When, a few weeks later, its scientists noticed a similar cluster of a rare cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma in San Francisco, they suspected that something strange and serious was afoot.
Even his manner of speaking and dealing with customers betrays a strange blend of serious professionalism and earnest fellowship.
But it did not strike his opponents as strange that a serious writer should spend a tenth of his life creating something as crude as an insult.
The tests were always normal, and so eventually the patient decided that her crazy thirst might be strange but not serious.
"Malike's strange and apparently serious interest in obtaining explosive devices, stolen bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles," Ms. Friesen wrote, "has no readily apparent innocent explanation".
The Hotel de las Palmas, in Jane Bowles's conspicuously strange novel "Two Serious Ladies," is a gnatty pension where pimps and winos lie about.
Screen Daily called it "a serious, strange and unsettling account of brainwashing"; Variety deemed it a "powder-keg documentary"; while a BBC reviewer said it had "the scary intensity of a thriller".
But Max's ostentatious supportiveness is another kind of thoughtlessness, as the reader can see from his tone-deaf attempts to become buddies with the serious, strange, withdrawn Ellton.
By Negar Azimi June 12, 2014 The Hotel de las Palmas, in Jane Bowles's conspicuously strange novel "Two Serious Ladies," is a gnatty pension where pimps and winos lie about.
Opening ceremonies are strange events, and serious theatrical representations of national or civic patriotism tend to invite scorn when devised for the present day, unless one lives in North Korea.
