Sentence examples for work strange from inspiring English sources

For Zoe Leonard's work "Strange Fruit (For David)," which consists of more than three hundred fruit skins that have been stitched, zippered, or buttoned back together, he investigated the possibility of preservation by shock freezing.

The entrees at Neary's are less expensive than those at Elaine's, but at Elaine's you could order food much later — a welcome thing for those of us who work strange hours.

The rapid capitulation of France when the Germans invaded, in 1940, bred a new round of soul-searching, including the classic work "Strange Defeat" by the great historian Marc Bloch.

Of Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation," Acocella observes that Sontag's nonfiction performed the "essential function of criticism, that of introducing readers to new work, strange work, things they wouldn't ordinarily encounter — a duty no major critic had undertaken consistently since Edmund Wilson quit regular reviewing in the late '40s".

"We spend lots of hours waiting, we spend a lot of time on the road, we work strange hours and we are very close with our colleagues.

The single people in my department work strange hours, take out personal ads, hope to make connections at conferences or around town, and wonder if in the end it will be worth all the work they put into getting the degree, given the sacrifices they may end up making.

The Incorruptible (as he was known, quite justifiably) roused and cowed in equal measure, often with an aggrieved, self-pitying tone that worked strange wonders on the assembled.

I was already a dream-bound 8-year-old who spent lots of time spinning fantasies in my head, and, for whatever reason, the high drama suggested by the concept of the movie worked strange magic on my impressionable mind.

Succession works in strange ways when it works at all.

"Sometimes these processes work in strange ways," one official said.

So for people to just concentrate on the one per cent of my work feels strange.