Sentence examples for weird relief from inspiring English sources

And, as someone with faint claustrophobia who clutches their mobile at all times, even when it's off, such interruption did come as weird relief.

Just as the twinkling lights of a Christmas tree, flashing on the faces that surround it, can alternately bathe them in a warm glow or render them macabre, the season seems to cast the structures of family into weird relief.

So it's a weird relief when the novel's passive-aggressive academics exit the stage and M.R. plunges into graphic nightmares of self-abasement and revenge, letting loose the timeless, Poe-like internal terror at which Oates excels.

But I also felt the weird relief which comes from knowing that the inevitable destruction of precious things, though done in your house, was not done by your hand.

I sat at the bar and contemplated the weird relief of being here, on the set of a major motion picture I actually wanted to see.

VanDerWerff also called it "very sweet" and expressed hope that "the show will come up with something for him to do after mostly relegating him to weird comic relief last season".

"It's bad that it happens – but it's a weird feeling of relief that it's not one of us.

And in a weird way, what a relief.

"I know I'm not going to be in the actual performance, which is actually quite a relief in a weird way but I'm getting to think about the whole story rather than just one part," says Flynn.

No, but it does help pain relief, which is weird.

After an encounter with a much larger rat-humanoid, Trejo awakens from his weird dream with a sigh of relief: bliss.