3 Metaphors for anomalies

The anomaly of the first two years of the War was the presence of the vast Russian autocratic empire on the side of the allied democracies.

Is it not, then, an atrocious anomaly that the treatment often meted out to insane persons is the very treatment which would deprive some sane persons of their reason?

The astounding anomaly of modern civilization is the way we have lagged behind in applying to groups and nations of men the moral laws, universally recognized as binding over individuals.

3 Metaphors for  anomalies