Sentences with phrase «curious combination»

Speaking of potential division, that curious combination of Republicans and independents called the Ulster County Legislature majority started its year on Monday by re-electing Republican Ken Ronk of Wallkill along party lines.

That's a very curious combination to me.

The exhibition gives an undeniable archeological feel, with fresh earth covering the entire floor and curious combinations of organic, inorganic and ceramic objects laying througout, each feeling like a discovery with its own story attached.

When news of the Harry's deal first broke almost two years earlier, German magazine Der Spiegel called it «a curious combination of U.S. entrepreneurial spirit and German engineering.»

By a curious combination of innocence and guile, he has circumvented the Bill of Rights» first article.

But the relation between preaching and the New Testament is a curious combination of subservience and freedom.

It is an abbreviated form of chili con carne, which is a curious combination of the Anglicized chili (from chile) and the Spanish carne (meat).

The toppings can be as simple as green olives and tomato, or as complex as this curious combination of heart of palm, tomato, and salsa golf.

The pies are a curious combination of sweet and savory in one shell, combined with the ever - balancing flavor of ginger.

George has a curious combination of nervousness and indignation, a sort of arrogance combined with frantic uncertainty.

Parete presides (if that's the right word) over a curious combination of 10 united minority Republicans and three rogue (in the eyes of the Democratic majority) Democrats to form a 13 - member majority.

A curious combination of coloured oil and water may be the key to creating flexible sheets of «electronic paper» that can display fast - changing, full - colour video images

A curious combination of yuck and wow, this quirky and beautifully illustrated book explores the myriad ways in which we share our lives with insects — and ultimately depend on them for our existence.

Finland seems to me to be a curious combination of religious belief and atheism.

«Perhaps,» writes Penrose in The Emperor's New Mind, «Cardano's curious combination of a mystical and a scientifically rational personality allowed him to catch these first glimmerings of what developed to be one of the most powerful of mathematical conceptions.»

Thus, along with the retro inspired rounded options here we also have the modern interpretations with the diversified designs of the frames, the curious combinations with the tones of the glasses, and much more.

Our resident style crush Olivia Palermo never fails to whip up a curious combination that is characteristically her — eccentric yet polished — even if occasionally, the eccentric factor is cranked up a notch too high.

Banana & pumpkin is a bit of a curious combination.

Haneke's lead in «Happy End,» Isabelle Huppert — who first worked with Haneke on «The Piano Teacher» in 2001 — has described him as «a curious combination of Robert Bresson and Alfred Hitchcock.»

Betty's design was a curious combination of the infantile (her gigantic head, tiny mouth and big, round eyes) and the unmistakably adult (her curvy figure, accented by a little black dress that emphasized her perky décolletage and revealed an anachronistic garter encircling one shapely thigh).

«I do not think it is possible to spend time in these schools without being struck above all by a curious combination.

Then perfectly paired, the PENNY ICE CREAMERY serves up ice cream tastings with cold and curious combinations.

The result is a curious combination: a wondrous, everyman style with a dizzying, elitist substance.»

The game is a curious combination of visual influences, with nods to artists like Final Fantasy's Yoshitaka Amano (who, incidentally, provided the game with a beautiful piece of pre-order concept art), legendary Japanese anime house Studio Ghibli, and nineteenth century illustrator John Bauer.

Alex Prager for Yancey Richardson dresses for a curious combination of film noir and The Red Shoes before falling from a window, but her despair looks all the more haunting in deep color and slow motion.

Fundación Botín's new Centro Botín building is a curious combination of grandeur and subtlety.

These creations evoke a curious combination of melancholy, erotica, and the juxtaposition of strong feminist empowerment battling a troubled and fragile masculine ego.

It's a curious combination of premium and mid-range pieces.