Sentences with phrase «odd group of»

There is no discussion about this odd finding or what other beliefs this odd group of people had, but it gets even better.

«Negotiating Rapture» is a pale excuse to assemble a very odd group of artworks.

In this filmic experiment notorious Danish director Lars von Trier casts an odd group of actors, cultural personalities and amateurs to play the participants in a social experiment.

The odd group of characters we meet at this roadside cafe in Oklahoma a wheelchair - bound Vietnam vet, a young Crow woman drifting nowhere, a lonely middle - aged widow, a Vietnamese refugee, a three - legged dog all suffer with their own particular pain and loss.

Over the last fifteen years I kept writing pieces of a story about an odd group of «students» in the English countryside.

The film tells the story of an ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, who takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a «foolish» fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate (Danny Devito), a street magician (Jon Heder), an adoring painter (Will Arnett) and a self - admiring model (Dax Shepard).

Tito (voice of Michael Peña), the co-owner of a taco stand, happens to have a hobby of racing snails (Samuel L. Jackson, Maya Rudolph, Ben Schwartz, and Snoop Dogg voice the odd group of other snails) with the owners of other shops in the plaza (voiced by Richard Jenkins, Michelle Rodriguez, and Ken Jeong), and Turbo becomes his prized racer and his plan to try to attract customers.

Credit Terry Stotts, Al - Farouq Aminu, and an odd group of long forwards and big men for getting it done.

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

Not exact matches

For example, while it might seem like an odd question Gregory and Flanagan worked with a group of optometrists and asked them what business they were in.

The conflict between the AAII survey results and both the price action and the results of other sentiment surveys (the AAII survey is definitely the «odd man out») suggests that small - scale retail investors have, as a group, given up on the stock market and are generally ignoring the bullish opinions of mainstream analysts and advisors.

We can choose to write off various forums as meaningless «gabfests» especially when we're not included, but it seems odd that most if not all of the other serious players in Asia see value in groupings such as the EAS, and it smacks of sour grapes.

In the context of the wider group though, it seems odd that although there was a (wise, IMHO) effort to bring in outside counsel via teleconference, there seems to have been an omission to bring Julie into that conversation directly.

And yes, it feels a little odd when everyone else in the room is checking their phones and laughing at things and I'm just standing there, but I think there was a time when groups of people in rooms all functioned perfectly well, phoneless and looking at each other.

Then in the U.S., we have all kinds of odd groups.

I had a lot of practice already working with some of the odder Christian groups so it wasn't that much of a stretch.

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.

That's fine if that is what you believe, but I still find it odd that the LCMS has seen fit that a group of human beings can determine who should or should not commune.

And in odd ways, these groups have taken over much of the agenda of the old social gospelers, presenting us with programs for Christianizing America.

It is the most valiant, courageous, and dedicated group of women I have ever encountered — an army of «gogos» (grandmothers) and an odd assortment of other unlikely heroes.

The isolationist party, best known by the name of America First, was in fact a jumble of people with a whole variety of agendas: there were those who believed that the United States should have no truck with Europe and its wars, there were socialists who found nothing to choose among the imperialists on both sides, and there were those who believed that Germany's was not necessarily the wrong side to be on, this latter group itself being a kind of odd amalgam of Anglophobes, anti-Semites who said that the war against Hitler was merely a Jewish war, and immigrant German patriots.

Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time of their conversion, etc., he found these relatively much more frequent in the group of converts whose transformation had been «striking,» «striking» transformation being defined as a change which, though not necessarily instantaneous, seems to the subject of it to be distinctly different from a process of growth, however rapid.»

Now, I don't share their beliefs, but it seems odd that they are RERQUIRED by government to accept members who disagree with the basic tenets of the group.

She ignored her friend waving her away from this strange group of twenty - odd black and white robed friars.

The relief for everybody else comes from the end of what had been, up until this afternoon, the deeply odd and frankly discombobulating sight of Jose Mourinho attempting to manage a group of players who patently did not want to be managed by Jose Mourinho.

There are an odd number of teams in the north group, brought about by our entry into the league, and we are the team without a game this week so we'll drop should Nottingham Forest get anything at Sheffield United or Hull win at Barnsley.

