Curiously enough, sometimes Hogarth, who was such a popular, down-to-earth painter, includes figures who seem to have come from religious paintings.
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.
Sometimes, curiously, a bit like the Manic Street Preachers.
And for all the innate expressivity of his voice, his singing is sometimes curiously bland.
In this book, however, her research feels curiously uneven, and sometimes a touch bolted on.
His music is ingenious and distinctive and curiously elusive -- sometimes curiously empty, when you listen beneath the virtuosic shimmer and find there not complexity but a basic happy simplicity.
Who sometimes, curiously, resemble the people you run into on the streets and in the screening rooms on Labor Day weekend in Telluride.
Though Mr. Littleton popularized the movement, which eventually spread internationally, the pioneers quietly sidestepped barriers to glassmaking to produce their sometimes curiously shaped, often colorful pieces.
So persuasive is "Histoire(s) du Cinema" as a purely auditory, musical phenomenon that these pictures prove curiously redundant, though sometimes striking in themselves.
In the days leading up to the contest, Mr. Bush clung to a confidence about the outcome that proved entirely unwarranted, and he followed a schedule that was sometimes curiously undemanding.
