perfect stranger

Nevertheless, even the half-aware viewer will have questions about “The Perfect Stranger,” the novel within the novel, whose events play out on the screen as settled history, and which other characters accept as such, but which is full of things Nancy could not have possibly known.

Of course, I was six feet off the deck on the head of a human—a perfect stranger and probably foreign.

How soon we’d fallen into the hands of this perfect stranger.

In the middle of this post-apocalyptic, miserable situation, recognizing something in a perfect stranger of yourself.

It told of the arrest of a William Thompson: “For the last few months, a man has been traveling about the city, known as the ‘Confidence Man,’ that is, he would go up to a perfect stranger in the street, and being a man of genteel appearance, would easily command an interview … ‘Have you confidence in me to trust me with your watch until to-morrow?’