Even though much of the film takes place in the sunny metropolis of Los Angeles, it is curiously underpopulated. |
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A few turned to stare as she stood there, green eyes blinking curiously, voices muttering. |
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They were curiously matched as unheroic, down-to-earth, but knowing outsiders on their respective sides. |
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They can play a bit, those Ukrainian lads, but there's something curiously uninvolving about Champions League nights. |
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Unfortunately, despite a certain amount of suspense in the first act, the story becomes increasingly convoluted and curiously uninvolving. |
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Davin's house was curiously quiet when I arrived, and I stood blinking at the unlighted windows while I contemplated the idea of a joke. |
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Sterne acknowledged his borrowings from writers such as Cervantes and Montaigne, but was curiously silent about his many thefts from Burton. |
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Even judged as a piece of crusading journalism, it was curiously unpolitical. |
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For Afghans, Shias, Uzbeks, Indians and others who fell outside that circle he reserved an overarching and curiously unprejudiced dislike. |
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I suspect this is the real reason for the curiously unreasoning hostility to the film. |
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But then, curiously, he did not snarl contemptuously that they were wrong and that he had a sackful of lawyers to say so. |
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Some people passing looked at us curiously, a couple boys our age snickered as they passed. |
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In May 2005 a campaign that never caught fire issued, perhaps inevitably, in a curiously indecisive result. |
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Barbie, that plastic icon of childish femininity, has appeared in many guises over a long but curiously unwrinkled life. |
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But bursts of operatic arias, incessant chatter and the clatter of pots and pans give it a curiously relaxing bustle. |
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Again, this character is curiously labeled because veins cannot traverse across the posterior wing margin in insects. |
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The Riesling renaissance started years ago, yet most British drinkers remain curiously indifferent to this noble grape's charms. |
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It is called the handkerchief tree because of the large, curiously shaped white flowers but, like whitethorn, it is a long-term investment. |
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Quite a bit, but either the cant or the pitch or the structure curiously muted it. |
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Jonas asked curiously as he guided me towards a classroom, a little offset from the main hallway. |
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And he definitely didn't notice the figure keeping step with him, watching him curiously. |
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Her voice is as sexy as ever, yet, for such a small venue as the Blue Heron Arts Center, often too loud, and sometimes curiously strangulated. |
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The boy had picked up the stranger's dropped guns and he hefted them curiously before he handed them back. |
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He then asked curiously why they always ended up having to go look for the ghosts and get chased while the other characters sat on their heinies. |
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This is simply how we do things, orderless, curiously herd-like in our individualism. |
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But although his performance is excellent, the overall effect is curiously sad. |
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Tern rubbed his neck as though he had hurt it in the fall, made a little consoling noise like a chirp to himself, and glanced at her curiously. |
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A Titan Triggerfish chomps at some hard coral, as other fish gawp at us curiously or dart away. |
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Rather than smile and wink flirtatiously, they instead stare at each other curiously, like two predators circling each other in the wild. |
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In contrast with other subareas of the discipline, the human geography of the service sector has often remained curiously undersocialized. |
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A faint scent curiously similar to blackberry cobbler wafted on a warm draft from the beaker. |
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She looked up to see a large, colorful bird perched on the rail, watching her curiously. |
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The magistrate of the divorce court peered down curiously as the aged couple approached the bench, their steps faltering and uncertain. |
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But curiously enough, there is no hard evidence of this piculet from Guyana, according to the last checklist published that I know of. |
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Her eyes opened and she stared up at him curiously, seeming not in the least bit surprised to be sleeping in the prison infirmary. |
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Arnold noted that, curiously, many species of parrots that live in rain forests have not evolved fluorescent pigmentation. |
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A young girl trainer around 10 with pigtailed hair was standing in front of the counter staring at Caitlin curiously. |
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An Afghan boy came to look curiously at my sports shoes, footwear Afghan women never wear. |
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His restless intellectualism curiously mirrors the expansive lives of the nomads and Australian cowboys he so much admires. |
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The surviving crocodilians were larger animals, more like the crocs we know today, but, curiously, mostly marine. |
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Many are shaped like small potatoes but others are curiously long and curved like crooked sausages. |
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She looked to be about seven or eight, and curiously enough, she had a long scar running crosswise through her right eyebrow. |
