They have tended to be wary of even peaceful demonstrations — a curious quality for a revolutionary group.
These two novels, Fallada at his best, have a curious quality.
That is so, and the curious quality of the awe that many of us feel — fervent, awkward, tinged with guilt — has much to do with the disquieting features of the military adventure in which those sacrifices were made, two in particular.
He began with three late works by Schubert, the Allegretto in C minor and the first two of the Drei Klavierstücke, in performances that demonstrated both the alluring and the curious qualities of his artistry.
In the early years of this decade, one to one, he could easily launch into the sort of windy lecture on the curious qualities of certain ingredients that would make even the most diehard food head want to stab themselves in the hand with a fork.
Ranging from novel synthetic routes to post-synthetic functionalisation of frameworks, host guest properties to sensing abilities, this review takes a sidestep away from increasingly 'traditional' approaches in the field, and details some of the more curious qualities of this relatively young family of materials.
This gap in Euro-euphoria is a symptom of a curious kaleidoscopic quality of this supranational "Europe": Everybody is looking at the same thing, but everybody sees something different.
However, all the examples listed share a very curious quality: none of those cases could have conceivably been prevented by voter ID requirement.
The other half of the diptych was intended to capture a curious existential quality of Assange's confinement: on the one hand, he was estranged from the hundred and ninety-seven million square miles of the planet outside the Embassy; on the other, his likeness and his words were continuously circling the globe in digital form, refracted through the biases of supporters and detractors.
Their biggest crime just might, however, be a lack of soul and authentic-feeling feelings; a lack of the curious quality that Federico Garcia Lorca termed duende.
