0 the quality of being strange or unexpected
There must be wonder, oddness, challenge and such a richness of examples that the students become befuddled and bemused and finally 'step over the edge'.
The oddness of (37a) suggests that a causing event is indeed necessary in order for a person's spirits to be raised.
It is the oddness of that intuition which makes preemptive action not merely a practical but an intellectual problem-the problem of preemptive action.
The reason for the oddness of (38b), (39b) and (40b) is that positional verbs require a positioner that is capable of volition and control.
All are conscious of, and interested in, the basic oddness of musical drama, of what it means to present a set of human events with musical accompaniment.
Indeed, we doubt whether a clean distinction can be made between 'ungrammaticality' and 'pragmatic oddness'.
Television itself, to some extent, has this same kind of oddness.
In the early 14th century was begun to reveal the oddness of this language with the rest of the galacoifona.