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His eyes searched hers curiously, but he found nothing but mild curiosity in her eyes. |
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She studied it scientifically, then calmly wrenched off the lid and stared curiously at the thick red liquid inside. |
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I peered curiously out the window, wondering who on earth would knock on my door. |
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A trio of cats gazed up at her, curiously eyeing her approach with heads tilted one way or another. |
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My sister curiously inquired a few hours later why Mom was locked up in her room, crying, but I wouldn't tell her. |
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They are completely charmed by his innocence, yet contact with the child curiously produces havoc. |
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And curiously, it's the cold which helps the process of waking up for Spring. |
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The same pink ribbon is twisted around and through the hair, framing Venus's curiously masklike face. |
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The stone cages have a curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields. |
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All the children, surprised by her daring question, looked at them curiously. |
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Whining little Peter Andre is number one with a song which sounds curiously dated, eight years after it was first released. |
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The taxi driver spoke decently good English and said he had been to Toronto, something that curiously put me at ease. |
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Roy looked at the man curiously, making his way over to him as Vincent took another draw from the cigarette. |
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Worsham is excited about the adventure, though curiously a bit timid about the prospect of standing in the box to face thrown projectiles. |
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I love the parallel nuttiness of the denotations and the curiously balanced and opposed vowel sounds that follow. |
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The Mercedes swept past its curiously rounded tower and shattered, graffitied windows at 100 mph. |
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The area curiously echoed with each solemn step he made even though there were no walls to bounce the sound about. |
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In an era of rogue terrorism, the wide dispersal of military museums curiously bodes well for survival of the nation's military heritage. |
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The annual Fun Day in Bedford Park, curiously enough unreported in the papers, was a great success. |
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Oedipus seems curiously at home everywhere, as if he were the Everyman of the 20th century. |
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Waving away the floating dustballs the woman shoved her nose back at the shelves curiously. |
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An elegant ding dong, dang dong rang throughout the house, and a small mouse of an old woman answered it curiously. |
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My mind works rapidly, changeably, flexibly, logically, curiously, superficially, eclectically. |
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His eyes met mine and I felt curiously light-headed and weak-kneed. I tore my eyes away with an effort, trying not to think about him. |
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He stood up and looked around curiously, a quizzical expression on his face. |
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Isabella watched him curiously as she stood across from him, her pulse and heart racing. |
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Freya stared after it curiously for a moment, until a splash of colour caught her eye. |
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His shock of black hair looked windswept, and beneath it, his eyes peered out curiously from behind wire-frame glasses. |
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To be a Yiddish poet is to enter a curiously ambiguous position between tradition and private experience. |
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Hermite had a kind of positive hatred of geometry and once curiously reproached me with having made a geometrical memoir. |
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He stared at me curiously, though behind that curiosity was a firm resolution I had no idea of. |
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Whipping out lickety-split footwork and curiously fey gestures in improbable succession, his character seemed controlled by external forces. |
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The lieutenant governor's speech was a curiously unmomentous affair, a litany of recent bills passed by the Legislature. |
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The little pony watched him curiously from a little distance away, tied loosely to a tree. |
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The effect of this is to give the film a curiously sanitised glow, as if it has been shot with the rose-tinted lens of nostalgia. |
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But curiously the paper contains not a whisper of complaint from Peter or his fellow attack dogs. |
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He was reminded of the previous night's events and glanced curiously to the window, a magnetic force pulling his head in that direction. |
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Stupidly, I chose to wait for the tape machine to get fixed, partly because I was curiously transfixed by the stunning technical ineptitude. |
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He had exquisite taste in literature, but curiously enough these wonderful books didn't sell, and he was also short of capital. |
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His saucily raised eyebrow sent a curiously exhilarating tingle through her. |
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Throughout, the saxophonist eschews the obvious, opting for restraint or curiously oblique phrases rather than motivic development. |
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The Mosteiro dos Jeronimos is the pinnacle of his lavish commissioning and of Manueline architecture, a curiously elaborated version of Gothic. |
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The result is winning, shimmering pop that sounds quaint and postmodern, sternly Teutonic and curiously homely at the same time. |
