, if not instantly locatable.
Now the racist laws have gone; but so too has much of the oddness of it all.
Is there a consistent underlying explanation for their oddness?
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Now in Afghanistan, the general has fully embraced counter-insurgency and has sharply reduced the number of air strikes.He likes to talk about the oddness of "counter-insurgency maths".
That is a fair summary of the story's first part, but a poor illustration of the oddness of the rest.Fowles, who called the book "the greatest novel of adolescence in European literature", suggested that its detractors dislike being reminded of "qualities and emotions they have tried to eradicate from their own lives".
Arrogance and oddness (notable even by academic standards) did not help either.
Yet if the bread chapter stands out for its clarity and utility, it also points out the inherent oddness of this branch of science.
