The phrase "a curious combination" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an unusual or interesting mix of elements, ideas, or characteristics.
Example: "The dish was a curious combination of sweet and savory flavors that surprised the diners."
Alternatives: "an intriguing mix" or "a fascinating blend."
The disease proves to be a curious combination of stomach-churning terror and relentless, mundane routine.
Matur speaks with a curious combination of passionate engagement and ethereal quality.
And Szpilman's evasion of death involves a curious combination of pluck, passivity and arrogance.
The new consensus was shaped by a curious combination of trends.
Ross's landscapes many inspired by the Alaskan mountain ranges that he loved represent a curious combination of realism and imagination.
His major characters, Clouseau and Strangelove, had such such a curious combination of elements and such distinctive shapes.
Mariachi and Morrissey might seem like an curious combination to some people, but the musician has long enjoyed immense popularity in Mexican and Mexican-American communities.
In "Before the Storm," Perlstein describes Welch as a "very curious" combination of "arrogance and innocence," and Terry Lautz, Birch's most recent biographer, believes that the founder may have envied Birch's religious certainty and seen in him "the heroic figure that he always wanted to be," something beyond a prosperous executive in his brother's candy business.
Trying to look ecologically trendy, officials last month presented a new sales slogan: "Save Them, Eat Them!" Lampooning this curious combination of research and cuisine in a program that kills about 600 whales a year, an Asahi Shimbun cartoon recently showed a sailor on a boat marked "Japanese Whaling" coming into a port with half a dozen dead whales trussed up on the foredeck.
Enter Mark Morris, among whose curious combination of artistic gifts is a childlike attachment to old stories.
West Virginia's curious combination of conservative values and liberal economics has roots in a somewhat xenophobic culture.
