Sentence examples for remained strange from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, it ended with the feeling that, for all their familiarity, the words remained strange; voluptuous but behind thick glass, "beautiful opiates/as brilliant as poppies, as absurd".

The apostles remain strange inspirations, and the debunking of daft claims about them was always old hat.

And nonfiction books about people who write books are great; no matter how you feel about Roland Barthes' critique of biography-based literary criticism, writers remain strange and interesting creatures.

Rather it remained defiantly strange and scruffy while littered with big, catchy bits.

Scottish referees remain a strange breed.

Either way Mexico will remain a strange hybrid - an electorate in pursuit of democracy with an authoritarian force at its very core.

When Barnabas arises in modern Maine, he finds the family fortunes depleted and the noble mansion of Collinwood in disrepair, yet his descendants who inhabit it remain reassuringly strange.

And today, though this program's Hindemith and Stravinsky scores will not feel difficult for many listeners, the Webern pieces in "Episodes" — the oldest scores of the program — remain aurally strange, tense, mysterious.

The connection to those tantalizingly strange wigs remained obscure.

When Stone signed books after the Q. & A., his microphone remained on, which was strange and kind of wonderful, since the banter drifted out into the auditorium.

Time went by and Dodi remained trapped in this strange luxury bubble, feeling unable to please his father but desperate to do something that would gain his approval.