Sentence examples for curious aside from inspiring English sources

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Oh, and a curious aside.

No one moved ­except the two dozen policemen, in khaki coats, who shoved the lawyers, the journalists and the simply curious aside.

As a Washington Post correspondent, Liz Sly, reported, the office of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria posted five new photographs of his wife, Asma, on Facebook as part of an effort to disprove a curious aside in a Lebanese newspaper report that she is pregnant.

In a curious aside, she laments the standardisation of fonts and layouts that befell the stories when they landed on her desk and were then transformed into a book, noting with interest the two users of 'the elegant, melancholic Didot', the variation in type sizes, the eccentric contributor who presents his (or her) material in 'one long, thin strip down the page, like a newspaper column'.

Curious aside: you're not supposed to be able to activate those touchless controls unless you're the person who configured them in the first place, but I was able to bring them up on a spokesperson's device without any setup on my part.

As another curious aside, a Mr. Richard Cheney did an hour of work for AEI that same year and received $80,230 in compensation.

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His introductions are humorous and seemingly off the cuff, and they include curious asides.

Sir Christopher Kelly's report into what went wrong at the Co‑operative Bank is worth a read, if only for its curious asides.

The comedy was not in the manner of the party but its manners – the missed air kiss, the curious asides, the desperate passive-aggressive anxiety that goes into maintaining the unspoken hierarchy of stardom.

LONDON – It was one of the more curious asides of this week's annual procession at the United Nations General Assembly of heads of states airing their differences, setting out their political stalls and maneuvering for position both internationally and before their audiences and voters at home.

One of the curious asides in the American Masters documentary about Woody Allen that will be broadcast this Sunday and Monday on PBS is the revelation that "Sleeper" was originally going to be a silent film — or, rather, one in which Allen would never speak, because the people in his imagined dystopian future would have lost the power of speech.

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