Trash TV, but still strangely compelling.
Yet the book is strangely compelling.
But his saga of rather ordinary Sheffield families from the 1970s is strangely compelling.
Though lacking the passion, perhaps, of the famous beach scene in "From Here to Eternity," it is still strangely compelling.
By adopting a tone that seemed almost intended to be misunderstood, Mr. Birbiglia is trying out a new comic voice that is willfully weird and strangely compelling.
When he is bad he is worth watching, but when it is very bad, as he has been this week, he is strangely compelling.
Paro, its name derived from the first sounds of the words "personal robot," is one of a handful that take forms that are often odd, still primitive and yet, for at least some early users, strangely compelling.
Press the "Clean" button and the robot glides out of its docking station and sets off across the floor.Domestic robots are supposed to free up time so that you can do other things, but watching how the Roomba deals with obstacles is strangely compelling.
It's social music, and strangely compelling.
But what was deeply uncool in 1986 is, 30-some years later, strangely compelling.
As a staunch introvert who prefers wide swaths of personal space, I find the idea behind Umbrella Here frightening, yet strangely compelling.
