Dali became more known
for eccentricity than for art, but even a brief visit to this St. Petersburg museum will remind you of his genius.
We have a tremendous tolerance
for eccentricity and ignorance.
Depp's penchant
for eccentricity has grown tiresome.
In the most supportive of the three top - billed parts, Robert Downey Jr. capitalizes on a flashy figure with his penchant
for eccentricity.
Christopher Walken is a multiple Oscar nominee, but his talent has been overshadowed to significant degree by both his highly imitable vocal delivery patten and penchant
for eccentricity as well as, simply put, his love to work, which has led to him appearing in many dozens of films, including a lot of dreck.
Boris Johnson has boosted his reputation
for eccentricity with a demand for Russian president Vladimir Putin to perform half - naked at the Olympic Games.
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 Leducs landed in a world famous
for its eccentricities and made even more challenging because Sandra and her brother Kevin spoke only French.
And this in turn takes some of the «buy a flagship that remains in place for one year» sheen off the device, benefits which both the OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 enjoyed,
for all their eccentricities.
Not exact matches
It would have been easy to requisition a jaded - cleric type from central casting, perhaps give him a few
eccentricities, and then knock off
for the day.
For this type of alcoholic, homelessness often is a way of life that fits his psychological
eccentricities with the least pain.
There is always someone else to consider, it is not so easy to find time
for yourself and there is a lot of compromising to be done as you bring two people's habits,
eccentricities and family traditions into one household, so what is the hurry to move in together?
We take a look at Jeremy Corbyn's support
for homeopathy and suggest that it is more than a harmless
eccentricity and actually speaks to a politician's commitment to objective truth and scrutiny.
It is easy —
for anyone who has not used one — to dismiss a Washlet as yet another product of Japanese
eccentricity: Robo - toilets.
That parts of Antarctica have become too warm
for Adélie penguins would surely have astounded earlier explorers who suffered so greatly from the cold, and who marveled at the resilience, and
eccentricities, of these seabirds.
It is a credit to the quality of the author's writing that, long after the point has been made, you are more than happy to turn the page
for his next example of glorious animal individualism and
eccentricity.
If that's true and if it holds in the future — if people continue to defend other people's
eccentricities because a) they think it's cool to live in a world of harmless eccentrics and b)
for the sake of their own protection — then you would likely see a 51 percent or 60 percent or 70 percent dictatorship by a majority that insists on crushing intolerance.
Using a stylus that traces the cam's rather feminine shape, the clock will be able to compensate
for elliptical
eccentricities in Earth's orbit around the sun and the tilt of Earth's axis.
They weren't looking
for any genes in particular, just
for any genetic
eccentricities associated with higher caffeine consumption.
2013 FT28 shows similar clustering in some of these parameters (its semi-major axis,
eccentricity, inclination, and argument of perihelion angle,
for angle enthusiasts out there) but one of these parameters, an angle called the longitude of perihelion, is different from that of the other extreme objects, which makes that particular clustering trend less strong.
Recent research has focused on MIS 11 as a possible analog
for the present interglacial [e.g., Loutre and Berger, 2003; EPICA community members, 2004] because both occur during times of low
eccentricity.
The development of active freshwater systems during these periods corresponds with monsoon intensity increases during insolation maxima, suggesting that humid periods in Arabia were not confined to
eccentricity - paced deglaciations, and providing paleoenvironmental support
for multiple windows of opportunity
for dispersal out of Africa during the late Pleistocene.
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For icy satellites, resurfacing is generally associated with eccentricity tides, but these are not a viable heat source today for Pluto or Charon, whose orbital eccentricities are fully damped.&raq
For icy satellites, resurfacing is generally associated with
eccentricity tides, but these are not a viable heat source today
for Pluto or Charon, whose orbital eccentricities are fully damped.&raq
for Pluto or Charon, whose orbital
eccentricities are fully damped.»
Test simulations of the orbits of the three planets around 61 Virginis suggest that the planetary system's orbital configuration is dynamically stable because of low orbital
eccentricities for at least 365 million years.
For planets with
eccentricity 0.5, our EBM suggests that the greatest habitable semimajor axis can vary by more than 0.8 AU (78 %!)
The alignment of obliquity and
eccentricity due to precession is a much stronger effect than
for the Earth, leading to «great» summers and winters on time scales of tens of thousands of years (the precessional period is 170,000 years).
Yet even in the absence of individual
eccentricities, it is possible to study the distribution of
eccentricities based on the distribution of transit durations (relative to the maximum transit duration
for a circular orbit).
