The menu is predictable and the usual rabble of golden Buddhas festoons the walls, but the mood is oddly romantic.

Sometimes Verrak had oddly romantic- and dangerous- notions.

So it is with this important and oddly romantic, if imbalanced, book.

But after their brief and oddly romantic encounter, she disappears without accepting payment, leaving him obsessed with finding her again.

"I find this oddly romantic," Streggi said.

And their oddly romantic idea seems to be picking up speed internationally as well, with reporters from Ottawa and Dutch television tracking them down.

Nor is such a poetic fancy inappropriate, for there was something oddly romantic about this inrush of air and light after a long, leaden and unlifting day.

He could be oddly romantic at times, and he doted on his plump wife Sarah and their two Tengu plump children.

Mr. Wrede also offers small, oddly romantic black-and-white portraits of ecstatic roller coaster riders grimacing, screaming or laughing (Johnson).

Even if he overstates his case, his "important and oddly romantic" book is "packed . . . with lucid observations," Richard J. Samuels wrote here in 2001.