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Yet the very simplicity of the story makes it oddly appealing to people living amid wrenching political upheaval.

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.

This doesn't destroy the evening, but it does make it oddly schizophrenic: at once intellectually stimulating and emotionally static.

That relish is absent from the video art of the final episode, making it oddly anticlimactic.

The ingenious blend of approximate identities out of which the Cairo Chest is constructed has made it oddly impervious to any individual act of taste.

Ms. McDonald's performance aside, all the new stratagems to specify and anchor the show's themes, people and plot have instead made it oddly abstract and diffuse.

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).

Advertising tries to capture the "now," and that makes it an oddly effective way for television dramas to examine the "then".

It's adapted by Tracy Letts from his 1993 play (Friedkin also turned Letts's play Bug into a film in 2006), and its theatrical origins do become obvious in the way certain characters are left disconcertingly off screen; the movie is concluded with a long, slow and single-location sequence, which makes it looks oddly like a filmed stage play.

Not everyone can pair Broadway-style vocals with raunchy sex talk, ample cleavage and "motorboating," but Everett makes it seem oddly natural.