Sentence examples for great strange from inspiring English sources

You get swept along in this great strange story".

A small, svelte show at the Metropolitan celebrates the museum's recent acquisition of its first painting by the great, strange, and vexing German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).

I suspect that "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis" will in time be seen as one of the great, strange American literary contributions, distinct and crookedly personal, like the work of Flannery O'Connor, or Donald Barthelme, or J. F. Powers.

It is assumed to start in about 1900, when in reality modernism was alive and kicking in Paris by 1860 (at the latest) and by the 1890s was generating great, strange art all over Europe.

He was himself a reminder that this great, strange, and forever-changing country was, and is, a place for people like Terry Carpenter, who once called it his duty to "supervise the establishment".

A little smile formed from time to time as he talked of how baseball is a "funny, great, strange and frustrating" game that never ceases to surprise even its experienced practitioners.

Ingres's great, strange painting "Angelica Saved by Ruggiero" (1819-39), whose nude heroine is chained to a rock and menaced by a dragon, and a version of Delacroix's "The Death of Sardanapalus" (1844), in which an Assyrian king savors the massacre that he has ordered of his harem, establish mainstream bona fides of Degas's thematic kinks.

In 2009 her stories were brought together in one volume, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, which was called "a grand cumulative achievement" and "one of the great, strange American literary contributions" by James Wood in The New Yorker and "one of the great books in recent literature" by Dan Chiasson in the New York Review of Books.