Sentences with phrase «like eccentricities»

But McCartney has been exploring ethical fashion since she set up in 2001, when it seemed like an eccentricity — or even a nuisance — to many in the wider industry.

Not exact matches

People would laugh when they heard, and the maid, who did the washing and chopped the vegetables, was always chuckling at my eccentricity — the man who liked to cook.

Jeremy Corbyn's belief in homeopathy may seem like a silly eccentricity, but it speaks to a larger aversion to objective truth among the political classes

This is especially true in a setting like a university, where eccentricity is often tolerated and accepted — as long as the individual remains productive.

«When you look at a plot like that [of eccentricity], there's eight planets,» Levison says.

Merline also discovered that these objects must be real by demonstrating that the new moons are moving in orbits that seem to be in the same plane as Charon, and with low orbital eccentricity — like Charon.

We show that if a terrestrial planet undergoes Milankovitch - like oscillations of eccentricity that are of great enough magnitude, it could melt out of a snowball state.

«Using plausible interior structure models that include an ocean, we found it wouldn't have taken much eccentricity (less than 0.01) to generate surface fractures like we are seeing on Europa.»

This orbits places the planet near the inner edge of its host star's habitable zone, where liquid water could exist in liquid form under favorable conditions such as an albedo of 0.52 with an orbital eccentricity of 0.11 and more than 52 percent cloud cover under a sufficiently dense atmosphere of water, carbon dioxide, and molecular nitrogen like Earth's (ESO science release; Pepe et al, 2011; and Kaltenegger et al, 2011 — more below).

Indian scientists made direct contributions — ranging from designing algorithms used to analyse signals registered by detectors to ascertain those from a gravitational wave to working out parameters like estimating energy and power radiated during merger, orbital eccentricity and estimating the mass and spin of the final black hole and so on.

I do resist the extreme eccentricity / avant garde thinking in color, cut and design that we older dames are currently encouraged to adopt... not my style preference then or now, and do admit that I fear looking like I just fell out of the clown car.

I'm ready to start meeting like - minded people with quirks, eccentricities, and a taste for the odd and adventurous.

Aardman's first foray into CG animation happily retains much of the eccentricity of earlier stop - motion works like The Wrong Trousers and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were - rabbit.

Like Fiennes, more famous faces (Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Jonah Hill) come and go quickly, all beautifully framed by esteemed cinematographer Roger Deakins, but the parade of glorified cameos only makes the film's eccentricities seem more disconnected.

Kline's performance is so gratingly obnoxious, written like some sort of raunchy cartoon character — engaging in depravity and eccentricities and contradictory exclamations — that it's shocking that no one in the editing process insisted on toning him down.

Anime has always had a certain eccentricity about it (think of some of the stranger sequences in touchstone titles like Akira or Ghost in the Shell, or anything at the edges of the output of supposedly child - orientated Studio Ghibli), but the films which LEAFF selected to honour the medium's milestone take this eclectic, imaginative approach to storytelling to new levels, loosening the limits of the logic of reality, and travelling through the very fabric of space and time.

His wife Miranda (Sally Field) can no longer endure his little eccentricities, like hiring a private zoo for their son's birthday party.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Interminably earnest and dull scenes featuring the morose Yoakam jar against the over-the-top eccentricities that sometimes appear in the same scene, such as a sidekick who likes wearing dresses to the ridiculous sight of Thornton himself turning in a cameo in a long blond wig.

Instead, much like Gatsby himself, the film becomes a slave to its eccentricities.

Despite this eccentricity, or rather because of it, Frank commands Jesus - like reverence from his fellow musicians, including the icy Claire (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Jon (Domnhall Gleeson), whose unlikely presence in the band ultimately brings about its destruction and resurrection.

But, being Paris, there's always plenty of mobile eccentricity, like this these over-the-top concepts from Peugeot.

Also, though I already had a keen appreciation for my relatives» many eccentricities, I didn't like arguments any more than Dad did.

The Oasis is a good looking machine, and it seems like my insistence on maximizing width is likely a personal eccentricity.

Then, when we're just getting used to them, playing with them, noting their eccentricities and likes and dislikes and pouring out our hearts with love so they feel comfortable, happy and cared for, as they return that love with their own affection, they leave us to go to their forever homes.

