Sentence examples for oddly hard from inspiring English sources

After more than two hours of flaming arrows, loud music and defiant sloganeering, it's oddly hard to tell.

The house had three bedrooms, a fenced yard and even a dishwasher, something oddly hard to find.

But in Britain, it's oddly hard to answer because of the lack of a single, reliable list of addresses for people, firms and buildings.The mess is confusing and costly.

IN the vast continuum of Italian restaurants stretching across New Jersey, places like D'Oro in Chatham are instantly familiar yet oddly hard to pull off: authentically Italian but neighborhoody in spirit, reliably satisfying but eager to surprise, ambitious in the kitchen but not too far beyond the comfort zone of well-worn classics like veal scallopine and penne alla vodka.

And Burana is being oddly hard on herself, considering there are at least half a dozen places where she does try to explain the distinctive sensation of stripping -- as well as many where she performs a kind of psychic striptease, showing us a defiant, troubling humility that (like stripping) masks as it apparently reveals.

Where the concepts joined, is that I find it oddly hard to make friends with other women as an adult.

It's a simple idea, he points out, but one that is oddly "the hardest to wrap one's mind around".

FOR a slender book, "Why Orwell Matters" is oddly unfocused and hard to get through.

Volker Vogel was a superb Mime, slithery in his mannerisms (heavy in Mr. Wilson's hand fixations: cat's cradle and the like) yet oddly vulnerable and hard to dislike.

It's a crucial step — oddly, one still hard for many to take, more than a century into the age of cinema — for making and loving movies on their own distinctive terms.

Oddly, it becomes harder to remember to do this as the night goes on.