Sentence examples for curious air from inspiring English sources

Economists at the Department of Work and Pensions must have told Duncan Smith the effect his plans would have but he still affects that curious air of injured saintliness when confronted with the facts.

Not for the first time, I notice that Mark speaks with a curious air of detachment about his life and, like many comedians, is expert at deflecting personal questions by using humour, in his case bone-dry.

Nothing that happens at the Maze is hidden, euphemized or excused, though even the most harrowing scenes have a curious air of decorum, as if Mr. McQueen was trying to bring human dignity into a place where it has all but vanished.

This was hardly a leisure pursuit, but the movie's curious air of suspended animation leaves you asking whether it could start a cinematic trend, in which the fun-hunting days of history's most transforming radicals will be replayed for our delight.

If you're curious, the air movement in the recording is a northwesterly one, "consistent with the direction of dust devil streaks" in the area.

And even more ordinary objects bore that curious and unmistakable air of isolation and striving.

I stared at the point where he had disappeared, waiting for him to come up for air, curious to see if he would call out to me, or wave, or whether he would just dive again, and keep on diving till I left.

As the colors and shouts of joy wafted through the air, curious passersby wandered over to discover the celebration.

They brushed by me with the same half-curious, half-impatient air they had for the rest of the street.

But since that time she'd begun to notice at twilight a curious glistening to the air.

As an illustration, imagine if curious Martians sampled the air around pedestrians in New York City and determined that some people were coated in aromatic compounds.