Sentences with phrase «odd names for»

Odd names for dinosaurs, but what the heck.

«Topological insulator» is an odd name for a wonder conductor.

Lucy might seem an odd name for a Japanese woman (played by Shinobu Terajima) but we find out soon enough how she got this nom de étudiante though she spent some forty years as Setsuko.

«The Simple Touch Reader» seems like a little bit of an odd name for a device, but Barnes & Noble did register for a trademark for the phrase in late March of this year.

Odd name for this weeks WiiWare game.

Moon carrot is an odd name for this rather odd - looking plant.

Not exact matches

Despite this bank's odd name, the Redneck Bank Mega Money Market Account is a real FDIC - insured money market account that gives you 1.75 % APY for any balance up to $ 50,000.00.

In the midst of all this, it is perhaps a little odd to say that my own theology has two principal foci: a hermeneutics in which the «other,» not the «self,» is the dominant focus; and a theological insistence that only a prophetic - mystical form of theology for naming God can help us now.

I picked my screen name because for some odd reason the nursery rhyme from which it comes just popped into my mind one day while I was posting here.

This is odd for a people who have been taught that we must confess our sin by being trained by a community that has learned how to name those aspects of our lives that stand in the way of our being Jesus» disciples.

This was before the Internet, so I was constantly combing through cookbooks to find new recipes for this unusual, leafless plant with the odd name.

Which seems odd for such a gregarious, A-type personality — a man who, at the beginning of his career, was a household name in wine circles.

but with wenger we have certain guarantees... we will qualify for champions league we will compete for the odd domestic trophy we will attract big names.

With Michael Dawson, Younes Kaboul, Jermaine Defoe and Rafael Van der Vaart known to loose their cool on the odd occasion it will be increasingly difficult for even Redknapp to tailor a win, especially when two of the names mentioned are defenders.

Nevertheless he took the $ 40,000 - odd he had from the sale of his Swiss company and in five years built the Lika Corporation — named for the district in which he was raised in Yugoslavia — to a firm worth some $ 15 million.

It makes for a seriously awkward journey through the airport as Kimi mixes the odd sheepish wave with just standing still and going to his «happy place» as people scream his name.

I've never had good face recognition, names, facts and data stick like glue but for some odd reason not faces.

Indeed, for someone unaware about the sleep sack, the name can seem rather odd and comedic.

While it would once be considered odd to take a more traditionally male name and use it for a girl, now it's commonplace.

After the test, the SLP (Speech Language Pathologist, which sounds odd since infants don't produce speech, however it's the mechanics of the suck / swallow that SLPs address in infants) will work with you and your doctor and prescribe a very particular thickness / consistency that have a particular name, for example: «nectar.»

Using crowdsourcing to govern tax spending for science is a little odd, but maybe you can poll your research project name and identify the best name that will pass the crowdsourcing criteria...

Peers discuss champagne and elephants in odd debate over name for the new universities regulator

Very good news - I hope the Government and press highlight this so there is wide take - up, and expalin what it is for so that people like Newmania (an odd name) above can understand.

Had his astronomical achievements ended with his departure from Italy, Cassini would have been an odd choice for the name of a spacecraft sent to study Saturn.

Although they were named after an analogous magnetic phenomenon — ferromagnetism — ferroelectrics were generally thought to not have magnetic properties, which made me, a budding magnetism researcher, an apparently odd fit for the laboratory.

Still, the preponderance of genes were for odd and oddly named conditions you would never have heard of because they were so uncommon: Aarskog - Scott syndrome, X-linked agammaglobulinemia, and spinocerebellar ataxia 3, for instance.

Looking for a mechanism, researchers found remnants of genes from past infections, sandwiched between odd, repeated bacterial DNA sequences — the «clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats» that give CRISPR its name.

Yes, my name rhymes with pretzel, but for some odd reason people still call me Rozel, Rose, Rizel, Raisin.

Then again, I've ended up in some pretty odd places, wearing pretty inappropriate clothing all in the name of getting photos for this blog.

