Sentence examples for otherwise strange from inspiring English sources

That explains the otherwise strange line in his letter that they were "a compromise too far".

Part of Reagan's political genius was that he told a single story about America that rallied libertarians and social conservatives, who are otherwise strange bedfellows.

"It's winter, people are dressed for occasions and right now, we have the otherwise strange phenomenon of people entering and having to throw their coats in the corner".

Indeed, such a creative "truth event"—in which entities and human beings come "into their own" simultaneously (for it is not only the marble but also Michelangelo himself who is realized in this act of sculptural world-disclosure)—is what Heidegger means by Ereignis, hence the aptness of the otherwise strange translation of this later term of art as "enowning" rather than simply "event".

In the politically (and otherwise) strange state of Florida, circumstances are not exactly "ideal": Florida sits in the marijuana-unfriendly South, has an expensive political market, and a midterm electorate that is expected to be older and more conservative than the one that turns out in presidential election years.

Why, otherwise, the strange inconsistencies, like the bomb's not exploding?

Inasmuch as understanding is taken to involve a 'fusion of horizons', then so it always involves the formation of a new context of meaning that enables integration of what is otherwise unfamiliar, strange or anomalous.

Working dads simply don't count as a recognized demographic in our society — a dad is a dad, and he works, of course, and to suggest otherwise is, well, strange.

The overarching Neoplatonic strategy of the first nine Books goes a long way toward explaining what might otherwise be a strange shift in the remaining four books, in which the autobiography recedes into the background.

This is marked in the text by exclamations to the effect that it seems highly unreasonable to believe that the phenomenon in question came about by natural means because it is so extraordinarily complex, beautiful, or because it is otherwise remarkable or strange.

The fourth, though, is the massive canon of sci-fi stories and familiar space opera tropes, many of which are referenced in order to give the player a sense of direction in an otherwise arbitrary and strange world.