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Kevin Maher from The Times, external said 54-year-old Johnson was "three decades too old to play Maui", with "his performance oddly lacklustre and restrained".

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2026

Milk production has taken a particularly hard hit, oddly enough in a country whose reputation is closely tied to yogurt.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

It has poured money into youth development, splurged on a state of the art training facility, and ponied up unconscionable sums to attract leading coaches from Germany, Italy and, oddly, Sweden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

“The Polaroids started oddly enough when I’d just finished a long period of work in the theater, which is of course playing with perspective and illusion,” he once told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Cloistered in his sprawling town house on Rutland Gate, Francis Galton was oddly unstirred by the “stirring times.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee