Sentence examples for he's strange from inspiring English sources

A telling moment comes when another character, the elderly Anglophile Lola, pronounces on the book she is reading, VS Naipaul's A Bend in the River: 'I think he's strange.

He's funny, he's touching, he's strange, he's inconclusive.

Instantly one felt: this fellow comes from far, far away, he's strange.

As Black himself might put it: He's strange, remote and very seclusive/ The cops find him amazingly reclusive/ Don't mention his name in summer, spring, winter or fall/ Or he'll strike like Thunderball.

He's strange, for sure: a cadet in a Southern military academy, he has a porn star name (Jocko de Paris), likes to lounge around in silk dressing gowns, puffs on his cigarettes through a Holly Golightly holder and in his spare time enjoys sadistically goading his fellow students into paddling one another with brooms or (preferably) beating one another into bloody pulps.

In one scene, Amantha, recognizing that an old enemy is helping solve the mystery of Hanna's murder, asks, "Is there anyone left to hate?" Daniel wryly refers to himself as Humpty-Dumpty, but he's often more like Kimmy Schmidt: he's strange not because his capacity for wonder has been shut down but because it's almost too open.

"He was strange," Basie replied, "and strangely nice".

People think he is strange, said an official of Vologda's regional government.

"He was strange and bizarre".

"He was nice, but he was strange a bit".

He was, strange as it may sound, too talented.