Sentence examples for weird presence from inspiring English sources

They had a weird presence, cheery but menacing.

Spotlighted in the otherwise dim gallery, the sculpture has an effectively weird theatrical presence.

On this stage, the volume of sand has a weird physical presence.

He's too valuably weird a presence, always ready, always flexible – no wonder he's been sought out recently by Wes Anderson (for The Grand Budapest Hotel).

He knew that he would never have been made Secretary of War or Ambassador to Great Britain without the Lincoln name, and his weird accidental presence at the assassinations of Garfield and McKinley, in 1881 and 1901, must have seemed a fateful punishment for refusing his father's invitation to Ford's Theatre on April 14 , 1865

Akhmatova, a spoken role played by Ellen Lauren, was a weird quasi-oracular presence.

On screen, he has the opposite of presence: a weird, enigmatic absence.

The weird Chinese boy whose presence hasn't really dated very well?

He has returned to using the dogs as things in themselves: as sculptural objects, weird bodies and cooperative presences to be used with minimal enhancement.

Its first few episodes feature Sam stealing one of her daughter's condoms, violent diarrhoea, and a deeply uncomfortable scene where Sam brings a black colleague (played by Lenny Kravitz) home for dinner with her daughters and her mother, who is weirded out by his presence.

The risk of smugness is offset by a script generously stuffed with jokes, one or two irruptions of beguiling oddness, and the presence of three weird, strong personalities playing together beautifully.