Taking into consideration the sites name, «Hook Up,» you won't find it odd that the site doesn't offer the option of stipulating what kind of relationship you are looking for.

Megamind might well be loaded with big names (Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Brad Pitt), it does have the odd cheeky nod for the grown - ups - and it is presented in inglorious 3D - but it's also got a screenplay overflowing with charm, intelligence, wit and a real spark.

Now, LaBute would seem an odd choice for a family comedy, having made his name with far darker, crueler humor in movies like «In the Company of Men» and «The Shape of Things.»

One of the five, a trophy wife with a Texas drawl named Skyler (Brooklyn Decker), isn't even an important character but a comic foil to the difficulty of the others (Her delivery is literally as easy as sneezing) and an accessory for the odd conflict between one of the women's husbands and his father (It climaxes with a golf cart race).

It was an odd lineup for Sundance 2018, if not a slightly off one; you couldn't run into folks in screening rooms or shuffling down Main Street or hanging out in the Yarrow Hotel Bar — change the name all you want, people, we're still calling it the Yarrow Hotel Bar — without someone commenting on how it was a slightly weak year.

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But for the most part, True Grit 2010 is essentially a genial odd - couple (or odd - triangle) comedy: Mattie, Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), and goofily proud Texas Ranger LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) set out on the trail of killer Tom Chaney (played by a stormy Josh Brolin), whose name becomes a mantra long before he turns up.

Winning their odd version of drawing straws, one of them (Michelle Pfeiffer), named Lamia for the film, gets to temporarily restore herself to a more presentable state in order to pursue the star with a minimum of magic.

Gosling plays a man with no name (wink - wink) who works at a body shop by day, but at night masquerades as a driver for hire whom criminals pay good money to extract their cohorts from robberies and other odd jobs.

Though the name sounds odd, it is very appropriate for the model.

As the Bentley Continental GT rapidly approaches the 15 - year mark, you have to wonder whether «Walter Owen» would have envisaged such popularity for the marque that bears his name, 90 - odd years ago — either in his wildest or even most troubling dreams.

The system is quite accurate in its understanding artist names, but some extremely odd spellings and complex names proved tricky, for example «Roni Size & Reprazent.»

Mazda: Flush with the odd success of the underpowered 2001 MP3 Protege model, Mazda pumps up the power to an in - the - ballpark 170 horsepower using a turbocharger for the 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege, taking a name from the company's speedy performance heritage.

It is the successor to the M3 Coupe, deriving its name from BMW's recent decree that odd - numbered model names are for sedans, while even numbers apply to two - door vehicles.

A news item in yesterday's New York Times reminded me of this odd concept of reader participation: Tony Award - winning actress Patti LuPone is holding a contest for readers to name her forthcoming autobiography.

Also, this series seems to release super slow, too bad as it jars with the extreme fast pass of the story, its not a good thing, but the story and art and all that, pretty good, the concept alone is interesting, and the characters and concepts as presented are good, but, these volumes are edited to a degree, which is odd, this is a teen series, so, why cut the swearing, why change the names, why doctor the art when there's nothing mature to cover up in the first place... not good choices on the part of the American release staff, though this volume doesn't have those things to such a degree so, maybe those comments should be for a earlier volume.

For example, if you would like to have even - page headers show chapter names and odd - page headers show the book title, you can do this by formatting the page headers the same way as page numbers are formatted.

If you thought the name «Rezound» that has been attached to HTC's latest Beast audio device was a little odd, wait until you get a load of the rumor for Motorola's upcoming next - gen XOOM tablet here in the states.

When the Motorola DROID Xyboard was released earlier this month, reviewers complained about the lack of a microSD slot, old technology, the odd name and most of all the outrageous price tag — $ 529 on contract for the 10 - inch model.

Despite this bank's odd name, the Redneck Bank Mega Money Market Account is a real FDIC - insured money market account that gives you 1.75 % APY for any balance up to $ 50,000.00.

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