Sentences with phrase «odd choice by»

I have very little experience with Heavenly Sword, but given the type of gameplay it contains, Ninja Theory isn't an odd choice by Capcom.

However, if you choose to play the game on the easiest difficulty level you won't have access to the upgrade system, which is a rather odd choice by Avalanche, but ramp it up to the highest difficulty and you'll be getting those upgrades much quicker, if you can survive long enough.

Making heavy, active seats a standard feature on a high - performance sport sedan — where every pound of extra weight makes a difference — seems like an odd choice by Audi.

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.

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That might seem an odd choice, given the havoc wrought of late by a glut of cheap Chinese solar panels.

That might seem an odd choice, given the havoc wrought of late by a glut of cheap Chinese solar panels,» wrote Matthew McClearn for the magazine Canadian Business.

While spending down his formidable fortune — currently estimated to be $ 78.4 billion by Bloomberg — to fund reusable rocket research and space tourism might seem an odd choice, Bezos said last year that it's all part of a long - held dream.

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.

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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...

A standard growing pains set - up is imbued with originality by a glorious script, written with relish for odd vocabulary choices and attuned to the faux casual way some teenagers present.

It also seems an odd choice for everyone to speak Japanese except the dogs who not only all speak English but are also all portrayed by white actors.

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.

The director behind comedies When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride seems like an odd choice to helm the adaptation of Stephen King's captivity nightmare, but his work on Stand By Me convinced Stephen King himself that Rob Reiner was perfect for the job.

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.

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.

Ginger (Isabelle, Insomnia) and Brigitte (Perkins, Juno) are an odd pair of teenage sisters, not really part of any particular crowd by choice, and they like to spend their time creating gruesome photographs of their own suicides.

Despite the odd choices made by writer and director, it's clear Ms. Streep is loving her time on stage... her version of Dobie Gray's «Drift Away» is alone worth the price of a ticket.

One of the oddest things among school reformers is the myopic (and often limited) views on school choice (and by extension, Parent Power) held by each of the factions in the movement.

I remain confounded by the decision to forgo an in - dash controller — what an odd choice.

The Turbo's cabin is highlighted by a unique, D - shaped steering wheel and orange trim on the stitching and seats — an odd color choice, considering the exterior features red highlights.

The game is held back by a few odd design choices that seem to run counter to the rest of the game's design philosophy.

It's not a perfect game, with its lack of modes and the odd choice in locking off what little it has by forcing players to beat the Grand Prix mode in order to get access to Online, but it's worth noting that what is present, is done quite well.

Also, in case anyone had the same thought, the seemingly odd choice of horseback racing as a sport is justified by it serving as the «racing» sport (i.e. Mario Kart!).

There's a lot to love, really — it's just marred by clumsy controls, one of the worst cameras in recent memory and some odd design choices.

By the end of the game's 15 - 20 hour main campaign you do get resolution to many of the introduced plot threads, but due to the confusing nature of the opening Act, and the odd choice to make Aiden the world's most caring Uncle, Watch Dogs never manages to fully suck you into its world like the recent Grand Theft Auto with its fantastic lead characters and entertaining main campaign.

Let's get something out of the way early — the Xbox Elite controller is a marvelous piece of hardware, and you'll certainly pay for it at $ 149, but there are some odd design choices given the 100 million dollars in reported research by team Microsoft.

However the appointment of the artist is somewhat controversial: most famous for the works Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (a tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever sleepy with), and My Bed (her unmade bed, surrounded by grimy detritus), Emin is not your typical fine arts academician — and perhaps an odd choice of a professor of drawing.

And that's not to mention David Smith's odd - ball ceramic sculpture and a small, very choice wall - hung fairly recent Stella, from his continuing «Scarlatti Series,» a swirl of extruded, delicately colored high - tech material, engaged by «drawing» with silvery metal.

Of course, deniers will immediately recognize that Gavin's choice of smooth versus chunky peanut butter, and red versus black ants, and odd versus even numbered dominoes, all biased the model towards a preplanned warming trend, as later confirmed by his personal text messages, to be released on WikiLeaks in coming months.

Two interesting articles in the New York Times about living in small, and odd, spaces; one by choice and the other by necessity.

The screenshot in the background appears to be from the poster presentation by Hawkins and Jones — an odd choice of background.

They're joined in the middle by a microUSB port, an odd choice in 2017 considering the industry is moving to USB - C.

The parties shall agree each year by May 31st as to which weeks of holidays they will be taking and failing agreement, the applicant shall have first choice in 2011 and odd numbered years thereafter, and the respondent shall have first choice in 2012 and even numbered years thereafter;