Sentence examples for which struck us from inspiring English sources

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We were at least on the same page for Short People, which struck us as hilarious, though others, at the time of its release, saw it as blatant bigotry.

But I think he was more taken with the city and the free sailing available to students than with the institution, which struck us as too big, impersonal and bureaucratic for an undergraduate.

And with a headset connected, we were able to make voice calls, which struck us as interesting, though it probably shouldn't be surprising.

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It's a shock now to read, for example, that the great luminaries of the pre-war intellectual elite, especially on the left, were in thrall to eugenics, a theory of human selection which strikes us today as morally indefensible but which, at the time, was nothing less than the common sense of the age.

Not all handsets on these carriers are compatible, however – for example, the AT&T list is missing the iPhone, which strikes us as a bit funny.

We also hear from Sextus Empiricus that Anaxarchus "likened existing things to stage-painting and took them to be similar to the things which strike us while asleep or insane" (M 7.88).

Arnauld and Nicole apply these distinctions to the idea of pain: "We can say that all ideas are distinct insofar as they are clear, and that their obscurity derives only from their confusion, just as in pain the simple sensation which strikes us is clear and also distinct.

Naturally, we share your concerns about the problems that the Company has confronted in recent months, but we are greatly concerned about the tactics employed by Benchmark to address them, which strike us as ethically dubious and, critically, value-destructive rather than value enhancing.

Last week, Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian called for a new law that would make these common-sense approaches to gun safety mandatory in the city, which strikes us as reasonable and prudent public policy.

We will share that freedom we hold dear: to express, to exchange, to propose, to set up workshops, to produce texts or put words to that which strikes us in the heart.

Sullivan broke the story of Google's sting operation on Bing scraping of search results, which struck some of us as saying more about Google being scared Schmidtless by Facebook.

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