Bizarrity

The bizarrity of many public “sayings and doings” can scarcely be outdone by the bizarrity of some of the queries.

I do not kiss your hand, lest I might infest you with some of my bizarrity, but I make you a low courtesy, and I hope to see you again soon, under some new and interesting semblance.

The former’s splendour gives a fine bizarrity, / The latter’s grace a charming regularity.

In most [?] he was kind-hearted, and he prided himself, in the set he led, upon his artistic taste in the details of life, and upon what he called his “bizarrity” in all things.[…]Even Wray, with his refined “bizarrity” and cultured, blasé life, felt a wave of almost overpowering tenderness, brush swiftly across his heart as he told Margaret, on one of those ideally beautiful nights, that he loved her.[…]He seemed a shade less sprightly than of yore, and many people said there was not the same vim and energy about his work, or in the “bizarrity” of his ways, as there had been.

The Hugo that lived was just a Frenchman—loving bizarrity.

But the schools have gone on the contrary assumption; they have stretched the ‘shorts’ on the Procrustean bed of normality, have forced them into the straight-jacket of a ‘system,’ have classicized their freakish and Romantic diversities, have uniformized their bizarrities, or sought to do so, and have failed.

Among other bewildering bizarr-ities I hear that whole families were seen costumed in cretonne!

“Without psychosis” means that he doesn’t show any bizarrity of behavior as it is characterized in our definite medical classifications.

Indeed, the childhood or early adult origin of many of these conditions turn the bizarrities into unrelieved tragedy.

But now, Venus Express, a European spaceship, is revealing enough bizarrities to keep a TV weather watcher babbling till dawn.