Sentence examples for odd engagements from inspiring English sources

Apart from odd engagements in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta, Mr. Harding's American appearances have mostly been with European orchestras on tour.

Oddly – and everything about Leine's work is decidedly odd – this engagement is effected utterly without any attempt at seduction through character: the story's momentum is dependent more on the clever manipulation of time-jumps and on the sheer strangeness of the narrative environment than on any charm on the part of its enigmatic main protagonist, the reluctant priest Morten Falck.

"Everything's cracking up", says Anna, the protagonist of Lessing's masterpiece, a novel that takes its place in this list for its odd, visionary engagement with the issues and anxieties of its time and also for its extraordinary grip on the literary imagination of the late 20th century, when Lessing (who lived to November 2013) was in her prime.

More than a million Chinese live in Africa now as a result of China's increasing engagement with the continent — and some are actively engaged in bringing back more than just the odd souvenir.

"Come on!" Saunders said - but the only engagement was in close- quarter wrestling with the odd blow to the back of the head.

I have a loving father, but he and my mother broke off their engagement shortly after my birth, and since he worked odd hours as a bus driver, I rarely saw him when I was growing up.

It's an odd, disjunctive play that provokes more exasperation — possibly even repulsion — than emotional engagement.

Lacking any consistent look, the portraits adapt Venetian styles with antic originality — one tour de force after another, striking the odd spark of psychological insight but conveying little sense of everyday social engagement.

Rather than a contradiction of Washington's recognition of the mainland's One-China policy, these arms sales are a centerpiece of American engagement with Taiwan because of their role in keeping an odd, asymmetric peace across the Formosa Strait.

The rest of the music has finally caught up with his odd, episodic structures, as the proliferation of young players surrounding him on this engagement and on his strong new album, "Dusk" (Palmetto), should make clear.

Odd + 2 is odd.