Sentence examples for freak rather than from inspiring English sources
If England lose this series it will be a bit of a freak rather than, say, the 1999 series against New Zealand when they were completely outplayed and clearly needed significant change.
The risk here, though, is that the nonstop erotic cabaret of Peaches's live show might overshadow her professionalism, that Peaches remains infamous for being a six-breasted freak, rather than the writer of frequently excellent songs.
Sontag also observed that "the purification of Leni Riefenstahl's reputation of its Nazi dross has been gathering momentum for some time," with her defenders, including many in the avant-garde film establishment, suggesting that she was first and foremost an "indomitable priestess of the beautiful," fascinated by the ideal and the monumental, "a beauty freak rather than a horrid propagandist".
Having graduated from the unofficial university of cabaret, the group provide a freak soundscape rather than having to resort to impaling themselves for their "dark art".
Stumbling my way through a thousand people screaming: "Shame on you, BBC", I couldn't help wondering if this whole fairness thing had turned into something of a freak show rather than an exercise in democratic liberty.
Most important, agriculture, which employs two-thirds of the country's workers, is powering ahead, encouraged by strong export demand from Cambodia's also-booming big neighbour, Vietnam.When a bumper harvest boosted Cambodia's growth rate to 13.5% in 2005, this was seen as an aberration caused by freak weather rather than any lasting improvement in productivity.
The growing number of climate change deniers put recent events like this year's devastating floods in Queensland and the most powerful cyclone in Australia's history (cyclone Yasi in February 2011 was as powerful as hurricane Katrina) down to freaks of nature rather than climate change.
On her ambitious 2010 triple album, "Have One on Me," her voice and songwriting took on a forceful, neurotic intensity closer to that of Fiona Apple rather than freak-folk ancestors like the cult British balladeer Vashti Bunyan.
Certainly the title of (and blurbs for) Naomi Klein's new book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" (Metropolitan Books), would seem to place it squarely in the freak-out-immediately camp rather than the light-a-scented-candle one.
By assembling a broad and talented team, rather than the freak show deployed by some of his predecessors, he has begun well and confidently.
But it is the freezer rather than the freak shows that will soon be at the centre of a fierce international debate on the trade in endangered species.
