1.   A larger issue, in terms of the upcoming election, is whether people will consider all these strictures a little strange.

2.   Many owned slaves, which the author considers strange since Jews themselves had been enslaved, and have been leaders in the Civil Rights movement for decades.

3.   Only my immediate family did not consider this strange.

4.   To vanish in the last week of an election that will decide the fate of a country would be considered strange by any standard.