Sentence examples for curious rule from inspiring English sources
It's a curious rule of TV that shows honouring the best achievements of the medium tend to be among the medium's worst achievements.
But, while attendance at Gatz requires flexible diaries and reliable bladders, the production should benefit from what I'd argue is a curious rule of theatrical running times.
Conversely, the earnest revelations allotted to Marion Cotillard, in that movie, seemed out of place, undone by the curious rule that governs Nolan's oeuvre: the heavier the emotion, the less it means to us.
What is this curious rule that says all female athletes are supposed to be homers for life, unquestioning backers of their team and gender, as opposed to independent-minded professionals?
I will remember that curious rule of only being allowed to send songs purchased on iTunes to five people, or whatever.
But as one who has always viewed American English as a sort of junk shop, stacked with bins of curious rules and tools useful mostly to journeyman quantum mechanics, I saw another way to look at the sentence.
We know that this curious pattern is governed by rules because only some internal word slots allow expletives: speakers don't say "CinFuckingDerella" or "MississipGodDamnPi".
This perpetual pressure would explain the curious ground rules at a More Than Money conference I visited in early May.
And while the judge said a jury visit to the Williams estate in Hunterdon County might be "wonderfully curious," he ruled against it, accepting Ms. Errickson's argument that a tour might leave jurors overly sympathetic to the basketball star.
This is probably a conservative estimate: thanks to curious Commonwealth rules about who was eligible to fight – Indigenous volunteers had to prove to recruiting officers that they were, despite appearances, of "substantially European descent" in order to be considered for enlistment – the actual number of Indigenous men who served in that war will remain the source of conjecture.
By Clarence Day The New Yorker, November 11 , 1933P. 22 It's curious how fashions rule even love-making.
