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WordNet curious%5:00:00:strange:00 and FrameNet 15960 [Hide]
- In simplified computer models of sandpiles (though not, apparently, in all real sandpiles), a curious pattern emerges. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- In this case it seems curious indeed that the operon contains trpEb_2. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- This is a rather curious twist in seeking to understand the president whose thinking and rhetoric were probably more influenced by the biblical idiom than the writings of any other president. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The same goes for specialty, which has yielded over the years to specialization . The curious point is that this trend seems to go against Zipf's Law, which notes that syllables get trimmed off words over the years. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- In a curious way, the unfinished state of the novel complements the inherent and intentional incompleteness of the underlying story. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- About 4 km (2.5 miles) north of Viñales, the Cueva del Viñales is a curious bar and disco carved out of a cave; amazingly, it’s open 24 hours. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The wolf whom Pollak is so eager to cook had a curious way of landing himself in the soup. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- and um it's causing quite a stir up here because we're so close to DC anyway it's really kind of curious to watch this thing occur [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Both stories (and isn't it curious that both papers would independently front such a soft feature?) note that there is a rich Arab tradition of leaders going out in mufti, with the overall feeling being that this is a quaint feature of a veil- and robe-enmeshed culture. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- But they would prefer to be trekking across the wildflower-pocked tundra, wading through 35-degree glacial muck, spending hours -looking, or exploring tidal pools for sunflower stars and brittle stars, spiny sea urchins, mussel worms, anemones, and blennies, as curious and brightly colored as any on a tropical coral reef. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- In a curious bit of marketing, the offer of $10 off on Mother's Day flowers doesn't expire until July 31. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- This is a curious book. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- But these individual successes can't disguise the very curious reality that we're living in a world that is somehow saturated by the media without actually paying all that much attention to it. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- 3. "Most curious headline of the week , from the Times : 'GM Presses Bid for Daewoo, Vowing to Preserve Its Identity .' I don't know. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Unlike the novelist, who invents (supposedly) his characters, or the historian, who grapples with a populous cast, the biographer enters into a curious intimacy with the person being written about, a relationship charged with ambivalence, resentment, love, dependency, and all the myriad other emotions that crowd in whenever we allow ourselves to become intimate with another. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Fresh from a demi-generation of people calling their offspring Moonflower and Droplet, they are jumping, or being pulled, on to the latest bandwagon as a result of that curious human trait which makes people want to be twee and different. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- But it is curious that these actresses should be attacked instead of encouraged in their efforts to change. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- In typical Beaux-Arts fashion, the façade manages to appear both grandly monumental and coolly rational, except for a curious row of little doorways high up the wall, which lack balconies or even railings and open into mid-air. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The small, lovely cloister has curious, rather Arab-style arches. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- There's a curious ellipsis in the WP when it quotes Republican Rep. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The guild's gentler cohesion and lack of obvious international hierarchies have contributed to its marked success and curious anonymity. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- his book, with its curious title, Investigations, seeks new questions about the universe. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- What's especially curious about this is that one would have thought this was a conclusion a supposedly ardent devotee of the free market would have reached a long time ago. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The one shocker in the book is the revelation of Eisner's heart-and-soul belief that those who criticize Disney simply don't understand it and that "the company's good is unquestionably, inextricably intertwined with the larger social good" (Richard Schickel, the Los Angeles Times ). (For the biography of another "awkward, toothy, curious, and good-spirited Everyman" at Disney, read Goofy's official bio. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Tucked within the forest is the celebrated, fantastically ornate Hotel Palace do Buçaco (see page 175), formerly a royal summer retreat, and a curious stone monastery, the Mosteiro dos Carmelitas. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- It is not in the slightest way suggested that picking up citations from other works is in any way curious or reprehensible—anyone would be a fool to research any subject without relying on the scholarship that has gone before—but one would have expected the DARE to be found among books like Farmer and Henley's Dictionary of Slang and Its Analogues , Chapman's New Dictionary of Slang , Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang , and the others listed. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The curious thing about evolution is that everyone thinks he understands it? [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- One of the curious things about what Jake Weisberg aptly calls the "Do Dim Bulbs Make Good Presidents?" [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- He was an older man, this baker, and he wore a curious apron, a heavy thing with loops that went under his arms and around his back and then crossed in front again where they were tied in a very thick knot. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Note, too, Johann Hummel’s curious study in perspective, a painting of the granite bowl which can still be seen in Berlin’s Lustgarten, in front of the Altes Museum. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The statues in the main shrine represent Man, the god of literature, and Mo, the god of war, a curious juxtaposition. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- I was born in the South of two Southern parents but raised mainly on Army posts, curious nonplaces that, even when located in the South, feel more like Ohio than like Alabama or Georgia or North Carolina. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- But I found it curious that he ignored a relevant phenomenon that he described so clearly in The Moral Animal : the mother-offspring conflict over weaning. