These are people who would find an Islamic state very strange.

The old man returns home, in that strange state they describe.

"We were all left in a strange state of mind and spirit."

We sing a lot about being in a strange state of mind.

He had settled down into a strange and comfortable state of mind.

What a strange state to be in, to live in a body not one's own.

But your reactions argue a very strange state of mind.

But all the same it set me in a strange state of perturbation.

I don't know the exact explanation for this strange state of affairs.

But I was in too much danger to allow such a strange state of mind.