Sentence examples for strange eccentric from inspiring English sources

Strange, eccentric, diverting.

First he must explain what it mean to be called quare in ("strange, eccentric, odd, unusual") in North Carolina.

My characters, at least, can still say the words that bind them to the past without sounding queer, strange, eccentric, odd, unusual, unconventional, or suspicious.

According to writer's edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, "quare" is an Anglo-Irish adjective from the early nineteenth century meaning "queer, strange, eccentric".

That was Granada documentary series World In Action, which appealed for its "strange, eccentric and brilliant marriage of pure film-making, investigative journalism, radical politics and a non-London focus," he says.

Oh, Mo! Tee takes strange, eccentric new boy Mo under her wing.

(But of course, as every true cat fancier knows, all cats run their masters' lives). This particular great She-Cat is quite at home with this castle of strange eccentrics who would be comfortable populating Edward Gorey drawings.

To questions aimed at my "strange" or "eccentric" behaviours I usually replied "animals are people too".

"The New York public did not like it," she said by e-mail, "because to them the stage effects were very strange and eccentric".

The iconoclasm of the final Ming decades was mirrored in a literary movement of total individual freedom, championed notably by Yuan Zhongdao, but writings produced during this period were later denigrated as insincere, coarse, frivolous, and so strange and eccentric as to make impossible demands on the readers.

It had been a strange, almost eccentric, progress for Derwall's team to the final, beginning with the traumatising defeat by Algeria, which left him murmuring, "I don't understand". In blistering heat, the Germans had outplayed Algeria, gaining 16 corners against four, yet still managing to lose 2-1.