Sentence examples for as the oddity from inspiring English sources

The course treats the British tradition, not the continental one, as the oddity.

An immediate personal challenge will be difficult conversations with previously senior colleagues who coveted the job, as well as the oddity of dealing with an external regulator – Ed Richards of Ofcom – who also wanted to be DG.

What makes the painting shocking is as much the oddity of this figure as the operation, which is gorier for being matter-of-fact.

It's all mildly intriguing, but as the oddities proliferate – underground rabbis, fluid-filled "Moses Mouth" listening devices – so they begin to seem increasingly gratuitous.

One of the very first attempts dates back to the late 40s, early 50s and will therefore be presented here as an exemplar (in the sense that it has both all the positive qualities required as well as the oddities that seem to go together with such attempts).

While the regimental historian observed that the 29th was "cordially welcomed" to the Irish Brigade, other historians, such as Marion Armstrong, point out the oddity of the "aristocratic 29th Massachusetts... thrown in with three regiments of New York Irishmen".

There were optimistic and well-meaning calls for Planet Nine, as the space oddity is provisionally being called, to be named officially in honour of the late singer.

I like it as a metaphor for the oddities of life.