Sentence examples for strange alternative from inspiring English sources

It's this strange alternative family".

They didn't need Harrison Ford to open their blockbusters any more – they simply need an obliging young Brit or Australian, which is why the really big loss-makers seem to hail from a strange, alternative universe where the half-known couple with the long forgotten, beneath a B-movie sci-fi conceit that's been gathering dust for decades.

In a dystopian future, or strange alternative present, adults who are single, either through failure to find a partner or bereavement, must check into a hotel with other singles and find a genuinely compatible partner (the union's authenticity has to be approved by the management) within 45 days, or they are transformed into an animal of their choice and released into the forest.

They exist in a strange, alternative-reality sci-fi England, more like the wartime 40s or pinched 50s, with a Sovietised social structure, and burdened with creepy, Huxley-esque medical technology and laws about how to preserve health and banish sickness.

At least that was the thinking from the team behind what are probably London's strangest alternative film screenings.

"Being an alternative strange looking female... people react on the streets in funny ways," she says.

While the women lived abroad, they're locked in a strange sort of alternative reality - in bubble of other models, with models' expectations.

Comedy is about creating and delivering lines that jar our ordinary sense of events - "you know, you could look at this a whole different way - your reality is pretty strange from an alternative perspective".

How one of the world's largest exercises in democracy can leave Americans facing two of the least popular candidates in a generation may seem strange, but the realistic alternatives for Republicans look less attractive still.

You can see why ballet companies today have sought an alternative to this strange image.

According to the researchers, the traditional astronomers' view of a universe liberally sprinkled with invisible, all-consuming black holes should be replaced with an alternative that sees strange, magnetic balls of plasma floating in their place.