Sentences with phrase «odd choices in»

Despite a few odd choices in the multiplayer modes and the slightly diminished visual quality than the other two major racing games, it's showing a lot of promise and could easily become «that» game you pick up over and over again.

There are some very odd choices in things being appropriate for kids.

The Weinsteins are often praised for being the masters of Hollywood promotions, but they make odd choices in which films they choose to promote and which ones they allow to die.

September's fiction top pick might seem an odd choice in a month that will see the publication of much - buzzed debuts like The Night Circus and The Art of Fielding and new novels from literary darlings like Ali Smith.

Perhaps an odd choice in a comparison of tablets, but the Nexus 9 comes with twin front - facing BoomSound speakers.

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.

The Evil Within 2 manages to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to traditional survival - horror titles while experimenting in new ground and refining mechanics, but the odd choice in voice actors and simplified plot make it lack the personality of the first title.

The cast of characters is as enjoyable as ever, with a lot of great dialogue between them all but an odd choice in jokes and a control problem cause some real issues upfront.

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

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.

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.

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.

It has been remarked that «pro-choice» is an odd term since the individual whose life is at stake has no choice in the matter.

The odd thing to you is I believe in a perfect almighty God, who created, and he gave us choice & sent a savior.

Hee Seop Choi, 2005 (career home runs, 40; career high - 15) The 2005 Home Run Derby was a little bit odd in the representatives were chosen to represent a country, ostensibly to get the world ready for World Baseball Classic fever, so Choi was the de facto choice for South Korea.

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.

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

It was an odd choice for L.A., which is in second place in the Pacific Division, but a look at the 2014 music charts reveals a few songs that are better matches for particular squads.

As odd as this sounds, giving them permission to exhibit behaviors that you actually don't want (such as crying), will help these behaviors go away, simply because they have a choice in the matter.

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.

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 matter.

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.

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.

I am discovering that there are several pieces in my wardrobe with the colors so I guess the Pantone's choice is not so odd after all.

More odd choices on kick ass ladies - Cate Blanchett - the luminescent creature that she is - looked silly in this fringe thing.

Aside from this odd design choice I'm in love with this sweater.

It's a slightly odd choice, given the bad rap of the 1 % and the fact that the term was coined due to protests in New York City in the first place, but it also begs the question: how many MillionaireMatch.com users are actually millionaires?

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.

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.

As Dean, Jeremy Northam is an odd and interesting choice, equally at home as a sedated crooner in a forties nightclub as he was as a lovesick poet in nineteenth - century Possession.

For «Mission: Impossible,» director Brian De Palma (an odd choice, considering all the gory films in his mostly R - rated filmography, most famously «The Untouchables») also has three elaborate action set - pieces — a suspenseful caper set at a posh party, an intense break - in at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and a ridiculous but nonetheless thrilling chase on top of a bullet train that is speeding from London to Paris.

Platt (Working Girl) is an odd choice, given his character doesn't figure in to the story very strongly, and he doesn't lend much box office appeal, but I like his inclusion; it's good to see that at least one person had trepidations about the flat - lining experience after seeing how it affects the others.

It's an odd choice to see the sequel to a game series come out in Western shores whose previous entries did not get the same treatment.

It's an odd choice to be frank, since the human characters have always had a Japanese anime style, either when rendered in 3D or shown in sprites, while Detective Pikachu has a distinctly more Western feel.

The rock song they use in the trailer seems like an odd choice.

Thankfully his directorial debut «Searching for Bobby Fischer,» largely avoids the latter (aside from the odd overegged moment) and delivers a genuinely heartwarming story of a young chess prodigy growing up in the shadow of the great Bobby Fischer's disappearance, and the choice he has to make between chess and, well, everything else.

The soundtrack has some very eclectic and often odd choices, never seeming to be quite in tune with the themes and styles of the storyline.

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.

Now, LaBute would seem an odd choice for a family comedy, having made his name with far darker, crueler humor in movies like «In the Company of Men» and «The Shape of Things.&raquin movies like «In the Company of Men» and «The Shape of Things.&raquIn the Company of Men» and «The Shape of Things.»

Aside from a few odd editing choices, Scott directs this wordy script competently, in a very English way of just pretending not to notice how ludicrous it is and focusing instead on the kind of swanky visuals that might be found in a Bacardi Rum commercial.

Given the plot, it's odd that Truffaut's Jules and Jim is never alluded to in any way, and the references to other movies that are included usually work better for the Cincinnati crowd (with its narrower choices) than for Parisians or Chicagoans (except for the one most American viewers are likely to find inexplicable — clips from the end of Robert Bresson's Mouchette to contextualize a suicide attempt, which I found offensive).

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.

It no longer pays to predict outrageous or embarrassing choices: In recent years, the 90 - odd members of the HFPA have for the most part come up with solid nominations, though it's clear they have to stretch to fill the comedy or musical categories most years.

But it's also a frustrating, infuriating picture; one whose world view rarely reaches beyond the theatrical classes of the Upper East Side, one where entire strands are botched or barely even started, and one where bold tonal lurches and odd editing choices glare out, like someone did a shit in the middle of that tapestry you'd been working on for a while.

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.

Sure, changing Ejiofor's character from an Indian to a «half - Hindu, half - Baptist» black man was an odd choice, yet in no way does it work to the film's detriment.

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.