Sentence examples for curious beginning from inspiring English sources

For Zadie Smith this curious beginning to Kierkegaard's treatise is "a rehearsal: it lays out a series of rational explanations the better to demonstrate their poverty as explanations", and Lispector's narrator, too, is hunting a meaning that continues to elude her.

For a couple of years the resources listed here constituted a somewhat curious beginning, in which the history of this largest Portuguese-speaking nation in the world was very largely represented by its Dutch history.

And it was here something curious began to take shape.

In the first half of the 14th century the intellectually curious began seeking out texts of classical authors.

A Cure for the Curious begins with descending, harshly scraped strings – a bold, jolting start – before plunging us into the Greek folk of The Plate Smasher.

It was not until the mid-19th century that the devout and the curious began making the pilgrimage to Oberammergau in large numbers.

From early afternoon, the faithful and the curious began massing behind barriers on Fifth Avenue, some crowding into the upper display windows of stores to catch a glimpse of the Holy Father.

By 10am on Tuesday crowds of plant enthusiasts and the morbidly curious began queuing outside the glasshouse at the botanic garden for a once-in-a-decade chance to see the stinky spectacle.

We'll be on the lookout for any and all further details during tonight's keynote (which, for the curious, begins at around 1 a.m. pacific, as Nokia World takes place in London).

Yet along the way something curious was beginning to happen.

The bill does include some curious elements, beginning with its definition of an "emerging business" as one with annual revenue of up to $1 billion or has no more than $700 million in publicly held stock.