Sentence examples for strange affairs from inspiring English sources
These occasions are strange affairs – momentary truces in the parliamentary calendar in which the finest of words are often spoken from all sides of the house, revealing every bit as much about the living as the departed.
In my heart, I have lusted after metal and glass boxes; I have gone to audio shows in New York and Las Vegas those strange affairs, both depressing and elating, in which manufacturers and local retailers take over emptied-out hotel rooms (carpets are necessary; much better for the sound) and set up their equipment in front of curtained windows.
Separated by a 40-mile stretch of the A140, meetings between the sides are strange affairs.
Dinner's a strange affair - strangely successful.
Among his other notable films, from a different source, but with an air of Simenon's stifling atmosphere about them, were Le Cage (The Trap, 1975), a thriller with Ventura and Ingrid Thulin as a vengeful couple, and Une Étrange Affaire (A Strange Affair, 1981), with Piccoli and Nathalie Baye.
See Rendezvous for an account of that strange affair.
The Autumn Statement was a very strange affair.
The rest of the game was a rather strange affair.
(He played an ambiguous role in a strange affair involving the wiretapping of former President Sarkozy's phone calls).
