And we, the jury -- closed in our crucible; shuttled about in the dark like shades by armed officers; cut off suddenly and indefinitely from our families, friends, news, regular life -- shouldered the strange double burden of jury service.
At times, the author strays perilously close to abstraction, writing gauzily of "the strange, unfair burdens of childhood".
My conflict was part of the strange and inevitable burden of responsibility that moves in along with an aging parent.
It seems strange to burden a historian with intense queries vis-a-vis the current Chinese government's attitude towards a 'global system of universality, of rights and obligations', but that is what a woman from Amnesty International did.
"Can someone tell me how they kept from laughing?" she asks bitterly, having grown up with the burden of a strange moniker and all the hippie baggage that came with it.
In this strange situation, the Mets are burdened by their own success.
How the man in the bathroom was being taken away from her, had instantly become this strange girl's memory, history, neurosis, burden, life.
But her claim that women are driven to handcuffs because we find "free will … a burden" is just silly and strange.
To be honest, I'm feeling a sense of burden and anxiety, too, that strange feeling when there's too much to do and not any clear sense of intention behind the doing of it.
