Sentence examples for curiously precise from inspiring English sources

And Orwell's revolutionary mysticism turned out to be curiously precise: he was right not in spite of but because of his contradictions.

On October 7th Bank of Scotland fired another salvo when it said that cost savings, about which it had previously been coy, would amount to the curiously precise figure of "at least £1.015 billion".

The corporation arrived at this curiously precise figure by estimating the extra money that fans would spend on restaurants and hotel rooms should the Jamesian Knicks not only make it to the post-season playoffs — something that right now would require God's dropping everything else — but also go all the way to the finals.

Chichvarkin is proud to stock a few good bottles of wine for £15, but mainly sells to wealthy bankers, lawyers and Mayfair residents who can be relaxed about spending £16,777.80 (prices are curiously precise, down to the last penny) on a bottle of 1882 Chateau d'Yquem (75cl).

The medium talks to these conditions in a curiously precise manner". .

The Pakistani army has boasted of eliminating 3,400 terrorists -- a curiously precise number -- during its Zarb-e-Azb campaign.

Curiously, at that precise moment - that week in fact, Fuji announced this new film stock called Vivid, which we used.

The treasures of the Fisk collection, to my mind, are the large groups of works by Marsden Hartley, Arthur G. Dove, Charles Demuth (especially a precise, curiously touching little watercolor of an eggplant and some bell peppers) and John Marin.

A curiously fascinating highlight includes the precise, customary preparation of an iced watermelon.

In Tanzania, there's still a whole circuit of curiously named $2 guesthouses - the precise Swahili word for them is "guestees" - with tiny luggage locks dangling on the latch and wafer-thin mattresses and high-gloss paint on the walls, usually in stripes.

Despite his fondness for making jokes about his girth ("I'm gaining weight for a role — 'The Zach Galifianakis Story' "), Galifianakis, 39 years old and 5-foot-8, makes a curiously delicate impression in person: small, precise hands, clear blue eyes and a face that can radiate wholesomeness, perversity or demonic glee in equal measure.