Sentence examples for move oddly from inspiring English sources

After the scene-setting first stanza, interestingly in the present tense, with its Kiplingesque admiration for the bravery of the poised troops, we move oddly into the past tense, where the admiral contemplates the place of rhetoric in a military situation.

Tell them there are only two pieces that move oddly, the pawns and the knights.

Long-frozen bodies moved oddly, mechanically, like wobbly figures in a cuckoo clock, impelled by forces other than their own will.

In some ways it's a cautionary tale but it's also deeply moving, oddly positive at the end despite everything, and there are some charismatic characters such as Liv's sensible mother and Rose's disturbed one.

(This does happen to venerable writing manuals, with awkward results: I've seen an incompletely updated edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, from the 1990s, that has the novice writer moving oddly between typewriter and computer).

The most difficult pieces to move are oddly shaped solid masses with fragile surfaces.

Some scenes that should be terribly moving were oddly bungled.

(Time moved so oddly in this vacuum, says Betancourt, that the memoir follows an "emotional chronology". She can't be sure of the sequence of events).

John and Jeanne's struggle to help Joseph recover from his suicide attempt (and the years of turmoil leading up to it) make up the main thrust of Mr. Schwartz's meticulous and, at times, moving memoir, "Oddly Normal".

But from this grim material emerges a moving and oddly funny book, as I. takes refuge in reveries of the past, recounting stories of Thanksgiving Day parades, meals in Paris, family quarrels, and the courtship of his wife.

It's simple, moving, and oddly effecting.