Sentence examples for curious form of from inspiring English sources

And there is some satisfaction in seeing this curious form of blood sport performed by professionals.

It was a curious form of hedging from a president who prides himself on plain speaking.

The curious form of the article (El), however, may be the Venetian dialect or more likely from the Spanish.

THE Higgs boson (see article) is not the only curious form of matter whose nature has been probed this week.

This is an event whose curious form of melancholy cannot be punctured by any number of cheap crackers.

Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, marked by a curious form of r resembling c.

One of the most curious forms of tourism in recent years has to be that of Chinese who travel to North Korea for the nostalgic gag of visiting a country that abounds in echoes of their past.

The curious deconstructed form of the exhibition repays leisurely inspection and eventually yields up its hidden witticisms.

These microfailures have become a curious new form of entertainment, like a fire drill that forces everyone to empty out an office building.

But the courtroom was a rare exception, and the courtroom drawing developed both as a substitute for photography, and as its own, curious alternative form of representation.

There are many often curious forms: the tiny button cactus, Epithelantha; the myriad pincushion species of Mammillaria; Parodia, or Tom Thumb cactus; and Rebutia, the pygmy cactus.