The bad news is that the Upsilon Andromedae system is too strange to be explained by current theories of planetary formation.
But it is uncertain whether such a method could ever become commonplace - its very difference may make it seem too strange to catch on.
After too many strange looks, the pair retire to the library to debate the intricacies of espionage, world domination, what happens when a spy gets caught -- and what makes the best cover for an agent.
Strange too are the wondrous encounters between America's agrarian past and digital present.
But he also warned not to take their requests for "strange features" too seriously.
Too often they have been asked to fight in strange and distant places, for no clear purpose they could see and for no accomplishment they can measure.
Just down the road too, in Sparks, was a warehouse containing the strange, finned, tubular car in which he hoped to break the land speed record, travelling as close as he could to 800 miles an hour.
The strange subterranean world that Verne describes isn't too far removed from the landscapes on the surface in Iceland.
Mose yelled at Strange to swim to the rocks, but it was too late.
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.
Set in America in the not-too-distant future, the novel braided countless characters and ideas into a deliriously strange and self-consciously literary plot, involving a tennis academy, a recovery facility, a dysfunctional family and a debilitatingly gripping film.
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Hugo Strange would become the main villain again in a future film that adapts the Prey storyline, too.
Ms. DICKINSON: And you know it's funny because the baseball metaphor, I've had this really strange career, and one of the things I say - and this works for college, too - is man, you know, I try 10 things.
But odd humor, strange humor, the type that not everyone gets, has always been around, and it, too, has its value.
It strikes me as a bit strange in that until recently the concern about Pakistan from the Pentagon was the exact opposite, in that too much focus has gone to South Waziristan, too much focus has been on TTP, and none of it is the enemies that you have focused -- which is on the Haqqani network and the Quetta Shura Taliban.
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