Sentence examples for curiously compelling from inspiring English sources

But it turns out to be curiously compelling.

The resulting "wall" doesn't seem too far removed from a shower curtain, except for one curiously compelling detail.

The two men have much in common: not least, a maverick, mockable sincerity that people laugh at from a distance but find curiously compelling face to face.

Since 1902, it has become a kind of femme fatale of literature, exerting a curiously compelling effect upon authors, critics, playwrights, producers, and publishers.

However, with the audience willing her on and the singer perhaps gaining an undefinable dimension from being "high on Benylin", it is curiously compelling.

The characters in "The Partnership" are uniformly unlikable, but out of them Unsworth has created an unsettling and curiously compelling novel.

Curiously, these more compelling results were not reported in the paper.

But the Globe production captures very little of the horror or the humor in Shakespeare's compelling and curiously abstract play.

Still, as he admits in this compelling and curiously moving account of his traumatic experiences near the very summit of Canadian politics, he really had no idea.

None of it is comfortable to watch, but it's all compelling, and sometimes curiously moving, as when Violetta and Alfredo begin their final duet by drawing the curtains that are no longer there, as though trying to recapture the world that they have lost.

Their gangly movements, distinctive patterning and curiously long neck make them a compelling figure in the jungle.