Sentence examples for odd careers from inspiring English sources

In addition, focus groups were often being dominated by one or two overbearing personalities, many of whom had made odd careers out of the experience, going from study to study like professional alcoholics at A.A. meetings.

Sullivan, a handsome man with grey hair, is sitting on a sofa in the lounge just outside our room with Tyler's manager Matt Davis (both men have had slightly odd careers – Sullivan represented Britain in judo at the 1972 Munich Olympics, while Davis is currently also a Tory councillor in Waltham Forest).

Her seemingly odd career choice paid off.

Carpenter Appreciation: Chris Carpenter has had an odd career.

Moving onto Neeson, this seems a highly odd career choice.

Gary Russell, Jr., featherweight, 26 What an odd career arc.

It was one more unusual moment in Rodriguez's increasingly odd career.

More publicly, he made the odd career move of advertising Goodyear tyres on television.

Cliburn was remarkable for many reasons — for his musical gift, certainly, but also for his odd career.

The simpleton Michael may be an odd career choice for an actor courting stardom, but even with a goofy, empty smile, Prateik has charisma.

I've pursued an odd career in full public view, respecting none of the boundaries that should keep an interested amateur outside the gates where he belongs.