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Notwithstanding, many people derive enjoyment from wallowing in peculiar, curious, and unfamiliar words, which often provide a source of amusement. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- What is curious about Africana is that they both--Gates and Appiah--are doing a book that I think, in its current manifestation, is beneath them. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- It is a curious but perhaps essential dimension of the Ralph Ellison literary myth that he published only one novel, Invisible Man , and that his entire authority as a writer and intellectual rests on this work, which whites felt brought black writing of age, beyond mere protest and sociology. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- It is this obsession, which far exceeds anything I have ever encountered in any scholar (and scholars and intellectuals have no little ego and no little ambition), this need to have his fingerprints everywhere, that I find curious but that I also think, ultimately for Gates, is destructive of the very end he probably wants to achieve. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- German Qingdao suffered a curious fate during World War I. Japan, which joined the Allied forces, invaded the city, imprisoned the survivors of the German garrison, and occupied Qingdao for the duration of the war. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Train your eyes upwards as you walk through the old town to take in the details, e.g., a curious hanging sign, a lantern, or an unusual sculpture. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The famous Farmers’ Market at Third and Fairfax is a curious mixture of old folks, tourists, and hip Hollywood types who crowd the excellent and inexpensive food stands and stalls that sell meat, cheese, chocolate, baked goods, and produce. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- They found the same curious biology in the majority of beavers from three other locations as well. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Work in this laboratory has shown lags in neuromuscular development associated with excessive zinc exposure during neural tube formation and, possibly, accompanying narrowing of the vertebral arches [ 26 ] . Another curious finding of this study is that widening of the vertebral arch occurs with either the GABAa agonist muscimol or the antagonist bicuculline. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- This doesn't mean that the bond market is any less efficient than the stock market, though it does seem a bit curious. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Another curious enigma about Columbus that has baffled historians is that no reliable likeness of him has ever survived. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The curious twist in this last addition to the Constitution is that although it was finally ratified by three-fourths of the states in 1993, it was originally proposed by James Madison two hundred years earlier. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- "By a curious paradox Richard Nixon was one of the very few people who emerged from the Watergate affair with credit." [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- (An archaeological aside: The entwining of Bible, printing press, and popular literacy reveals itself in a curious fact from the New World. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- "There is a curious antiquarian feeling, in fact, to the whole leering enterprise," says The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
WordNet curious%5:00:00:strange:00 and FrameNet 16021 [Hide]
WordNet curious%5:00:00:strange:00 and FrameNet 16018 [Hide]
WordNet curious%5:00:00:strange:00 and FrameNet N/A [Hide]
- Often this has a warning note, like Lady Fan Todd dressed to death and killed with fashion is one, so is the curious Children's tongues will cut your throat with a bar of soap or hang you with a yard of cotton. [W1,W2,W3,W4,I1]: 1.00
WordNet curious%3:00:00:: and FrameNet 15960 [Hide]
WordNet curious%3:00:00:: and FrameNet 16021 [Hide]
- But I'm most curious about what you think. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- would be the the Freons i mean for air conditioning the one i guess that's the one i'm most curious about is how they're going to replace the Freons in air-conditioning [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- In 15 or so calls to the Helpdesk, I encountered only one person who sounded annoyed rather than curious (and even, dare I say, gleeful) at the fact I was firing up Linux. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- I was alive at a time when pot was part of the culture, I was curious, and you know what, it was pretty damn cool. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- It’s a lovely 3 km- (2 mile-) stroll down from the Porta Nuova, and is a point of pilgrimage for those curious to see the wooden crucifix that spoke to a troubled 27-year-old Francis in 1209, telling him to go and repair the world. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- I'll be curious about your Voice nostalgia. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Then she said, "Our viewers are curious." [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- "I was curious about what was going on," he said. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- (If you are genuinely curious about the answers, click .) [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- A few minutes later, Stephanie Trotter, a local NBC reporter, asked the candidates, "Gentlemen, I'm curious. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Always curious about technological innovation, Degas may have been excited by the new colors made available by the chemical industry at century's end. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- curious yeah not something to be curious about and not something to be totally scared of if it if it's just one more piece of something but but they've got to understand like you said never touch it but yeah [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- they've got to be curious [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- there were enlightening things that broke some of my stereotypical thoughts i'm digressing here but uh i was just real curious when you said Middle East if you didn't mind me asking [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- she's an at home part-time paralegal so i'm thinking hm and we get along fantastically so i'm thinking you know and that's the way you have to um how was i'm just real curious how was the Middle East in terms of that with children [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- I am curious as well as confused. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Later, if you're curious about what these components are and how Microsoft decided which components belong to Internet Explorer, read two key documents, both written by David Cole, the Microsoft vice president in charge of the Internet Client and Collaboration Division. [W1,W2,W3,W4,W5,F1,I1]: 1.00
WordNet curious%3:00:00:: and FrameNet 16018 [Hide]
