Sentence examples for a curious form from inspiring English sources

It was a curious form of hedging from a president who prides himself on plain speaking.

A curious form of glomerulonephritis especially common in children is associated with little structural glomerular damage, at least as seen by the ordinary light microscope.

Coaching students on how to lie (not to mention doing so in a manner likely to fail) is a curious form of education indeed.

Back in the era that ended on Sept. 11, life in Washington was burdened by a curious form of self-loathing.

Whether these are intended to terrify the viewer into virtuous living or offer a curious form of titillation is open to debate.

He is force-fed by a tube inserted into his nose, but it is a curious form of force-feeding as he pushes a button himself to activate the system.

This is an event whose curious form of melancholy cannot be punctured by any number of cheap crackers.

Using this curious form, like a mathematician explaining a theorem, Spark related her sad story: of her husband Ossie's paranoia, violence and hospitalisation; of how she had left him and how he had divorced her for desertion.

These microfailures have become a curious new form of entertainment, like a fire drill that forces everyone to empty out an office building.

The curious form of Chilesaurus is an extreme example of mosaic convergent evolution, where different parts of an animal adapt to the environment along the same path taken by other creatures.

It's been subject to that curious form of literary tourism that seeks to find a concrete source for imaginary locations ever since it was discovered that the Bell brothers were really the Brontë sisters and that they'd churned out their lovelorn epics in the local parsonage.