Sentence examples for and the oddity of from inspiring English sources

Andrew Marr, Philip Hensher, Diana Athill, and Wendy Cope discuss the dying art of handwriting, the thrill of receiving letters, and the oddity of astronaut pens.

Some of the starting XV certainly looked a little unsettled by the intensity of the atmosphere and the oddity of the occasion.

Boyle says that Barthelme is one of his heroes for his "sense of humor and the oddity of the situations he comes up with".

Mr. Berlusconi's words and the oddity of his legal predicament underscore the tangled web of corruption charges, trials and convictions that has long enveloped and often paralyzed Italy.

Over $1m for each cast member per episode, or 40 times what they each earned at its launch.The economic boom of the dotcom days masked both the profligacy and the oddity of the American TV-production market.

Yorke was born with his left eye paralyzed; in his childhood, he endured a series of not entirely successful operations to correct it, and the oddity of his half-open eye made him a target for bullies.

The plants were added to the checklist of inspection sites along with one presidential palace, which assured that Iraqi invective focused on the "indignity" inflicted by the palace search, and not the oddity of the gin plants.

For now, it's just a matter of waiting on new music, thinking about old music, and considering the oddity of a world where Prince is once again a Warner artist.

It is a wry wink to Joyce's Ulysses – later on in the novel, Zack will ponder "his Homeric attempts to convey in fits and starts the oddity of his odyssey through life".

The payoff matrix highlights the fact that weak altruism is individually advantageous, and thus the oddity of thinking of it it as altruistic rather than selfish.

Perhaps with such a field of candidates, the classic Hunger Games line will need to be adapted: "Let the games begin and may the oddity of it all be ever in your favor".