Sentence examples for in its oddity from inspiring English sources

"The Science of Sleep," Michel Gondry's beguiling new film, is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.

A young woman who's thinking about a sex-change operation and who dresses as a man and gets away with it (at least for a while)—this story, almost clinical in its oddity, almost embarrassing in its social and erotic details, might have been killed by a dozen varieties of sensationalism or sickly pity.

Crazy or not, he produced exceptionally inventive art, outsiderish in its oddity but formally sophisticated and ripe with historical allusions.

And the good thing about this set is that because it's uncluttered it throws the story into relief in all its oddity.

Had he obsessed on Volestein with the intention of making me face Gopnik, in all its oddity, and then, having faced it, grasp some ironic wisdom?

On those walks he must have heard the "Hawthorne" voice first make utterance in its sinuous oddity, yet he still seemed hard-pressed to get it into writing.

Carroll agrees that the main benefit is in its very oddity, even its otherworldliness.

In such a case, we feel it is best to retain it in the monotypic genus Kaniska, in order to highlight its "oddity" and long history of independent evolution.

Instead, Kansas' appeal to the unhurried traveller is in its roadside oddities.

Production and costume designer Jonathon Oxlade also embraces the 70s in all of its oddities and excess.

But in its matter-of-fact oddity, it's also a picture that reaches across time to a culture accustomed to fanatic surrealism.