Sentences with phrase «in curious parallel»

(In a curious parallel with George Stubbs» months - long study of horse carcasses in order to improve his knowledge of equine anatomy Davis closeted himself for a long period in 1927 to study an egg beater).

For all the exasperation some of us may feel at our in ability to really know whether ebook sales are «flattening,» still growing, or sliding backward, what may be more important at the stage in which Wednesday's debate took place are the points being projected in curious parallel:

Grillo plays Diaz, a trouble - maker who clashes with Ottway in a curious parallel to the way the wolves tracking the crash survivors vie for alpha status in their pack.

Not exact matches

The Elephants» Graveyard, unkind Europeans called the NASL, but a parallel closer to home might be those stud farms in Kentucky where the great horses of the past, the Secretariats and Spectacular Bids, the Alydars and Affirmeds, can be seen by the curious, peacefully grazing.

There are some curious parallels with what's going on in the EU referendum debate, most notably on the Remain side.

San Francisco Examiner critics Jeff Anderson and Anita Katz's varied top 10 lists both include «Detroit,» director Kathryn Bigelow's account of the siege of the Algiers Motel during 1967 riots in that city; «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» writer - director Martin McDonagh's dark comedy about maternal revenge; and «Wonderstruck,» director Todd Haynes» film (based on a young adult novel) about parallel tales of fearless, curious 12 - year - olds — in 1977 and 1927.

Just curious since my series is in a parallel dimensional world to Earth called Eirinth that has the Christian faith background with a character like Aslan in being another manifestation of Jesus but mine is not visually present even though my character of Tenrai Daystar was mortal at one point on Eirinth like Jesus was on Earth.

Shows there also include a curious parallel, again from around 1960, in Yves Klein and his trademark royal blue.

Halley goes on from there in his own curious fashion, creating visual parallels between the color fields in abstract painting and, yes, prison cells, circuit diagrams, and flowcharts.

The Intuitionist is set in the curious world of elevator inspection, portrays a universe parallel to our own, where matters of morality, politics, and race reveal unexpected ironies.

Darwin also argued, in 1839, that curious geological formations — what appeared to be parallel tracks — in the Glen Roy valley of Scotland were the result of an uplifted sea bed.

Answering «why» leads to an curious explanation that strongly parallels what's currently happening in the insurance industry.