Sentence examples for curious elements from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Alden embraces the opera's curious elements of lighter, Gallic humor.

But Mr. Schiff fit these curious elements into wondrously lucid contrapuntal structures, like splendid Baroque buildings.

But it is one of the more curious elements of America's investment-management world that Fidelity and its most formidable competitors resist becoming public companies themselves.

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.

The apparent easiness of, say, The Triumph of Neptune (his 1926 Ballets Russes score, commissioned by Diaghilev) is deceptive: there are many curious elements in the piece, not least a storm scene scored for percussion alone - unheard of in the mid-1920s - with the violinists playing comical-sounding flexatones.

One of the most curious elements of the fighting and the cease-fire period has been that while Georgians in the capital called for the Russian Army to leave, many survivors of the looting and intimidation in the conflict zone spoke highly of the Russians, saying they helped keep looting in check.

There was another curious element that I used.

One curious element in the kidnappers' e-mail messages has been the persistent but inconsistent misspellings.

There was a curious element in the performance of the Telekom train.

There was another curious element that I used to augment staying distant from the immediate present.

One curious element to preparing for a play-off final must be the gap between it and the semi.