Sentence examples for altogether strange from inspiring English sources

"It's been altogether strange," he said.

The light looks altogether strange – grey edging off to a kind of queasy saffron.

He grew up with 12 sisters and 12 brothers (his father has two wives), but this experience was altogether strange.

It was one of the ironies of Moore's altogether strange life that, while he was quite comfortable thinking in cosmic terms as an astronomer, and could envisage forms of life similar to our own out there in space, he was in political thinking a Little Englander, always harking back to 1940 and Britain's finest hour as the yardstick by which to judge contemporary happenings.

In fact, the broadcast was something altogether more strange: it came from a studio in Albany and was hosted by a curly-haired chess master named Shelby Lyman, an inexperienced television personality whose endearingly awkward spontaneity helped to make the broadcast a success.

Mostly what we read about are elderly men longing for younger women, as in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," or paeans to the loss of desire in old age, as in the latest novels by Philip Roth or something altogether more strange and corrupt, like the love triangle in Zoë Heller's "Notes on a Scandal".

But the gulf in this particular instance - between A-list cocktail parties on luxury cruisers and films about dead kids, between wannabe starlets tottering up the red carpet in borrowed Blahniks, and the face of a missing and possibly murdered three-year-old little girl - is proving altogether too strange and sad to ignore.

Yet there are passages altogether more strange and profound, as when Polman describes the war at Murray Town camp between the two classes of amputee – the war-maimed and the surgical – in which the latter are defeated and expelled; or the Sierra Leonean children, labelled orphans and flown to the United States, growing suddenly fat.

It sports a pair of navigation buttons on the right side, but skips the dial altogether – a strange oversight, given the fact that the control scheme was one of the big additions to the latest version of Wear, bringing quicker navigation through the small screen's menus and bringing Android up to speed with watchOS and Samsung's Tizen off-shoot.

It seemed altogether too strange a creature, and many believed it a myth.

It was altogether a strange, extremely casual way to make a legally binding lifetime commitment to someone.