oddness

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“The joy of being able to write something where they're like, ‘Great, this is exactly the kind of oddness we want,’ Taika and Jemaine really pushed that, I think.”

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2024

Its best feature is perhaps its unlikeliness: It has the oddness of a passion project, inexplicable in commercial terms — three-season deal notwithstanding — but something its makers just wanted to see.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2023

There were glimpses too into the sheer oddness of his life.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023

The allegory of inner versus outer beauty is complicated by Stacey’s oddness — her thematically resonant hobby is taxidermy, in which she enshrines outer beauty by replacing animals’ insides with Styrofoam.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Chamberlain felt an oddness, a crawly hesitation, not wanting to touch him.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara