Sentences with phrase «curious turn»

People that you think are going to be really thoughtful and curious turn out to have so many preconceptions about what they're going to get that they're impossible to work with.

In a curious turn, Holmes was scheduled to appear at a conference hosted by the Journal long before the story broke, and many wondered whether she would ultimately show.

In the foreword, Kai Nielsen, a philosopher frequently critical of religion, notes that «philosophy of religion in Anglo - American contexts has taken a curious turn in the past decade.»

Debate over the CUNY shifts took a curious turn on Monday as Republican Sen. Cathy Young, the chair of the finance committee, offered a new rationale for the CUNY proposal: the cost shift as a punishment for recent anti-Semitic incidents at CUNY and what some lawmakers see as an inefficient response to them.

Judicial discretion can take some curious turns.

There is a curious turn, however, after this first act.

Director Jean Markose's Kuttanpillayude Sivarathri begins as a drama happening in the home of a police constable before the plot some curious turns, mainly towards the end.

In a curious turn of events, Walter's creepy alter - ego begins to patch up his marital problems, and fix the financial problems at the Toy Factory he runs.

In a curious turn, Florida politicians announced late Tuesday that they had come to an agreement on budget issues for a tentative $ 83 billion dollars.

He takes art pretty much to mean painting, the world of pigments, a curious turn for so contemporary a text.

David McDonald's characterization of his solo show at Carter & Citizen as a collection of self - portraits would seem to mark a curious turn for an artist whose committedly abstract paintings and sculptures have long resisted narrative implications.

It is this curious turn of events — the U.S. enforcement of a law of a country that appears unconcerned with its implementation — that has some folks chanting «over-regulation» and directing their ire at enforcement officials and the Obama administration for targeting a guitar maker.

Where that last category is concerned, however, Apple has taken a curious turn in recent years.

It's a curious turn of events, as the broker had been fantastic to work with up to this point.