This completed the curious reversal in roles that occurred in the early 1980s, when thrifts became traders and traders thrifts.

It was a curious reversal of the natural way of things.

With the end of empires, Europeans found a curious reversal taking place.

The young man, as he followed his wife into the hall, was conscious of a curious reversal of mood.

The geopolitical situation depicted is in fact a curious reversal of that in the Second World War.

"The Judge and the Historian" also involves a curious reversal of traditional roles.

A curious reversal takes place.

As Europeans debated whether Tuesday's agreement represented the end of the Continent's fiscal union, or merely a temporary suspension, several noted the curious reversal of roles.

Indeed, in a curious reversal of logic, the modern approach to 18th-century style exemplified by Friday's heavy bowing, active vibrato and long legato lines seemed an anachronism.