"What's fresh about Wheatley's horror-based cinema is that it combines a fascination with distinctly strange, often moribund aspects of old-English culture, with a spot-on comic sense of how bizarre and dysfunctional ordinary people can be," Nick James, the editor of the magazine Sight & Sound, which in November put "Sightseers" on its cover, wrote in an e-mail.
This is because beneath the surface of a distant and often distinctly strange culture Murasaki's characters of a thousand years ago express emotions that remain entirely familiar.
We don't blink when Ted Cruz makes an impassioned defense for school prayer and displaying the Ten Commandments on public grounds, but it's distinctly strange to watch a presidential candidate get all hand-wavy when someone asks him about God.
In the finale, the stomping rhythms coming off the stage and up from the floor had such potency that it felt distinctly strange to be sitting motionless in a concert hall: we should have been dancing.
It might be thought distinctly strange to consider obtaining 'consent' or 'authorisation' from a person for an autopsy to be performed upon them at some unknown future time and mandating that such a decision would necessarily lead to an autopsy being performed, as an expression of the "primacy of autonomy of the individual", despite the objections of surviving family members.
Forking out that sort of money and then asking the guy to sit on the substitute's bench sounds distinctly strange to me.
We like to say that music is a universal language, but we mean our music and our universe, and we expend little effort in trying to learn the often distinctly strange idioms of others.
We all have to experience the distinctly strange pleasure of riding public transportation at one time or another.
This strange, lugubrious, wildly uneven dream of an exhibition exudes a distinctly European mood of ruminative pessimism, relieved intermittently by moments of black humor and otherworldly fantasy.
Pokémon are disappearing all over the city, meanwhile, and there's a strange new rubbery lump recipe being sold in street stalls that has a distinctly sweet and altogether new flavour.' So that's standard Fallen London.
