Sentence examples for as merely odd from inspiring English sources

In the first years after Simon graduated from high school, his parents had accepted their son's friendship with Berman as merely odd.

This act is regarded by most Westerners as merely odd, but it was, in fact, profoundly consistent with the enduring character of Japanese civilization.

In the 1995 scenes Cohle is merely odd.

He added: "It's merely odd that the commissioner believes this.

What could have looked merely odd became a lesson in expressiveness.

A few aspects were admirable, some were merely odd, others lamentable.

But those in a position to help often struggle with how to distinguish ominous behavior from the merely odd, the red flags from the red herrings.

Plenty of unlikely people try out for shows like these, some of them deluded, some merely odd and a few actually talented.

And I know it because songs I dismissed as merely pleasant had an odd way of insinuating themselves into my day.

It's exemplary of our own times that a character with Alice's obsessions should be presented not merely as odd but as ill, that her road to self-realization depends on rejecting her medication — and (spoiler alert) that ultimately, her doctor turns out to know best.

It's exemplary of our own times that a character with Alice's obsessions should be presented not merely as odd but as ill, that her road to self-realization depends on rejecting her medication and (spoiler alert) that ultimately, her doctor turns out to know best.