Sentence examples for curious presence from inspiring English sources

As Morgan won more battles, the news of his curious presence began filtering out.

The third major character, a sleazoid journalist named Tony Meehan, is a curious presence.

In the United States, BYD has been a scrappy if somewhat curious presence at the Detroit auto show since 2008, showcasing vehicles with questionable fit and finish and whose styling cribbed unabashedly from other brands, particularly Toyota.

Possible existence of this novel defence strategy is suggested by a few observations: a curious presence of GSTs near the nucleus has been reported many years ago in immunohistochemical and non-aqueous cell fractionation studies [12], [13], [14].

The curious presence of orphan SelD in these prokaryotes suggested an additional, unknown use of Se that is dependent on SelD.

Extension of these findings to investigate the curious presence of a deletion of two amino acids in the bridge helix of plant RNA polymerase IV (corresponding to the looped-out region proposed to act as a translocation pawl and shown as Cα-Cβ sticks in Figure 1b) led the author to a remarkable discovery that calls into question the translocation-pawl model.

William was a curious, entertaining presence in the office.

She's a curious stage presence, lacking any visible relish of live performance.

Thousands of birds — boobies, noddies and terns — were curious by our presence and flew circles above our heads, squawking.

Mr. Khan is part of an influx of Bangladeshi immigrants who earn a living by writing parking summonses for the city, a curious and growing presence navigating the choking traffic and bumper-to-bumper sea of parked cars.

As he showed me around, everything started to fall into place: Clark's biography; the bleary and compromised romance of adventure travel; the Clark family's internal fractures; the institute's attempt to get a foothold in New York City; and the club's own curious and slightly anachronistic presence, in the midst of an Upper East Side that's no longer quite as spotlessly elegant as it once was.