The latent feelings of years break out; his feeble mind acquires a brief energy from their strength; all the miserable
strangeness of his life is revealed to him at a glance: and he cries out, passionately, "Wakefield !
"I was on'y feeling all the
strangeness o't--that she is to be his wife, and nobody else.
It was true, his bizarre judgments troubled her in the moments they were uttered, but she ascribed them to his novelty of type and
strangeness of living, and they were soon forgotten.
Again and again, drinking in the
strangeness and the fearsomeness of the world from her lips, I had heard her state that if one offended an Italian, no matter how slightly and unintentionally, he was certain to retaliate by stabbing one in the back.
Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their
strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.
Nor are there wanting other motions of the whale in his general body, full of
strangeness, and unaccountable to his most experienced assailant.
It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of
strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
He has led an uneventful and somewhat self-contained life, so that any such condition of things as has now arisen is apt to perplex him from its very
strangeness. In fact, any new matter is trying to old people.
Here is a man riddled with dreams, his waking world hardly distinguishable from them in
strangeness and mystery.
Collective identity depends on special processes of induction of the members in the collectivity, ranging from various rites of initiation to various collective rituals, in which the attribute of "similarity" among its members, as against the
strangeness, the differences, the distinction of the other, is symbolically constructed and defined.
Peter Hunter, of Toyota Enthusiasts Club, said: "No one had the slightest difficulty in controlling the car or experienced any '
strangeness' about driving a hybrid vehicle."