Emily is curious about Isaac's new girlfriend, and after several meetings between the two couples, including one where Emily reads out portions of Jill's new book about her marriage with Isaac, Yale leaves Emily to resume his relationship with Mary.

Both helping and hindering her is Diver Dan, the enigmatic cafe owner / ferryman / chef with no ambition but a curious and colourful past, with whom she soon strikes up a relationship.

Lytton Strachey gave a curious interpretation of the relationship between Lord Illingworth and his new-found son Gerald when Tree put on another production of the play in 1907.

He also senses an unease in the relationship between Azaire and Isabelle and is curious about her.

At first, he is curious about what made Esther leave, but later he realizes that troubles with her relationship with her husband may have been a major reason.

The choice of the title is quite curious as the story clearly focuses on the boy's relationship with the dead priest and the sisters Eliza and Nannie seem to be quite marginal to it.

He was delighted with the enthusiasm of a born casuist in curious puzzles of right and wrong, and in devising a conflict between the generalities of ethics and the conditions of an ingeniously contrived practical dilemma.

Yet, one modern scholar, reading between the lines, has described the work of Hecataeus as " a curious false start to history " because, despite its critical spirit, it failed to liberate history from myth.

He distinguishes between six varieties of homosexuals, including " genuine homosexuals " who have " strong preferential erotic feelings for members of the same sex ", " transitory " and " situational " homosexuals who would prefer heterosexual intercourse but are denied it or seek gain in homosexuality, and heterosexuals who are merely curious.

He remarks that there is a curious correlation between Pandora being made out of earth in Hesiod's story, to what is in the Bibliotheca that Prometheus created man from water and earth.

Also in the mob of between 500 and 1, 000 were other groups that had had unsuccessful confrontations with the police, and were curious how the police were defeated in this situation.

Notable chapters describe Gaulish costume ( VI, 13 ), their religion ( VI, 17 ), a comparison between Gauls and Germanic peoples ( VI, 24 ) and other curious notes such as the lack of Germanic interest in agriculture ( VI, 22 ).

Following the resignation of Michael Reiss, the director of education at the Royal Society — who had controversially argued that school pupils who believed in creationism should be used by science teachers to start discussions, rather than be rejected per se — Polkinghorne argued in The Times that there is a distinction between believing in the mind and purpose of a divine creator, and what he calls creationism " in that curious North American sense ," with a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and the belief that evolution is wrong, a position he rejects.

Sardinia had allied herself with Austria in the Convention of Turin and at the same time neither state was at war with France and this led to curious complications, combats being fought in the Isère valley between the troops of Sardinia and of Spain, in which the French took no part.

Boucher and McComas, however, were more sceptical, finding fault with the novel's " curious imbalance between its large-scale history and a number of episodic small-scale stories.

That guide was the inspiration for the " Junior Woodchucks Guidebook " ( Il Manuale delle Giovani Marmotte ), a series of several Disney books with tips, advice, general culture, and curious facts about nature and life, released in Italy by Mondadori in seven volumes between 1969 and 1974, and later translated into several languages.

Near the source of the leat there is a curious optical illusion ; viewed from the opposite bank of the West Dart River between Two Bridges and Wistman's Wood, it appears to flow uphill.

Built between 1178 and 1282, on the site of an older church, it contains many curious medieval antiquities ( especially in the sacristy ), as well as a picture by Angelica Kauffmann, and the tomb of the great Grisons political leader ( d. 1637 ) Jenatsch.

The descriptions of the creatures vary, but generally, they are said to have the curious habit of walking backwards with its head twisted between its hindlegs to see and having the ability to turn invisible at will.

In Greece, About had noticed that there was a curious understanding between the brigands and police: brigandage was becoming almost a safe and respectable industry.

The period between Picton's return and the trial had seen a pamphlet war between the rival camps, and the widespread sale of engravings showing a curious British public what a personable 14-year-old mulatto girl being trussed up and tortured in a state of semi-undress might look like.

Children are naturally curious about their bodies and sexual functions — they wonder where babies come from, they notice anatomical differences between males and females, and many engage in genital play or masturbation.