But in a paper accepted
for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, UW astronomer Rory Barnes and his colleagues say their scheme includes other factors such as a planet's estimated rockiness and the
eccentricity of its orbit.
This will help produce bigger magnetic fields due to quicker rotation (down to five days
for a hypothetical 2; 1
eccentricity in Proxima b) in close in planets which could otherwise expect to be tidally locked.
There is a peak at 32 days with an even higher false alarm probability value, the fit does converge to a sensible
eccentricity but it is going to be difficult to make a case
for its existence based on such a weak signal.
These details are critical
for assessing habitability parameters such as surface temperature and the
eccentricity of the exoplanet's orbit.
Notice on page 405 that the rate of change of w is extremely rapid when
eccentricity is near zero, which is the case
for objects spiraling outward from the Sun.
Through meticulous observations over the span of 2.5 years, Martinez and collaborators were able to obtain a number of useful measurements
for the system, including the pulsar's period (62 ms), the period of the binary (2.62 days), and the system's
eccentricity (e = 0.17).
Sadly the Echo necklace is no longer available to buy but they have plenty of other gorgeous pieces if you're an animal lover I can only suggest checking out the All Creatures Great and Small range (I personally love the Dachshund),
for those who love the night sky how about a pair of Star Gazer earrings in fact I could sit and name them all so how about just popping over and checking out Eclectic
Eccentricity for yourself you might just be surprised by the prices as well — the Echo necklace cost just # 18!
I'm ready to start meeting like - minded people with quirks,
eccentricities, and a taste
for the odd and adventurous.
Although a lot of people perceive online dating as a
eccentricity or just ordinary game, that's why we have decided to disprove the stereotype and have created unique website
for those who are searching
for love.
This self - consciously kooky road movie about an unusual trio of bank robbers aims
for Hal Ashby misanthropy, but hasn't a single emotionally grounded or plausible moment to justify its purely cinematic
eccentricities.
Admittedly stunning visual style and left field music can't quite compensate
for the willful
eccentricity which often seems forced and unnecessary.
Bateman does an effective job directing the movie, which is based on a novel by Kevin Wilson (with a script by playwright David Lindsay - Abaire), smartly opting
for understatement from his performers, so that their characters»
eccentricities have something to play against.
I found enough likeable aspects in it to keep me preoccupied from dwelling on the parts less interesting to me, and that's how I suspect the average moviegoer will view it... nothing great, but worth seeing
for Bialystock & Bloom's slapstick, Ulla's sexpot antics, Liebkind's hilarious
eccentricity, de Bris» goggle - eyed impression Reagan - in - drag, a procession of walker - clad ladies that would make Fellini proud, or, perhaps, leggy, female stormtroopers?
Unfortunately,
for Rudolph and O'Dowd, while their characters are sweet and likeable, they're entirely overshadowed by the
eccentricities of the bridesmaids.
This is a film made
for a specific audience whose members delighted in the anachronistic
eccentricities of Hess» past films.
Fishburne goes
for a Colonel Kurtz - ish
eccentricity, but his character as written goes precisely nowhere.
His secretary, played by the lovely Lily James, is new to the job and experiencing his
eccentricities for the first time as well.
4.5 / 5 stars It makes sense that James Franco, an actor known
for the occasional eccentric act, would make a movie about a guy who practically defines
eccentricity.
Glastonbury (15) Running time: 135 min *** Julian Temple's loving documentary may at first appear to be aimed at the sort of music fan who prefers Glasto streamed live to their TV.But this collection of archive and commissioned footage from 36 years of England's greatest music festival is likely to appeal more to diehard fans than non-festival-goers, since it revels in precisely the
eccentricities that makes the armchair people dive
for cover.Most of this film is a structureless, rambling celebration of Glastonbury's boozy, hedonistic, liberated, political and frequently bonkers character rather than of the actual music: great if you were at the party, presumably less great if you weren't.
This movie showed the viewer all these different parts, yet instilled in us all that Steve Jobs may have had some serious flaws in his behavioral
eccentricities, but was still a very special and well loved, respected, and iconic master innovator
for this century.
Fifteen years later, McConaughey is a genuine movie star with a hefty reputation
for playful
eccentricity, so it's telling that instead of playing... read more
An aspiring young actress, songwriter, beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin, Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), and her young, ambitious, deeply religious Methodist chauffeur, Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich), both struggle with the absurd
eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire they work
for, Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty).
For this particular film, Burton suppresses much of the exaggerated
eccentricity evident in such prior works as Mars Attacks!