Sentence examples for oddly sad from inspiring English sources

The whispering, scratching, plinking, and sighing of her "run-on sentence of the pavement," for piano, Ping-Pong balls, and electronics, has an oddly sad, entrancing effect, especially when the stream of noise coalesces into slivers of song.

But where, for this football-loving reader, Lewis's baseball book was enlivening and cheering, his football book about the making of a behemoth who may or may not get to the N.F.L. is oddly sad.

The fact that Beckham still refers to Sir Alex Ferguson as "the boss" and "the manager" even after a shining post-United career in Spain and the US and, most of all, his touching, oddly sad admission that the years at Manchester United were "the best years of my life".

But in a way, that's why I've found his death oddly sad, and his music so affecting.

Still, now that it's finally happening, I find myself oddly sad at the prospect of bisexual OKCupid becoming a thing of the past.

In many ways it was more of the same, but without a central character as oddly compelling and sad as Heath.

Flapping around in white robes and a tall hat, Lord Glenconner is oddly charismatic and finally sad.

Her gaze was kind and sad and oddly distracted, but it had a funny strength to it as well.

Let's begin with the book, which is supple and sad and oddly compassionate too; his most fully realised work in more than a decade.

In some ways, the reality of Jefferson Market's problems may be oddly comforting: it's a sad story, but it's our sad story, the kind we know by heart, not some new version that has endings we cannot yet fully anticipate.

I'm only sad to have mislaid that small plastic disc for those seven-inch records that, oddly, had a two-inch hole in the centre.