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There were fairies, gnomes, dragons and assorted other creatures watching curiously from a safe distance. |
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If you can manage, follow with an orange and cinnamon and sweet pastries flavoured curiously like airline towelettes. |
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Braised lamb shank in black pepper is curiously flat, as if the meat's natural flavor has been neutered. |
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Softness and that curiously mild-mannered touch dominated Lang Lang's playing. |
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I think the curiously Italian milky coffee they call galao in Portugal just about qualifies. |
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As I have recently been transmogrified into a godfather, these things have become curiously more interesting. |
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It is packed with fascinating minutiae, and yet it is curiously lacking in some details. |
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Dipped in miso, it has a sweet, jellied, curiously dissolving quality, like some exotic form of vegan candy. |
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I was keen to have a look but she was curiously unwilling to show me round. |
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In their discussions, monetization is not limited to paper assets, but curiously includes the mention of gold mines, among other things. |
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Rachel watched curiously as he pulled out plates, drinks, eating utensils and several more Tupperware containers full of food. |
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Instead, they were looking at me curiously, like I was a particularly absorbing monkey at the zoo. |
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Wil has stayed curiously silent on the subject, and I think for such a prominent blogger he should at least acknowledge its existence. |
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Among other things they met with several curiously formed graves containing urns with burned and unburned bones. |
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At first glance, it was a curiously cold moment, uncharacteristic of such a popular and outgoing figure. |
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The game was absolutely skewered by the critics, although curiously it's hard to find exactly what was thought to be objectionable. |
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He was holding a pizza box and had a curiously eager expression on his face like a munted troll doll. |
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. |
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Impeccably fresh sardines cooked in pancetta do not need a slick of oil seeping from a curiously flavourless salsa verde. |
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He was solidly built with short black hair and curiously red eyes, his physical strength was apparent, as was his short temper when he snapped at his brother. |
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The technical terms systolic pressure, diastolic pressure, mean arterial pressure, etc are clear enough, but, curiously, what should be most objective numeration is least so. |
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They are curiously obsequious, seeming to promise presidents and prime ministers a favourable verdict in return for a few invitations, a few decorations. |
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The enormous oceanic whitetip that had scattered them eyed me curiously. |
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These substantial and curiously ugly animals use their bony foreheads to smash off great lumps of coral before they crunch it up with massive front teeth. |
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When I arrive he hands me a CV of his glittering business career but, curiously, his birthdate is missing and he will be pinned down to nothing more than being a 60-something. |
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All of which takes the sting out of a curiously unmoving ending. |
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I look at it curiously, my name hurriedly scribbled on the front. |
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Around me in the East Stand upper tier are an assortment of senior company directors, bankers, hedge-fund managers, and, curiously, quite a few mini-cab drivers. |
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The children, in contrast, are curiously poised and self-possessed. |
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Ko-chin looked curiously at Molly who was noisily slurping her soda. |
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In addition there are seventeen pictures by masters with some connection to Raphael, as well as, curiously, a cast of Michelangelo's marble tondo at the Royal Academy. |
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Kilmarnock had been curiously subdued for much of the first half, their few moments of inspiration invariably featuring some involvement from Allan Johnston. |
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How can those who articulate the green case possibly be comfortable with such a curiously unbalanced mix of myths and beliefs, such a partial view of the world? |
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He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable. |
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What better venue then to show them off than a car boot sale, those curiously popular events which have become the place to offload unwanted household items? |
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Jace sat next to Eric in the passenger seat of the red minivan, looking curiously out of the tinted windows at the increasingly derelict buildings and streets of downtown. |
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He looked at me curiously over his bifocals, a sly smile on his face. |
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They were unshaved, unwashed, unkempt, and curiously unmoved. |
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Em asked curiously, not at all affected by his admonitory expression. |
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After the postwar disintegration of the British Empire, Scots curiously disassociated themselves with the period altogether. |
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Those who are still partying through the night are either gripped by the catatonia of the truly drunk or have talked their way back to sobriety and are curiously calm. |
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That's like seeing a psychiatrist plying a tendon hammer, or an orthopaedic surgeon with a pleasant bedside manner nice in a curiously old fashioned way. |
