Sentence examples for curiously straightforward from inspiring English sources
Spoonful and Sleepy Time Time offer a curiously straightforward take on the blues: the solos may be lengthy, and accompanied by much pursing of the lips, frowning etc, but they're oddly prosaic and polished.
While Bush often conceals the more personal elements of her songwriting behind literary references and character studies, her straightforward, almost conversational lyrics here feel curiously unguarded – and the song is all the more affecting for it.
The Chinese state press has been curiously silent on the subject of the U.S. government shutdown, running straightforward wire stories and restraining itself from triumphalist commentary.
As staged by Scott Elliott, a director known for eliciting (or forcing) the perversity in chestnuts as conventional as "Present Laughter" and "The Women," the straightforward production that opened last night at the Acorn Theater curiously only underscores the schematic stodginess of Ms. Allen's script.
Curiously, for all the orchestrational magic, the most affecting movement was "Laconicrimosa," a straightforward meditation dominated by a lush string sound.
Except, curiously, in Tibetans.
Curiously, it is humpbacked.
Curiously, nobody was sure.
Figurines are curiously absent.
