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Discover LudwigThe phrase "by weirdly" is not standard in written English and may be considered awkward or incorrect.
It could be used in informal contexts where you want to describe an action or situation that is done in a strange or unusual manner, but it is better to rephrase for clarity.
Example: "She completed the task by weirdly rearranging the furniture."
Alternatives: "in a strange way" or "in an odd manner.".
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The novel chronicles the incredibly difficult lives of early-20th-century Icelandic sheepherders in excruciating detail, and the narrative is leavened by weirdly fantastic and darkly comical episodes.
They succeeded further along what was once a thriving high street for the area, its vivacity now deflated by weirdly suburban houses sheltered behind high brick walls set back across a sward of aimless grass.
At the novel's beginning, they seem unconnected, save for by their subject; by its close, the past seems entirely inflected with the present, both studded by weirdly disrupted and recast parent-child relationships.
It's about artists – spurred on by weirdly intimate peer scrutiny, by close production and painstaking sound-management – putting on a four-minute rendition of a song that's as close to perfect as possible.
Once the cables were straightened out, the show became a proper two-way ritual: she sang the folk song "Sealion," accompanied by weirdly powerful two-part whistling from the audience, and then the ballad "Let It Die" amid the throng, with an overhead camera representing it all on a screen, slowly zooming in and pulling back.
There are no rules for termite mound fashion, just raw creativity and earthy structures built by weirdly sentient insects.
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Despite clever moments and Hornbyesque touches of melancholy, it's let down by sitcom cliches, and by being weirdly incurious about the inner life of its female lead.
And like many (with discerning taste), I also put it down after about 50 pages, more amused than titillated by its amateurish prose, and definitely put off by its weirdly misogynistic undertones.
And she was another designer this season tempted by the weirdly distracting effect of damp faces.
In the world of pious baloney that is modern presidential politics, Mitt Romney's campaign has distinguished itself by being weirdly, even endearingly honest about its political calculations.
Simon Van Booy's occasional winning bons mots and shrewd observations are drowned out by a weirdly tentative production that quickly runs aground (1 40).
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