It abuses metaphor somewhat, and delights to turn off a metaphor in an unexpected and bizarre fashion.

Subsequently it was reported that he had gone down with his ship, HMS Victoria, that very same night, after it had collided with HMS Camperdown following an unexplained and bizarre order to turn the ship in the direction of the other vessel.

An information leak revealed her to be the only human infected by the Legacy Virus — a bizarre turn of events possibly caused by her long exposure to the infected on Genosha, her autopsy of Illyana, or some susceptibility because she gave birth to a mutant.

Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, " best-of " list, saying, " Only the bizarre and byzantine brain of Charlie Kaufman could turn this 2004 story about erasing all memories of love into one of the most romantic movies of the decade.

In a bizarre turn of events, Hex found that he had been transported to the 21st century and became somewhat of a post-apocalyptic warrior, reminiscent of Mad Max.

In 1985, the case took a bizarre turn when information on the Farewell dossier surfaced in France.

However, after a bizarre turn of events, Luke becomes good friends with Ryan and Seth, even accepting Ryan's relationship with Luke's ex-girlfriend Marissa.

Soon after this bizarre turn of events, he was introduced as the Patriots ' new head coach, succeeding the recently fired Pete Carroll.

These include several bizarre mutations and effects, such as causing the victim to suddenly catch on fire, turn inside out, or to be cut in half by scissors.

In a bizarre turn of events on April 25, 1806, Rana Bahadur Shah quarreled in open court with his half-brother, Sher Bahadur.

Strauss writes that, as a result of far-right involvement, a " bizarre ideological turf war has broken out ," whereby anti-globalization activists are fighting a " two-front battle ," one against the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and World Bank, the other against the extremists who turn up at their rallies.

Proceedings took a bizarre turn when later in the same game, Michael Essien was seemingly booked twice but not sent from the field of play.

In a bizarre turn of events, Roland's wife, Queen Catherine Gryphonheart, has recently returned to her homeland of Erathia and also offers her aid.

After DJing under both of his now infamous monikers, he released his first album, Constant Chaos, with Belgian Music label Music Man in 1999, which showed Green Velvet's style of house progress into styles similar to Prince and Kraftwerk, his spoken-word monologues also took a bizarre turn.

They take a bizarre turn when he sees himself as an NSA assassin sent to kill him, and also as his dead friend, Andrew Fielding, in his last moments.

Boasting a colorful cast of supporting characters, the film veers from dark humor to intense drama, at each turn authentically capturing the bizarre spirit of the Suburban Midwest.

In a bizarre turn of events, several media outlets were fooled by the site, and many of Ryan ’ s rumors began to appear in print, most prominently in SPIN magazine.

The conclusion of the National League season, in particular, involved a bizarre chain of events, often referred to as the Merkle Boner.

During dream sleep, in contrast, people who are awakened report rich and detailed experiences in which events form a continuous progression, which may however be interrupted by bizarre or fantastic intrusions.

Children of the Night, another loose sequel, features a much older Mike O ' Rourke, now a Roman Catholic priest, who is sent on a mission to investigate bizarre events in a European city.

DeForest often " drew laughs by his bizarre juxtaposition as a Late Show correspondent at events such as the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway and the Woodstock anniversary concert that year.

The segment often included " News of the Past " which lampooned historical events, and " News of the Future ", predicting unlikely or bizarre future stories to comic effect.

This simple sequence of events has been cluttered up by a series of bizarre coincidences: Cathcart's mistress's farewell arriving on the same night that news of his cheating reaches Gerald ; his suicide happening on the same night that Gerald planned to meet Mrs. Grimethorpe ; and Gerald arriving back to stumble over the body just as Mary comes out for her rendezvous with Goyles.

Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, or the search for meaning in life.

After recounting a near-death experience in 2000 and noting bizarre events taking place, Noory canceled the experiment.

Unwilling to face incarceration, the next day a series of increasingly bizarre events take place.

After the theme song is played ( Giorgio Moroder's " Chase " from Midnight Express ), the broadcast is typically kicked off with a reading of current events or news stories by the host, usually with at least one bizarre or peculiar story.

The sketches depict chaotic or bizarre events in the world, events which shown to be often directly engineered by the UCB.

The film's world is not logical: the bizarre events are accepted by the characters, even if they are impossible or contradictory.

Also in the episode, as a result of a bizarre chain of events, Elaine inadvertently causes the end of Pendant Publishing and therefore the end of Kramer's book.

is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims.

Eventually he comes to accept that there is little other explanation for the bizarre, fantastical events he witnesses throughout the series.

