Sentences with phrase «almost as strange»

It also felt strange to change out of this dress into pajamas, almost as strange as it did to go from the couch where I was laying to the bed.

In fact, canola oil has a history almost as strange as the history of breakfast cereal.

Once believed to be the smallest pathogens known, nanobacteria have now proved to be something almost as strange.

But they still sound almost as strange as they ever did.

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Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young voters.

As in Shakespeare's «strange eventful history,» they end up adopting a policy that is sans repentance, sans conversion, sans forbearance, sans prudential judgment, sans forgiveness, sans almost everything one might have hoped for from bishops of the Church of Jesus Christ.

Where a person «feels strange,» as almost anyone is likely to in a new locality, the sensible thing to do is to make friends as fast as possible.

When the Anglican patristic scholar and Church historian Trevor Jalland concluded his Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1942 (published in 1944 as The Church and the Papacy: A Historical Study), he spoke of the Roman Church as having «in its long and remarkable history a supernatural grandeur which no mere secular institution has ever attained in equal measure,» and went on to refer to «its strange, almost mystical, faithfulness to type, its marked degree of changelessness, its steadfast clinging to tradition and to precedent.»

I asked Horbaczewski if he thought it was strange that the sport was transitioning to maturity at almost the same time as military drones.

but for some strange reason wenger never seems to build a big enough squad, to compete in all competitions it almost as if he is only interested in certain cups more than others.

It almost seems strange to predict a low scoring affair when you consider the wealth of attacking talent that will be on show in both teams, but tactics could play a prominent role in this match, as both managers are full of respect for each other, and that should tell on the pitch.

We already discussed earlier, it's easier to say something, almost sometimes to strange — not strangers, but no one can see you break down and cry, they can't see you crying as you're typing, it's easier to get it out, and I think that these women who couldn't get to the professional support, they really were saved by their online communities.

i am a firm believer in BREAST IS BEST!my daughter is now 9 mths and goin strong!she is so healthy - from birth she was 10lbs2oz - now she is around 22 lbs and 30in tall and almost walking!i started gvin her a little bit of baby food around 5 mths (she actually wasnt impressed!she prefers bits of table food) but she really only wants to nurse!i plan on nursing her untill shes ready to quit - despite my moms jokes about me in the future sitting in her 1st grade class and nursing her in the back!i actually plan on becoming a breastfeeding advocate and supporter for new moms that really want to breastfeed!i try to encourage any pregger (even strangers) and i cant wait to gain more knowledge so i can really help others!ther is such a special connection that i feel as i nourish my child and she stares up into my eyes!and its so convinent - its the all - in - one fix!

In a strange quirk of fate, Labour's poll rating is almost identical to the party's performance in 1983 — regularly held up as the benchmark by which all other general election disasters should be judged.

As you know if you've ever flipped through a professional boxing magazine, strange, almost Picasso-esque things can happen to the face that gets in the way of too many punches.

Were they to come to the notice of a psychiatrist, John would almost certainly be diagnosed as having dissociative identity disorder, the strange condition more commonly known as multiple personality.

It was a little strange at first — almost like a meditation app come to life — but as soon as I fully surrendered, any weirdness dissolved completely.

Asking a stranger to spot for you is almost as bad as handing a scalpel to a random person on the street and asking them to remove your appendix.

A Canadian who now lives in Slovakia, Naomi writes about traditions, food, and life in Slovakia (as well as some pretty strange food) at Almost Bananas.

It is almost as though things needed to fall apart to come together in the strangest of ways.

It's lorded over by Stephen (an almost unrecognisable Samuel L. Jackson), an ageing house slave who might look like Uncle Ben off of the rice box, but who has a heart as black as coal, in particular when it comes to strangers in his midst.

Though lovelorn and almost penniless, Annie, nevertheless, winds her way through the strange and expensive rituals associated with her job as the bride's go - to gal.

I was gleeful at the superior Mr. Stark meeting his egomaniacal match in Stephen Strange; the battle of snark vs. snark was almost as good as watching any of the action sequences.

But he is staggeringly good here, almost unrecognizable as Wiseau, nailing his strange mannerisms, unusual voice and awkward laugh while also delving deeper to inhabit a man whose deep - rooted insecurities are messily papered over with bravado.

Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately - animals turn malevolent, crops fail, and one child disappears as another becomes seemingly possessed by an evil spirit.

There's little doubt that Perfect Stranger, for the most part, resembles one of those made - for - Lifetime thrillers that seem to crop up on a weekly basis, as the movie has been infused with an atmosphere of almost stunning artificiality that's exacerbated by director James Foley's disappointingly tame sensibilities (ie the lack of sex and violence perpetuates the film's TV - ready feel).

