strangeness
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When Hua Yan’s 18th-century painting “Brushfire With Animals Fleeing” was first exhibited in a 1990 show, it taught U.S. audiences about the aesthetics of strangeness in early modern Chinese painting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
After the robots noisily clunked down the stairs, the strangeness of the encounter began to fade.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
At this point it’s worth stepping back to acknowledge the strangeness of all this.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
She said that the change to the script added a spiritual strangeness to the film and gave the second act a real climax, because no one expected to lose the Jedi master.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
In Cal the process had been so long and so slow that he felt no strangeness.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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