Sentences with phrase «many peculiar features»

P.S. I do think my Songbook deserves to eventually win for itself a significant place among the works seeking to interpret the overall rock phenomena, but for now it remains a peculiar feature of Postmodern Conservative, and unknown to those who would most benefit from it, the handful of sane pop - culture theorists, and the more general class of intellectually open rock hipsters.

humors, peculiar features; oddities; quirks: humors of life.

Our bodies are extraordinary: hairless, upright and with many peculiar features related to intelligence, including an oversized head.

As with all quantum technologies, quantum computing is based on a peculiar feature of quantum mechanics, quantum entanglement.

One of string theory's peculiar features is that when applied to fewer than nine spatial dimensions, the mathematics goes wild, predicting violent fluctuations that rip apart the very fabric of the universe.

The team discovered the galaxy's peculiar features while conducting a Hubble survey of distant galaxies unleashing powerful blasts of radiation in the throes of galaxy mergers.

This allows it to take advantage of the peculiar features of quantum mechanics (such as superposition, in which a quantum element can exist in two distinct states simultaneously) to store data more efficiently and securely.

The most peculiar features are the replacement of the front side gills with a set of LED - illuminated fins and optional contrasting colour for the car's upper body section.

This particular model is called the MINI Clubman Hampton Edition and it's going to come with some rather unique and peculiar features that speaks volumes of MINI's image as a hip and vibrant automaker.

Another peculiar feature of diesels is that they make quite a bit of noise, even from a four - cylinder engine.

The main peculiar feature of these kittens is a turned - up and wide nose.

Due to breeding selection for peculiar features, these Bulldogs have changed their shape and form.

Never put these peculiar features on your sign, as unfortunately there are unscrupulous people who may try to extort reward money.

Have specific details in mind (a scar or peculiar feature) that will identify your animal.

Sanditz's paintings obsess over peculiar features in the post-industrial American landscape such as circular farms, shopping malls, trees halved by power lines.

It is a peculiar feature of human psychology that we look first to one another, not to reality, for cues on how to behave.

We also consider peculiar features of the Sun (very strong hemispheric asymmetry of the sunspot location, unusual differential rotation and the lack of the K - corona) that imply a special mode of solar activity during the Maunder minimum.

More generally, the peculiar feature of pay - for - delay cases is that they are about striking the right balance between the protection of IP law and the corresponding protection of competition law, i.e. it is about the coexistence of IPRs and pro-competition principles.

Indeed, one needs to appreciate the very peculiar features prevailing in the pharma sector and the potential conflict between competition law and IPRs, which results from the fact that - as a rule - pharmaceutical firms enjoy patent protection.

This sleepy former mining town of just under 50,000 boasts peculiar features that can make insurance shopping vexing.

... the rights and interests of native title holders are artificially converted to freehold rights and that the peculiar features of native title are to be ignored.

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We should expect alien visitors, were they not so frequently featured in such films, to be deeply puzzled at this peculiar human ritual.

Yet we understand the Hebrew doctrine of «the peculiar people» in terms not of its identity but of its distinctive feature, and this is not far to seek.

Find out the 11 features that make you truly peculiar

Together NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 form the system Arp 269, which is featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

The Antarctic fossil spermatozoa have several features that point to affinities with the peculiar, leech - like «crayfish worms» (Branchiobdellida).

Some morphological features of the spermatozoa are reminiscent of those of extant Branchiobdellida, a peculiar group of leech - like worms whose extant representatives are ectosymbionts on freshwater crayfish.

Otherwise, HD110432 and gamma Cas share similarly peculiar X-ray and optical characteristics such as high X-ray temperature, erratic X-ray variability on timescales of a few hours, optical emission lines, and submigrating features in optical line profiles.

It features a peculiar pattern, alternating between scoops of pink and gold, and has potli buttons on it.

A.R. can be disappointing for old times fans but some interesting gameplay features and a peculiar multiplayer game mode gives a value that made the title a valid alternative to Infinity Ward and DICE productions.

Fox has released the new teaser trailer for its upcoming feature Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which is based on the bestselling novel written by Ransom Riggs.

The set spotlights three movies: «Tokyo Mighty Guy,» starring Akira Kobayashi as a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district that brings him women and trouble; «Danger Pays» stars Jo Shishido in a feature about the heist of one billion yen and the various people trying to get the stash; and «Murder Unincorporated» with Shishido in a wild tale about an assassination agency that highlights some rather peculiar killing tactics.

As in that foreboding classic, Phantom Thread features an imposing, specter - dusted manse inhabited by what will become, by the end of the film's first act, a peculiar trio.

Following Frank's half - hearted self - introduction, we get his backstory: a boyhood visit to the 1964 World's Fair, where he presents his homemade jetpack; an encounter with a peculiar young girl, Athena (Raffey Cassidy), who tells him «I'm the future»; and a trip on the «It's a Small World» ride, which debuted at that World's Fair and in which — I promise I am not making this up — young Frank discovers an inter-dimensional portal to a futuristic metropolis in the middle of a wheat field, featuring flying «hover - rails» and the aforementioned building that looks just like Space Mountain.

Last Sunday marked the forty - third birthday of German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, and the video embedded above contains The Sound Of Claudia Schiffer (2000), a short film directed by Nicolas Roeg starring Schiffer herself — who also provides a peculiar voiceover — and featuring an arresting musical soundscape designed by Portishead's Adrian Utley.

Our good friend Larry Adylette, the superlative movie and music and pop culture blogger formerly known as The Shamus (and, before that, That Little Round - Headed Boy), has a few words on Helvetica (and «Helvetica») over at his new blog, Welcome to L.A. — which is also the title of Alan Rudolph's funny - peculiar 1976 debut feature, starring Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Harvey Keitel, Sissy Spacek, Lauren Hutton, Geraldine Chaplin, Viveca Lindfors and Richard Baskin.

As the Coens guide us through a fictional dream factory, «Capitol Pictures» (also featured in their condescending and morose Barton Fink), nostalgic fantasy and frivolous satire create a peculiar glow, then cancel each other out.

20th Century Fox «Kung Fu Panda 3» It is qualified for the Best Animated Feature category, though it is not listed on Fox or DreamWorks Animation FYC pages «Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children» & «X-Men: Apocalypse» Submission - Worthy Categories: Makeup & Hairstyling, Production Design, Costume Design, Visual Effects

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: Ana Lily Amirpour's first feature — also Iran's very first vampire film - is a gorgeous, peculiar reimagining of the familiar.

«Mockingjay Part 2» features the peculiar problem of having at once not enough story and too much story to tell.

Yet «Mockingjay Part 2» features the peculiar problem of having at once not enough story and too much story to tell.

There are no special features, just a trailer that makes the movie sounds worse than it is (it has one of those portentous voice - overs peculiar to bad action movies made in the 1980s).

Jonathan Glazer's peculiar film is the most original feature at Toronto, and possibly of this year.

There's a block of new and repertory features from India, a new film from Werner Herzog, Phantasm: Remastered and the world premier of Phantasm: Ravager with special guest Don Coscarelli, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Tim Burton in attendance.

In earlier work we highlighted the peculiar incentives for retirement built into these plans (see «Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys,» features, Winter 2008).

While running on a 600 MHz processor and Android 2.3 Gingerbread and bearing the same name as its predecessor, the Motorola Fire (Dual SIM version) is expected to features a 240 x 320 pixels TFT capacitive touchscreen display as well as a QWERTY keyboard that looks pretty much like a photocopy (rip - off) of the keyboard peculiar to the BlackBerry Bold range by RIM (Research In Motion).

Considering the popularity of the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series and its companion, Tales of the Peculiar, it's completely un-peculiar that Ransom Riggs (who is featured on the October 2016 cover of BookPage!)

The fact that this breed was created by mixing a wide variety of dogs resulted in a very peculiar, Dingo like appearance, that features versatile coat color patterns.

Those with peculiar anatomical features are most far - removed from the wolverine shape and so may be misunderstood.

The peninsula also has several notable highlights that are worth a stopover, such as peculiar old Balinese sea temples with shrines made of coral, as well as one of the island's oldest Chinese temples, with impressive adornments and architectural features.