Sentences with phrase «odd encounters with»

That is maybe the thing I love the most about travel, the odd encounters with new friends for life.

That's what enabled him to be fair toward believers, to write of odd encounters with something sacred, and actually to enter into real human dialogue, which we rarely see anymore among our much more brittle public non-believers.

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We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.

Here's a book that may be helpful for both you and Kensington with any «bumps» she may be encountering: «Odd Girl Out» By Rachel Simmons.

POF decommissioned its Intimate Encounters feature because they realized it hosted only 6000 some - odd female profiles that were mostly horny guys hiding behind fake cute female profiles and interacting with «real» horny guy profiles.

Many missions are not quite interesting and you may encounter some issues with the odd controls, yet you'll probably enjoy driving in the Wasteland, chasing convoys and contemplating wonderful landscapes, thanks to an inspired level design.

He lives a life of tension with his sick dad (Ian Hart) and solid, housekeeping gran (Gemma Jones), and struggles to keep the family farm going while binge - drinking at night and grabbing the odd sexual encounter with other men, without addressing at home or even within himself that he's gay.

This seems a little odd, since it'd presumably be very simple to change them, but each level is filled with new encounters and monsters so it's still not as if it's the same game but with better graphics.

Belle, a wistful bookworm, is the odd girl out in her village, and she has already brushed off several encounters with Gaston (Luke Evans), the duplicitous hunk who became a new Disney archetype (in «Frozen,» etc.): the handsome, big - chinned, icky monomaniacal two - faced suitor.

Does it strike anyone as especially odd that nearly all of the films released this year by Paramount Pictures have dealt with encounters with alien life form with potentially catastrophic results for mankind as a whole?

Sure, there isn't Elvis as a ghost, or the encounters with Odd's parents, or the time - warping portal, but that's all small potatoes.

Otherwise, my only beefs with the C400 involve the infotainment system, which changes the brand's excellent COMAND system just enough to force me to relearn how everything works, and a couple of odd rattles in our tester: There was an intermittent noise from the steering column, and a more persistent glass - on - weatherstrip noise from the driver's side window — I re-rolled up the window, checked the door closure, everything I could think of, yet it reappeared whenever I encountered rough surfaces.

However, it's odd to encounter this drawback with preloaded software.

If you have encountered new or odd word in a book you have been reading, you can learn its meaning with the help of a pre-installed vocabulary.

«Life at Pez Maya has an odd tendency of filling itself with very rich and otherworldly experiences that one would be lucky to encounter in a year.

I encountered the odd little bug, but overall the experience was smooth with no note worthy problems getting into matches.

Over the last few weeks I have encountered a rather odd collection of sculptural things: the postwar ceramic sculpture of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti bursting with dynamically glazed and roughly handled surfaces, currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center; The Age of Innocence, a victorian bust in three different materials by the English sculptor Alfred Drury at the Henry Moore Institute; a visit to Henry Moore's house, studios, and now foundation at Perry Green, and most recently what I can only describe as a wonderfully insane lecture by the contemporary sculptor Thomas Houseago, which involved an increasingly drunk, cursing artist saying some surprisingly sincere, profound things about sculpture.

For those who don't have time to watch the video, here's more on Sarno, and on how Obert, then a magazine writer, heard about this odd character and decided to seek him out — with the resulting encounter triggering his decision to shoot the film (his first):