Sentence examples for odd read from inspiring English sources

W. H. Auden egged on a Harvard crew when he was called upon to raise morale at the '46 Commencement, lighting the fuse off his cigarette: "Between the chances, choose the odd; read The New Yorker; trust in God; and take short views".

So I find it a little bit odd (read: crazy) that we've drawn such aggressive lines against each other.

This superfluity makes for an odd reading of the text; and the oddness is highlighted by the observation that this first formulation of the sceptical problem relies on Kripke's assumption that we have some idea of what a fact is, independent of a statement's being true.

It's an odd reading experience.

But at least I'm not totally alone in my odd reading tics.

It's odd reading a book at which you are simultaneously repulsed at how you feel and yet you understand exactly why you feel that way.

That is an odd reading; the only thing that is completely clear is that 2011 minus 2003 is eight, and eight is greater than three.

This makes odd reading in the face of continuing propaganda about how freedom of speech is one of the core values we defend against Islamists.

Speaking of India as a Hindu civilization may be comforting to the Hindu fundamentalist, but it is an odd reading of India.

Writing for the court today in Gutierrez v. Ada, No. 99-51, JuSoutersaider said that was an "odd" reading of the statute as opposed to the "obvious" reading that made Governor Gutierrez the winner.

It is odd, reading it, to think that in his early novels McEwan was criticised for placing short stories on the rack to stretch them into full-length fictions, of not having quite enough to say.