"I'm in a curious position right now because I think people don't know what to do with me," she said.

A curious position to end up in, for all the world like a Muslim at prayer.

It was a curious position: staring straight at your enemy and being unable to fire.

It also left him in a curious position: a liberal despised by his own kind.

To make matters even worse, Erlestoke found himself in a curious position.

But I'm in the curious position of respecting him all the more for it.

"The hidden children are in a curious position," she said.

This seems a curious moral position considering there are murder charges and it is, after all, based on a true story.

The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position.

That's a curious position to take, even for a novelist, and one that bucks a trend.