Sentence examples for strange sensibility from inspiring English sources

In a language as comfy in its huge soft armchair as English the shock of a strange sensibility entering English can be a delight.

But to build its people-sniffer, Darpa needs to understand the mechanism of this strange sensibility, and that remains a mystery.

This season Mr. Taylor will unveil three of his most recent dances, in which his beautiful and occasionally strange sensibilities are given theatrical life.

His best movies glide effortlessly from devilish whimsy to startling perversity, and even when his storytelling falters his inimitably strange visual sensibility leaves its haunting, humorous traces on the memory.

The sacred and the sensuous rub shoulders in an intimate manner that seems strange to sensibilities that have been trained to see art through the lenses of a tradition rooted in Christian attitudes to sexuality and religion: why, we wonder, would a monastery built for celibate Buddhist monks be decorated with images of beautiful, half-naked palace women?

Forerunners included woodcut broadsheets with a tabloid sensibility; strange celestial phenomena and crimes by women were especially popular subjects.

Here is at least one new sensibility strange and variegated enough to sustain a feature film.

It seems strange that the sensibility theorists say so little about the disparity between these various evaluative properties between, say, the funny and the just.

But it was a strange collision of sensibilities.

Nothing has been left out, from the strange (to Western sensibilities) religious culture and history of the Tibetan people, to Mallory's body being found preserved in the ice, many years after his last climb.

Thus the constant controversies over headscarves that cut to the core of European sensibilities seemed strange to American ears.