Sentence examples for odd relief from inspiring English sources

Merrill, who had begun by thinking of himself as a "terminally unique" black swan, discovers an odd relief in this.

It's an odd relief of uncertainty, if nothing else, to learn that Balthus's later relationship with his teen-age model Laurence Bataille, a daughter of the writer Georges, was frankly carnal.

Just before this, I'd been going out with a boy called Jack, but when it didn't work out I felt an odd relief, as if I'd been released from the need to maintain some minor but time-consuming pretense.

A good tax system has three main elements: it should be progressive (ie, place a greater burden on the better off); it should not bias choices over how much to work or (with a few exceptions) what to consume; and it should be simple.The British tax structure, with its thousand-odd reliefs and numerous tax rates, is woefully inefficient.

More than that, they provide moments of undeniable, though perhaps rather odd, comic relief.

Since then, Brent and his Asda suit full of bravado have been more or less packed away, save for the odd Comic Relief skit.

In fact, as the weeks went on, I felt an odd sense of relief and lightness.

A pang, disbelief, some defensiveness, but also an odd sense of relief.

He said he felt an odd sense of relief that the source of tension between them was gone.

I know now that there are the odd moments of relief as the stress ekes away and the hard weight that felt like it was sitting uncomfortably between your shoulder blades slips off.

So this week, when Barkley actually had a cordial meeting with investigators and they told him that they were mostly satisfied, that he was mostly clear, that the assault was all but over, Barkley said he felt an odd sense of relief with a sense of loss.