Robert Draper's New York Times piece on the McCain campaign skillfully maps out the strange remove from which McCain and his aides have been operating, a place that few people outside the world of politics could locate in their own experience.
My eyes aligned on names I knew, but these names were placed in strange places, removed from the context with which I traditionally associated them.
Madden considered the characters in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to be of "an analogous kind of geographical suspension", which have "entered a strange world removed from their former reality, cut off from their past, where they have to invent a new life for themselves".
"Most of the time, those natural elements are not actual plants or animals, they're just shapes that I invent as a suggestion of something alive and organic, but strange and removed from the natural world, which you could interpret as a statement about human beings and our relationship to nature," writes Beeman.
Yes, the film is undeniably a male fantasy about women, but it's also one male director's fantasy about previous film fantasies of women – setting it at a strange quizzical remove.
Many will also regard this as a strange appointment, removing Villas-Boas so soon in the season and replacing him with a rookie.
What's strange about removing the coughing-and-sneezing question is that it has been reposted all over the internet, including at news outlets like the Washington Post in early October, on state public health agency websites, and on blogs like Democratic Underground and Daily Kos.
The students invariably put on an operation in which strange things were removed from a patient's entrails.
Joni Mitchell was a stranger in a strange land - twice removed from her native Canada, new to California from America's East Coast.