- Mostly I am concerned that my nieces' reputations will suffer when they return home to the inevitable questions from curious friends. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- (Lily gossips some with her sister, an annoyingly perky single creature, but goes on and on about her fears of dating with her daughters; Rick mostly keeps things to himself, but is interrogated by curious children.) [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
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- How curious, then, that nine out of ten readers of this work happen to forget this part of Aristophanes' myth. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Perhaps the most curious thing about advertising today, in fact, is that agencies that spend all their time helping companies build strong brand names and distinct corporate identities have a very difficult time building brand names for themselves. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- It's more than curious that at institutions supposedly dedicated to academics, spectator-friendly athletic competitions are the only activities considered to be worthy of regular praise and attention. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- The Thin Red Line has a curious sound-scape, as the noise of battle frequently recedes to make room for interior monologues and Hans Zimmer's bump-bump, minimalist New Age music. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- It is in that context that Mies’ curious combination of ordered simplicity and sybaritic luxury must be understood. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- In other manifestations of this curious, cumbersome style are [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- yeah kind of curious because um some people found about it on the computer network others yeah [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- This is a curious work. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Israel's fall would relegate Jews to curious obscurity--somewhat like the Amish. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- And most curious of all, how exactly could this dastardly crime have been carried off? [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Here, the line between the scientist and the grave robber blurs, as corpses are exhumed and cremation urns raided to provide organic remnants for any number of curious purposes. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- It is just curious that what one might assume to be a fairly obvious coinage cannot be documented to an earlier date. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- There is a theory that the curious expression (from the Bible), It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle results from a misreading of the original: the original, it is said, has a word meaning `rope,' not `camel,' which makes sense (to me). [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- that's curious i i i never even thought of that uh before um i i i did notice that uh most of the time the juries are males and uh but i'd never thought of any reasons why or why not [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- All the more remarkable, then, that the article on Manet has a title that exactly matches Fry's in rhythm, rhyme, and grammar, the match extending to the curious use of lady to denote in the one a medieval wench thought to be a witch and in the other a French nude of dubious virtue. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- I thought it more than a little curious that you did not mention those fine law enforcement officers in your article. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- Of course, Priceline has the curious habit of reporting as revenue the total value of the tickets and hotel rooms that it 'sells' on its site , even though the vast majority of that revenue goes to the airlines and companies supplying the seats and rooms. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- (Bogason's dictionary is notable for another curious feature: the entry for the word disappear was somehow omitted, or perhaps it simply disappeared. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
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- First she said, "I'm curious." [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- system and he gave to all his students so my daughter's even talked to and i've talked to several people from North Carolina i was just curious [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- uh it was it was it was interesting but uh i'm just curious what he has to say now that they've got them all lit [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- I would be curious what you think of this and perhaps about the broader issues of so much personal information sloshing around about Internet users. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- uh strategic assistance from other countries i'll i'll be curious to see what happens in this elections because it doesn't seem as though that's forth coming right now um [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- yeah i was just curious you know because uh i know at at the regular gun show you know gun shop that you that you do have to wait for pistols like a couple of weeks and then they check you out then they call you up and you have go pick it up [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- If the answer to either question is yes, then here we have a case of the cost of parental irresponsibility being doled out to everybody else, a phenomenon the papers should be more curious about. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- oh okay all right yeah i i i the reason i'm curious um i uh that's the other place i would like to visit uh most [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- I wasn't looking forward to the scenes with Joe's wife, Maggie, because the stick-in-the-mud spouse has become such a cliché--although I was curious to see what the vivid young actress Anne Heche could do with a role in which she didn't have to shed her clothes. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- and uh so i'm i'm really quite quite curious how that would work to have both i mean you know and i believe in the in a certain uh Soviet block countries you are are obliged to vote too in fact it was even pretty much spelled out who you did vote for up until fairly recently [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- did they just have like over a weekend is that how they did it uh-huh well i'm real curious because my family i didn't sound i don't think my family is as big as your husband's i don't think we'd need a whole church but um [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- I was curious to see how traditional Muslim customs interact with modern fashion in a city where East has been meeting West for so many millennia. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
- but i mean the people that are i'd be curious to if the people that are wouldn't you think the people that are breaking in are probably [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
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- Many dispute the modern scientific tests that have proven it to be a medieval fabrication, and crowds of faithful and merely curious still visit its black marble chapel, a masterpiece of Guarini’s High Baroque, with its cone-shaped, six-tiered dome formed by a web of intersecting arches that rise to a 12-pointed star. [W1,W2,W3,W4,F1,I1]: 1.00
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