Sentences with phrase «odd couple of»

With titles that make them sound like the odd couple of fiction, the word - of - mouth hits of the summer are steadily climbing the best seller lists.

The folks at Barnes and Noble must be terribly grateful to the odd couple of Charles Schulz and Robert Kirkman, because without them they would have almost no comics sales on the Nook.

Gavin and Beretta, the odd couple of Corvette Racing, have learned how to win.

What's the one thing we all now do — rather instinctively — when we have the odd couple of minutes to spare here and there?

Hunt for the Wilderpeople — Writer / director Taika Waititi's diamond - in - the - New Zealand - rough has a lot of heart and features my favorite odd couple of the year in Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) and «Uncle» Hector (Sam Neill).

And it's above all just a whole lot of fun watching this odd couple of the decade, tiny Agnes Varda with her two - tone hair and hip young JR with his penchant for wearing dark glasses 24/7, as they tool around rural France in his photo booth van, connecting with locals and leaving them with fabulous art installations.

The straight - laced outsider and the hefty son of the courteous Inspector (Jim Broadbent) make a wonderful odd couple of partners, but Sandford is too uneventful and the movie is too wise to merely let them loose in a buddy comedy.

The film's main attractions are its thumbnail sketches of feted critical personalities: the holy trinity of Otis Ferguson, Manny Farber, and James Agee, and the irrepressible odd couple of Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris.

They are the odd couple of 2 Guns, a buddy comedy coupled with a crime thriller.

Which, in cineplex terms, means an odd couple of releases set in different (but equally violent) eras of Russia; an outstanding Israeli film about grief; and not one, not two, but three sci - fi - inflected blockbusters.

Kevin Hart brings his own yappy style of humour and perfectly matches the Rock; they are undoubtedly the odd couple of the noughties and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that while this this may only be the second celluloid pairing for the two of them, it sure won't be the last... #listentothesoundofthedollarsrollingin!

Starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as an odd couple of private detectives, the film sees them embroiled in a mystery involving porn, catalytic converters and kids too smart for their own good.

(I say «almost» because there are the odd couple of garments that are too unique to go with everything, and, you know, not every red matches each other.)

The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.

As part of the reunification deal, Mr. Klein will become the deputy to Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic minority leader — creating the odd couple of New York's first female legislative leader, who in recent months has championed an aggressive crackdown on sexual harassment, and a man accused of committing it.

they'll be like the odd couple of weed and football....

This odd coupling of open - eyed risk assessment and a willingness to dare anyway is a hallmark of great CEOs, according to Robert Scoble, who studies CEOs for Rackspace.

The odd coupling of environmental activist Robert Kennedy, Jr. and former President Bill Clinton received one vote as well.

The sparky frenemies Bob and Bing played can be seen not just in deliberate imitations like Ishtar (1987) and Spies Like Us (1985) but also under the surfaces of the odd couples of Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and Sideways (2004).

Not exact matches

The two men are something of an odd couple: Gillam, in a crisp suit, is reserved and solicitous, while Smith, wearing a pale - blue golf shirt and worn jeans, is loquacious and salty.

I would love our BrewStation coffee maker — if only it didn't have this odd little area where water collects and just sits, requiring us to clean it out every couple of days.

All this struck me as very odd, so I wrote a couple of posts which pilloried the company.

One new spot the company posted online features a collection of odd couples — from a knight and a dragon to the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote — coming together in harmony as they share a McDonald's meal.

The odd couple @DamonkWayans & @krisjonescom, creators of @specialguest, believes that Hollywood artists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs should meet up more often.

They seem like odd couples: Aetna, one of the nation's largest health insurers, is in talks to combine with CVS Health, which manages pharmacy benefits.

i love the caption, David — it's odd, but i had that experience with the NA meetings i went to - i drove to one, sat in my car, and then left... made a couple of attempts to get back in with the group (s), but just couldn't make it happen.

There are a couple of odd people in it.

