Sentence examples for a curious trick from inspiring English sources
It seems a curious trick of perspective, that each moment should be fine until it has passed, and then, with the benefit of hindsight, becomes hateful or, at least, embarrassing.
The irony was not lost on foreign observers: "It is a curious trick of fate that the Kurds, who were the principal agent employed for the deportation of Armenians, should be in danger of suffering the same fate as the Armenians only twelve years later," the British Ambassador in Ankara reported, in 1927.
A curious trick for a number that never reaches 3.15".
Alan Rickman plays the king with a touch of drollery and vulnerability: his opening scene comes close to being sweet, and he almost pulls off the curious trick of upstaging his own movie.
Bicing, the Barcelona bike-share scheme, recently agreed to meet me simply because I was a curious ESADE student a trick every MBA should try at least once.
The findings were published online this week by Science.In this section From hand to mouth Cast no shadows A curious tail The kindest cut ReprintsThe trick is to use metamaterials: materials that owe their characteristics to features of their structure that are smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation.
It's a curious work, though, since it relies on a kind of staged ingenuousness, and the wonder is that the trick comes off.
The trick with the eyes was an integral part of Mrs. Thatcher's well-cultivated abrasive image, a curious one for a woman who came to power in 1979 pledging, "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony".
What a curious selection.
