Word: strangest
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...four countries and abandonment in a nation where he knew nothing of the language or the culture. He broke the law and remains an illegal immigrant, which still poses a problem if he is ever caught. But for now he is here. And that, as he says, is the strangest, most wonderful thing...
...road to ruin. My mission is to correct people when they perceive things wrongly," snarls Lydon, hoping the film finally clarifies the group's twin-barreled assault on the music industry and Britain's class system. (Ironically, at test screenings, some teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this moment that seemed like...
...Berlin, a fancy French hotel and a suburban Berlin hovel; the tone of the play changes just as wildly, such as when Dulle Griet gives a heart-felt monologue about what she imagines her "happy life" will be like, punctuated by Pamela's chirpy "Well, you're certainly the strangest girl I've ever met!" While these sudden shifts in tone have the potential to break down the cohesiveness of the play, the result is an effectively surreal experience that emphasizes the differences between the cultural backgrounds and situations of the characters...
...conservative. He said it six times in less than a minute. When he needed a heavyweight to testify to his readiness to be President, he turned to Dan Quayle. And as he groped around for an issue to bludgeon McCain with, he seized on what might be the strangest possible choice--the charge that McCain, the war hero who never fails to pay homage to the Greatest Generation in his speeches, was somehow weak on veterans' issues...
...some very fundamental things about the human condition can seem so bizarre when analyzed dispassionately (for instance, from the point of view of a six-year-old child). And of all the strange things about the human condition, I find our preoccupation with physical beauty one of the strangest. Not, of course, from a biological point of view but rather in the light of our own moral ideals...