Sentence examples for curious how many from inspiring English sources

Then again, it's curious how many people are eager to claim the onstage vantage points, given that Shakespeare's patrician characters treat the "hooting rabblement" with ill-disguised contempt.

It's curious how many apartment museums begin with displacement, moving the old out so the even older can be celebrated anew.

I have an additional suggestion: Many readers are probably curious — how many books have to be sold each week to earn a spot on a New York Times best-seller list?

Yet it is curious how many people highly skeptical about the current rush for a missile defense system are so enthusiastic about giving stem cell research a green light and a heavy dose of federal financing.

Its meaning of "depressed, downcast, despondent, dejected, dispirited" (curious, how many words beginning with d are downers) was then taken up by sailors to refer to "becalmed areas near the Equator" and now means (here comes another) "droopy".

"I'm curious how many people will use" the Web site to order the merchandise, Mr. Schoenberg says, adding that he believes "a lot will check it out to see if it's real" and then say: "Can I really send flowers?

You have to blame the scripts in the main, but it's also curious how so many of its bankable stars fail the basic test of charm.

It is curious, then, how many perceive the activity as primitive.

2. I'm also curious about how many Chatroulette "conversations" lead to face-to-face meetings (not many, I assume).

That two immediate forms of expression should lead such separate lives is curious, given how many means and ends they share.

It is curious now how many people did think that the news about Waldheim — not his past so much as his having lied so calculatingly about that past — would finish him.