Sentences with phrase «eccentricities seem»

Like Fiennes, more famous faces (Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Jonah Hill) come and go quickly, all beautifully framed by esteemed cinematographer Roger Deakins, but the parade of glorified cameos only makes the film's eccentricities seem more disconnected.

Not exact matches

Today, Kalin is socially awkward, reticent, and given to eccentricities that can seem downright crazy.

Jeremy Corbyn's belief in homeopathy may seem like a silly eccentricity, but it speaks to a larger aversion to objective truth among the political classes

But this year, voters seem much more willing to overlook such eccentricities, in this race and around the country, if they come from a candidate with outsider passion and righteous anger.

Merline also discovered that these objects must be real by demonstrating that the new moons are moving in orbits that seem to be in the same plane as Charon, and with low orbital eccentricity — like Charon.

But McCartney has been exploring ethical fashion since she set up in 2001, when it seemed like an eccentricity — or even a nuisance — to many in the wider industry.

Admittedly stunning visual style and left field music can't quite compensate for the willful eccentricity which often seems forced and unnecessary.

Perhaps contemplating his pension, Neeson is gruff and distracted; Zeta - Jones seems nervous and apprehensive beneath her slinky bravado; and only Wilson, by virtue of the slacker nature of his character (played memorably by Russ Tamblyn in the original as a cynic more interested in the value of the house on the real estate market), strikes an authentic note of eccentricity laced with fear.

It seems that all of these characters are on screen because they're interesting — they have unpredictable, confrontational personalities, and live in a rarely depicted, insular community where their eccentricities interweave and conflict — but not because Baker has genuine emotional insight on them or their circumstances.

So undefined and eccentricity - free are these men and women that their pre-film status as art historian and university lecturers is implausible, even unthinkable: When Blanchett's curator offers Damon the mother lode of archival keys, a little journal with index numbers matched to stolen artifacts, he seems surprised by the very idea of librarianship.

uu Buffeted by family problems, a 12 - year - old boy goes to live with two uncles whose eccentricities make his own troubled household seem almost tame.

But it's sort of their shot at a foul - mouthed pot - sex - bodily - functions - Judd Apatow - style comedy and as such seems watered down, with just a hint of the British eccentricity that made them cult heroes.

Yet McDormand's so warm, so idiosyncratic, that Marge never comes across as a kooky scold; she makes the woman's carved - from - marble personality traits seem an outgrowth of Marge's worldview rather than a grab - bag of eccentricities.

Orientation is filled with people very similar to ourselves and to those we encounter every day, but instead of being humdrum - as our lives can sometimes seem - these characters are captivating for their eccentricities, coping methods, compulsions, and for the spark of recognition they ignite in us.

The Oasis is a good looking machine, and it seems like my insistence on maximizing width is likely a personal eccentricity.

He invents form, «finding what will suffice» as he goes, with such insight and assurance that, despite their seeming eccentricity, we can wholeheartedly believe in his paintings.8 Howard Hodgkin was born in 1932 in London.

Whether we broach the perimeters of exploratory physics at CERN or try to reconcile logic with mental illness and addiction at home, human life seems incapable of shaking its biases, coping mechanisms and eccentricities.

The Pleistocene ice ages seem to correlate with periodicities in the Earth's orbital eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession.

It just seems odd to attribute the cooling, in effect, to the «eccentricities» of the sun in a time of warming and lagging GHG concentration.

From first glance the 100 - thousand - year orbital eccentricity cycle had seemed to be a perfect fit for that approximately same interval for inter-glacial periods appearing.

Not the least of their eccentricities being that their legal marriage actually seemed like a bit of an afterthought in the grand scheme of things.