Sentence examples for curious trick from inspiring English sources

It seems a curious trick of perspective, that each moment should be fine until it has passed, and then, with the benefit of hindsight, becomes hateful or, at least, embarrassing.

Alan Rickman plays the king with a touch of drollery and vulnerability: his opening scene comes close to being sweet, and he almost pulls off the curious trick of upstaging his own movie.

The irony was not lost on foreign observers: "It is a curious trick of fate that the Kurds, who were the principal agent employed for the deportation of Armenians, should be in danger of suffering the same fate as the Armenians only twelve years later," the British Ambassador in Ankara reported, in 1927.

Whether writing naturalistically about village life in England, or fantastically about the destinies of elves, Sylvia Townsend Warner (who wrote in a wide variety of genres, including poetry) works her curious trick of showing how one thing does indeed lead to another, often in the most alarming way.

A curious trick for a number that never reaches 3.15".

A curious trick for a number that never reaches 3.15". The project is part of ongoing series called Real Numbers, for which the artists give abstract mathematics physical, sculptural form.

In between the landmark political roles, he has done enough mainstream work to make his features commercially ubiquitous, and when you first meet his face plays that curious TV trick of instant familiarity.

In case you missed it, Google actually rolled out the "I'm Feeling Curious" search trick last fall as something of a boredom buster.

Bicing, the Barcelona bike-share scheme, recently agreed to meet me simply because I was a curious ESADE student a trick every MBA should try at least once.

While even Nintendo's finest have failed to grasp fully their peculiar hardware's curious bag of tricks, Danish developer KnapNok Games has crafted a bespoke experience that integrates every hardware quirk available – gyroscope, dual-screen gameplay, elegant touch-screen controls, asymmetric multiplayer… heck, even Miiverse gets a moment of glory.

Though other countries hog much of the fairytale glory, for the intrepid traveller Austria's castles offer trick fountains, curious art collections, dizzying architecture and centuries of history.