This doesn't destroy the evening, but it does make it oddly schizophrenic: at once intellectually stimulating and emotionally static.
Yet the very simplicity of the story makes it oddly appealing to people living amid wrenching political upheaval.
That relish is absent from the video art of the final episode, making it oddly anticlimactic.
This is a newly plastered room, the drying pattern makes it oddly abstract, and bare bulbs always look sinister to me.
Road to Perdition is a film primarily about father-son relationships, but the complete elimination of women from the dynamic makes it oddly soulless, especially given the Catholic milieu within which it's supposedly set.
Earlier in the season the Kronos Quartet turned up at Zankel Hall with a set of Stroh instruments -- eccentric-looking late-19th-century hybrids in which a violin, viola or cello's natural sound is amplified by a brass horn (making it oddly whiny).
In December, Iranian national television displayed a captured American aircraft whose rounded edges, humpback profile, and trapezoidal bug-eye made it look oddly cute — Lockheed Martin by way of Pixar.
"But it still has a nice glaze on it," Mr. Kemper observed, adding that the Blass décor, like the man, "was very controlled, but that's what made it so oddly beautiful".
The song's tune was described as "solemn and hymn-like, but the arrangement, oddly, made it less religious and rather more glitzy, behind the lyrics that overtly praised Jesus".
