Sentence examples for strangely parallel from inspiring English sources

Okay's script centered less on the Sultan than on the charismatic former Christian slaves Roxelana and Ibrahim, whose lives had strangely parallel trajectories.

Yet the origins of modern poetry can be traced to a revelation strangely parallel to Caedmon's — the sudden inspiration of a devoted Christian, who emerged from long silence to sing a masterpiece to the Creator.

And either by brilliant programme-planning or sheer luck, its production coincides with the presentation at the Piccolo Theatre across the road of a strangely parallel work: Pirandello's Tonight We Improvise, handsomely staged by the Piccolo's new director, Luca Ronconi.

The business writer Eric J. Weiner offers a different sort of road map for a strangely parallel time in his dense and disturbing new book, "The Shadow Market: How a Group of Wealthy Nations and Powerful Investors Secretly Dominate the World".

"Our relationship is very strangely parallel to the relationship of our characters".

Yet, strangely, having pointed out all the parallels, Feifer persists in thinking of the American venture as a "historic opportunity" undermined by the second front, in Iraq, rather than as intrinsically hopeless.

And I still wonder what might have happened to that painfully skinny, strangely clueless Doug who moved off to the desert in 1989, a parallel-universe Doug whose publishers never did, in the end, publish his book.

"This monumental platform has no parallels at Petra or in its hinterlands at present," the researchers wrote, noting that the structure, strangely, is near the city center but "hidden" and hard to reach.

In fact, there is something strangely equable in Coe's tone as the long parade of ghastliness passes by, in background and foreground, an odd parallel to the mawkish teenage outpourings.

Strangely, Maj.

Strangely, yes.