The proceeding suddenly appeared to me as ridiculous, tinged with the weirdness of somnambulism.
Mr. Shaw's other line-drawings and his paintings have a richness and weirdness of design that is very attractive.
His book-plates are characterized by the same imaginative spirit and weirdness that appear in all his work.
The scene before us was beautiful, with a weirdness almost impossible to describe.
And then, as I turned to Lylda, I was struck with the extraordinary weirdness of her beauty as never before.
The whole pathos and weirdness of the myth, the vague monstrosity of the fancies, the formal use of terms of endearment in the moment of uttermost loathing and fear,--all impress one as unmistakably Japanese.
The scenery is at once imposing and sinister: the shapes towering above the lake and reflected in its still surface have the weirdness of things seen in photographs of the moon.
The beauty and theweirdness of the moonlit woods were now quite lost upon me.
Into this story of a few pages are condensed a power of forcible expression and a weirdness of theme which have not been surpassed in any of the larger books.
These, as they added originality and a certain weirdness of plot to his already recognised beauty of style, still further attracted that cultured public which had at once accepted his earlier work as that of a master of English.
In the weirdness of the story, in the faithfulness with which the characters are depicted, and in force of style, it closely resembles "Mehalah.
Conveys a suggestion of weirdness and horror, until finally he convinces and enthrals the reader with his mysterious savages, his gigantic tower, and his uncompromising men and women.
The utter weirdness of the whole affair defied analysis.
When the sheer panic of surprise had worn away somewhat, the weirdness of the uncanny voyage came upon the crew with tenfold force.
Without the weirdness of Poe, Meek surpassed him in deftness of touch and daintiness of expression.
Indeed, just then she looked more like a Wraith than a living Woman, and the Light of the Candles, which flickered wildly in the Draught, accentuated the Weirdness of her Appearance.
The flickering candle light, warring with the fireglow, and its play of ruddy Lights and deep phantasmagoric Shadows, lent size and weirdness to Mr. Betterton's figure and enhanced the dignity and magnitude of his Presence.
I recall our coming out of the theatre; our minds thrilling to the music and the subtle weirdness of the theme.
In the end there was nothing, only the weirdness and uncertainty and the magnetic undercurrent which we could feel, but could not fathom.
There was weirdness in its colour, almost cabalistic--a call out of the occult.
Perhaps it was the weirdness and the tremulous intoxication of the music.
Whatever the weirdness and adventure, Jerome was getting nowhere.
I had promised myself to dash alongside, but there was a weirdness in that fragment of a dumb ship hanging out of a fog.
As for myself, I felt too keenly the weirdness of the whole situation to do more than lean my back against a tree and wait till his fancy wearied of the moonlight and silence.
I was far behind him, but I made what time I could, feeling to the core, as I passed, the weirdness of the solitude before me, with just this element of horror flaming up in its midst.
The words, mechanically uttered, suggested something, and I thought that if they were in for weirdness I would give them as much weirdness as they could ask for.
It is a weirdness that, once seen, will often return in dreams.
And in that weirdness we were told some very lonesome things by an ancient mariner who found leisure join us among the water-melons.
The town had lost the sense of weirdness and mystery thrown over it by the darkness.
But what was lost of weirdness and mystery was more than made up by the general effect of the town, by the minute details everywhere visible, by the sense of life and movement.
The impression made by reading it startled me for reasons independent of the exquisite weirdness of the thought.
That it should be melancholy is not surprising; but that it should be melancholy without weirdness or sweetness is lamentable.
The melancholy, quavering beauty and weirdness of the negro chant are lightened by the French influence, or subdued and deepened by the Spanish.
I confess the latter is, as a whole, unreadable; but the legends in it are without parallel in weirdness and singularity.
Weird beyond the interesting weirdness of the punks and the goths and the mods who were wearing their subcultures like political affiliations as they strolled by the shops.
Weird beyond the quaint weirdness of his little curiosity show.
The weirdness and loneliness of the night came home to him more than they had done yet.
There was a mystery, a weirdness about the figure, about that hungry gaze, which tormented him.
In particular are his dramatis personae creatures by no means calculated to overawe by some extraordinary weirdness or power.
Ackerman considers horror, weirdness and unearthliness beyond the bounds of science or science or science fiction.
At night one dim flame of gas gave a sort of humorous weirdness to the filthy hole.
It was the weirdness of the unaccustomed that played havoc with our reasoning powers.
Perhaps something of this weirdness has to do with the tragic history of the men, and with a certain mystery which has always shrouded the sculptor's meaning in these monuments.
It seems as if the German weirdness perceptible in Albrecht Dürer had in Rembrandt taken a homelier, but a more comprehensible and effective Dutch form.
