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Recent Examples of strangeness
Relegated in their time to Oscar-night footnotes, they have long since been recognized as his towering twin peaks—cinematic effusions of a dark, visionary, and fundamentally inimitable strangeness, against which the sheen of even a good Oscars ceremony pales.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Heightening the strangeness is the fact that it’s shot in the style of Iranian meta cinema (think Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi), and the mostly Iranian cast speaks Farsi mixed with some French, as Rankin does himself.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
His feature directorial debut, world premiering in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, serves up a mix of existential strangeness and such themes as mental health, identity, and disorientation in the digital age.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Heightening the strangeness is the fact that it’s shot in the style of Iranian meta cinema (think Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi), and the mostly Iranian cast speaks Farsi mixed with some French, as Rankin does himself.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
His feature directorial debut, world premiering in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, serves up a mix of existential strangeness and such themes as mental health, identity, and disorientation in the digital age.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
Noun
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Just one of the endless peculiarities that made up my dad.—
Chris Wallace,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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Advertisement In her loneliness and, paradoxically, in her peculiarity, Mickey embodies a recognizable archetype: the righteous female cop protagonist of a prestige crime drama.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
12 Mar. 2025
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Rather, the singularity is humans using AI to become super-intelligent.—
Sam Sammane,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The big bang singularity is not a location in space, unlike the singularities of black holes.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
1 Apr. 2025
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These are clones of individual grape varieties that have been bred to ensure certain characteristics, such as resistance to specific diseases.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Overall, the analyst is bullish on EPD stock and views it as a core master limited partnership holding, having both offensive and defensive characteristics.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2025
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Women are no longer expected to wear corsets, and what was once an oddity invented in a teenager’s bedroom, the bra, has since become a staple of every woman’s closet.—
Molly Peck,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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In a game with all of the bad blood normal for historical division rivals — an oddity for a team Minnesota sees just twice a year — New Jersey led early and never trailed.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
30 Mar. 2025
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The interaction between Briony and Jamie starts off amiably, with Jamie needling Briony for her posh affectations.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Slumming with her sister in San Francisco after her life with her Madoff-like ex in New York implodes, Jasmine Francis isn't quite willing to let go of the affectations that come with living in high society.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Counsell’s decision to hire Quintin Berry away from the Milwaukee Brewers may have taken those attributes to another level.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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An attribute that Buffett considers to be the hallmark of the highest achievers.—
Steve Taplin,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Experts debated the connection, but by 2001 paleontologists uncovered early whale ankle bones that possessed traits only seen among artiodactyls.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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In an era of constant change, global complexity and ever-rising expectations, trust has become the defining trait of exceptional leadership.—
Alejandro Bravo,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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