Sentence examples for curious angle from inspiring English sources

They finally arrive at a curious angle, so that we always feel, not unpleasantly, that the book began before we started it.

Something else struck me re-reading Liebling's classic work, The Sweet Science: the description of Turpin's power punches, fired in "always at some curious angle".

But it turns out you can also resist: throw up a curious angle and suddenly spasm, like Bowie, or wonder if that's truly your own arm, like Byrne.

The director--who evidently befriended the couple--is visibly upset by the romance gone south: an investment that adds a curious angle to the film as if it is not only about refugees, but the longing for ideal love.

The painting is set at a curious angle, so that although Paul is positioned low in the pictorial space, the viewer still looks upwards towards him as if in respect.

The inside holds what appears to be the hoard of an exuberant and undiscerning band of freegans: old wooden chairs affixed to the walls at curious angles, worn leather boots filled with dead flowers, a forty-foot rope salvaged from a Bed-Stuy belfry strung like crêpe paper above the bar.

As you'd expect for the reported $50m bill for such work, it looks pretty flawless, but there are still a handful of scenes in which his character is shot from curious angles, or holds a toddler in front of his head, or fights foes in unusually ill-lit rooms.

Still, that didn't stop the team from baking in a curious social angle here, too — users can add friends through the apps and compete to see who's being the most conservative with their water.

THE ROOMS The most striking aspect of our "superior" room was the way it had been divided up into curious asymmetrical angles.

Criminal approaches the genre from a thoughtful angle, privileging curious tales and quirks of jurisprudence over anything overly grisly.

Angle is a curious political commodity: she seems marginal but always does better than people expect her to.