Sentence examples for merely odd from inspiring English sources

He added: "It's merely odd that the commissioner believes this.

In the 1995 scenes Cohle is merely odd.

What could have looked merely odd became a lesson in expressiveness.

A few aspects were admirable, some were merely odd, others lamentable.

Plenty of unlikely people try out for shows like these, some of them deluded, some merely odd and a few actually talented.

In the first years after Simon graduated from high school, his parents had accepted their son's friendship with Berman as merely odd.

In the pursuit of the exotic and the merely curious, I have encountered odd books I otherwise wouldn't have read (How We Die, by Sherwin B. Nuland), surfed the Web (www.sephardim.com), and watched embarrassing television (yeah, Springer).

It's exemplary of our own times that a character with Alice's obsessions should be presented not merely as odd but as ill, that her road to self-realization depends on rejecting her medication — and (spoiler alert) that ultimately, her doctor turns out to know best.

It's exemplary of our own times that a character with Alice's obsessions should be presented not merely as odd but as ill, that her road to self-realization depends on rejecting her medication and (spoiler alert) that ultimately, her doctor turns out to know best.

The portable Walkman music player, which debuted in the late 1970s, has gone from the pinnacle of on-the-go-listening to merely resembling odd black bricks, according to some kids.

He said: "This modest arrangement does not seem remotely odd, merely sensible".