Sentences with phrase «such oddities as»

There's even a list of 575 nicknames, including such oddities as Flubadub, Muckle and Two and a Juice.

Now Microsoft continues this collaboration, creating such oddities as this - Lumia phones showing you notifications to your phone through the Fatboy Edison Petit lamp.

Now Microsoft continues this collaboration, creating such oddities as this — Lumia phones showing you notifications to your phone through the Fatboy Edison Petit lamp.

To that end, even such oddities as the original game's «Pause Trick» and Mega Man 3's «Super Jump» are retained.

The levels vary from familiar takes on platforming staples — cloud levels and underwater levels — to such oddities as a world based on didgeridoos.

So why do they do such oddities as self - pet or knead on a blanket?

In Allen's hands, Wonderland was tackily transformed into a plush extended episode of Fantasy Island, featuring such oddities as Ann Jillian running at the speed of light, John Stamos flipping his pageboy back and forth at a unicorn, Carol Channing turning into a goat after promising a little girl jam tomorrow or yesterday but never today, and Patrick Duffy in furrie - kabuki makeup eating a tin can.

Leaving aside such oddities as the Anglo - Italian and Anglo - Scottish cups, this will be the Foxes» fourth foray into continental football, and however their games turn out, the six group fixtures will constitute their longest European campaign.

Not exact matches

By focusing exclusively on English we might even have begun to recognize the oddity of our names for certain cardinal numbers such as «eleven» and «twelve.»

UB is now bringing all its savoury biscuits and baked snacks under the single masterbrand of Jacob's, including its crackers, crispbreads and flatbreads, and brands such as Mini Cheddars, Oddities and Twiglets.

It's a small thing, yes, but such oddities are pleasing to the eye, suggesting as they do that something peculiar is going on somewhere.

His research has uncovered many oddities, such as hot Jupiters (gas balls that bake in thousand - degree heat) and backward - orbiting objects, but he also found the first multiplanet system that is roughly analogous to the solar system.

He was puzzled by oddities such as a growing preference for the word «clarity» over its synonym «clearness.»

In fact, it is so important that among mammals and birds the norm is for a species to have a third eyelid and those lacking one — such as humans and some of our fellow primates — are the true oddities in nature.

Debbie Argue of Australian National University in Canberra adds that Obendorf's team has not accounted for hobbit cranial oddities such as a mounding of bone above and around the orbits.

He ponders nighttime oddities of nature, such as the Texas blind salamander, a cave - dwelling semitranslucent amphibian that has no need for night vision — a trait that it apparently shares with about 40 percent of Americans, who, being bombarded with light pollution, never use theirs.

But in some situations, such as autoimmune diseases and organ transplants, the immune system mobilizes even when no pathogen is evident, oddities that prompted Matzinger to propose her danger hypothesis.

Although we stray from the path more often than we care to admit, human society is all about the age - old business of boy meets girl and sets up home under a roof, so much so that it explains such things as the size of our testicles, the manifest oddities of the female reproductive system, and why we prefer to have sex in private.

The story seems intended as a plea for inclusions, with circus oddities such as the bearded lady singing about their own spendor and gloriousness.

Such seemingly comic - relief scenes as seeing her using Reiner's car windshield as a sexual device, or try to force through a confession in a church on a priest that wants none of it, play out as if they are evocative of an oddity or perverse aberration from a normally cool, calm, collected, scheming partner who is always in control.

Previous non-canon entries into The Legend of Zelda series have taken the form of ways to show off a system's features, such as Link's Crossbow Training for Wii, or just other little oddities, such as Tingle's DS games.

They range from old - school warhorses such as belly - tank lakesters and highboys packing big - block Chevrolets to oddities like a fish - out - of - water Triumph TR3 and a woman trying to go 168 mph on a bicycle.

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Sonett V4s also sported a few oddities compared to standard American sports cars like e.g. Corvette, such as front wheel drive; a freewheeling clutch that disengaged automatically whenever the accelerator pedal was no longer pressed, and a column - mounted shifter, rather than a typical floor - mounted shifter.

More telling as positive markers, there are 36 seats — matching the number on the bus Parks rode, reportedly the only such bus then in service in Montgomery — and its automatic transmission shifter is mounted on the left of the steering wheel, another oddity.

