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Hortense gave me a knowing look, an expression curiously woman-to-woman.

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

Hortense gave me a knowing look, an expression curiously woman-to-woman.

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

And as the Roman Consuls held this to be the principal praise of their glory, they had this title curiously sculptured in marble on the Quirinal and in the forum of Trajan --- "Most powerful gift in a Prince is liberality [12]."

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

The secretary gestured to Athen’s office, her expression curiously smug.

A Different Light Mariah Stewart 2010

Foucault's quote, curiously, is exactly applicable to the situation between Mr. Windschuttle and his postmodern rivals: he is a person from a strong cultural tradition, having trouble understanding the language of another culture's logic - in other words, trying to apprehend "a culture ... that does not distribute the multiplicity of existing things into any of the categories that make it possible for us to name, speak and think."

Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

Foucault's quote, curiously, is exactly applicable to the situation between Mr. Windschuttle and his postmodern rivals: he is a person from a strong cultural tradition, having trouble understanding the language of another culture's logic - in other words, trying to apprehend "a culture ... that does not distribute the multiplicity of existing things into any of the categories that make it possible for us to name, speak and think."

Borges: Pathways of the (Postmodern) Mind Heather McDougal 2009

And small children — especially if beautiful, blonde, and under five — sometimes get a pass, though they are liable to appear in curiously fey and stylized ways.

Home Alone 2006

Updates, 11/23: David Lowery: For all its empyrean visuals, I found The Fountain curiously earthbound.

GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky. 2006

And small children — especially if beautiful, blonde, and under five — sometimes get a pass, though they are liable to appear in curiously fey and stylized ways.

Home Alone 2006

So it was no surprise that this upwelling of speaking truth to power would meet with organized resistance from a front group disguised behind a name curiously appropriate to the task: the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE.

David Sassoon: Climate Change and Race: Naked Truths & Ugly Politics 2008