It reminds me of another odd phrase taught to me by a friend of mine who went camping with a group of very religious friends... Sitting around the campfire one night, someone actually said «It's so ridiculous how people think they can prove evolution with human science ``.

You may have received some odd messages from the EO Yahoo groups in the last couple of days.

One of the more active groups is ODD Parents Room.

As the presidential race heated up, the internet grew from being the medium of a core group of political junkies to a gateway for millions of ordinary Americans to participate in the political process, donating odd amounts of their spare time to their candidate through online campaign tools.

When quizzed about his new friend and confidante Lynton Crosby, who works on behalf of tobacconists, brewers and private health care groups he gave no satisfactory answers; only the odd curt response and the whole thing was kicked into the long grass.

The Conclusion of a six - part series As the presidential race heated up, the internet grew from being the medium of a core group of political junkies to a gateway for millions of ordinary Americans to participate in the political process, donating odd amounts of their spare time to their candidate...

This is especially odd as we know that such neglect of this client groups needs quickly results in massive costs to the public purse in emergency interventions and hospital admissions.

There's a ragtag of tactical ideas aimed at helping this group or that, tackling the odd market failure but missing the point.

Progressive groups, however, say they find the announcement odd, and say the appointment of Pataki flies in the face of a desire for progressive tax policy.

There were also some odd symbols of support, such as the dyed blue roses of a group of Thatcherite supporters.

Without the help of his group of 40 - odd Scottish MPs, Miliband would struggle to get his legislative agenda through.

Opponents, which included an odd coalition of the Catholic Church and women's advocacy groups, argued no - fault divorce debases marriage, making it too easy for couples who should be working out their problems to throw in the towel (the church) and suggested it will now be too easy for the wealthier spouse — usually the man — to leave their partners without adequate resources (NOW - NYS President Marica Pappas blasted what she dubbed «divorce on demand»).

But because Aspen has such high name recognition and because having a ski resort involved in the story is odd and unique, the press coverage looked something like this: «12 states, three environmental groups, even a ski resort, have weighed in, in support of this lawsuit.»

The group did spot an odd uptick in the number of electron neutrinos at lower energies — 369 events instead of 273.

But within days skeptics emerged, countering that the tiny remains instead belonged to a small - bodied population of modern humans and that LB1 — with her tiny brain and other odd features — was a diseased member of the group.

This happened between 1998 and 2005, but nobody had noticed the odd behaviour of this galaxy until late last year, when two groups of scientists preparing the next (fourth) generation of SDSS surveys independently stumbled across these data.

The first supernova that Schmidt's group fully investigated was actually a bit dimmer than expected, but the High - Z team needed more data to understand the meaning of that single odd result.

In 1963, Thompson, with the late Walter Feit, published a proof of the theorem that «every finite group of odd order is soluble,» a mathematical way of saying that objects with an odd number of symmetries can be broken down into simpler shapes.

Those who'd thought of their time as the odd one out gauged the room more than 4 ° chillier than those who'd remembered being part of a group, the team reports in the September issue of Psychological Science.

The RSS group also used the presence of multiple satellites in recent years to test for «odd man out» behaviours, when three or more satellites are available and one differs substantially from the others.

While it may seem odd to invest so much research time on two such close cousins, «each strain of bacteria has it own novelties, which makes the work interesting and exciting,» says Julian Parkhill, Project Manager of the N. meningitidis group A sequencing project at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, England.

If I do classes where they start and stop alot, you have the odd 5 minutes of team grouping or info explaining, you have a warm up which starts mega slow, you have a cool down which is something akin to walking, do you consider all these breaks and slow downs as well?

In a recent study, Niinimäki et al. (2015) performed MRI scans of the upper gluteus maximus in five different groups of athletic females, as follows: high impact sports (volleyball players and high - jumpers), odd impact sports (soccer and squash players), high force sports (powerlifters), repetitive impact sports (endurance runners) and repetitive non-impact sports (swimmers).

It's quite odd, because whilst dating culture dictates that a «first date» ought to be at a pub, I would very rarely go to a bar just for a drink unless it was with a group of friends at the start of a night.