Sentences with phrase «obscure piece»

The Odyssey is a very obscure piece of hardware.

Find signed editions, original pieces and other obscure pieces which challenge the conventional.

You could find the most random and seemingly obscure pieces at off - price retailers just because.

As far as the Requiem goes, it was basically intended to be primarily a contemplation for myself, to deal with some things that I was feeling after the death of my father (and then later, the subsequent death of a journalist in the Northern Ireland conflict who had just interviewed me, and that obscure piece in the New York Times about the Cambodian boy who had the option of killing his mutilated sister or being killed himself).

I have spent the past decade scouring Australia's so - called «dead heart» for rare plants, lost springs and desert hallucinogens, tracking the paths of forgotten bearded explorers, and seeking obscure pieces of local history, insights into grazing impacts and the elusive perfect camp site.

There were, of course, controversies, including a 1971 group exhibition in which the French artist Daniel Buren hung a 66 - foot banner that divided the museum, obscuring pieces by other artists, who raised loud objections.

I'll start with the more obscure pieces of information first, so I don't bore you.

Girl Talk, is Pittsburgh DJ Greg Gillis» mash - up project that lifts familiar and obscure pieces of pop music from all genres and pieces them together Frankenstein - like into undeniably enjoyable dance tunes.

Only in him, in his victory, are Satan and the evil spirits really intelligible and not just an obscure piece of mythology.

Unfortunately, Britain risked such tinkering earlier this week, when it communicated a veiled threat to the Ecuadoreans that it might consider applying an obscure piece of UK legislation — the 1987 Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act — and enter the embassy to arrest Assange.

Labour has vowed to use a vote on Wednesday to invoke an ancient and obscure piece of parliamentary procedure in a bid to force the move.

Such a move would be possible under an obscure piece of legislation, it pointed out, but experts doubted whether such a move would be acceptable under international law.

Perhaps reviving such an obscure piece was a bit of a punt for the Old Vic, but clearly in this case, fortune favours the fool.

Fortunately, there is a promising solution on the horizon: an obscure piece of technology known as the vanadium redox flow battery.

French director Xavier Giannoli borrows an obscure piece of American pop culture for his latest feature, Marguerite, a 1920s Parisian high society dramedy based loosely on the life and career of New England socialite Florence Foster Jenkins.

A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.

The irony is that the obscure piece of legislation that slipped through when Clinton and Gore weren't minding the store is about to throw the USNA and its global warming hysteria into its well - deserved dustbin.

BIOS updates typically have very short change logs — they may fix a bug with an obscure piece of hardware or add support for a new model of CPU.