Sentence examples for oddly as a from inspiring English sources

Fifteen years later Mr Cameron pulled back from making a similar intervention in Syria (oddly, as a majority of MPs voted in favour of keeping military action on the table).

Or, most oddly, as a priapic, satyr-like creature who emerges from the Paris sewers to abduct a model, before dressing her in a burqa and snacking on her hair.

Adams was an abiding passion: Zukofsky's 1924 Columbia master's thesis, the first full-length account of Adams's entire career ever written, focused on Adams's "detatched mind" and his growth, oddly, as "a poet".

Finnegan is in his 60s, a father, face to face with his declining physical powers – an acknowledgement that manifests itself, oddly, as a growing recklessness in both work and surf.

Cheadle, stricken by doubt and guilt, takes this dilemma as far as the screenplay will let him, but the movie falters just when it should be at its boldest: it suggests that Samir is trapped by his situation, and the solution that he comes up with is presented, oddly, as a moral victory when it's actually a disaster.

Nadal won, 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-4, a score oddly as symmetrical as Berdych's.

But in the summer of 1946, at the age of twenty-two, he began to behave oddly, as if a wire had been tripped in his brain.

Sesto, the emperor's friend and betrayer, sings in "Deh per questo istante solo" of deep regret in a tone as oddly passive as a prepared statement.

And book now for Kaufmann, snaffled by Raymond Gubbay for a Royal Festival Hall recital on 24 October – oddly described as a "London debut".

To be poor in the midst of affluence is to feel oneself both an outsider and, oddly, privileged: as a scholarship girl, I was a spy in the house of mirth.

The early shaping, removing large amounts of material, may use a compressed-air chisel; otherwise it's all done by hand, using progressively finer chisels and two weights of mallet (the smaller, oddly, known as a dummy).