Set against successful replanting of low-lying bushes, the dead and brittle trees are strangely beautiful.

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Ahmed Alsoudani, another Iraqi, showed strangely beautiful paintings that on close inspection revealed twisted and grotesque bodies mutilated by war.

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Its ornate pavilions are still strangely beautiful, but the park itself has grown ramshackle and is crowded with tacky fairground attractions.

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The dramatic contrasts of tone and scale, the sweeping lines of the ridge, the well-tracked path to the empty summit all add up to an arresting image, a strangely beautiful world where humans don't quite belong but yet intend to tread.

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He is then hired by an old friend whose beautiful wife - played by Novak - is behaving strangely.

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