Her archaic usages ("misliked," "alas") bring the reader much more fully into her consciousness and her world than the plainer and less well-researched style more common to popular historical novels, where the characters seem to be much like ourselves, although wearing weirder clothes.
"I try to maintain a good variety of games, although the weirder stuff, like the Proteus video, never do as well as the big games," he said.
Haldeman explains that it is in fact a Mass, although it is "weird".
"Forever Gone" (1999), a miniature house with a pine tree extending out of its pitched roof, is an example of this pleasingly weird, although not too weird, body of work.
To them it seems so random, so weird, although acupuncture is slowly gaining more credibility for fertility.
Some of us aren't even weird, although it is weird to want to do something that isn't going to make any money, and has no chance of being optioned for a movie, and, believe me, this scares poets more than it scares you.
The town's solution – to ride him out on a rail, basically – was a little bit tidy, although it was weird how many people turned up to see him off.
Not entirely "weird", although plenty of odd stuff happens, but here because it describes a past in such a resolutely modern way that the vanished worlds come alive again, brightly and brilliantly (I could just as easily have chosen Wolf Hall).
Ah, what a relief it is to see baseball players reporting to camp, gathering in warm weather parks — although in our weird winterless year, they could have done that almost anywhere, like Canada — and sparking that starting-anew feeling in fans everywhere.
Although it's weird to move around in the game, where the virtual walls and floors are not real, while having to ensure your feet don't get tangled in the cables which attach the headset to a computer, it soon becomes strangely convincing.
