Sentences with phrase «odd corners of»

Effectively shot by McQueen's longtime cinematographer Sean Bobbitt on several real Louisiana plantations, «12 Years» explores a number of odd corners of the slavery situation, like the slave Mistress Shaw (Alfre Woodard) who is married to the plantation owner and serves an elaborate tea on Sunday mornings.

These were some of the questions I explored when researching The Psychopath Test, my new book about the odder corners of the «madness industry».

Few things in cinema have been as reliably funny as watching Christopher Guest assemble his de facto repertory company and bring to life the misfits and malcontents who make up some small, odd corner of the universe.

In an odd corner of my kitchen, I used to have a coffee / tea / hot cocoa station there with a decent sized chalk board.

Not exact matches

But as the farmer goes about the task of raising wheat, he finds the most beautiful of flowers springing up in odd corners; he notices for the first time a grove of stately trees.

A large part of our time as a family has been spent dressed in odd clothes, living in the past and camping in obscure corners of the country.

Finding them in a few odd, unpleasant corners of the planet seemed to confirm this.

An apple shape with a big bust will always pose the odd problem but if you'd like to learn more feel free to pop over to my little corner of the internet at www.whenthegirlsrule.com

The oddest thing about «The Peacemaker» is that DreamWorks appears to have cut corners on the production - a peculiar decision, given the importance of a rip - roaring success to inaugurate the studio.

Technically, it's just a shot of a forest, but Glazer's chosen a particularly odd - looking stretch of forest for Laura to wander into; it looks like she's wandering into a foreboding corner of Endor.

I did find the very odd bout of clipping when getting into a corner, but overall the framerate stays solid and the game runs fine, which should be a given as it's running on hardware that is only one year old.

I wasn't expecting a last - minute twist of the sort that he painted himself into a corner with years ago, but in fact the film concludes with something decidedly odder — a throwaway coda in which a former Shyamalan star ruefully turns up to acknowledge an allusion to one of MNS's earlier movies.

Whether or not you are riveted by the performances, you can't help admiring the landscape, the film screened with an odd 4:3 aspect ration (with rounded corners) to simulate a closed - in scenario in the midst of a vast desert, though it's doubtful that the Argentine Tourist Board would use any part of the movie to advertise the wares of its favorite country.

Triple 9 is an anomaly; Australian director John Hillcoat (The Road) uses the tried - and - true plot device of a cornered father (Chiwetel Ejiofor) forced to act out risky odd jobs for the Russian mafia (led by Kate Winslet here in a really transformative and nasty, cold calculating performance) for the chance to see his son again, except it's impossible to actually care or want him to succeed.

Being able to move the tie - down points to fit the cargo you're hauling is a lot better than having to use extra long straps at odd angles like I'd have to do with my older Silverado's regular tie - down points at the corners of the bed.

I can't figure out the source of this odd moaning / groaning sound that emanates from somewhere near the passenger side's wheel down in that corner someplace.

Lunch was an odd - for - snowy - Montana - backwoods meal of authentic tamales, tacos, and burritos, and for some reason there was a full wine rack in the corner.

Also, air con temperature and fan speed readouts, which you typically expect to find in the air - con control cluster are shifted to a corner of the screen, leaving an odd, blank space between the dials.

It's so good at every angle of corner and every bit of topography we found that we got out of it looking at the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 265/35 R19 front and 285/30 R20 rear tyres with involuntary nodding respect, which seemed odd in hindsight.

There's also the odd instance of a touch of extra feedback coming through the wheel as the front wheels search for drive out of sharper corners.

At the next corner, he did the same; a gesture that was either brotherly or proprietary, but awkward either way, as if one of them were blind or doddering, or as if both were involved in some odd, raised - elbow folk dance.

Roxanne accepted the odd condolence but from the corner of her eye she watched Philippe linger by his grandfather «s coffin.

Meeting in a succession of odd corners, the group was eventually relegated to the stacks where old card catalogs were stored.

The iPad 3 would benefit greatly from a speaker upgrade, with one on each side of the device (sound coming from just one corner sounds odd).

I'd definitely agree with your overall point, though — walking anywhere outside one's immediate neighborhood definitely marks you as somewhat odd in my corner of the US.

The corners of materials can be nibbled and the surfaces can the soiled by the odd accident.

The inside of the litter box is easy to clean, with no odd shaped corners and a lower front entry making the scooping a lot easier.

Shadows forming creatures skulking past, unfamiliar noises of beasts around the corner and the odd times being trapped in small spaces with them is where the horror aspect of The Evil Within 2 makes your heart pump.

It's a really odd thing to see in a game that is made with realism in mind, and it isn't a one - time thing either, with most races often seeing you spending the first few corners either on top of the other riders, or with someone on top of you.

Tossing coconuts at opponents (hitting the X button for direction and distance), spotting the odd hippo out by pressing one of the buttons, placing your head inside a lion's mouth (removing it to bank your points), penalty shootouts (whether you're between the sticks or taking the kick, pressing the face button that corresponds to your desired corner does the job), standing under a crate by pressing the button displayed on it and hoping that something positive will fall out of it as opposed to a nasty and heavy anvil.

Now the barren feel of the buildings and cities and small gas stations reminded me of the level of Half Life where you drive along the coast, it felt much like that, barren quiet and just something odd which was great but when going into buildings and there isn't anything in these buildings but a water in the corner or not that much detail in the buildings like throw about office supplies or papers everywhere you know very intense detail it pulled away from the experience.

The sculpture will be placed in a new plaza under development in front of the Odd Fellows building on Forest Avenue, which bisects Woodfords Corner.

Displayed in casually elegant arrays, in odd corners and on the stairs, Tillmans» images take us from total photographic abstraction to a tiny black - and - white image of bare trees, from a colourful closeup of a car's headlight to a portrait of an onion.

Early drawings from the 1970s are diagrammatic patterns of blue or black lines on white ground connecting corners of walls with door jambs and the odd fire - alarm unit.

Ten feet worth of charging cable is enough to take you from corner - to - corner so you can sprawl out however you wish with plenty of cable to spare, with no stress on the cable connections, and without contorting yourself into an odd position just to stay within reach of an outlet.

There is one odd tweak: instead of accessing Google Now by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, you have to hold the Home button (also how you access Recent Apps) and tap the Google search icon in the corner.

«What we're trying to do is bring some sort of augmented reality to real - world life, and I think that's a vision that a lot of people have thought about for twenty - odd years and it's finally about to happen because of the technology advances that are around the corner, so it's an exciting time.

It seems like a solid idea from a consistency standpoint, but the end result is quite comical — every app has some sort of odd shape to it now, with corners cut off and sides tapered in in unexpected ways.

Bagel Labs also includes a scroll wheel measuring device to easily record the length of odd - shaped objects, and an ultra-sonic remote measuring sensor to size up hard to reach places, like say a corner between the ceiling and a wall.

At a time when the biggest smartphone brands in the world are employing displays that cascade over edges, have curved corners, and come in all sorts of odd shapes, the Razer Phone's display is decidedly traditionally rectangular.

I have a corner fireplace and an odd window to the left of it and several feet of bare wall to the right of it.

But once you tear off the October page from your calendar, we're guessing most of you would not be keen on any dark winged creatures lurking in your corners for the rest of the year (other than the odd toy Batman figure, of course).