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It is The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game which are the two films expected to predominate at this year's Baftas, the weirdly fortuitous pairing of two distinguished, intelligent, slightly theatrical performances and two brilliant British scientists cursed with the traditional qualities glibly associated with genius: shyness, loneliness, and disability of various sorts.
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It "felt weirdly more like a responsibility, a kind of civic or national responsibility", he says, the Lancashire accent surprisingly strong in a man who, now 56, has lived in the capital since he was 21.
This was thrilling news indeed as the clear inference is that there are other prehistoric creatures on the grand prix circuit who use their weirdly foreshortened front legs for swatting away pterodactyls and making futile attempts to grab up lithe and bronzed young cave-chicks clad in sloth fur bikinis.
Dan Biggar filled the vacuum, his hold on the game slackened only slightly – and slightly weirdly – by the knee to Rhys Webb's derriere, the bruise that meant his scrum-half partner was not able to offer him the breathing space that comes with an alternative threat.
She built her own language of weirdly articulated human forms, hybrids, dismembered limbs and grisly heads separated from bodies, black sockets for eyes and mouth, or with tongues doubling as livid penises, disembodied phalluses ejaculating blood, women-men and howling banshees warning of death and disaster.
But weirdly , being decrepit helps in a way with the perception of you as an act, because in the 1990s when we were young and comedy was the new rock'n'roll, it was like you were supposed to be a pin-up.
The first time we really see Lorre, he's at the mirror, darkly enjoying acting weirdly , pulling faces, indeed literally pulling a face, turning himself into another.
"In a way this position is itself a protest, weirdly operated with money instead of stones and fire," she adds.
It's paying to enter a cramped box where you're weirdly required to do a cardiovascular workout, often in heels, while inebriated.
Now, weirdly , she's the character I connect with most because I feel like we're all waiting to be found out".
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The adverb "weirdly" functions primarily to modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs , adding a sense of strangeness or peculiarity to the action or description. Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage. The examples show how "weirdly" describes how something is done or the quality of something.
Expression frequency: Very common
