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"The fact that it was a soap opera, on TV every day in the afternoon, in itself made it strange.
What made it strange was New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who endorsed Trump last Friday, and introduced him and then stood behind him the whole time.
"The one thing you could count on with Pence was interpersonal decency, which made it strange that he joined the Trump ticket, the most indecent ticket any party's ever put together," Pete Buttigieg said.
I remember seeing her photographs for the first time, and thinking that with their saturated colours and supernova exposures, they seemed of a piece with Jane Campion's first feature, Sweetie (1989); and that here was another antipodean visual artist who took a world rendered banal by familiarity, then made it strange once more.
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His concept of ostranenie, or "making it strange," was his chief contribution to Russian Formalist theory.
Which makes it strange that some people now regard the idea as unwise.
If you were going to build a world, there are a million ways you could make it strange and captivating.
"It works by taking what we know from familiar, unquestioned settings and making it strange".
Koons seems to be constantly stretching, twisting, amplifying and reconfiguring the ordinary to make it strange.
This is Mr. Clay's ambition, to make us look again at Peekskill by making it strange.
With the inner monologues, I thought, I'll use voice-over but I need to make it strange, just like they are in the book.
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