Here, you can find all sorts of eccentricities, as well as first - rate food — but you can also find some of L.A.'s best under the radar shopping spots, like Moon Juice, which sells a unique variety of beauty and wellness products, like edible tonics, dusts, and cosmic provisions, as well as cold - pressed juices and healthy snacks.

Even Tikal, with its eccentricities like power - down at 10PM and mosquito nets on beds simply added to the experience.

It's a little too random, in my opinion, but if you like Othello, you might enjoy Tetra Master enough to put up with its eccentricities.

The music within Xenoblade Chronicles X is without a doubt unique, owing itself to the eccentricities of composer Hiroyuki Sawano (known for producing music for anime like Attack on Titan and Kill la Kill).

The narrative around Land Art — Michael Heizer's Double Negative being a prominent example — is of course well - known, but other major pieces, like Noah Purifoy's expansive Joshua Tree installation and Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, remain marginalized, viewed as visions of outsider eccentricity, even though Purifoy was in no way an outsider.

Any eccentricity comes from artists who work in several media, like Sterling Ruby, Josh Smith, Dan McCarthy, Friedrich Kunath and Rosemarie Trockel.

Her elegant structure transforms painting into architecture (and vice versa), with the imperfections and eccentricities of the hand - glazed tiles functioning like a painter's gestures.

Then there are classic oddballs like Surrealist doll contortionist Hans Bellmer, wild performance artist John Bock, pervy comix guru Robert Crumb, self - hypnotizer Matt Mullican, spooky just - off sculptor Duane Hanson, and many more — and those are just the professional artists, who pale in eccentricity compared to Swedish art mystic Hilma af Klint, self - taught deaf illiterate James Castle, freak - out musicologist Harry Smith, and Austrian anthroposophy founder Rudolf Steiner (that's right: not Rudolf Stingel... Rudolf Steiner).

«Like Austin, Tom takes his eccentricities seriously.

I Just Want to Do Whatever I Feel like Doing; GRAYSON PERRY ON HIS CROSS-DRESS HAPPINESS; EXCLUSIVE The Mirror (London, England); October 22, 2014; Wynne - Jones, Ros; 700 + words... ROS WYNNE - JONES When artist Grayson Perry was made a Commander of the British... going to compromise my identity as Britain's pre-eminent transvestite... woke up to the eccentricity of Grayson Perry.

Some kind of local museum attention could be given to the realist painter Rackstraw Downes, the abstract painters Thomas Nozkowski, Larry Poons and Stanley Whitney, or to an artist like Dona Nelson, who refuses to commit to either camp and whose eccentricities are a good match for Joe Zucker's.

Vetoretti and Peltier (2004) found that glacial inceptions can be caused either by a strong obliquity forcing or by a combination of eccentricity - precession forcing and low CO2 values, which is in line with results from Berger and Loutre (2001) who found that CO2 is important during times like the MIS - 11, when the insolation variations are too small to drive glacial - interglacial cycles.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

Or will it end like all the other eccentricity minima interglacials did, with from 1 to 3 strong thermal pulses right at its end?

Over longer times are mysterious episodes involving orbital eccentricities — much like yourself — thermohaline circulation and runaway ice and snow feedbacks.

Even MIS - 11, the Holsteinian interglacial, the last one, like the Holocene, to occur at an eccentricity minimum, netted perhaps 1.5 to 2 precession cycles.

Isotopius @ 105 I know Eric is going to address this, but Isotopius might like to consider Peter Huyber's latest paper, in the current edition of Nature, which effectively concedes that precession, tilt and eccentricity all play a role in the climate forcing of the last 1Ma.

Given that current low orbital eccentricity will persist over the next tens of thousand years, the effects of precession are minimised, and extremely cold northern summer orbital configurations like that of the last glacial initiation at 116 ka will not take place for at least 30 kyr (Box 6.1).

Might the «weather» of orbital cycles be impacted by K / T but not the «climate» — perhaps the trajectories of obliquity, precession and eccentricity would become completely different given sufficient time, but maybe with the same general character — periods and amplitudes and average values being similar enough that a casual glance at any given time segment (on the necessary scale to characterize the orbital cycle «climate») wouldn't look like anything different.

• Way, M.J., and N. Georgakarakos, 2017: Effects of variable eccentricity on the climate of an Earth - like world.

Not the least of their eccentricities being that their legal marriage actually seemed like a bit of an afterthought in the grand scheme of things.