What does emerge from Gray's hand wringing, however, is an oddly affecting and sympathetic portrait of the struggle to create in the face of indifference.

It is an oddly affecting performance, one that makes viewers understand why Margaret could love him, wrongheaded though he is.

To re-trace my roots to this place and these old acquaintances was oddly affecting.

These unassumingly wry, neatly made pictures have an oddly affecting psychological poignancy (Johnson).

The portrait of Tristán is jagged and full of gaps, yet these make it oddly affecting.

These ministrations and messages are oddly affecting, and just as they risk wearing a little thin, a film begins.

This small, oddly affecting story is realized perfectly.

But for those willing to supply their own extensive editing, there is something oddly affecting about this curious interpretation of 20th-century history.

Filmed on three cameras during the night of October 16 2004, it is a funny, perplexing and oddly affecting piece.

Luckily, Carey has a habit of turning banal subjects into extremely funny and oddly affecting books.