Sentences with phrase «as freakish»

As freakish as this event is, I wish a better way to recycle the wood waste was in place, such as cellulosic ethanol and biochar and bio-oil.

Only Saw with its ingenious contraptions tied to life and death mind - teasers and Hostel which highlighted it all as a freakish fetish successfully married the two.

Now, this inhuman prisoner is being abused with an electrified cattle prod by an agent named Strickland (Michael Shannon, making the pain inside his glare speak volumes), who calls the prod his «Alabama how - dee - doo» and sees the monster as a freakish affront to God.

It seems that being brought to the brink of death and then revived as a freakish android - man hybrid tends to take an emotional toll on a guy.

He still goes far over the top, but not nearly as freakish as in the second film.

Okay, so this cheesy chickpea cake doesn't actually taste like cake (I think cake might be one of the few things that even I wouldn't add cheddar to)-- but, it allows you to present your chickpeas in a totally new way so you never get bored of them... which I don't think I would anyway, but not everyone is as freakish as me.

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It always tickles me when a spokesman explains to reporters that a company experiencing delays or other problems in delivering a product or service is «a victim of its own success» — as though it had undergone something rare and freakish.

The last two weeks drop in global markets is solid enough evidence of that, as is the freakish weather conditions in different parts of the world that have had a negative impact on the farming sector.

The freakish prosperity of the eighties permitted all sorts of excess in terms of salaries for beginners, overstaffing cases, and even interior decoration — as law firms, like the nobles of San Gimignano, tried to outdo each other in ostentation.

Calvin was not, and does not deserve to be colored as, warped or freakish.

The good news is simply that we can, by caring enough for one another and our society put adjectives like «wrecked», «fallen» and «freakish» behind us — at least as we might apply them to people including ourselves.

What should determine how much Josh Hamilton is worth as a free agent — his freakish talent or his age and checkered past?

Duke's Mason Plumlee has freakish athleticism at 6» 11» and 235 pounds, and many scouts have Plumlee pegged as a lottery pick...

Duke's Mason Plumlee has freakish athleticism at 6» 11» and 235 pounds, and many scouts have Plumlee pegged as a lottery pick in 2013.

With his freakish athletic traits and all - around skill set as both a runner and receiver, I'm not sure the NFL has ever seen someone like Saquon Barkley.

From positioning, to reading an attack as it unfolds, to simple distribution (he averaged nearly 25 meters less per distribution than MDS), Lukasz has a lot to learn, but his merits remain the same; the kid is a freakish athlete, particularly for a keeper.

If our progress as women is so fragile that it could be shattered by some freakish toy, we're in big trouble, ladies.

In August 2013, he found an asteroid with six tails — a never - before - seen configuration that he describes as «freakish.»

As always, however, the questions remain roughly the same: Is the solar system a freakish accident, and Earth even more special?

Unlike the freakish situation in California, where several years of low snowfall and rainfall are serving as a reminder of the tremendous natural variability in Pacific - influenced weather, and the need to always be vigilant when it comes to managing water supplies, the situation in Washington resembles the parched climate - changed normal for swaths of the West in the decades ahead.

A freakish infectious cancer has brought Tasmanian devils to the brink of extinction, but the pugnacious marsupial is evolving rapidly as it fights for survival

A completely successful attempt to re-position Michael Jackson as a profoundly self - aware artist, as opposed to the freakish and tragic celebrity that he became, Spike Lee's Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown To Off The Wall is both thrilling and instructional.

All Noah wants to do these days is watch TV, but as a favor to his mother, he agrees to baby - sit a neighbor's three freakish children: Slater (Max Records), Blithe (Landry Bender) and Rodrigo (Kevin Hernandez).

Anyway, in The Day After Tomorrow New Yorkers need not feel alone as the entire Northern hemisphere is subjected to freakish destructive weather as the polar ice caps melt because of global warming and paradoxically result in temperatures dropping to sub-Arctic levels.

If you discount Glenn Close - as - Bicentennial Man's freakish appearance, it's still impossible to believe that all of her / his co-workers have afforded him / her the same courtesy.

In «Toni Erdmann,» a very good and peculiar comedy from Germany's Maren Ade, a father subjects his high - strung adult daughter to a kind of unexpected — and clearly unwanted — shock therapy, using joke - shop fake teeth, a fright wig and a freakish sense of humor as tools of enlightenment.

As if the level of humor in the film wasn't enough to insult the audience, we are asked to believe that competent adults would believe that this freakish looking person is a baby.

Todd Haynes (Safe, Far from Heaven, I'm Not There) is so consistently excellent as a filmmaker, it's almost freakish that he continues to one - up himself.

The costumed characters are freakish yet believable, and he puts in lots of little touches, such as real book titles and album covers, that help define the characters and create a sense of the era.

Into this bubbling cauldron of freakish fun came the Dell Venue Pro, a name which may strike you as oddly familiar.

I thought I'd found another spider of freakish size, although I wasn't wearing my glasses, and Sue later identified it as a cockroach.

As you progress you gain access to more of these abilities such as creating bubbles of time that slow down enemies and being able to Revert enemy soldiers into freakish creatures that attack their allies along with other idea'As you progress you gain access to more of these abilities such as creating bubbles of time that slow down enemies and being able to Revert enemy soldiers into freakish creatures that attack their allies along with other idea'as creating bubbles of time that slow down enemies and being able to Revert enemy soldiers into freakish creatures that attack their allies along with other idea's.

In addition, the enemies such as wood golems, deer women, undead soldiers and the freakish - looking, armless bird - men as well as the varied environments that you will explore are all very well crafted.

Well, the new first - person perspective really puts you in the middle of the horror, and there's a constant level of unsettling tension as you explore the house and come face to face with its freakish inhabitants.

Here, you can take on a number of Bonk's other forms — in addition to the Ostrich form from Super Bonk and a new Lizard form, you can turn into a tank with a freakish Bonk for a head — as you roll through a city and ruthlessly destroy buildings, each of which reveals a banner decrying your vicious deeds, pleading for you to stop or calling you a monster.

His references span from the deep and dark corners of the carefully mannered art world to the more esoteric branches of culture such as inglorious comic books, unsung hip hop heroes, and freakish, hallucinatory imagery from the drug - fueled political past.

In his 2003 biography of Goya, Robert Hughes characterized the artist's eccentric late paintings as «seem [ing] like freakish, vivid precursors of modernity» because, as Hughes suggests, Goya chose to «bypass explicit symbolism» — in other words, he predicted modernism by choosing to bypass the chief characteristic of academic art: identifiable narrative.

As a result of the warming Arctic, the jet streams become wavier and slower, causing freakish weather all across the Northern Hemisphere.

Our Eighth Amendment jurisprudence developed in the capital context calls into question whether a defendant should be condemned to die in prison without an appellate court having passed on whether that determination properly took account of his circumstances, was imposed as a result of bias, or was otherwise imposed in a «freakish manner.»

Gather around, as we present to you these freakish giants of the animal kingdom - rodents of unusual size and dogs that could swallow a man whole.