Word: weirdness
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...crime was "so weird and bizarre," declared Los Angeles Coroner Thomas Noguchi, that he had taken an unusual step. He was showing photographs of the bodies of Starlet Sharon Tate and the four other murder victims to a psychologist and a psychiatrist. Perhaps the killer had left some clue to his character in his sick and savage assault on the bodies of his victims...
...antitheses which as any applicability to Mahler is his disciplined, complex response to diversity while believing in an irreducible, if ultimately unvoiceable permanency in life. The milieu of is world may be suggested by the names Eichendorff, Haupmann, Strauss, Kant, Sclegel, Mozart, the Mass, and Goethe: a weird assemblage which yielded a mind disposed to mystical and ironical visions, but always wit a resilient core of innocent he is accused of innocent simplicity. And this is almost certainly the reason e is accused of parody. As Tovey wrote...
...memoir is an incomparable record of the weird and wonderful Russian nobility, compared with whom the pious, drunken, sheepskin-clad serfs seemed like another race. The Czar's ramshackle empire was made up of three other races-the merchants, who were much like merchants anywhere; the official class, whose devotion to sacred paper could be compared only to a Tibetan monk operating a prayer wheel; and the student and professional intelligentsia, politically zealous to a pitch of almost mystical intensity...
...voyage had begun. A tug towed the 12-ton papyrus craft out of the harbor at Safi, Morocco, and then cast off, leaving Thor Heyerdahl and his crew to sail their weird wicker boat 4,000 miles across the Atlantic to Central America. The Norwegian adventurer, who proved with Kon-Tiki that man could navigate a raft across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia, hopes to show that ancient Egyptians discovered the New World long before Columbus. After four days, Heyerdahl radioed that Ra was 133 miles along the predicted track, riding a strong current and floating well-quieting...
...feel weird." We all laughed at that...