Features in the magazine include a news column ; detailed profiles (" Pillars of Society " and " The Young Bloods "); " Affairs of the Nation ", which looks at political scandals ; " Bog Cuttings " which consists of humorous and unusual events outside Dublin ( often bizarre court cases ), " Hush Hush " and " On the beat ", which deals with security and intelligence matters ; and a satirical section, " Craic and Codology ".

This gave rise to events that seem bizarre from a modern perspective.

Although the plot is composed largely of sad events, the film often has a light-hearted atmosphere, achieved mostly through Kitano's character and his somewhat bizarre encounters.

Another sequel is Children of the Night, which features Mike O ' Rourke, now a Roman Catholic priest, who is sent on a mission to investigate bizarre events in a European city.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

The will has greatly puzzled historians, who have read it as a bizarre gesture of extreme piety uncharacteristic of Alfonso's character, one that effectively undid his life's work.

Although the game had " incredible role-playing potential ", the concept of role-playing rabbits can be viewed as bizarre, and as such at least one commentator believes that " most people thought it was stupid " when it was first released.

* Monged Sex: Short clips of two lovers making increasingly bizarre erotic requests of one another, such as " shit your leg off " and " mak your spunk come out green ".

A lighted candle would be sitting on the night stand beside her bed and after she was through delivering one of her bizarre stories, sometimes a re-written nursery rhyme, she'd giggle, wink to the camera, and blow out the candle ... end of skit.

After the attacks, the Associated Press would re-publish a " bizarre " story by the Cody Enterprise that quoted witnesses stating that Nawaf entered the United States during the autumn of 1999, crossing along the Canadian border as one of two men delivering skylights to the local high school in Cody, Wyoming.

* Delusions ( only one symptom is required if a delusion is bizarre, such as being abducted in a space ship from the sun )

Its " putrid vapors the pong of bad fish, manure, and a tanning works mixed together ," wrote Tim Flannery, who noted one bizarre peril: " A rotting whale could fill with gas to bursting, ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man.

In one uncommon subtype, the person may be largely mute, remain motionless in bizarre postures, or exhibit purposeless agitation, all signs of catatonia.

#: If the delusions are judged to be bizarre, or hallucinations consist of hearing one voice participating in a running commentary of the patient's actions or of hearing two or more voices conversing with each other, only that symptom is required above.

John DeFrancis's exemplary Chinese-English dictionary gives twelve meanings for dào 道 " way ; path ; say ", three for dǎo 道 ( or 導 ) " guide ; lead ", and one for dāo 道 in an " odd, bizarre " idiomatic expression.

What followed was one of the most bizarre scenes of the war, with Bragg sitting red faced as a procession of his commanders condemned him.

Nixon also said, " I can say categorically that ... no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident.

Owing to the combination of its bizarre nature ( a fusion of musical performances with serious police drama ) and its high-powered production talent, it became infamous as one of the biggest television failures of the 1990s.

Perhaps one of the most bizarre incidents for the WFL in 1974 involved former Raiders defensive end John Matuszak, who had left the NFL's Houston Oilers to play for the WFL's Houston Texans.

* His second favorite dessert is Mashed Bananas with Ice Cubes and Cold beef Gravy ; he went to Bert and Ernie's apartment in one episode when Bert and Ernie are arguing over whether or not the disgusting dish is chocolate ice cream ; to trade them a chocolate ice cream cone Mr. Hooper gave him but trades his second cone he was given for the bizarre dish much to Ernie and Bert's disgust.

Fantin-Latour admitted, " I don ’ t understand anything there ; it's bizarre how one changes.

The running of the 1956 Grand National witnessed one of the chase's most bizarre incidents.

During the course of this exploration, Holloway's resolve slowly deteriorates, until the house's bizarre architecture leads him to believe an image he sees down a hall is the " monster " stalking them when, in fact, he is actually looking at his own men ; he shoots one of them, and, upon realizing what he's done, suffers a complete psychological breakdown and tries to murder them.

* July 28, 1987 – Actor Crispin Glover appears as a guest and gave one of the most bizarre interviews in the history of the show.

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Livermore achieved national and international notoriety in the second decade of the twentieth century for one of the more bizarre public lynchings in American history.

In addition to her rigorous exercise routines Elisabeth practised what could be called a true beauty cult, but one that was highly ascetic, solitary, and prone to bizarre, eccentric, and almost mystic routines.

Ghetto diarist Emmanuel Ringelblum speculated that Romanies were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto because the Germans wanted :... to toss into the Ghetto everything that is characteristically dirty, shabby, bizarre, of which one ought to be frightened, and which anyway has to be destroyed.