Pop stars are meant to be remote, strange, faintly ridiculous figures.
When I saw Nanni Moretti's family tragedy The Son's Room premiere at Cannes last summer I did sniffle, and the experience was intense enough to induce a strange, faintly headachey delirium for hours afterwards.
This has nothing to do with the structural integrity of the dam, yet it is faintly unsettling, the strange bump in the belly of the aircraft.
So do chimneys, antennas and other strange and faintly ghostly protuberances.
So it was strange, and faintly alarming to his subjects, when the king broke a long silence on April 9th to urge his "beloved countrymen" to turn out and vote.
Tumescence, finely suggested in the author's stately, faintly archaic prose, pulses this strange story and stops the heart as no consummation would.
And, although Jonathan Kent's superbly-acted production is far superior to The Country Wife which opened the current season, there is something faintly anachronistic about Bond's strange East Anglian fable in this sumptuous playhouse.
His last two books were "Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife (Holt, 1998) and "Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales From the Invertebrate World" (Holt, 1996).
Unifissurinella boulangeri Strange microproblematica from the Eocene of France faintly resembling a calzone pizza but tiny.
And Esther Hicks, who emerges as the film's guiding light, delivers a series of mini-sermons that have a strange, hypnotic force, owing partly to her faintly musical voice and untraceable accent.
