Sentence examples for oddly effective from inspiring English sources

It was an oddly effective form of appeal.

Still, the ploy, whatever it was for, was oddly effective.

As for tapping someone with little use for a product as its spokesman, Mr. Vinjamuri found it oddly effective.

Instead, French Montana is a Waka Flocka Flame for New York: dark, blunt, rowdy, a little clumsy and, over time, oddly effective.

Advertising tries to capture the "now," and that makes it an oddly effective way for television dramas to examine the "then".

As below, in... 9) An oddly effective homoerotic sequence, where Ferdinands push up (or down) the prostate, posing bodies of their peers.

Henry is, oddly, less effective as a human character than those whose lives are being made and unmade behind around him such as Ivan, the terrifying, rural IRA boss created by Henry himself, who reveals to him the true end of the war of liberation: 'All the best soldiers are businessmen.

He's not cold!" Oddly, the most effective view of the human side of Mr. Gore came from a short biographical film made for the campaign by Spike Jonze, the director who got his start in music videos before making the sly film "Being John Malkovich".

Their vomit-inducing soft-focus longing contrasts oddly with the effective, intelligent use of harsh, shocking violence; their turgid dialogue is even mocked by another character.

Oddly, the most effective defense of Richard was "The Daughter of Time," a novel written by Josephine Tey, an excellent British detective story writer.

Some Tokyo subway stations have installed bright-blue lights on their platforms to deter jumpers, and these, oddly, have proved quite effective.