In fact, director Michael Mann — an epochal»80s cultural figure as the creator of «Miami Vice,» who has been almost invisible in this decade — is after something much richer and stranger than the plot of «The Insider» would suggest.

The film's second half takes place almost entirely inside the Shimmer, where the team encounters the strange mutations that the meteor strike has caused on the surrounding environment as they press inward toward a lighthouse that they believe holds the answers they seek.

Reinvigorating the look of Alien Resurrection is the sensibility of French director Jean - Pierre Jeunet, whose previous films Delicatessen (1991) and The City of Lost Children (1995) point directly to the familiar yet exotic and new confines of the Auriga and the Betty (which have the same spooky, almost Victorian feel as the interior of Orson Welles» magnificent Amberson mansion) as well as strange obsessions with flesh (the new Ripley is described as a «meat byproduct») and cloning (both Perlman and Pinon co-star in City).

An exhausted - looking Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark squares off with Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange, the two spitting out arrogant one - liners almost as identical as their goatees.

For example, you can access toy shops and make your own weapons from these toys, wear strange costumes like superheroes or tuxedos and use almost anything and everything in the game as a weapon.

Even though Marvel fans are mostly pleased with the casting of Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular Sorcerer Supreme in the forthcoming Phase Three film Doctor Strange, there was almost another actor in the role who might have been a somewhat more interesting addition to the Marvel cinematic universe.

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(1) Desplechin's subject is not the family in peril; but nonetheless the strange, almost - McGuffin - like of the head, and the events that transpire around it, reverberate as much in the psyche as in the world outside: the absurd theatre of the life inside the mind.

Wizardry of the technological kind broke the film out of the mold of the standard Marvel movie and turned the tale of Doctor Strange's supernatural awakening into a breathtaking spectacle, ranging from ever - shifting urban geographies to a high - speed multidimensional flight that can leave audiences almost as short of breath as the film's protagonist.

Almost every character from the Marvel cinematic universe makes an appearance in the latest footage, including Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, Tom Holland as Spider - Man and Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man.

It almost feels strange to refer to it as a promotional still, but given that the film was all painted, it seems like that's what it is.

She's a stranger in a strange land, and repeatedly throughout the movie, the only woman in the room; Emily Blunt's slender physique draws an almost immediate contrast with the bulky destructive men around her, as her character is not only lonely but consistently kept out of the loop as to what the real mission may be.

Self - reflexive and dosed with macabre humor, this offbeat exercise in just - around - the - corner horror grounds the largely exhausted found - footage approach in classical storytelling and visual values, resulting in a refreshing (and memorably strange) genre piece, premised almost entirely on a child's willingness to accept grown - up weirdness as long as it ensures stability.

As the duo begin to cackle, director Bennett Miller («Moneyball») points at the dark heart of his stranger - than - fiction drama — one that's almost all wick, burning slowly but brightly.

There's also a strange rush to violence in almost every sequence, as the bots continually try to delete our heroes.

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The inspiration comes from Greek mythology, with Farrell as a suburban King Agamemnon, but the style is almost Kubrickian and rivetingly strange, cracking into nightmare in the climactic scene.

It seems strange that Paramount were worried about the film being too challenging for audiences as almost every moment of dialogue is used to explain what is going on or as a means of off - loading character exposition on the audience.

Especially with one so clearly presented as a strange blend of old and new, and on an almost brand new console nonetheless.

During one particularly strange day in 2011, I read that Cameron Crowe (the man behind Elizabethtown, as well as Almost Famous and much else) was asked about the phrase and replied,» I dig it... I keep thinking I'll run into Nathan Rabin and we'll have a great conversation about it.»

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Stranger Than Fiction) and Scoot McNairy (Monsters)-- both almost as good as Fassbender — do fine work in supporting roles as a counterbalance to the parts that don't succeed.

Scott has definitely been on a strange path of late and though many have laid claims that he's become too out there with films like Prometheus and The Counselor, I'm very much interested in his recent career and find almost as compelling as his inauspicious beginnings.

Doctor Strange's psychedelic sequences — with buildings exhilaratingly folding in on themselves, almost like origami, and dimensions of fabulous biochemical irrationality opening up within other dimensions — are gorgeous and imaginatively evoked as well as emotionally stirring.

Between the second season of Stranger Things and Guillermo Del Toro's feature The Shape of Water, this year I've learned that you shouldn't keep any mysterious creatures as pets, because they will almost certainly eat your cat.