Sentence examples for bit of a curiosity from inspiring English sources

"She is both a beautiful force of nature, and at that moment for me a bit of a curiosity.

They were eager to take a look around the house, which is, to put it mildly, a bit of a curiosity in tradition-bound Ridgefield.

It turned out that Ms. Malchodi had uncovered only the fifth known copy of this particular engraving, which is "a bit of a curiosity in Revere's work," according to Lauren Hewes, the curator of graphic arts at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass.

Once considered a peer to Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, Spark is now regarded as a bit of a curiosity, the chronicler of kinky nuns and schoolgirl intrigue, exemplar of the "dykily psychotic, crippled, creepish" women's writing that Norman Mailer derided.

"It's a bit of a curiosity".

The man heading this banking powerhouse is a bit of a curiosity.

What little astronomers know about its largest moon Charon makes it a bit of a lunar curiosity: The moon hovers very close to the planet and has roughly an eighth of Pluto's mass, making it the largest satellite with respect to its planet so far discovered (ScienceNOW, 1 November 2005).

These animals are a bit of an energy curiosity: They live in the food-scarce Southeast Asian rainforest, yet they are very active.

A bit of curiosity goes a long way when it comes to prompting specific, intended actions.

But, what it gave me was a bit of an entrée for curiosity, if nothing else, when I moved to LA. "Oh she's Ms. So-and-So.

It has been obvious for quite some time that if President Bush had exercised a bit of intellectual curiosity after his Aug. 6, 2001, briefing, he might have stopped 9/11.