In the first hearing, on California's Proposition 8, the arguments by the proponents of that ban on same-sex marriage boiled down to one strange proposition — that society's interest in marriage as an institution begins and ends with what their lawyer, Charles Cooper, called "responsible procreation".
"That is strange proposition and I struggle to think that will be successful".
I kid, but it really is kind of a strange proposition.
The prestigious berth signals keen attention will be paid to the film that caused a significant stir at Sundance and one that may revolutionize the standards for "fair use" -- the doctrine that allows footage from previous movies to be used for documentary purposes -- in this case multiple clips from The Shining illustrating Room 237's strange propositions.
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters (2004) That Scissor Sisters' debut album went on to become the bestselling album of 2004 fails to convey quite how strange a proposition they were.
Britain's druggy landscape has become a strange and alien proposition, and as The Last Days Of Legal Highs shows, it's worrying as all hell.
But Stone has proceeded to concern himself with just those ancient questions, doing his level best to illuminate subtle propositions about the human predicament and those extreme paths that purport to lead the seeker up and out of it, knowing very well that a lot of educated people are going to think those propositions are strange.
At first glance, it seems like Acton doesn't really understand Snapchat's appeal or value proposition, which is very, very strange given that he has created one of the world's most successful messaging companies.
All of that served, by some strange jiu jitsu, to reinforce the Conservatives' opening proposition, that the country had been mired in a project of human kindness for far too long, which the state could no longer afford.
The former Foreign Secretary referred to Mr Miliband as having "panda eyes and strange lips", and another Labour MP described him as a "dreadful retail proposition".
The intense reactions to the Proposition 8 decision--joy on one side, rage on the other--turn my thoughts to the strange, poignant and instructive life of a former professor of mine, the late sociologist Edward Sagarin.
