strangeness
Example Sentences
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Rather than recapitulate historical chronicles, Mr. Enrigue imagines the event from the Aztec point of view, creating an account that is gory, hallucinatory and thrilling in its strangeness.
The strangeness crept into my dream that night.
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His tableaux don’t always succeed, but when they do, their strangeness hints at things beyond ordinary ken.
He remembered that letters had been the first signs of strangeness.
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Instead, they’re frozen in their grown-up strangeness, Dad picking at his nails and Aunt Melissa tying her dish towel into knots.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.