The plight of the Innu community is a bizarre generational tragedy (Mary Rogan, March 4).
A bizarre family tragedy, Nemesis languished in obscurity for more than a century until the text was rediscovered in the late 1990s.
Scientists speculated today that global warming might have set off this latest and most bizarre of the tragedies.
Historians have described the episode as one of the most bizarre and spectacular tragedies in Californian history and in the record of western migration.
Tragedy, redemption, bizarre defeat and unexpected triumph, culminating in rammy, stooshie, stramash and swedge, it was not in the least bit realistic – and yet it was real.
Some think that Eliot came to hate his own bizarre blend of Greek tragedy and English drawing-room comedy because the prig is a thinly veiled T. S. Eliot, and because the poor, drowned woman is a stand-in for Eliot's hysterical, paranoid wife, Vivien, whom he left in 1932 and who was committed to a mental institution four years later, where she died in 1947.
It is all the more disappointing, then, to reach the end of this fairly long novel -- too long, it must be said -- and discover in the place of tragedy a bizarre and rather hysterical denouement that reads like a cross between "Lord of the Flies" and "The Siege".
But according to website registry records, one New York based e-cigarette vendor may have responded to this tragedy with a bizarre attempt to bring in extra visitors to its online store.
There is, as with Miss Havisham, a terrible personal tragedy to explain her bizarre existence.
Tim Teeman of The Times deemed Sarah "batty, bizarre and inconsistent, and despite the tragedy she has suffered, unsympathetic", while writing that in contrast: "Goodness peppers every atom of [Little Bee's] being".
