Sentence examples for weird virtue from inspiring English sources

There, intelligence is viewed as suspect and chastity weird; virtue as smugness, and saintliness a direct provocation.

It has a weird frisson by virtue of its similarity to Polanski's own situation: just as the director is under house arrest in Switzerland, so a vilified ex-prime minister finds himself unable to leave American soil because of being charged by the international criminal court at The Hague with assisting in the CIA torture of terrorist suspects.

He's gone weird, extolling the virtues of a sport in which nothing much happens.

Something that says: 'I work in a hole.'" By virtue of weird sitcom science, though, they balance each other's OTT tendencies until they both resemble real people.

This latter scene does at least have the virtue of being weird.

You gaze directly into its unconscious, from which all its weird habits and preoccupations and virtues and torments presumably arise.

Hutcheson was so sure that we enjoyed the spectacle of virtue that he made a weird kind of hedonic calculation, a numerical system in which different acts were rated according to the pleasure they gave.

However, the weird samizdat aura still surrounds the novel by virtue of the strange copy-editing slips that speckle almost every single page of this new edition.

This is all very weird and topsy-turvy because anxiety isn't a virtue.

In a weird and likely unintended way, the result is a tribute to the virtue-inspiring power of war.

This week, HuffPost Weird News cheered on Germany's topless sledding competition and extolled the virtues of Naked Vegan Cooking, if only for the practitioners' ability not to burn themselves at the stove.