Although there are variations between individual children, children are generally curious about their bodies and those of others, and explore their bodies through explorative sex play.

In the 3rd century BC text of the Lie Zi, there is a curious account on automata involving a much earlier encounter between King Mu of Zhou and a mechanical engineer known as Yan Shi ( 偃師 ), an ' artificer '.

The walk which is between high trees on the market side which are shops full of all sorts of toys, silver, china, milliners and all sorts of curious wooden ware besides which there are two large coffee houses for tea, chocolate etc and two rooms for the lottery and hazard board ( i. e. for gambling ).

The French military attaché at Berlin, Foucault, informed him of a curious conversation he had had with Richard Cuers, a spy who wavered between France and Germany.

A close friendship developed between Simson and Stewart, in part because of their mutual admiration of Pappus of Alexandria, which resulted in many curious communications with respect to the De Locis Planis of Apollonius of Perga and the Porisms of Euclid over the years.

In furrows between ridges are curious growths – combs or wings that fold up and spread out like fans.

Other buildings on the site include the Holmes Building ( a south spur off the Canterbury Quad, containing fellows ' rooms ), and Middleton Hall, a curious house, north of the North Quad and abutting the Lamb and Flag, which has a stone frontage in early 19th-century style, though the back part is in Victorian red brick and contains a Jacobean staircase ( perhaps originally from another building ).

Prosecutors asked why Sheppard hadn't called out for help, why he had neatly folded his jacket on the daybed in which he said he'd fallen asleep, and why the family dog — which several witnesses had testified ( in the first trial in 1954 ) was very loud when strangers came to the house — had not barked on the night of the murder ( recalling the famous Sherlock Holmes remark about " the curious incident of the dog in the night-time ," with its implication that the dog knew the criminal ).

The discovery of a trampled flowerbed just outside the window, and the discovery of a shell casing therein confirm what Holmes has suspected — a third person was involved, and it is surely the one who has been sending the curious dancing-man messages.

A curious aside to the latter claim is that it would have implied that Captain Barclay was the rightful King of Scotland.

He returned to Scotland around 1532 “ the first organist that ever brought to Scotland the curious new fingering ”, that is, playing the organ with five fingers.

Campanella was greatly interested in all ingenious discoveries, and in The City of the Sun he provides many examples of curious inventions, such as vessels able to navigate without wind and without sails, and stirrups that make it possible to guide a horse using only one's feet, leaving one's hands free.

It's an odd effect, but it suits the curious song and provides some diversity to an album that is loaded with dark images-perhaps the morning after the out-of-control party of Lost Cause, when regrets are beginning to form.

The Art in Nature program provides a vital platform for artistic experimentation and curious exploration that becomes a part of the entire ecosystem of Bernheim and inspires our deep connections with nature, often providing a visitor with a sense of discovery.

In 1721 Amhurst produced a series of bi-weekly satirical papers under this name, which ran for seven months and incidentally provides much curious information.

The curious figure of X. Pando the elevator man provides lifts to the top of the mountain, though it is uncertain how much traffic he bears.

She kept up a correspondence with important people and received curious visitors who went out of their way to visit her.

Still in this bleak panorama there are some curious cases like Cthulhu ( 2007 ) a horror / thriller film based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, in which the main character is gay but it isn't the main thing, although it is important in the development of the character's psychology.

Apparently in attempt to extend the limits of a target group, their authors often focus on curious but less important facts.

One of Lyell's relatives commented that it was " sure to be very curious and important ... however mortifying it may be to think that our remote ancestors were jelly fishes ".

But he is thought to be responsible for a number of other works: a set of drawings of the school of Pollaiuolo at the Uffizi, some of which are actually inscribed " Maso Finiguerra " in a seventeenth-century writing, probably that of Baldinucci himself ; and secondly in a very curious and important book of nearly a hundred drawings by the same hand, acquired in 1888 for the British Museum.

It dates ( according to Mommsen ) from a period shortly after the Second Punic War, and is not only curious on account of details concerning the municipal magistrates, but is one of the most important auxiliaries we possess for a study of the Oscan language.