Sentence examples for odd context from inspiring English sources

The early song cycle on poems by Walter de la Mare, Tit for Tat, together with a motley collection of folk song arrangements and one-offs (including a setting of Goethe's Um Mitternacht) make an odd context for one of Britten's greatest song cycles.

Here, the iPhone sticks out a mile — perhaps because grief is such an odd context for an advert.

The exhibition, "Paradox and Conformity," displays the artist's exploration of these icons, many from the 1950s, which he places in odd contexts, often using false perspective or other visual tricks to create what he calls "a sense of irritation" in the work.

He seemed so at ease and approachable that this moment didn't seem odd in context.

Often, the allusions are either included within longer melodies or rendered in an odd stylistic context that veils the source material.

"In terms of the song," he continued, "I really liked the tracky, druggy quality to it, so I wanted to explore that the idea of a 'hands-in-the-air,' 4am-club moment but in a slightly odd domestic context".

Such hedging and hawing would be odd in any context.

(Such consultant-speak seems odd in the context of religion).

Looks rather odd in the context of the "big society", doesn't it?

Ms. Peterson is given a straight ballet lexicon that seems odd in this context.

They seem especially odd in the context of a glossy action film set in 2054, with a score to suit.