It was always some kind of strange attack on the senses; I was never able to embrace it.
After Dunn's strange attack, several high-profile legal figures came to Stevenson's defence, among them fellow judge and biographer Lord Roskill, who pointed out that Stevenson could be merciful to those he perceived to be victims.
But the strangest attack on Chomsky is the insinuation that he has changed nothing.
That's what's under attack, a strange ideological attack".
Whatever the origin, the place of the devil in lore was secured in January 1909, when strange footprints, attacks on livestock and reported encounters with the devil over several days created panic in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
New medical reports from the strange health "attacks" on U.S. and Canadian embassy personnel in Havana last year have only deepened the mystery.
This contemporary Mafia trial's more prominent players include a 1960s campus radical turned dapper judge whose taste in courtroom décor runs to the eccentric, an aspiring author planning a book with a self-styled love, dating, sex and relationship coach and an amateur private investigator who was choked (not fatally) in a strange, unexplained attack last year.
It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to cause harm, consisting, as it does, of the earnest wish of certain loving couples to join themselves to that very institution and thus to feel themselves, and be accepted as, full members of the American (and human) family.
Mr. Romney called it "strange" that such attacks were coming from "the people on this stage," given that he expects such attacks to come from President Obama and his allies.
