Sentences with phrase «odd choice as»

The combination, however, of two very dry ingredients seemed like an odd choice as you will definitely need something wet to drink in order to enjoy this one.

Victoria seems rather an odd choice as a feminist heroine, given that her name became synonymous with sexual conservatism and rigid gender codes.

Documentarian Spurlock is an odd choice as director, unless the band plans to eat at McDonalds a lot.

Pine and Hardy are an odd choice as Men Who Bond.

Eminem and Skrillex are odd choices as well.

Not exact matches

It does strike me as an odd choice though for someone who claims to have followed Buddha, even for a short time.

I find it odd that the American evangelical producers would make the choice to cast a dark skinned man as Satan.

Just strikes me as an odd choice.

So with the former German international set for a long injury lay - off it seemed an odd choice for me and as we reported here at Just Arsenal earlier in the week it has now been almost two years since we started a game with the club captain in the side.

Considering that only two of the last seven meetings between these sides has cashed the over 2.5 goal ticket, my choice here may strike you as a bit odd.

I think that as parents, we face some of the toughest cooking conditions, some of the most discerning audiences, and some of the oddest ingredient choices.

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I must admit, however, that putting a croissant as the featured food in this poster was a very odd choice.

As odd as this sounds, giving him permission to exhibit behaviors that you actually don't want — such as crying — will help these behaviors to go away because he will know he has a choice in the matteAs odd as this sounds, giving him permission to exhibit behaviors that you actually don't want — such as crying — will help these behaviors to go away because he will know he has a choice in the matteas this sounds, giving him permission to exhibit behaviors that you actually don't want — such as crying — will help these behaviors to go away because he will know he has a choice in the matteas crying — will help these behaviors to go away because he will know he has a choice in the matter.

The hiring of Perry as lead investigator was an odd choice for a governor renowned for maintaining a tight, loyal circle of personnel.

Mayor de Blasio is the only pol of note still on board — odd as that choice is for the leader of a city targeted by al Qaeda and ISIS - inspired terrorism, as well as OLR's FALN.

With some, I believe the judges got it right, but others struck me as odd choices.

It certainly seems an odd choice to test a price range for the passport / undo service and trial limited swiping at the same time, in the run up to launching your monetisation strategy, as it will obviously create uncertainty.

One of the best WWII - themed games ever released... Despite minor flaws with the story's continuity, length of game and odd mission choices, the game stands strong as one of the best of this year.

Brad Pitt, although he makes an odd haircut choice, is steady as a straight arrow family man and is as indestructible as Bruce Willis in a Die Hard movie.

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The Light Between Oceans is a laughable melodrama, and it ends up being quite an odd choice of material for Cianfrance, as he delivers it all with his usual grit and seriousness, making it seem even more daft as it is played so unrelentingly straight.

Sure I think Rooney Mara is an odd choice for Tiger Lily but at the moment I am more focused on the introduction of Levi Miller as Peter.

Despite seeming like an odd choice, it was heavily favored as the probably winner or alternate by most AwardsWatch forum members participating in the Gold Rush...

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

Towards the beginning of her career, casting Blunt as an action star might have seemed an odd choice.

My personal initial read on this was dogs are simple and just not smart enough to speak Japanese but as far as we know these dogs have only ever lived in Japan so it admittedly is an odd choice that I've seen others take understandable umbrage with.

Milk, in addition to doing the body good, is widely understood as being a perfectly fine drink for children but an odd choice for anyone over the age of 18.

Although not quite as sharp and clever as the aforementioned Heckerling vehicle, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman (its rather odd choice for a title is derived from a lyric to the 1997 White Town song, «Your Woman», covered by Tyler James in 2005, the same year this was filmed), is actually quite inventive in its own fashion, with Heckerling drawing upon her own experience in being an older woman working in a youth - oriented industry, making entertainment meant to appeal to people about 30 years her junior.

As the director of The Help, Tate Taylor may seem like an odd choice to make a movie based on Paula Hawkins» sexy mystery thriller bestseller.

Andrew Garfield may seem like an odd choice to play Doss, but he's perfectly cast as the type of aw - shucks, Gomer Pyle - like goober who shows his true colors when it counts.

The choice of football as a theme (this is the claymation equivalent of One Million Years B.C. meets Escape to Victory) was obviously designed to appeal to children and general audiences alike, although its European flavour perhaps explains the film's underperformance in North America, and does give Early Man a very odd balance of elements.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

As talented as Penn is, he doesn't seem to connect with this character and physically he's an odd choice to play a brawny baby - faced former boxeAs talented as Penn is, he doesn't seem to connect with this character and physically he's an odd choice to play a brawny baby - faced former boxeas Penn is, he doesn't seem to connect with this character and physically he's an odd choice to play a brawny baby - faced former boxer.

Casey Affleck is an odd choice to play the street - smart Kenzie: The Dorchester his brother has conjured up looks as though it would have scrubbed the boyishness from Casey's face by the time he hit his mid-teens.

As for the boyfriend role of nice guy Ethan, Rory Scovel may seem like an odd choice.

While Golf may seem like a bit of an odd choice of game, it was one of the very first titles Mr. Iwata worked on as a programmer.

A rather odd choice to focus a direct on, but there's sure to be some other surprises tucked in as well.

Auteil is excellent as the unfortunate Vrinks, with his expressive face and commanding presence, and although some of his scenes have their power diminished by some odd choices by Marchal — the non-linear format in this case reduces the impact of Vrink's fall — he really steals the show.

This is a great extension to odd one out activities, as it gives learners real choice!

The explanation for this odd fact: since 1981 Chile has had a more comprehensive school choice system than any other country in the world, as well as a system of publicly available information on student test performance.

For the union and its Democratic supporters, there is no such thing as overkill when it comes to beating up on vouchers — which is odd, given that even as voucher availability has expanded, public schools remain the overwhelming choice of parents.

It's not safe or convenient to try to call up a specific song on the center screen display, so Your Humble Servant resorted to voice activation, and in the mood for something bombastic, I asked for Jimmy Smith's «Walk on the Wild Side,» which was later confirmed as, indeed, a choice among the 6,200 - odd tunes on the iPod, but one that Cue simply could not find.

The diesel engine tested here doesn't feel as keen as its torque figure suggests, but as a cheap to run company car choice it's hard to fault, with little fuss at motorway speeds and just enough grunt to make the odd country lane interesting.

It you envision your Chromebook as laptop first, however, that you'll use only occasionally to play the odd Android game, then a 16:9 aspect display is the better choice.

Also, this series seems to release super slow, too bad as it jars with the extreme fast pass of the story, its not a good thing, but the story and art and all that, pretty good, the concept alone is interesting, and the characters and concepts as presented are good, but, these volumes are edited to a degree, which is odd, this is a teen series, so, why cut the swearing, why change the names, why doctor the art when there's nothing mature to cover up in the first place... not good choices on the part of the American release staff, though this volume doesn't have those things to such a degree so, maybe those comments should be for a earlier volume.

48 - Hour Test The oddly named «Motion» — not an odd word, just an odd choice — is BlackBerry Mobile's second phone as a new venture, a quasi-startup housed within Chinese giant TCL.

I think this is kind of an odd choice because Tropicana is sort of a party scene and I think of DoubleTree as a family and convention brand (we stayed there a lot when I was a kid because of the cookies, and some hotels are sprawling).

I believe this was a new hotel for GRJ and some aspects could have been better such as food choices there were some odd combinations.

JFK, and particularly T4, strikes me as an odd choice.