Sentence examples for as a very odd from inspiring English sources
I remember one saying to me: 'Edwina, if I kidnapped you, how much ransom would your father pay?' That struck me as a very odd thing for a teacher to say".
The protagonists' acquisitive desire for the latest gadgets is, it turns out, part of the novel's pungent stew of themes punning on the book's title: consumerism, in the ordinary sense of wanting to shop, but also cannibalism, and "consumption" as a very odd new disease, rather than its historical meaning of tuberculosis.
We catch up with the gang back in the widescreen present: Ian and Grant are flat-sharing as a very odd couple; Arby enjoying his career change; Becky roped into an awkward arrangement with shady Thoraxin dealer Donaldson; Wilson finding a spoon and a new role.
The local singers' problems with the English text meant that the work was sung in Hungarian, which Tippett, who conducted, described as "a very odd experience".
Zimmer used a symphony orchestra for the opera sequence, but would mostly use what he described as a "very odd orchestra...only cellos and basses all playing at the extreme ends of their range".
Wodehouse It's a very odd thing, as odd as can be, that whatever Miss T. Eats Turns into Miss T. -WALTER DE LA MARE Remember the good old days when a liquid-protein diet was chicken soup?
Bobby Cannavale plays the boyfriend with as much nuance as he can, but it's a very odd role.
And as we conversed, I had a very odd experience.
Dungeness crab, presented between limp sheets of potato as a napoleon, suffered from a very odd sauce that was completely overwhelmed by marjoram.
He is a very odd choice as chairman of BAT.
"It's going to be a very odd production," as Rob's unsuspicious but perceptive wife remarked.
