Sentence examples for that is stranger from inspiring English sources

That microbe would show that life is not exclusive to Earth, and may be widespread in a universe that is stranger and more interesting than many had imagined.

But in a case of truth that is stranger than fiction, in the time since his parody appeared, at least half a dozen actual teenagers and tweens have started their own collections, some of them as young as 10.

Then there are the visitors, with their passing impressions: Carlyle, Hardy, Gissing and – least passingly – Swinburne, whose long poem, By the North Sea, strikes a note of Sebaldian gloom: "A land that is lonelier than ruin,/ A sea that is stranger than death".

Or consider another passage, a kiss from Jeffrey Eugenides's "Virgin Suicides" that is stranger, truer, and far more vividly icky than even the most splendidly backlighted classic-Hollywood smooch: "He could sense her whole being through the kiss, he said, as though her soul escaped through her lips, as the Renaissance believed.

Often the cases covered are those that feminist campaigners ironically refer to as "real rape": that is stranger attacks or men in masks dragging their victims into the bushes late at night.

"There are many things in life that are stranger than death".

Like any good true crime account "Lone Wolf" is most interesting for elements that are stranger than fiction.

An artist both full of wonder and wonderful, knowing the end was near, painted pictures that were stranger than ever.

Its only flaw is perhaps its greatest strength: how do you write fiction about facts that are stranger than fiction?

When it concludes, Mr. Holland has the stirred and shaken expression of someone surprised not only by physical desire but also by a feeling that's stranger and stronger.

The most entertaining memoirs, and Hit Man qualifies, have elements that are stranger than fiction.