Max is a superb evocation of doublethink and indoctrination from an unexpected, thought-provoking perspective (it's a peculiarity of nazism that the idea of a foetus as narrator is barely the most curious thing about the book).
Looking at him, Greenwald, whom we've already encountered as a big talker, is, for a moment, only quiet and curious, with barely a flicker in his expression before he asks, "Is that about the possibility of — overhead?" Greenwald adds that nothing will surprise him anymore.
Looking at him, Greenwald, whom we've already encountered as a big talker, is, for a moment, only quiet and curious, with barely a flicker in his expression before he asks, "Is that about the possibility of overhead?" Greenwald adds that nothing will surprise him anymore.
The way Arnold answers this beguiling question is key: for the moment that the bewildered youngster apprehends her altered looks, her fuller figure, her height, her clutch of barely suppressed memories and the curious menagerie of her dreams, everything swiftly falls into place.
Salvatore Sciarrino's "Introduzione all'Oscuro" (1981) is a curious experiment in almost motionless, barely audible sound effects.
Hideki Matsui followed with a sharp grounder to Zito's right and he speared it and threw home, a curious decision because Todd Zeile was barely 20 feet off third.
And so, just as Mr. Mathew had intended, the recorded call prompted a real jungle owlet — indeed barely bigger than a kitten, with big curious owl eyes — to reveal itself.
The perfectly still trees in the foreground mark a curious contrast with the roaring funnel barely the length of a football field away.
DETROIT — The Nigerian man accused of trying to bomb a Northwest flight to Detroit on Christmas Day was arraigned Friday here in a quiet hearing that lasted barely four minutes yet attracted a throng of reporters, protesters and curious observers.
