"The willingness to go over the top to do something strange or odd is so welcome in a big budget movie, " Mr Buchanan says.

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"He was a disruptive and an odd, strange sort of character in the class, " Mr. Schwalbach said.

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But odd humor, strange humor, the type that not everyone gets, has always been around, and it, too, has its value.

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It conjures up a strange mental image, but perhaps not so odd when you are talking about one of the most colourful characters in English football history.

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It is odd that the amnesia observed by Dr Strange is for events just before an emotionally charged incident, when what is actually desirable is to wipe away any recollection of the incident itself.

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More arrived every day from Italy and Germany, France and China, Russia and Greece, bringing with them their odd customs and habits, their peculiar religions and strange tongues.

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Most do not, and all too often the owners cross swords with the original landholder: a strange creature who counts on irrigation water, operates machinery at odd hours, and offends his neighbours with smelly cattle-holding pens.

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Kinninger thought that was odd, and it wasn't the only thing that seemed strange about Justin.

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