freakishness

The collision must also have formed it, a freakishness of forces at this special point.

And God only knows what other latent freakishness is lurking, just waiting to make itself known.

The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate.

It's an image from a dream that asks us: Where do you draw the line between racial appearance and freakishness?

"It seemed like we'd decided not to talk about our assorted freakishness," Cameron hurried to say.

There is a strange mysterious beauty in this freakishness.

And they claim they're the normal ones, he thought wryly, give me ungodly freakishness every time.

The freakishness, over the game of pro basketball.

All the freakishness of post-punk esthetics comes into play.

There is an element of freakishness to all outsiders, because we define normality by being accepted.

My freakishness lay not only in my shape.

Both look like prehistoric skeletons from natural history museums that would be kept from the public because of their freakishness.

I care that baseball, like so much of the American sport and entertainment scene, has spiraled into overhyped freakishness.

Much of this music is ponderous, though with one short outburst of freakishness from the orchestra.

But the freakishness of this crash - two sisters killed in a head-on collision - is too much for anybody to absorb.

Yet paradoxically, Capote's freakishness was a kind of camouflage that allowed him to disappear, become a fly on the wall.

They continue to be elegant, highly self-confident and capable of a certain freakishness and sorcery.

What's interesting about the human cobra is not his freakishness, but rather this book's unforced, even courtly way of including him in its midst.

"No freak wants to expose his freakishness.

"Branded to Kill" cost the director a lot of capital; its brazen freakishness got him dismissed from his studio and blacklisted.

But "Under the Banner of Heaven" understands this as freakishness rather than fervor.

Children are fearfully spellbound by misfortune, freakishness, disaster.

'You'll hardly believe this, Collier, but I became almost suicidal over my freakishness.'

(Some day we will recognize the freakishness of such ultra-stern, no-nonsense heroines.)

As a genre, the political novel is more than a hundred years old in America, long predating the latest manifestations of the freakishness politics has revealed.