In the Second Elegy, Rilke writes that "Lovers, if Angels could understand them, might utter / strange things in the midnight air".
Symptoms of spirit possession include violent unusual movements, shrieking, groaning, and uttering disconnected or strange speech.
"So cold the river": that's the strange phrase uttered by a dying man in Michael Koryta's calculatingly spooky new novel.
I'm no theologian, but I've found that we priests are often just a bit more declarative in sermons than we might otherwise be (how do you explain to parishioners that sometimes you feel strange even uttering the name "God" with the degree of certainty often expected in sermons?).
Here is the strangest thing: We barely utter a sound, even when the doctor on duty tells us Edwyn has taken a turn for the worse.
The Uruguayan president that stepped down on Sunday could sound strident and empathetic at the same time, appear both hopeful and defeated, uttering one sentence, and offer a strange confluence of political beliefs while addressing a single issue.
For one second, while I stood on 49th Street, a strange feeling of relief and utter freedom flooded over me.
When we finally reached the summit four and a half hours after setting out, I understood why people hike up mountains -- for that strange giddy feeling of pride and utter humility.
Long before the jury announced its decision, many people had seen what the outcome would be, had known that it would be a strange echo of the words Zimmerman uttered that rainy night in central Florida: they always get away.
Not recoil from strange sounds a different looking person might utter, or the piquant scents from a classmate's lunchbox.
