Sentence examples for thus oddly from inspiring English sources

Her subject was misery-inducing but her approach, like that of many of her female interviewees, was smart, determined, bracing – and thus oddly cheering.

Thus, oddly enough, the more popular, even controversial, an article is, the more likely it is to be accurate and free of vandalism.

Concerned Eurocrats say redress may be available in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (established by the Council of Europe, not the EU .The democratic deficitThe EU's rule book is thus oddly skewed.

As I watched various Scampians being slain or spared on a whim, I felt borne along not so much by reportage, however well dramatized, as by a fierce meditation on the vagaries of fate — and thus, oddly enough, by the pull of comedy.

It was so oddly familiar.

A query for 'Avatar' made it easy to find out how much the film grossed from its initial midnight showings, but didn't include its overall gross thus far (oddly, this fact was included when an 'Avatar' query was run from the site's Entertainment section).

Smith might have particular reason to feel that NW, her highly ambitious and accomplished novel of London life, has thus far been oddly overlooked.

Its primary function is as a light entertainment TV programme, a means by which ITV can attract the kind of stars that don't usually deign to perform live on the channel at 8pm on a weekday night, Madonna and Kanye West having thus far proved oddly resistant to appearing on More Tales From Northumberland with Robson Green or Barging Around Britain with John Sergeant.

It's Bach's only long-form keyboard composition (the others are suites of dance movements), thus making it resemble, oddly enough, the grand and absorbing musical experience of a romantic symphony.

"This event had greatly reduced America's stakes in Vietnam," McNamara writes now, but at the time "Kennan's point failed to catch our attention and thus to influence our actions". Oddly, in a memoir almost entirely critical of his own performance, McNamara defends the "body count," the military's often-ridiculed attempt to measure progress in the war by counting enemy dead.

Opening with a series of references to icons including Sinbad the Sailor, Odysseus, Robin Hood and Beowulf, Karimi asserts, "My father mopped the floor with those legends, plan and simple". Thus ensues a comical yet oddly humane portrayal of Hassan, Karimi's all-or-nothing sort of father, who walked away, both literally and figuratively, from a litany of mishaps.