Sentence examples for curiously attractive from inspiring English sources

Playing Eighties pop music, it has the curiously attractive allure of a teen houseparty.

Both possess the ability to make random acts of violence curiously attractive.

We see several suicides and hear from their nearest and dearest, and the film suggests that people do it because, like Everest, it is there and because it's a curiously attractive construction.

It's creepy in there, but also curiously attractive: eerily clean, quiet and calm, the underpopulated world of "Sky Crawlers" sometimes seems to be the American Southwest of the 1950s, sometimes the northern Europe of today.

In the second collection of short stories by a master of deadpan vernacular and hard-boiled fiction, a curiously attractive cast of schemers, scammers and thieves rubs up against outright creeps and sadists, often to comic effect.

Popular depictions of evil tend to follow the Paradise Lost route in making the hellish curiously attractive, and even in movies where the Prince of Darkness is actually the antagonist, he's still by far the most interesting character (think Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate).

While Green's valiant wartime work as an auxiliary firefighter gave him a welcome opportunity to imagine he was just one of the boys (he was in fact a rich industrialist's son), it also provided this attractive, curiously elusive man with a string of hero-worshiping girlfriends.

Mrs. Graebner is a large woman with a strikingly attractive face, curiously like Carole's, and she, too, is a dieter of fearful discipline.

Ms. Mescheriakova's voice was curiously uneven, sometimes rich, vibrant and attractive, at other times marred by weak low tones, pinched high notes and a tendency to veer sharp in pitch.

Curiously, the FT-EV lacks the production iQ's attractive wrap-around rear window.

(Curiously, all three Sugababes seem convinced that nobody finds them similarly attractive).