Sentences with phrase «odd choice of»

It seems an odd choice of colours, and not evolved compared to the earlier G3's UX visuals.

It's an odd choice of launches for a company that has to put in a lot of work to come anywhere near Android and iOS» penetration.

On a less positive note, there is Samsung's odd choice of materials on the Note 3's removable back panel.

That it lauds strong encryption for its ability to «keep people's intellectual property secure» is another odd choice of security priorities.

At the same time, the USDA persists in referring to vegetables and fruits as «specialty crops,» an odd choice of moniker, as there should be nothing «special» about foods that are supposed to comprise half our diet at all times.

It seemed, at first, an odd choice of speaker at a conference about old buildings.

On the information available to me when I first wrote this section, Silverton seemed an odd choice of site; the Wind Resource Map of Australia and the NSW wind resource map both indicate that Broken Hill is not particularly windy; both show it as less windy than most of the highlands along the eastern coast and the Australia map shows the area as much less windy than many areas of WA, SA, and southern Victoria.

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

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.

Apart from the odd choice of award presenters (Ben Collins (ex-Stig) and Gemma Arteton), there were no real surprises here.

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!).

Though the volume rocker and power buttons look attractive in gunmetal gray, Dell made the odd choice of placing them on the left side, the opposite of most small tablets and phones.

Despite the odd choice of making the Defender arcade machine green, they did a good job at emulating a dumbed - down version of the real thing, complete with Defender artwork and joystick.

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.

An odd choice of words.

This fluffy featurette makes the odd choice of pretending that Tia and Tamera Mowry are in fact real - life witches.

But it loses most of those points with its odd choice of turning outdoor snowmen, gingerbread men and chocolate figurines into a Greek chorus that comments on the action with their silent scowls.

The first thing that strikes you about «Blue Ruin» is it's odd choice of a leading actor.

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.

Even so, the brightness of her white pumps kept my gaze directed downwards; they were such an odd choice of footwear.

It's far easier to spot an unnecessary comma, an odd choice of grammar, or a good place for an emdash when you hear it out loud.

One blogger scratches her head about this odd choice of venue here.

Caceres may seem like an odd choice of a signing for Premier League - chasing City — it's exceptionally rare that a player takes a step up from the Australian A-League to an elite European side — but Mariners representatives have praised the player's talent ahead of the move being confirmed.

Not exact matches

Volk - Weiss was a comedy - loving kid when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1998 fresh out of the University of Iowa, an odd choice for a Queens, New York, native.

«It was probably an odd choice from the perspective of the small - business owner,» says TriNet's Breslin.

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.

Yet Google's odd choice should remind us that whatever one thinks of Chavez's politics, they are impossible to understand apart from his belief in the resurrected Christ.

How odd, since Obama repeatedly insisted during the campaign that Afghanistan was a «war of necessity» (and hence the good war) unlike Iraq, which was a «war of choice», (which was Bush's bad war).

This episode from Esther offers us great encouragement and comfort when we find ourselves in situations where every choice is an odd mix of right and wrong.

John Howard Yoder's The Politics of Jesus surely would be an odd choice for a classic.

That may seem like an odd choice for a 21 - year - old's last kollege vacay, and it was, but it was hands down one of the best decisions I've ever made.

The reason why these Arsenal team mates may be a bit miffed with Bellerin is his slightly odd and eyebrow raising choice of his best XI on The Fantasy Football Club.

What's the point of paying a third choice striker (should we get Aubameyang), over 100k p / w to make an odd appearance for 20 mins?

The choice of words may seem odd, but in Communist China at that time people were assumed to have ideologies rather than personalities.

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.

Don't bet me wrong, I think this is brilliant, and so much better than 20 - odd years ago when the choice was limited to what you could find in the Simplicity catalogue in your local department store... but it also means it's quite hard to choose sometimes, with the plethora of options available to you.

For those of you who are familiar with the restaurant's menu, it seems like an odd choice for my food allergies (peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, fish and shellfish).

Plenty of water, better food choices most of the time (but still the odd take out or chocolate) and being back at work this year means LOTS more walking around (which for now is my little bit of exercise.

One of the benefits of being an older mum for me was that I've reinvented myself quite a few times over the past twenty odd years, some of that from choice and sometimes for other reasons.

(Kind of an odd choice for the «reform Albany» AG).

It appears Sen. Diane Savino — and a whole slew of other state lawmakers — is in Moscow, kind of an odd choice, given the current state of affairs.

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.

In some ways, a California company seems an odd choice for an upstate New York scientist who was determined to put down roots, but with a 90 % market share of gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers, applying to Thermo Finnigan was pretty much a no - brainer for someone with Burdett's experience, and it worked out.

The sea sponge may seem like an odd choice for genomic research considering that its simple body lacks muscles, organs, and nerve cells, but the creature provides a wealth of information on how multicellular organism arose.

Had his astronomical achievements ended with his departure from Italy, Cassini would have been an odd choice for the name of a spacecraft sent to study Saturn.

This unpretentious paperback has 34 quizzes, each of 30 questions with answers: a mixture of plain query, multiple choice, spelling bee, anagram, odd - one - out and identify - the - drawing.