Sentence examples for curious atmosphere from inspiring English sources

Everyone in the tennis business — the players, their coaches and mates, the journalists, the former greats, the fringe characters, even the regular spectators — descends on the grounds, wandering about in a curious atmosphere of accessibility and celebrity.

It was in this curious atmosphere that Dawn, nicknamed Dinky, grew up as the child of Sissinghurst servants and shone as "a good weeder" in the famous gardens there.

But in discussing indifference to AIDS, in recreating the charged, curious atmosphere and mixed motives of the gym, at the gay bar, and in the midst of death, Mr. Drake can be rivetingly angry, intense, frenetic, frank and touching.

It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project, with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.

Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft, designed to study the planet's curious atmosphere, shot past its target in December 2010 when its main engine malfunctioned.

In a U-boat's cramped quarters, "clusters of sausages dangled the length of the boat, which would set out carrying the curious combined atmosphere of a luxury grocery store doing business inside a gargantuan automobile engine".

The Ledge is a curious experiment in atmosphere, set on the ledge running around the outside of a building.

But the movie's atmosphere is a curious mixture of obliqueness and intensity.

A flashlight, a fishing knife, a pair of leather gloves, and a hunting vest packed with shells contributed further atmosphere to this curious still-life.

But what most people really want to see are close-up pictures of the gorgeous swirls of the planet's atmosphere, and the curious braiding of its rings.NASA, no slouch at public relations, will make sure the taxpaying public gets these while the scientists get on with the dull but necessary measurements that will help to bridge the gap between stamp collecting and understanding.

It has an atmosphere where everyone's curious about the things around them".