Sentence examples for strange faculty from inspiring English sources

Lillie Stoate, of Oxford, Miss., who has the strange faculty of bringing down showers merely by sitting near some water, has been imported by the Florida citrus growers to break the drought.

By Ernest LaFrance and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, April 1 , 1939P. 11 Lillie Stoate, of Oxford, Miss., who has the strange faculty of bringing down showers merely by sitting near some water, has been imported by the Florida citrus growers to break the drought.

Becoming a Foreign Faculty Member.

From dubbing over Harry Potter to chronicling the strange, sad lives of college faculty in China, IL, Brad Neely's built a career out of staying on the cutting edge of comedy.

Earlier in the evening Wednesday, John Luther Adams' 70-minute percussion piece, "Strange and Sacred Noise," stirred the Faculty Glade outside Hertz, a nice enough spot although a machine rumbled in the distance, but nothing like the strange and sacred scenic locale Ojai offered Adams' own rite.

Future Sedgwicks would thus go to Groton whether it suited them or not, and John recalls the strange sensation of feeling that the faculty knew more about him than he knew about himself.

And yet, as I watched, a strange thing happened to my critical faculties: They retreated.

Moments later they bounded onstage, and just like that looked for all the world like a real-life gymnastic team of faculty members from an extremely strange university.

In his words: "[F]rom this deduction of our faculty of cognizing a priori there emerges a very strange result, namely that with this faculty we can never get beyond the boundaries of possible experience, [...and] that such cognition reaches appearances only, leaving the thing in itself as something actual for itself but uncognized by us" (Bxix-xx).

However, having students hear different faculty members give the same lecture would be sufficiently strange as to present another set of interpretive problems.

That's strange enough under any circumstances (university administrations should hesitate to directly pit themselves against faculty on a question of how to run a classroom).