Sentence examples for strange performers from inspiring English sources

Yet Browning, who ran away from school to join a circus where the 'freaks' performed, was concerned not to make his strange performers objects of horror or pity but to show thm in such a matter-of-fact manner (without close-ups or dramatic music) that you could even watch Randian The Hindu Living Torso, without arms or legs, light his own cigar without assistance.

My passion for the world of oddities grew over the years, and eventually put me on the path to what was a personal dream project: writing American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers (Tarcher/Penguin).

ABOUT 15 minutes into his stand-up set in his film "Laugh at My Pain," following bits about his inability to spend money as lavishly as his athlete friends and the strange performer he hired to play SpongeBob SquarePants at his daughter's birthday party, Kevin Hart pivots to a routine about his father's cocaine addiction.

There's a strange relationship between performer and audience and image.

Such aloofness might seem strange for a performer who has sold millions of records singing about love and loss.

He is one of the strangest and most compelling performers I have ever seen live.

The cast includes Erik King (of the Showtime series "Dexter"), Rebecca Naomi Jones ("Passing Strange") and the drag performer Daniel T. Boothe, a k a Sweetie.

But everything was all right in the end: the strength of his songs, his singing and his guitar playing, and his strange intensity as a performer allowed him to carry the evening.

The Culture Whore is already known for throwing some of Brooklyn's most immersive queer parties, and now the collective is presenting SIDESHOW on Tuesday, May 20, a showcase of the borough's strangest and most talented performers.

Looking back on it, the most important items in Jeremy's collection included the official WWF Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler figurines, and a copy of Lynne Margulies's Kaufman documentary I'm From Hollywood, which told the story of the aggressively strange, groundbreaking comedian and performer's venture into the wrestling ring.

Looking back on it, the most important items in Jeremy's collection included the official WWF Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler figurines, and a copy of Lynne Margulies's Kaufman documentary I'm From Hollywood, which told the story of the aggressively strange, groundbreaking comedian and performer's venture into the wrestling ring.