Johnson c Streak b Blignaut 24 (356-8) A curious end to Johnson's fun cameo appearance.
It was a curious ending to a game in which the Giants had shown little urgency or tempo when they still had a faint chance to win.
The Yankees' obfuscation of Jeter's presumably last rehabilitation hurdle seemed a curious end to a bizarre week for the ball club in the Bronx, usually a stanchion of stability and self-assurance.
And it's a curious end for a woman from a strict Methodist household who grew up without an indoor toilet – not because the family was poor, but because her father wouldn't countenance such luxuries.
Still, the flourishes that open the third movement sounded like a fanfare for some stern czar of old, and the curious ending to the finale — a passage of grumbling, pungent chords thick with woodwinds and subdued brasses — sounded like a somber, soulful Russian Orthodox choir.
So, apparently, did Jarmusch, which is why Only Lovers Left Alive luxuriates in a curious end-of-an-era melancholy, as if he'd set out at once to make the last ever vampire movie and cinema's last ever love story.
It's a curious end to the company, if this is really the end.
There was no violence, only dancing – a curious end to a wretched day.
Richard seems both a buffoon and a danger, someone running his own agenda for his own curious, confidential ends.
