Sentence examples for strange near from inspiring English sources

Dickey, the only knuckleballer in the major leagues, has become dominant courtesy of a strange, near spin-free pitch that hovers en route to home plate, then takes a trap-door drop that batters often can't see or predict.

When dark descends, the starless night seems blacker than the night before, and the seas diminish to a strange near calm, as if the ship had entered empty regions beyond all known boundaries, those voids marked 'Here Be Dragons' on the ancient charts".

It seemed like a strange near-euphemism.

While using that strange, near-hoarse flamenco sound, she can thrillingly swell or diminish a single steady note along strict bel canto lines to expressive effect, and then give a cascade of embellishments in bewitching rhythm.

That may be the case for a widely reported study by researchers at the University of Michigan which shows that dying rats could be undergoing something similar to the strange near-death experiences of some people whose hearts have stopped beating, but whom medical intervention has then revived.Such experiences come in two sorts.

Perhaps Mr. Middelhoff's strangest near-miss came last winter, when he was offered a senior position at the World Economic Forum, the Swiss foundation that holds a rarefied conference of political and corporate celebrities each year in the Alpine resort of Davos.

We assume that a strange man, nearing forty, in a public place can offer only one thing to children still in knickerbockers, and that is harm.

In either case he appeared 'porous' in a strange, new, near-total way: porous both in his art, with its steady stream of Pop effluvia (from his early Campbell's Soup Cans to his late Diamond Dust Shoes), and in his life, with his studio, dubbed 'the Factory', set up as an open playground for subcultural denizens, mass-cultural divas, and 'superstars' of his own making.

  JOHNSON Galleries: Chelsea TONY DE LOS REYES, "The Strange Tale of Near and Far," DCKT Contemporary, 537 West 24th Street, (212) 741-9955, through Oct. 30.

Peasants, Bedouins, tribal leaders, guides, soldiers, and slaves make up a society that is both impossibly strange and palpably near, in the simple and not so simple human sense.

'Exodus,' by contrast, crowded with well-known actors, is nowhere near strange enough.