Sentence examples for strange air from inspiring English sources
"Holiday House" works by a gradual accumulation of apparently arbitrary activities and by its strange air of drugged calm.
Obviously we've got a strange air of protest around in the country and it's time to have a serious debate".
His expanded upper body remains, but his legs are lean, giving him a strange air of having been stitched together at the waist.
"Their stillness sends a strange air through the house, a sadness so heavy that it radiates like thick smoke, choking me.
One reason that Kempowski's interrogative prose has a strange air of detachment is that the words have indeed detached themselves from the characters.
But few of Barthes's heirs – and Batchen's essay collection reprints three decades' worth of critical appraisal and envy of Camera Lucida – have ever reproduced or fully accounted for the strange air of searching and susceptibility that permeates his brief "note".
Instead, he plucked one of his melodies out of the air, some strange tune from far away.
Questions about profiling have come up, for example, in the case of the dark-haired man who, last May, was removed from an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse, because a fellow-passenger became suspicious of his foreign airs and his strange, coded writing was it Arabic?
At least two contain elements borrowed from Benozzo Gozzoli, and Manet's "The Balcony" appears to owe as much to Carpaccio's "Two Venetian Women" as it does to Goya's "Mayas on a Balcony," not least in the strange distracted air of the female protagonists.
Her epigraph -- taken from Maeterlinck's play "Pelleas et Melisande" -- forewarns us that we're in for something a little more complicated than crusading social fiction: "I have been watching you; you were there, unconcerned perhaps, but with the strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great misfortune, in sunlight, in a beautiful garden".
A new study modeling fluid dynamics suggested something strange: that air breathed in through Stegoceras's nasal cavity would have largely bypassed its smell receptors.
