Sentence examples for distinctly strange from inspiring English sources

Forking out that sort of money and then asking the guy to sit on the substitute's bench sounds distinctly strange to me.

This is because beneath the surface of a distant and often distinctly strange culture Murasaki's characters of a thousand years ago express emotions that remain entirely familiar.

Mr. Troy's closing argument was another unusual turn in a distinctly strange trial that started on June 17 before Judge Daniel J. Cotter.

In the finale, the stomping rhythms coming off the stage and up from the floor had such potency that it felt distinctly strange to be sitting motionless in a concert hall: we should have been dancing.

We like to say that music is a universal language, but we mean our music and our universe, and we expend little effort in trying to learn the often distinctly strange idioms of others.

"What's fresh about Wheatley's horror-based cinema is that it combines a fascination with distinctly strange, often moribund aspects of old-English culture, with a spot-on comic sense of how bizarre and dysfunctional ordinary people can be," Nick James, the editor of the magazine Sight & Sound, which in November put "Sightseers" on its cover, wrote in an e-mail.

As far-out as the time-rewind mechanic is, so much of Life is Strange is distinctly everyday and universal of relatability, from the overdue bills on the sideboard at Chloe's place, to the schooldays cliques butting heads for no real reason besides boredom.

As far-out as the time-rewind mechanic is, so much of Life Is Strange is distinctly everyday and universal of relatability, from the overdue bills on the sideboard at Chloe's place, to the schooldays cliques butting heads for no real reason besides boredom.

But it's quite strange and not distinctly recognizable as you.

I read this collection before I read The Stand, and I distinctly remember thinking that Captain Trips was a strange name for a virus, and wondering where this little story – this strange thing that seemed aimlessly dark, like an idea looking for a plot – came from.

This strange, lugubrious, wildly uneven dream of an exhibition exudes a distinctly European mood of ruminative pessimism, relieved intermittently by moments of black humor and otherworldly fantasy.