Sentence examples for strange text from inspiring English sources

It's not like I go and read some old strange text book and reproduce it.

It was a strange text: edited by "Niels Hoyer", the pen name of Ernst Ludwig Jacobson, it also used pseudonyms for Elbe and her friends.

Around 6 p.m., the mother received a strange text message from Tietsort: the babysitter said a local news site had posted a story on child abuse charges that had been filed against her.

A week ago, one of the experts who lives in Nairobi received a strange text message on his cellphone, written in broken English, that said: "Pliz friend of me come jacaranda hotel 9 oclok.

As far as After Nature is concerned, the description "prose poem" is problematic: my first response to this strange text was to ask, impulsively and perhaps crassly: why is this not written out as prose?

Harriet Beecher Stowe's House and Home Papers is a profoundly strange text.

Marcus started out at the University of California library, stumbling on strange texts in the stacks.

During this time he wrote some of the most hauntingly strange texts in modern literature, including the stories "Metamorphosis" and "The Judgment" and the novel The Trial.

The types of matters that could be reported include strange texts, emails or phone calls, being tricked into giving personal or banking information, a computer virus attack or cyberbullying.

Then it slowly occurs to you how frequently these strange texts -- in their sentimental pretensions and transparent self-deceptions, their careering emotional shifts and their impetuous paranoia; and, most profoundly, in their projection of these inner turmoils into external policy imperatives -- mirror the official course of governance in Richard Nixon's two administrations.

Anticipating Humboldt's distinction between the 'foreign' (das Fremde) and 'strangeness' (die Fremdheit) – which he introduced in the preface of his translation of the Agamemnon from 1816 — Schlegel also emphasizes that all translations should avoid converting foreign texts into strange texts (Berman, 154).