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Their descendants are fabulously wealthy by comparison - bizarrely wealthy - and the ancestors might insist that even our poor people are rich in everyday comforts and exotic possessions.

Kernberg College began, interestingly, as a music academy for orphans; and it is the old music hall, housed in its bizarre, turreted, allegedly haunted mansion atop College Hill, that best captures the benevolent spirit — at least this seemed true to me, that night, looking out at everything from the Pancake House — of our brilliant, glowing city.

Upon seeing this bizarre figure, all the sharks swim away, howling piteously.

We think of "brainwashing" in the most negative terms, as a bizarre, powerfully effective ordeal that happens during wartime, when a prisoner is abducted and isolated.

It is the story of the familiar stars of the night sky slowly giving way to bizarre frozen stars, evaporating black holes, and atoms the size of galaxies.

Or the stories may not be bizarre, but numerous and various, for the same reason.

Across the nation, the adoring rabble analyzes his Machiavellian methods, conspicuous ego and bizarre hair.

(*** out of four stars) "Calamari Union" is a bizarre farce in which 17 homeless men named Frank and one called Pekka take a meandering, mock-epic trek across Helsinki to a fabled seaside suburb.

The demonic subject, together with a series of bizarre events surrounding the opera's creation, soon saddled The Tales of Hoffmann with a curious reputation.

You never get single stranger-hosts welcoming you with bizarre bows and cries.

Whether she is chuckling over her sister bringing one chicken to a picnic of four under the mistaken assumption that a chicken has four legs or at the bizarre translations at a literary meet in Moscow, she comes across as a woman who is quick to spot the incongruous or the inexcusably pompous.

Other chart placings take the love of a good tune into bizarre territory.

"It is bizarre but not surprising that Mr McAvoy has rounded on all the other teacher unions who are working constructively with government to develop and support the teaching profession.

The electric chair reference was all too bizarrely apt in the case of one interviewee who, while wearing the gold crucifix given to him by his mother, found to his cost that it turned him into a walking lightning conductor, a bolt from the blue blowing him six feet into the air.

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