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A middle-aged plump woman plodded dumpily through from the adjoining room and peered through her string-held glasses, curiously but as positively as she could muster. |
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For one Speyside distillery in particular, The Macallan, that process has come to be defined by some curiously small stills. |
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What about that curiously incurious cadaver, the body politic? |
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After my third beer, I started feeling curiously light-headed and woozy. |
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They look at the little vehicle curiously but not very alertly. |
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Her foreign policy during the 1590s has a curiously maternal side, best seen in her extensive correspondence with Henry and James, heavily laden with good wishes and advice. |
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They linger, gazing curiously at the portraits and asking questions. |
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Born in Ohio, he had an uneven boyhood, curiously dyslexic yet smart, sissyish in team sports but very competent athletically in individual competition. |
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Autobiographies are often curiously discreet about the awful transition. |
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The drawings are, however, a disappointment, with insufficient annotation, and curiously reticent on Yorke's supposed engagement with construction. |
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Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads. |
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While the narrator clearly describes a room in the throes of chaos brought on by an influx of wounded soldiers, she also curiously depopulates the room of individual men. |
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Yet, curiously, it is a secondary, indirect, and vicarious experience. |
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Facts about the direction of one's attention occupy a curiously liminal position in respect to the divide between the rational and the non-rational in our psychological lives. |
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Despite what has been said so far about the use of the camera to make drawings, it is curiously an absence of linear outline in Vermeer's finished work to which Gowing points. |
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While negotiating for meaning has become extensively studied, negotiating as a speech event remains a curiously under researched area in applied linguistics. |
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Elsa asked curiously, her voice underlaid with a hint of worry. |
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Not content to have a nice big dish of holiday mushroom ravioli or lentil loaf, vegetarians seem curiously afflicted with a desire to conform to the season. |
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Burns Night apart, Scots in America retain a curiously low profile. |
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In room one a curiously aspherical black sphere sits on the floor alongside walls hung with photographs of expanses of water with accompanying texts. |
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He observed that both species construct nests similar to those of some caciques and, curiously, they often nest together in mixed-species colonies. |
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After a minute's silence he spoke again in Tibetan, in a voice creaky with age but curiously vibrant with the unselfconscious habit of authority. |
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As I said, Balzac wrote about an epoch that is curiously like our own. |
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Yet this week, curiously and apropos of nothing, an e-mail dropped into journalists' in-boxes which sought to clarify the charity's view. |
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Socialism, which is curiously confounded by the indiscriminating with Anarchism, is its exact opposite. |
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To the uninitiated, this index presents a curiously laputan mode of accounting. |
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Psychopathological delusions have a number of features that are curiously difficult to explain. |
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For the rest of the world, it was a curiously bizarre event. |
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Performing a curiously melancholy, undulating developpe, the dancers point their legs at each other like accusing fingers. |
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The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral. |
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The duty-man at the exit locks of the main building stood at his window and watched me curiously. |
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I find them a curiously confronting sight, dressed in thongs, boardies and Victoria Bitter singlets, and shrouded in Australian flags. |
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Often this procedure results in figures that curiously resemble those of Edvard Munch, and Haydon's urban view also seeks a parallel sense of disassociation and dislocation. |
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Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved. |
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However, curiously, Harry's name is also produced from the Goblet thus making him a fourth champion, which results in a terrifying encounter with a reborn Lord Voldemort. |
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The only curiously remaining reminder of this site's maritime past is a stone cross which stands in the middle of the Roodee which exhibits the marks of water ripples. |
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She had told him she was not now at Marlott, but had been curiously reticent as to her actual address, and the only course was to go to Marlott and inquire for it. |
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Mr. Hempseed, touching his forelock, was quietly vacating the seat in the hearth. Everyone was staring curiously, yet deferentially, at the foreigners. |
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Multiple unidentified flying objects have been spotted recently flying over Preston, and curiously they seem to be using the bus depot as their landing area. |
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He is eerily crocodilian in a curiously tail-coated black outfit that is fringed in a garish green, but the object of offence is an odd black and green plaited circle. |
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