Sentence examples for characteristically strange from inspiring English sources

Elam's forty-five-minute "Future Perfect" is characteristically strange, with birdlike creatures eying each other quizzically and working themselves into affectionate tangles.

The primary influences on the songs are gospel and country (Byrne even starts yodelling towards the end of Life Is Long, perhaps the one moment on the album that you could describe as genuinely startling) albeit gospel and country given a characteristically strange shimmer by Eno's arrangements.

There's a surreal emptiness to all their lives but, for once, the prospect of hope in a romantic relationship – albeit characteristically flawed and strange.

Bob Hall's paper for Jackson Hole (pdf) is, characteristically for Hall, a mix of very sensible stuff and strange-looking stuff that just might involve a deep insight.

Almost everyone who met Philip Sassoon here or elsewhere described him as strange, unknowable and, ah, oriental - except for Virginia Woolf, who characteristically called him "an underbred Whitechapel Jew".

Although his prose is characteristically graceful, and at times even beautiful, both the concerns Mr Ford raises (life is strange, people are unknowable, the Western Plains are big) and the way in which he raises them are all too familiar.

Chagnon, characteristically, is unrepentant.

Characteristically, Mantel provoked controversy.

Alastair was characteristically blunt.

Recer, characteristically, was unbowed.

Joseph was characteristically undaunted.