The phrase "a certain bizarre" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to refer to something unusual or strange, but the adjective "bizarre" should not be preceded by "a certain" in this context.
Example: "There was a certain bizarre quality to the artwork that intrigued the viewers."
Alternatives: "a certain oddity" or "a particular strangeness."
I like Flynn's refreshing lack of reverence towards her novel, and I wouldn't mind if she'd ditched a certain bizarre character, who I don't think adds much to her sophisticated thriller.
As Layton prepares to make his next movie, "an existential heist movie" starring James Franco, Frédéric Bourdin is already getting accustomed to a certain bizarre stardom of his own.
"In a certain bizarre way, life would be easier for Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve if there had been a bad C.P.I.," said Robert Barbera, chief economist for the Hoenig Group.
Even the airbrushed cards have a certain bizarre innocence now — Mike Laga wore a pinkish Cardinals jersey in 1987; Fred Breining, in 1985, wore an Expos jacket "so heavily doctored it looks like he's wearing a satin sheet as a cloak," said a website, Baseball Card Bust, which has poked fun at one card a day for years and could probably do so until the end of time.
Yeah, I guess I have a certain bizarre intelligence [laughs].
As anybody who has received "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" as a gift will have figured out, this waning presented certain bizarre symptoms in the cultural imagination.
That was on the same day that Vahid Halilhodzic, the manager who had been in charge in Angola before being sacked last Saturday, fumed to the media: "I have only recently found out about certain bizarre things that happened in Angola … it seems that three of players were very sick before the quarter-final against Algeria [which Ivory Coast lost 3-2] ano nonene bothered to tell me.
All Montreal knew was a certain out became the most bizarre run the Expos have scored all season -- and they might have won a game because of it.
Saiga soon discovers that Kagura's body fluids, like her saliva, in combination with a certain "virus", can give people bizarre abilities relating to their secret desires, fetishes, and obsessions.
"If scholars remain content with believing in some psychic ability of a certain individual or go along with bizarre phenomena without question," he wrote, "then we must ask ourselves what sort of academic discipline we are dealing with".
Although these stories demonstrate Mr. Millhauser's usual finesse in conjuring up the strange, the magical, the bizarre, there is a certain sameness about them -- a narrowness of imagery and theme -- that suggests that the author is simply going through the motions of reconnoitering territory he has explored many times before.
