The fear takes a specific shape in a strange scene in chapter thirty-nine, wHarriet Smithmish is assailed by some begging gypsy children encountered on the road from Highbury, and, after being rescued by Frank Churchill and conveyed to Emma's house, faints away.
The FBI added the director of an anti-fracking film to the terror watchlist; and tells business owners to look for terrorists via "strange odors," "ordering a specific hotel room," and demanding "identity 'privacy' in dozens of their documents.
It could be a specific incident: an accident, an ugly confrontation, or being lost and alone in a strange place.
He wakes with a strange, specific clarity.
Beneath that, she was something way more interesting: a strange, specific, workaholic, NPR-worshipping, white-guilt-infected, sardonic, curmudgeonly, hyper-nerdy New Yorker.
While the minutes provide a big-picture view of the economy, there are some specific – and strange – worries that make it into the Fed's discussions.
I thought Meryl Streep was terrific — probably second to "I'm tired" as the most overused phrase in the English language — but I ended up going with Rooney Mara for best actress because she was so specific and strange.
Ms. Fitzgerald and Ms. Stapleton's bodies have something very specific and strange to say to and for and with each other; the layers of deeply personal autobiography and delicate formal structure at play between them are already enough of a tangle.
But the tension between this abstract and diminishing idea and its realization as a strange, aged, specific figure, with a strong, unostentatious but perfect body and a grave, unforgettable face — half Don Imus, half St. Jerome; Nicholl suggests that it is a self-portrait — gives the image a certain heroism, as though the individual had stoically lent himself for a scientific trial.
It's a slightly strange project, but mainly just because it's so specific.
Deployed was a strange word — a strange sound.
