Sentences with phrase «as odd encounters»

But as odd encounters rack up, he begins to wonder if the paranoia and fear is all in his head.

Not exact matches

We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.

This seems a little odd, since it'd presumably be very simple to change them, but each level is filled with new encounters and monsters so it's still not as if it's the same game but with better graphics.

Does it strike anyone as especially odd that nearly all of the films released this year by Paramount Pictures have dealt with encounters with alien life form with potentially catastrophic results for mankind as a whole?

Sure, there isn't Elvis as a ghost, or the encounters with Odd's parents, or the time - warping portal, but that's all small potatoes.

We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her - including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be.

In fact I encounter numerous examples of criminals failing to hear their comrades being killed in the same sodding room as them, which I suppose isn't that odd because they also failed to then notice the bullet holes in the wall, copious amounts of blood and dead bodies littering the floor.

Also due to the procedurally generated nature of the game, I encountered a few odd bugs that — while not game breaking — were disappointing as they adversely affected some of my attempts to take on Mormo.

In the town of Kuvaq alone you'll encounter the rather odd Gizmo, who acts as the towns policeman, fireman and doctor, Rufus» ex-girlfriend Toni who simply loves to rag on our hero, Wenzel, who is the closest thing to a friend Rufus actually has, and the rather strange receptionist at the town hall who is.....

The narration is genuinely funny as it reiterates the actions of the Gunstringer and gives the history of the odd characters the Gunstringer encounters, like the love affair between lumberjack and alligator, which gave birth to one of the game's bosses - a hideous, plaid - wearing alligator lumberjack.

Overworld stuff makes the odd modern concession, such as having enemies visible and therefore able to be encountered or avoided at will, though the basic plod is much like any old Square Enix RPG — work from town to village, helping locals in well - disguised selfish acts that further your own ends far more than theirs, then pop into their houses and steal their life savings and underwear.

Over the last few weeks I have encountered a rather odd collection of sculptural things: the postwar ceramic sculpture of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti bursting with dynamically glazed and roughly handled surfaces, currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center; The Age of Innocence, a victorian bust in three different materials by the English sculptor Alfred Drury at the Henry Moore Institute; a visit to Henry Moore's house, studios, and now foundation at Perry Green, and most recently what I can only describe as a wonderfully insane lecture by the contemporary sculptor Thomas Houseago, which involved an increasingly drunk, cursing artist saying some surprisingly sincere, profound things about sculpture.

What is odd in climate science is a unique situation, never encountered in any other scientific field but in religious congregations: the scientific objective as well as the interpretation of research output has been put in the hands of a panel of experts, the IPCC, under an official mandate to take care of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

Yes, we did encounter the odd lag as one got into HD gaming territory but most casual games like Angry Birds, Temple Run and even earlier editions of Asphalt worked well enough.