It's got a classic buddy - cop setup, with a mismatched pair of homicide investigators — but our odd couple, Juan (Javier Gutiérrez) and Pedro (Raúl Arévalo), are a charming drunken fascist and a sensitive liberal democrat.

is probably my favourite quote from the Odd Couple, but sorry Felix this one sort of comes with build - in gravy.

Then, when we ventured off to Paris a couple months ago, I had the privilege of enjoying a crêpe filled with four kinds of cheese (au quatre fromages)-- I think there was comté, brie, emmental, and chevre — an odd combo, but delicious.

I took some in to work intending to have a cake supply to hand for a couple of days but ended up having to reluctantly hand it out to co-workers who were surprised to discover that they really liked this odd looking (mine didn't exactly look like the photo!)

«There he was, a 50 - odd year old fighting a couple of 25 - year - old miners.

There seems to be the odd early signing illustrating a false dawn of further business, i.e. Cech and Xhaka, followed by a couple of youngsters who may or may not make it.

Whether this leads to a footballing remake of the Odd Couple, we can but hope.

Jones, son of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, was sharing a table at a posh Dallas restaurant with stockbroker Chad Johnson, son of Jimmy — and that wasn't even the week's oddest couple.

Arkansas had lost to Baylor, and when you glanced up there at the standings you found Texas A&M and SMU, a couple of the oddest sounding names since Toby's Business College and the Deaf and Dumb Institute used to appear on the schedules.

I think a couple of seasons back when he wasn't featuring at all except the last fifteen of an odd game, that would have been a great time for him to gain a full season of playing at the one position.

¬ ∂ In squelching what appeared to be a historic Edmonton Oilers comeback, theHurricanes found a wellspring of energy and emotion - and a couple of goals fromthe oddest sources - in Game 7 to win the Stanley Cup 3 - 1.

Something strikes me as very odd — we say Arsenal don't have tactics but did we not park the bus and beat Man city a couple of years ago — again we beat Chelsea in the FA cup final; we knew what Liverpool are all about.

The Dodgers also acquired Nick Punto in this trade, which seemed a little odd at the time: one of the game's top first basemen on a contract the Dodgers wanted to possess, coupled with a former ace and a former star who had both fallen on hard times... and also a bench player who hadn't hit even a little bit in his first year with the Red Sox and was only owed a little over $ 300,000 for the rest of the season.

The signing of Kieran Trippier for # 3.5 m a couple of weeks ago seems a little odd considering that we already have DeAndre Yedlin at the club.

The Swedish international hasn't had a good season at all, with the exception of the first couple of months and the odd games here and there, consistency wide he simply hasn't got going since the bad run started all the way back last year.

The first fifty - odd minutes were exactly the same; the rest of the game, to all but a couple of people, looked to have carried on exactly the same too.

Mistakes crept into his game last season — a couple of odd shots from range got beyond him, a few times he was caught wandering outside the area — and those little wobbles were compounded by a horror show in goals for Poland in their Euro 2012 opener against Greece where he was sent off.

While it may seem odd that a married couple doesn't live together, the Trumps» decision to live apart is actually part of a growing trend -LSB-...]

It's been a weird couple of weeks, I've been feeling quite sad that my littlest is now half way through Year R and a little unsure about what to do with myself, which is odd because every second of every day is completely full, it's not that I'm bored, it's more a restlessness, an unsettled what do I do now feeling... last Monday I spent the day in school with Hannah in Year R, it was a lovely insight into her school life, but again I came away a little sad.

Some of the best - looking couples I know have birthed some rather odd - looking babies who grew up to be good - looking young adults.

I remember how my daughter kept dozing off in odd places during the first couple of days.

While it may seem odd that a married couple doesn't live together, the Trumps» decision to live apart is actually part of a growing trend — living apart together couples, also known as LATs, or apartners.

My only issue is that it's a maternity dress with breastfeeding access, so there's the higher waist line and and extra fabric gathered at the front to allow for a bump — which looks a bit odd when your bump is now a couple of months old.