Sentence examples for strange popularity from inspiring English sources

And while the options of interchangeable restaurants are plentiful, I settled on Shanghai Village for its strange popularity despite constant reviews of subpar hygiene levels and poor service.

It's just so strange: the popularity of cinema exploded in some part due to screwball comedies, which were gender-blind in their joke distribution.

His enduring popularity seems strange to me and I'm certainly not the first to be baffled by a visit to Adderbury.

It's not a terribly strange concept, considering the popularity of media outlets like Hulu, and iTunes.

On the lighter side, Haruki Murakami's novels can be quite strange and enjoy great popularity.

Herod's sudden popularity is somewhat strange, but it is not incomprehensible.

Its popularity may seem strange, since millions of Egyptians recently took to the streets to depose their conservative Islamist President.

In any event, the 700,000 people who visited the parliament in its first year testify to the curiosity about, if not the popularity of, the strange edifice at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.Scold and spendYet, if that is the case for the defence, it is not the whole story.

The move is strange given the growing worldwide popularity of Facebook as a corporate tool.

Cambridge University economist Ha-Joon Chang puts part of its popularity down to a "strange alliance" between a financial industry that "does nasty things to make money, and people who genuinely wanted to help the poor but were against the collective approach".

"Put in an extreme way," he said, "they have the same kind of popularity as things that are unusual and strange, and people quickly grow tired of those things".