Sentence examples for odd workings from inspiring English sources

He was flabbergasted at the odd workings of his brain.

The two decades I spent cramped among the ranks of the country's malcontents and misfits certainly afforded me privileged insights into the often odd workings of the system.

But when you ask Mr. Washington or his co-stars how it's done, they're mostly at a loss for words, or rather, they talk around it, trying to get at its mysterious workings by way of metaphors, anecdotes and the odd sweeping generality.

The first ever winner was the University of Tokyo Press's investigation into the workings of the nude mice workshop, which also took the previous "oddest of the odd" award 15 years ago.

Preminger was fair-minded about many things, and particularly so in the late fifties and early sixties, when, in a rather odd career move, he came to specialize in enormous fictions about the interior workings of major public institutions.

But his explorations over 70-odd years extended across an extraordinary range of interests that included the workings of the mass media, the anatomy of racism, the social perspectives of "insiders" vs. "outsiders," history, literature and etymology.

So the Japanese "family has no choice but to accept him, with a wry smile, mixed with disgust".For those less familiar with the workings of the larger Japanese family, Mr Mori's longevity does seem odd.

Wonky pre-roll advertisements, odd placement of the video itself.. plenty of stuff can junk up the workings.

And he then explains his view by analogising interest rate subsidies to energy subsidies, which is odd given that the economists he's engaging don't need analogies to grasp the workings of monetary policy.But sure, I'm happy to agree that if America provided a large, money-financed subsidy to energy that would be quite stimulative.

I was hoping for more insight into the company's inner workings, for example, but what we get with Hit Refresh is a somewhat odd mix of memoir and business text, combined with a collection of forward-looking essays on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, security and the future of work.

However, they were able to present innovative and downright odd takes on the N64's technology: they developed the Aleck64 arcade hardware around the N64's inner workings, releasing arcade-only games like creepy nudie title Vivid Dolls, and found a way to place a Bio Sensor into Tetris 64.