Sentence examples for odd enterprise from inspiring English sources

This type of writing is an odd enterprise: it's as if art, culture and science are all used up, or stained by clichés, and the only sensible thing to do is root about in the dust and shadows.

While Mr. Norton takes no great part in transmitting the glory of the score, vibrantly played by the Encores! orchestra under the musical director, Rob Berman, he holds the whole odd enterprise together with the graceful magic of his performance.

Retelling Shakespeare's stories, albeit in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, seems an odd enterprise at first, given that Shakespeare grabbed his stories more or less at random from Holinshed's history of Britain and Plutarch and old collections of Italian ribald tales.

They are portraits of friends, some nude, some in costume, some engaged in odd enterprises like biting into a strawberry.

They are portraits of friends, some nude, some in costume, some engaged in odd enterprises like biting into a strawberry with excessive care or posing naked with a boa constrictor.

"I think we were in a competitive position with England and they have already got 20-odd enterprise zones, and I think that Wales had to do something.

But there is something rather odd about the enterprise, given that Farber is one of the relatively small band of law professors who explicitly defend pragmatism as the right way for judges and lawyers to think about law, especially American constitutional law.

Viewed from Belfast, the enterprise seems odd.

There may be the odd glare in downtown Enterprise, but they can't be sure they're not seeing them because they're looking for them.

It's a crafty way to send the message that the show, which opened yesterday at the Vineyard Theater, intends to address the theatergoing enterprise and the odd position we put ourselves in.

How odd to have steadfastly supported an enterprise whose core values you abjured.