Sentences with phrase «obscure bits of»

A subreddit is a place to exercise the minds of any and all songwriters.Find Lyrics, riffs, obscure bits of music theory, anything that would make the songwriting process interesting and fun is on the table.

I'll bet they are far more focussed on the 2012 Olympics and the opportunities they present than they are on obscure bits of taxation policy.

The artist began his meticulous study by picking each weed from the city streets — obscure bits of nature found amidst commercial waste (discarded candy wrappers, cigarette butts and soda cans).

In Tim Davis's «Permanent Collection» series he takes photographs of classic paintings ranging from still lifes to religious, using the light of the camera's flash to obscure bits of the composition and / or bring surface qualities, such as brush strokes and crackling, of the physical object to light.

But if I can't do the 85 %, I will sit down and study, learning obscure bits of the securities markets.

Ed Jefferson is a freelance journalist, writing about pop culture, obscure bits of history and «the millennials».

Still, this week it has emerged that under existing parliamentary rules they can spend hundreds of pounds of taxpayers» money simply by tabling an increasingly obscure bit of parliamentary procedure.

He went on to explain that adept runners like horses, dogs, and rabbits keep their noggins remarkably steady as they lope, thanks to an obscure bit of anatomy called the nuchal ligament.

This had the effect of making it far better known to general audiences, yes, but it simultaneously obscured a bit of the film's brilliance in terms of its critical appraisal.

Anything and everything can add to the mix, and I'm always shocked when some obscure bit of info stuck away in my noggin ends up being the very thing that inspires a solution or alternative to a problem that'd seemed otherwise intellectually insurmountable.»

Of course, using it on the screen does obscure a bit of the display, but the digital - analog wheel works when it's just sitting on your desk.

Not exact matches

For those who haven't had the time to read the legaled - up language of every single privacy policy we encounter (which, considering Carnegie Mellon researchers estimated it would take the average user the equivalent of 76 work days per year to do, is most of us), and even for people like me who do it for a living and still find disclosure gaps, the Facebook — Cambridge Analytica scandal managed to shed a bit of light on the otherwise obscure relationships between some tech companies and advertisers.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

Except the attack was shoved a bit offside by less than successful play from Alan Johnson whose confusion over a few of the numbers obscured the clarity of the target.

I never heard of him and just see several questions vaguely related to some obscure US figure popping up so I am just a bit puzzled.

But corona - graphs, which are installed on satellites and ground - based telescopes, are not ideal; to protect other instruments from potential damage caused by stray sunlight, they obscure an area slightly larger than the solar disk, blotting out a bit of the corona.

If you're downloading the latest album from an obscure Scandinavian doo - wop group, geography doesn't matter: It's just as easy to get the bits delivered to you in the middle of Wyoming as it is in the middle of Manhattan.

«It's a little bit of an obscure compound,» says chemist Rolf Halden of the Center for Environmental Security at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.

Full of bits of obscure, random knowledge.

Yes, this might be a bit out there for some, contravening an obscure set of second date rules devised by glossy magazines and so - called «dating experts» but dating isn't a game.

But while centering a film on the bad guys may sound like a cool idea, it's massively hampered by the fact that the Suicide Squad team is mostly comprised of D - list characters (like Killer Frost and Captain Boomerang) so obscure that they're every bit as expendable as Waller claims them to be.

(It is no accident that this bit of wisdom is cited in «Waiting For Godot,» an obscure theatrical work by another talented Irishman name of Beckett.)

The first game in the franchise, Red Dead Revolver, was a bit of an obscure title.

Clips of Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and From the East (1993) are here, of course, but I was drawn to bits of more obscure films, like the black - and - white short film J'ai faim, j' ai froid (1984) and the TV film Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (1993).

Christopher Plummer is one of those veteran actors that seem to have no end of roles available (a bit like John Hurt), and Jodie Foster plays the wild card — a powerful woman whose motives are wonderfully obscure.

