Word: weirdness
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...Weird. And unlikely. Realistically, I'll have to make my bed, help with the dishes and not act like I think I'm a guest at the Ritz-Carlton. I doubt it will be well-received if I call for room service, for example...
Iowa Congressman Jim Leach sees possible deadlock in the House and weird maneuvering in the Senate. "The chemistry cannot be understood in advance," he warns. Arkansas Senator David Pryor fears a "constitutional crisis" in which a discredited Congress would be seen as usurping the voters' will. That happened after the 1824 election, when the House chose John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson in a four-way contest. As recently as 1968, when George Wallace ran as an independent, the country had a close call. Had Wallace won about 60,000 more votes in three states, neither Richard Nixon nor Hubert...
Trivializing the plight of 20 million Peruvians by writing such a parody is completely unacceptable. What else could the author have had in mind when he glosses over history ("then it got really weird"), asks "where the hell is Peru?", misspells the name of the president throughout, compares a coup to "smoking a joint," and issues calls for the military to "stop doing stupid and brutal things to the Peruvians." I agree that the use of military repression is unjustified and unlikely to solve Peru's daunting problems...
Coming from her, I thought the idea was pretty weird, but I didn't tell her so. I squinted up at the advertisement and thought about sticky cotton candy fingers, crowds and the smell of elephants...
...zones out while staring at himself in the mirror, as if frozen by the mere sight of himself in shorts. Others, like the guy who tried to do dumbbell biceps curls while holding a three-month-old infant in the other arm, defy any classification whatsoever. They're just weird...