Sentence examples for odd act from inspiring English sources

When the Google Street View car eventually vanished from view, I wondered if, by this odd act of vigilante justice, I was actually protecting the city from being misunderstood or if I was just a step too touchy, like a "Defend New Orleans" bumper sticker.

9.25pm: The judges need to cut the long list of 200-odd (some VERY odd) acts down to 40.

The Britain's Got Talent auditions continue on Saturday night, with a range of odd acts including a man who farts the Blue Danube Waltz, and a number of dodgy strippers.

Kertész is a master of the hideous, thought-provoking inversion, which in his case was provoked, as this book reveals, by the odd acts of unbelievable kindness which assured his survival of the Holocaust: "What is truly irrational and genuinely inexplicable is not evil but, on the contrary, good".

Then the first gig, where we came to understand how things would work, typically with each artist playing one or two songs, in collaboration with any of the other 80-odd acts on the tour.

The odd double act will have come to an end.

At the same time, Mr. Bromwich said, "it would be odd to act as if nothing had happened in April".

Some of the clerihews were celebratory, if odd ("Could act the wool off a sheep / Meryl Streep").

The mixed signals coming from Spanish officials seemed to reflect an odd balancing act — trying to reap the advantages of sounding alarmed, but not so desperate that they signal a willingness to let European officials dictate harsh terms and conditions.

Butoh may seem an odd opening act for a runway show, but it makes sense for the San Francisco-based designers Elena Slivnyak of Iimuahii and Ilan Rueben of Ilanio, who explore the hazy boundaries between fashion and modern art.

It must be an odd balancing act for a singer who obviously craves the respect of the over-25s – there are more here than you would expect – but needs to keep the younger fans onside.