The Russos also struggle a bit with some of the action sequences, over-relying on disorienting quick cuts and Paul Greengrass shaky cam that obscures the power of movement.

The ongoing march of the comic book movie genre stumbles a bit with Warner Bros.» sporadically entertaining adaptation of the slightly obscure Green Lantern.

For those who may not be up to date on their relatively obscure Marvel characters, here's a bit of her character history and how she ties into the Phoenix Saga.

I'd heard a bit about the movie — it would have been difficult, as a working film reviewer to not have — but not orally, so I thought that the title was pronounced with a long «o» or even a sort of «u,» so it rhymed with «Luke,» or, more pertinently, an obscure Italian - American slang word that Robert De Niro uses in «Raging Bull,» that word being «mamaluke.»

«Gorgeously shot and languidly paced, Kurosawa's film was, I have to admit, a bit of a drag, its ideas both too blunt and too obscure, and try as it might, it never quite moved me, even though plenty of tears were shed on screen.»

It's electrifying to watch the camera gracefully swoop under and over and around Theron and her enemies in every new bit of hand - to - hand combat; Leitch is not a director who relies on quick cuts, or shaky handheld shots, to obscure the tougher parts of his set - pieces.

The Tricky Bit — How to Account for Selection Bias Now for the important question, in the context of these data and techniques, how did I compare students in choice schools to students in traditional public school knowing that that difference in decision might be because of some unobservable characteristic obscuring the true comparison between choice students and traditional public school students?

The car changed registrations a number of times during its early years (which is a bit unusual for the U.K. during that time) and this helped obscure its existence from automotive enthusiasts.

The second teaser is a bit more telling, and shows off the front fascia of the Tacoma TRD Pro almost in its entirety, obscured partially by dust.

While relatively well - known among the older gear heads out there, the story of the Ford GT might be a bit obscure to the new blood.

The interfaces are exactly the same, so I won't waste too much space recounting every bit of the Nook HD + interface, which obscures any trace of Android 4.0, and is exquisitely usable.

Her cantankerous nature reminded me a tiny bit of the moments of being overly argumentative about the most obscure or random things (even advertisements on television) that my elderly mother had in her final year or two.

It's actually a masterfully crafted retelling of Romeo & Juliet, complete with barely obscured name changes for all of the major characters and a heart - breaking scene in which «R» bites and infects a guard in Julie's compound after gaining her trust and her love, reminiscent of Romeo's slaughter of Tybalt only minutes after exiting the church where he married Juliet.

The ebook «debate» gets obscured by the long - running and rather sordid experience of the music industry, as well as the whole bit torrent culture of pirate video.

Whenever politicians: i) do something on the cheap, ii) kick the can down the road, or iii)(perhaps the worst) enforce some obscure point of principle, haven't we learned it comes back to bite you far more savagely & expensively?

His beginnings are a bit obscure, but it is known that the Phoenicians and other ancient traders carried small white dogs on their journeys long before the time of Christ.

Those two features certainly knock down the $ 550 fee, but still leave you paying a bit of money each year unless you take advantage of the more obscure benefits.

Sky conditions are a bit obscured at times with fog on average 17 days of the month.

The details of how that happen, to this day are a bit obscure.

Here are just a few of the reasons, with some obvious and others a bit more obscure.

If you're a collector with a passion for Japanese culture, the Sega CD and obscure heroines then I think that you'll get a bit of a kick out of Time Gal.

To be fair, though, due to Disney and Marvel's recent push against promoting the X-Men and other movie properties they don't control, the roster is a bit artificially bloated with multiple versions of Iron Man, Captain America, Spider - Man, and the like as well as some really obscure heroes and villains from Marvel's history.

News Snatch: Taking an irrelevant and light hearted look at the more obscure stories from the world of gaming, poking them with a big stick and hoping to god they don't bite back.

To me - and this is really obscure - it reminded me a bit of an old SNES game that never got released in the West, Wonder Project J by Enix.

My love of all things Nintendo continued through the 16 - bit era with games like Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, and Uniracers (another great, obscure game).