Sentence examples for strange compound from inspiring English sources

When he first became famous, Einstein was a strange compound of cosmic wisdom and worldly inexperience.

Shakespeare may have been aware of the deleterious effects of cocaine as a strange compound.

Both films are infused with the atmosphere of their Hawaiian setting, and its strange compound of chillout and treachery.

In 1933, the magazine profiled Albert Einstein and his growing fame, a "strange compound of cosmic wisdom and worldly inexperience".

And that's good, because he has become a truly strange compound: an unsentimental 62-year-old soul singer, a jazz musician in pop, a gregarious loner, a cheery skeptic.

This pathway contains many glutathione S-transferases (GSTs), which are involved in the protection of cells against oxidative stress and toxic foreign compounds (Hayes and Strange 2000).

The amazing mystical elements activated by this strange fungoid compound were of particular interest to him, though he says he never imagined mere recreational inebriation as a goal for users.

On Triton (a moon of Neptune), where temperatures are so low that gases liquefy, a metabolism based on strange silica compounds and liquid nitrogen has been posited.

They combine memoir, fiction, travelogue, history, and biography in the crucible of his haunting prose style to create a strange new literary compound.

He became particularly enamored with Shakespeare's Sonnet 76, which mentions an "invention in a noted weed," which Thackery assumes to be pot, and a "compound strange," which he thinks is cocaine.

In the same sonnet it appears that he would prefer not to be associated with "compounds strange", which can be interpreted, at least potentially, to mean "strange drugs" (possibly cocaine).