There are a few styling oddities here and there, such as the awkward shelflike protrusion that's created by the vents beneath the center display, but the aesthetic is largely understated despite drawing heavy inspiration from the LFA supercar, starting with the instrument cluster.

Print - ready PDFs have their own oddities — such as different margins for odd / even pages, and ligatures (which impair the text's searchability)-- that make them unsuitable for screen - based reading.

Nordberg initially thought it was impossible: «Anthropologists, psychologists, and historians would surely also have taken note,» she writes, «as such a thing would seem to go against the common understanding of Afghanistan's culture, where one dresses strictly according to gender... Ergo, such a practice — if it was really a practice and not just an oddity — must not exist.

Cultural heavyweights such as boxer Joe Louis are treated as historical catalysts rather than extraordinary oddities.

I wrote about these options last week, and have written before about some of the oddities of these filing statuses, such as the requirement to allocate deductions.

Sometimes museums or other institutions advertise, asking for exhibits e.g. of certain breeds or of oddities such as cats with extra toes.

It is refreshing to know that there are others who are not compelled to interact with locals simply because they are there, and I may not be such an oddity for giving only a smile as a greeting and going about my way.

Other problems, bugs and glitches include such things as the text being faint and blurry in inventory menus, subtitles failing to match what's actually being said, the fact that your character sheathes his weapon every time you enter your inventory to chug a health potion, characters walking through each other and a host of other little niggles and oddities.

Other small oddities exist, such as the title not allowing played to remap the «decide» button or automatically targeting an enemy when playing with mouse control.

, oddities like the Wii Fit Trainer, and gaming legends such as Mega Man and Pac - Man.

Both Loathing games capitalize on a quirky sense of humor that is rife with oddities like a meat - based economy, character skills like «Deploy Snake and «Shootenanny», and enemies such as a cactus - suited goblin.

The game uses an amazing soundtrack to improve the overall experience, with music such as «Space Oddity» by David Bowie, «In Dreams» by Roy Orbison, and «The Darkest Star» by Depeche Mode.

Platinum Games is best known for its creation of unique series such as action franchise Bayonetta and Wii U oddity The Wonder 101, as well as upcoming Xbox One exclusive Scalebound.

However, I did notice a few oddities that skewed the realism of the environment, such as the ability to not walk through certain bushes.

As such, you can expect to see occasional visual oddities, some blurred background textures (which may have been intentional, despite looking odd) and lengthy frame freezes.

It's also a glorious return to form for one of the most interesting developers out there — Washington - based Monolith Productions — whose track record is inconsistent but features glorious oddities such as No One Lives Forever, FEAR and Condemned.»

Graham seeks out subjects which celebrate freedom of expression in colorful roadside attractions and general oddities: toys and trompe l'oeil signs found in suburban settings, idiosyncratic sculptures like the California dentist and his mammoth Amazon warriors, and eccentric scenes such as the Dallas hamburger stand that features a life size statue of Lenin.

Where, on the span between scientific advance and pointless conjecture materialized should we place an oddity such as Jakob Ottonowitsch von Narkiewitsch - Jodko's «A Spark Captured on the Surface of the Body of a Well - Washed Prostitute» (1895)?

Oddities also can occur, such as the river cresting in Grand Forks before it did farther south in Halstad, Minn., this spring.

We puzzle over oddities, such as the climate of Europe — which is far warmer than, by rights, it ought to be.

And there are oddities, such as Alaska, which has the highest per capita energy consumption of any state, and access to vast reserves of geothermal energy.

These alarmist predictions are becoming quite bizarre, and could be dismissed as sociological oddities, if it weren't for the fact that they get such big play in the media.

It is difficult to see this as anything other than a drafting error, since part of the purpose of the new statutory regime was to do away with the oddity of having a specialist competition tribunal unable to hear such claims.

There are other small oddities, such as Mail notifications not being available to delete, only archive or dismiss (Motorola does the same, in fairness, and we don't really care in either case - but some died - in - the - wool Android fans will).

As such, it includes oddities like support for two OR MORE physical cameras, HDR VP9 Video, HEIF image compression, and display cutout support - that's support for a notch, a split, or even a set of extra-curved corners (like in Pixel 2.)