Sentences with phrase «even oddball»

I've been familiar with Keir Dullea's work for over thirty years, having seen most of his important film roles and even the oddball sci - fi TV series, The Star Lost, he did in Canada in 1973.

Not exact matches

«But the RF, even with its oddball elements, was still a freakin» Miata, every bit of it.

We often hear about Google's oddball «Moonshot» projects — from using balloons to bring internet to isolated areas to developing self - driving cars — but according to at least one of the company's former execs, Google's obsession with shooting for the stars actually reaches into even the most mundane aspects of its everyday business.

It's an oddball friendship, but one that reminds us how important it is to have people we care about in our lives — even if it's just one person.

EVEN a cursory glance at Saturn's moon Iapetus reveals it to be an oddball.

Even a cursory glance at Saturn's moon Iapetus reveals it to be an oddball.

TrES - 4 and other oddball planets among the 250 or so discovered in the past 12 years are challenging, even revolutionizing, astronomers» assumptions about how planets and planetary systems form.

Even if Chilesaurus itself isn't a theropod, scientists still have a handful of other theropods that have «gone green» to puzzle over, such as the therizinosaurs and another oddball called Limusaurus.

Even its globular clusters are oddballs: they are twice as large as typical stellar groupings seen in other galaxies.

Spinney is a one - of - a-kind personality, an oddball even among the oddballs who pioneered Sesame Street's Children's Television Workshop.

In its own quirky indie - movie kind of way, the film even avoids being too preciously cute, unlike Waititi's self - consciously oddball «Eagle vs Shark.»

The evening in question provides the climax for a series of oddball circumstances that consume the bulk of the running time.

Even beyond an intriguing story and an appealingly oddball visual style, though, I Kill Giants would stand out on the big screen because it has the taut emotional drama of a great cinematic story.

Prediction: I expect this endearingly clumsy oddball guardian of endangered magical creatures might just become a spokes symbol for animal rescue groups, even if he keeps on having to recapture them after they escape from his suitcase.

As a writer, Gerwig is humane and generous, giving even sideline oddball characters their own moments to show depth and compassion while still being eccentrically amusing.

Grant is also very good as Bayfield, a man comfortable with his keptness, and who has genuine affection for his oddball wife, even though his entire life revolves around protecting her from harsh reality.

Sandwiched between Paul Thomas Anderson «s «The Master» and Quentin Tarantino «s «Django Unchained, «David O. Russell's «Silver Linings Playbook» was the oddball of The Weinstein Company presentation this evening at the Cannes Film Festival.

A big screen treatment on Augusten Burroughs» semi-autobiographical memoir about his tumultuous childhood growing up with an oddball mother, Deirdre (Benning, Mrs. Harris), who sends him to live with her highly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr, Finch (Cox, Red Eye), whose home environment proves to be even more strange than the one he was being sheltered from.

It's all such iffy politics given the lack of importance stressed on an entire Japanese population, even in a whimsical oddball fantasy.

In 1987, he, along with fellow rockers Ric Ocasek and Neil Young, turned up in Alan Rudolph's under - appreciated (even by Rudolph himself) romantic fantasy «Made in Heaven» as one of the oddballs encountered by Timothy Hutton during his 30 - year effort to reunite with the woman (Kelly McGillis) he first met when they were both souls in Heaven.

However, I like Jackie in this film a great deal, and I even enjoy some of the bad jokes, oddball side jaunts, and the simplistic confrontations.

It seems somehow appropriate that our greatest cinematic chronicler of oddballs, misfits and malcontents should hold court here in a functional - going - on - drab space where the only distraction is the sound of the human traffic that passes beneath his window, many of whom, even at this early hour of the morning, seem to have wandered, fully formed, out of Leighland.

When he gathers all of these oddballs in the opening act of the film, 100 % at odds with one another (one character even phones the villains their location to come and fight) he charmingly negotiates their foibles with wit and grace, but mainly invites everyone (audience included) to dance this little dance with him and enjoy the beauty and the fury of this wide universe.

Even during such weak spots, however, it's impossible not to derive some enjoyment from the oddball antics of the film's exceedingly eclectic supporting cast, which includes M.C. Gainey, Jason Flemyng, and Keith Carradine (the latter, playing a fu manchu - sporting henchman, is especially amusing here).

Osborne, meanwhile, emanates an oddball sympathetic quality, even when he's not doing much; he looks like Mark Duplass crossed with Ray Romano, and kind of acts like the same, with perhaps a pinch of Garry Shandling.

The central concept, not to mention the oddball crime busting plot, certainly brushes with greatness inadvertently every now and again, even if the filmmakers were seemingly trying their hardest to disguise it.

Even when the roles were confined to one or two scenes — a wannabe criminal in Pulp Fiction (1994), Boy George impersonators in two Adam Sandler vehicles, The Wedding Singer (1998) and Blended (2014)-- she delivered some memorably oddball moments.

Along with them came even more oddball creatures to battle, a greater scale to the game's events, multiplayer modes, weapon variety and crafting, and a two part system to its stages where Pit would begin the level in flight for about five minutes (the best the angel can manage with Palutena's help) and then would land to battle it out on foot.

It's nice to see Team Meat still willing to work with Nintendo, even if it's at such an oddball request.

This is a testament not only to Blair's grasp of the film's tone as writer and director, but to the performances from Lynskey and Wood, both oddball anti-heroes with a core decency that keeps you rooting for them even as they give in to their more misanthropic urges.

The five - door hatchback is the definitive model in our view, though it is also available as a sedan, with a trunk, looking even more wackadoodle than the oddball Versa hatch despite the nod to convention.

It even has an SD card slot, an oddball addition that some will find useful.

They had more than their fair share of oddballs and loners and even crazy cat ladies.

I also found another oddball ereader that I hadn't noticed before, even though it's been listed on Amazon since April of last year.

Garden Gnome Carnage is so oddball, that even the developer doesn't try to describe it, saying simply: «Don't ask why.

Along with them came even more oddball creatures to battle, a greater scale to the game's events, multiplayer modes, weapon variety and crafting, and a two part system to its stages where Pit would begin the level in flight for about five minutes (the best the angel can manage with Palutena's help) and then would land to battle it out on foot.

10Tons have been in the videogame industry for over a decade and yet they still continue their incredible diversity in the genres they expertly tackle within their games such as match 3 puzzles in Sparkle and Azkend to physics based puzzles in King Oddball, shoot «em up Xenoraid and even top - down shooters in Neon Chrome and Crimsonland that showcase a clear departure from one another coupled with an extreme amount of enthusiasm and imagination to deliver unique experiences.

Along with the cult classics, there are some oddballs that are so obscure that even if they were denied home release indefinitely, Capcom might be forgiven for not taking the risk with them.

The Western focus of Lollipop Chainsaw has helped to keep it relatively grounded but you can expect hilarity and oddball obscurity by the truckload, together with some stylish action and even a few interesting twists and turns as you go.

Its proximity to the pair ALONG THE WAY creates an interesting dialogue absent from KAWS» singular, mournful COMPANIONs (like at The Standard)-- I would even hasten the admittedly oddball guess that they're playing a game of hide - and - seek.

You're definitely seen as some kind of oddball — and perhaps even a heretic.»

Answer the question to the best of your ability (even if your interviewer asks you an oddball interview question like, «What would you do if I died?»)