Sentence examples for curious compound from inspiring English sources

A curious compound of deep hopefulness and blunt pragmatism seems to suffuse the Obama administration.

This stuff is hard to read without getting both mad and bored at the same time, a curious compound emotion where you're angry but also wracked with a kind of chronic exhaustion, a deep-in-your-bones tiredness that—one assumes you also feel before death, as life's inviolable miseries slash into you with their thousand little knives.

Thus, DIF-2 is a curious compound, whose physiologic and specific roles, if any, are unknown.

No encompassing theory has been evolved to rationalize many of these curious compounds.

The children perked up as we drove into the huge gated compound, curious to see their grandfather, a retired reverend, for the first time.

He writes: "A team is a curious and unstable chemical compound: The right blend of people can work wonders, but remove one or two and the resultant mixture takes on vastly different properties.

Curious to see the main compound, which closed in 1997, I went back a few days later.

The exhibition's title – taken from the 18th-century German compound Ruinenlust – describes the curious psychopathology of being drawn to that which we most fear.

The streets surrounding the compound were packed with protesters, curious Bangkok residents out for a stroll and dozens of vendors of fried chicken, noodles, T-shirts and souvenirs.

An effective theory of this compound has been constructed, and this theory can explain the curious magnetic properties in the high magnetic field [11].

So too was his curious efforts at securing wives through traditional mechanisms, and his management on a family compound of security guards whose bleary eyes lit up at a machete.