Sentence examples for odd assertion from inspiring English sources

This absolute division is an odd assertion, especially for a writer.

It was an odd assertion coming from a defense attorney heading into trial.

It was an odd assertion, considering the title of the Mayor's autobiography — "Bloomberg by Bloomberg".

I didn't challenge this odd assertion but in Greece right now, illusions are stronger than truth, at least if you're poor.

Mr. P?s has argued that ornamentation is the engine that drives this score: an odd assertion, given that medieval embellishment is purely conjectural.

The rabbi-doctor's medical assistant, Selwyn, accuses him of having no soul -- an odd assertion, but no odder than anything else in the story.

The very existence of a film like "Ocean's 8" makes an odd double assertion: remakes or reboots putting women into roles originated in movies centered on men prove (as if anyone doubted it) that women can be as good as men in any role but also that their movies can be as bad as any in which men star.

"Every garden should include some plants that die beautifully". This odd-sounding assertion comes from landscape designer Tom STomrTommiTom

When Ms. Deen complained that "something evil" was out seeking to destroy her business, it was one of those odd, open-ended assertions, like Hillary Rodham Clinton's statement, made on the "Today" program in 1998, about a "vast right-wing conspiracy" against her husband.

7.  COMMENT: P.8: Using "evidences" as in "The miR2Disease database returns 28 evidences" seems odd, would "evidential statement" or "assertion" or something similar be acceptable?

The T-assertions may look odd, but their oddness is only skin-deep.