If ever a moment captured the novelty and sheer strangeness of Britain's new coalition government, it was the first joint press conference between Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg in the Downing Street garden. (news.bbc.co.uk)
But it's also a benchmark of sorts, a measure of the sheer strangeness of reality as revealed by the discoveries of modern physics, discoveries that Greene chronicles with brilliant clarity. (discovermagazine.com)
The woozy visual stillness, with which Loung had originally registered the sheer strangeness of their Maoist new life in the country, is now no longer in evidence. (theguardian.com)