Example sentences for: weirdness

How can you use “weirdness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The brutally funny Steve Stern ( Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven , Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground , A Plague of Dreamers ) does this by inventing a shtetl that out-Singers Singer in its weirdness and filth and then putting it in pre-World War II Memphis, Tenn.

  • These sites betray no trace of Heaven's Gate's weirdness.

  • Many are so uncelebrated or of such transitory glory that they have been provided with identifying squibs: (cookbook writer) Maida Heatter's favorite is chocolate; (CEO, Bear Stearns) Alan Ace Greenberg's, omphaloskepsis (probably after eating kreplach and a good reason for finding another broker); (singer) Gloria Estefan's, houndation, weirdness, plethora, the first of which is not in dictionaries; and, finally, (entertainer, magician) Penn Gillette's dysphonic ruckus.

  • Little of Leonardo's weirdness is conveyed by the Codex Leicester exhibit--though Isabella Rosellini's blue-velveteen voice narrating the exhibit's eight-minute biographical video helps somewhat.

  • The biggest problem: The character is "so sad and helpless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few concede that the film is "amusing if uneven" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ), and Stephen Hunter gives the film a decidedly upbeat review: "The character works because Shannon so precisely gets the dank weirdness of the truly alone.


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