Sentence examples for curious slightly from inspiring English sources

Japanese, Germans, Koreans, British and even some Americans are now regular features in Harlem's Sunday landscape and cast a curious, slightly nervous, eye over the drunks who cast an ambivalent, slightly mocking, eye back.

The program focuses on two unrelated teenage boys, Chris Johnson and Cody Perkins, and Chris is hands-down the more interesting; he has a curious, slightly artificial way of talking, and his morose conviction that nothing he does will ever work out is unaccountably matched by surges of awesome initiative: to start a newspaper, to lead a choir, to ask a girl out.

It was a curious, slightly disturbing jumble made more so by the fact that the dolls and pieces all had some serious 'playtime' on them.

Indestructible, charismatic and extravagantly scarred (the legacy of a Somali spear that passed through both cheeks), Burton was also irascible, domineering, unquenchably curious and slightly unhinged.

But, as he tells it, he wasn't the kind of boy who tended to inspire fear: he was studious and curious and slightly freaked out by neighborhood violence.

Defiantly asserting their faith in a secular setting, they invited curious, even slightly hostile, glances, especially from a woman with dyed blond hair who wore stilettos and a purple T-shirt over tight white pants.

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.

However, as time progressed, I became curious and slightly skeptical.

I live with a six-year-old girl who is very curious and slightly coquettish when it comes to the opposite sex and a nine year old boy who gives way more attention to hockey and baseball than to thoughts about young ladies from his class who call him after school.

"There are lots of reasons why we would be slightly curious," he said.

It was a slightly curious choice as more of Mr. Mica's constituents will be in an adjoining district.