Sentence examples for curiously aware from inspiring English sources

The best jokes are also critical observations, eg that Shakespeare's Othello "is a man who seems curiously aware that he is speaking Shakespearean blank verse".

(An earlier biographer of Smith, James Buchan, points out that both Smith's and Hume's fathers died when their boys were small; perhaps the loss made them curiously aware of the spectral nature of authority).

[Uncle Béla's in New York].Few Hungarians notice this curiously nationally-aware grammatical tic.

He is serious, attentive and curiously passive, becoming aware of his own feelings only when other people point them out to him.

Angelinos are indeed a diverse group, especially behind their "wheel of misfortune" -- so be alarmingly warned, pleasantly aware or curiously nosey on 8 more cars in this mix.

They go on to reflect that of the general practitioners they interviewed: 'Curiously none appeared to be aware that they themselves might also be contributing to this stigma by virtue of (in most cases) their either avoiding getting involved in dementia diagnosis or alternatively using euphemisms when discussing the illness with their patients' (p. 82).

The praying mantis on its top, surrounded by chrysanthemums, looks out at us with a curiously intelligent expression, as though it were aware of our presence.

Curiously, few Italian business leaders were more aware of those rumblings than Roberto Colaninno, who resigned Sunday as chairman of Telecom Italia in the face of the bid by Pirelli and Benetton.