Sentence examples for strange cocktail from inspiring English sources

For all its apparent simplicity, it was a strange cocktail.

It's a strange cocktail of Wall Street and backstreet, coupled with her extraordinary face, blank yet engaging, and her gangly frame; Volkova is not someone who blends in.

His heart began to behave bizarrely the muscle sluggish, the rhythms erratic from the strange cocktail of acids, bases, and salts circulating in his blood.

The FARC called on the government to reciprocate by calling off its own military offensive, arguing that public opinion was confused by "this strange cocktail of death and dialogue".

The reaction among supporters has been a strange cocktail of sadness, relief and even celebration.

He took a strange cocktail of 17 vitamins and supplements, including shark cartilage pills, and imagined the metastases were rats and he was chasing them with a club.

It was a sorry sight of sheer randomness and looking at the list of strange cocktails, bits of pizza and odd combinations of foods (a chronic case of whatever-is-in-the-fridge syndrome) was almost depressing.

Lewis certainly goes out of his way to make Buddy as sleazy and obnoxious as possible: a quiffed-up, womanising ratpacker with a taste for the strangest cocktails.

And that has stirred up a very strange political cocktail: Democrats leading the repeal effort have every incentive to make the Palin years under her oil taxes look good, while Republicans and many business leaders, in supporting the new system, are pulling in the opposite direction.

Cocktail, cocktail, cocktail, cocktail......

He's excellent on the "strange and exhilarating cocktail of theatrical transgression and studied irony" within the brigate, and on the way the brigades' members can abruptly switch roles: one moment a teenager is hurling vulgarities at a phalanx of police officers and the next talking sweetly to his mother on his cellphone.