Sentences with phrase «by odd design»

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Produced by a small team of engineers tasked with blue - skying about future aerospace designs, the documents featured concept designs for an array of odd - looking planes.

The odd start to the evening was designed to be eaten as the film — Trading Places — began, with Dan Ackroyd, one of the two main characters, being delivered breakfast in bed by his butler.

Carole Lombard, as a designing manicurist, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless playboy the former mistakes for her meal ticket, are both wonderful, but there's something odd about the tone of the picture, evidenced by the fact that our sadness for Ralph Bellamy, Lombard's unrequited suitor, outweighs our happiness for Lombard and MacMurray at the close.

By design, Foxx and DeHaan have the showiest roles, but they are at the mercy of Webb and the writing staff's odd whims.

And it takes on an odd, mutant form in Dredd, where the hero (a joint performance by Karl Urban and his jawline), by design and will, is entirely defined by an unyielding external code.

Kind of an odd design decision, as it could have easily been solved by making use of other buttons and thumbsticks.

Amazingly, both are the original sites that Wiseau hastily created in promotion of the room — that much is clear by the incredibly basic and bombastic design of the sites, as well as the odd flaming picture titled «Shame On You» linking to a horrendously edited video of behind - the - scenes footage of the Room.

It's more of an effortless GT designed to teach the odd boy - racer a basic lesson in physics by demonstrating the effect 624bhp has on accelerating a large object along any given stretch of tarmac.

The game is held back by a few odd design choices that seem to run counter to the rest of the game's design philosophy.

That's not to say you won't find the odd grenade or collectible Ulyssium crystal here or there, but I was surprised by how off the mark the developers were in their implementation of this style of level design.

There's a lot to love, really — it's just marred by clumsy controls, one of the worst cameras in recent memory and some odd design choices.

Even when things start to open up a bit, I have to admit I was sort of underwhelmed by the level design: outside of a few navigational puzzles and the odd out - of - the - way treasure box, the dungeons are largely linear affairs.

Let's get something out of the way early — the Xbox Elite controller is a marvelous piece of hardware, and you'll certainly pay for it at $ 149, but there are some odd design choices given the 100 million dollars in reported research by team Microsoft.

To ensure that you are not overwhelmed by the plethora of options, the 60 - odd options with which you can design everything from tiles to enemies, are unlocked gradually over the course of nine days.

If this is by design then it's a bit odd as the other items all function.

Coming from the graphics / freelancing field where I charged by the hour for my designs, it seems odd to me that all artists would charge by a standard «rule» for their work.

As demonstrated by the 40 - odd elements that make up this 30 - year «retrospective», his practice intersects with architecture, design and theatre while flitting with seeming ease between painting, sculpture, installation and video.

The version hosted by Manchester Art Gallery was developed with Peter Saville and Richard Wentworth, a coupling that explains why the design of the show is an odd but likeable mix of slick graphics (instructions stencilled in large font on the wall of the main gallery) and DIY support structures, such as Wentworth's clunky viewing ramp, which also doubles as a display platform for piles of A4 take - home instructions.

It sounds odd to recommend an art exhibition on the premise that it is designed to be boring, but in a scene dominated by sensationalism, this might be the most subversive move?

A Showing of Odd Ceramics by David Traylor At Shift through February 27 By Cynthia Hibbard The multilayered design of a large and complex garden — form imposed on chaos — is at the -LSB-..by David Traylor At Shift through February 27 By Cynthia Hibbard The multilayered design of a large and complex garden — form imposed on chaos — is at the -LSB-..By Cynthia Hibbard The multilayered design of a large and complex garden — form imposed on chaos — is at the -LSB-...]

Curated by Michael Rooks «Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks; Recent Developments in Painting» Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark «HyperSurface», OVADA, Oxford, UK «Schil / Ders», De Constant Rebecqueplein (DCR), The Hague, Netherlands «HyperSurface», Rod Barton Invites, London «Parallax», Fieldgate Gallery, London 2007 «Existencias», Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y Leon, Leon, Spain «Design for Living», Initial Access, Wolverhampton, England «Raumwelten», Kunsthalle Arnstadt, Arnstadt, Germany «Odd Spaces», Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus, Denmark Artist Intervention, Commissioned by Vienna Art Week and the City of Vienna, Austria 2006 Recent Acquisitions, Hamburger Banhof, Berlin, Germany «The City is Not a Tree» Alon Segev Gallery, Tel - Aviv, Israel «Slider» Cell Projects, London 2005 «Ian Monroe and Emma Stibbon: Utopian Architecture», Upstairs Berlin, Germany «Infrastructure» Studio Voltaire, London «Winterzauber» Upstairs Berlin, Germany 2004 «Edge of the Real», The Whitechapel, London «Selected Sculpture» MW Projects, London «Cinderella» Trailer Projects, London «Contra Pop» Vamiali's Gallery, Athens, Greece 2003 «Bag Lady» Cell Projects, London «Reduced» Century Gallery, London «Debris» Martinez Gallery, Brooklyn «Godzilla» Trailer Projects, London Saatchi Gallery, County Hall, London «The Queen Mum Show» One in the Other Gallery, London «Chockerfuckinblocked» Jeffery Charles Gallery, London «RSVP» 5 Cork Street, London 2002 «Present» Hammer Sidi Gallery, London «The Way to Happiness» VTO Gallery, London «Trailer Presents» Trailer Projects, London «Lend us # 100m» 21 Dingley Road, London

The «most odd perspective» created by the design of the concentric orthogonals survived the addition of color coding as Stella pushed into the copper and aluminum series, cutting out the «superfluous» (his term) negative spaces and building elaborate shaped canvases in the 1960s with dazzlers such as Empress of India (1965).

The invention was designed by Maiju Gebhard in the 1940's to cut down on the 30,000 odd hours that a typical housewife supposedly spent during her lifetime washing, drying and putting away the dishes.

One odd feature that further suggests design - by - committee is the simulated rear back - plate.

• Remodel an entire 4 story building by installing new tiles in every room, within the provided deadline of 32 days • Shape tile fixing into an 8 feet mural depicting the Aztec Civilization, for a school project • Train 19 apprentices in handling tile and marble setting duties, within a short time span of 28 months • Confer with clients to determine their tile setting and designing requirements • Provide information regarding available tile designs and associated costs • Assess the amount of labor and material needed for each tiling project • Contact tile vendors to determine availability of tiles and assist clients in choosing the right types of tiles • Cut and shape tiles to fit obstacles and in odd spaces by making effective use of hand and power tools • Set tiles in patterns or in a straightforward manner, depending on the specific instruction of the client

IY is designed to prevent and treat child emotional and behavioral difficulties including ADHD, ODD, CD, and SED by strengthening parenting skills, including increased use of positive and proactive discipline strategies and reductions in harsh, punitive, and inconsistent parenting.

It is not a diagnostic tool but is designed to determine whether your child shows symptoms similar to those of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), symptoms that might warrant a clinical evaluation by a mental health professional.

As this study shows, when the «dose» is large enough, parent training seems more effective than when data from all participants are used in an intent to treat analysis; (c) the present study provided a more rigorous test than most prior studies by only admitting children to treatment who met DSM - IV criteria for ODD; and, perhaps most importantly, (d) this study was designed as an effectiveness trial, while most prior studies were efficacy - oriented.

There's a lot to be said for bringing elegant simplicity to life with the odd «design statement», especially when it's being made by someone with taste as impeccable as yours.