Sentence examples for curious standoff from inspiring English sources
That the British government has a controlling stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland — and has not shied away from imposing its will on the bank — only adds to the curious standoff.
It was a curious kind of standoff: hundreds of protesters, with an audience of dozens of reporters, refusing to speak.
69) The Standoff A curious set-up – two people have to stand next to each other for three days to win the car of their dreams – could go either way in this teen comedy from the writer of, ahem, A Cinderella Story.
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer drew a curious comparison on Fox News Thursday evening between Washington's fiscal cliff standoff and the Civil War.
Ilya Slavinski, 24, who works for a nonprofit and was among 141 people arrested during a standoff with the police last week, ducked into the library on Sunday, curious about the historian Howard Zinn, whose "People's History of the United States" portrays the country as a place where the privileged abuse the downtrodden.
"People weren't curious about us before, but now when they call us they just want to talk about Koresh and the standoff and whether or not we have any more religious nuts with guns here," he said.
It was a curious thing to say, since the libretto of "Bel Canto" — an adaptation, by Nilo Cruz, of Ann Patchett's 2001 novel about a hostage standoff — is not only in English but also in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Quechua.
