Anomaly

It's an anomaly the size of Texas.

A faint anomaly in the room’s air currents told him there was a secret exit to their right behind the filing cabinets.

Of course, he reflected, this may never come up again in my work; it could be an anomaly, something for instance to do with my feelings for The Magic Flute.

In a farming village where most men could think no further than planting the next row (or planting their stiffies on Saturday night), Tian was something of an anomaly.

And yet the square was now attracting a trickle of visitors who seemed to find the anomaly most intriguing.

She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.

This picturesque anomaly was repeated in the circulation of Paine’s “Discourse to the Theophilanthropists” (their and the author’s names removed) under the title of “Atheism Refuted.” Both of these pamphlets are now before me, and beside them a London tract of one page just sent for my spiritual benefit.

As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that cannot fly; yet there are several in this state.

Here, then, in the anomaly as in the propriety of the Iliad, the destiny of Achilles, or rather this peculiar crisis of it, forms the pervading bond of connexion to the whole poem.