Sentences with phrase «odd habit of»

I have this odd habit of working on «projects» while on vacation.

For the last ten years, Apple has had an odd habit of nickel - and - diming customers over the cost of internal storage.

Europeans mainly use bikes for commuting, but have the odd habit of ignoring models made explicitly for that purpose in favour of sleeker, faster models which are then expensively modified.

The cast has the odd habit of crowbarring lectures on philosophy and psychology into everyday conversation.

We noticed he had a very long tongue and also had an odd habit of starting to lick anyone who petted him.

Bull Terriers have an odd habit of going under the Christmas tree to enjoy the branches on their back, but then go into a trance that may be a partial seizure.

Certain breeds are predisposed to these behaviors, such as Dobermans, who suck on their skin, German Shepherds, who chase their own tails, and English Bull Terriers, who have the odd habit of sticking their heads underneath objects and freezing in place.

Kindles» App store has a wide selection of games, but the tablet has the odd habit of always asking, after you think you've downloaded the game, if you want to download the whole game (this is typically for storage space consideration).

Back in August, I wrote about Amazon.com's odd habit of frequently bragging about sales of its Kindle e-reader without ever providing explicit numbers.

No matter the technical advances or the amount of tactical analysis that is applied to the game, football has an odd habit of repeating itself.

One of the funnier stories surrounding Euro 2016 has been Germany manager Joachim Lowe's odd habit of sticking his fingers in his nose after touching himself in the armpit or the crotch.

Would he have laughed at the odd habits of the gentiles?

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America is such an odd combination of Christian pieties and post-Christian habits of thought.

Now, this may strike us as a little odd because we know Jesus wasn't in the habit of speaking unkindly about slaves or people of low status.

I've recently fallen into a weird habit now that I'm working from home full time, one so odd that it makes me think I've been replaced with an alien version of myself.

Spending time with your child at odd hours of the night should not be made a habit, but can also provide for some lovely memories (when else is your little star going to greet the moon?)

10:37 - You can add to that some really rather odd behaviour, not least the company's persistent habit of paying out massive severance payments (in Rebekah Brooks» case something like # 1.7 million) to former employees who are being interviewed by police and have run the company's reputation into the mud.

Miliband himself looked odd and false, his habit of calling the audience «friends» becoming more grating by the moment.

Bevirt spent hundreds of hours cleaning up nails and performing other odd jobs at construction sites to earn enough for the costly mountain bikes and computers that would feed his technology habit as the years went by.

The need to hop fast in open habitats seems to have driven the evolution of an odd habit in some of Australia's iconic marsupials, they use their tail as a fifth leg

In any case, this odd dietary habit may prove beneficial for both C. peregrina and the colony of hydroids it preys on: The nudibranch gets extra nutrition, and as a result it can make ends meet by consuming fewer polyps — thus reducing the overall damage to its hydroid home.

The point here being that before you jump into an odd habit in the name of living a healthier lifestyle, it is a good idea to take a step back and consider the actual medical benefits that are associated with it.

If you miss the odd day, it does not negate the process of building a new habit.

But theres good news, whatever your level of obsessive compulsive behavior: Over the last decade or so, a flurry of research (some with high - tech imaging tools that let doctors peer into the brains of people with OCD) has yielded a better understanding of why some peoples disturbing thoughts and odd habits spin out of control.

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After the painfully one - sided sexual adventure of the first film, in which she met Christian and was brutally exposed to his odd habits, and after Christian's even nastier control - freakishness in the ill - conceived «50 Shades Darker,» Ana is at last able to demand to hold the reins from time to time — a narrative turn that manages to frame their marriage as an empowering structure for women: now enclosed in the gilded cage of their union, Ana can pull on the rope that Christian had tied around her neck.

He becomes suspicious of his middle - eastern looking neighbor Khaled Abol Naga who has just moved in and seemingly fits the profile of a terrorist because of his friendship with other Arab looking guys who show up at his place with all kinds of mysterious packages and who has the strange habit of dumping his garbage at odd times at night.

Though the casting is excellent overall, Rockwell is the clear standout here — little things like his habit of repeating entire sentences when someone asks what he just said are a delight, but he seems incapable of delivering a line without an odd mumble or piece of inflection.

Garrett has his roommate Dan (Charlie Day), a master of non sequitur conversation and odd social habits (holding conversations from the toilet with the bathroom door wide open), and co-worker Box (Jason Sudeikis), who tries to convince Garrett to, 1.)

For the longest time the game appears to be a Visual Novel Dating Sim, full of sweet anime girls with odd habits.

Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: «The true extent of children's snacking habits is greater than the odd biscuit or chocolate bar.

If your Kindle Fire has an annoying habit of restarting itself at the oddest moments than this is the Kindle trick for you!

In Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls — which has to be in the running for one of the oddest titles ever — Sedaris takes readers on a global tour, with essays on an eclectic group of topics that range from the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra to the squat - style toilets in Beijing.

Though we are clearly aware of his odd habits, we tend to ignore all that when he starts to plant a few kisses on our cheeks.

Answer: Many Dogs Have This Odd Habit Called Pica Of Eating Dirt, Litter, Etc..

In the meantime, since you clearly love learning about dogs and some of their odd ancestral behaviors, check out these 25 ancient dog breeds that may have contributed to your dog's wacky habits before going extinct!

Best way to break your four - footed child out of this habit, is to ignore it when it starts with odd shivers for no apparent reason, and give it lots of attention when it is calm and collected.

Compared with some pets, adult cats don't usually make a habit of swallowing objects, although there are the odd cats that will attempt to eat anything.

You can share your dogs little idiosyncrasies and odd amusing habits and find out by reading the posts of others, how common some behaviours are.

However, driven by the instincts, like most dogs, your pooch must also be in the habit of getting into all the odd places looking for food.

Movement feels slightly too sticky, for example, with a touch of latency and an odd, awkward habit of swinging you around when trying to turn when sprinting.

For the longest time the game appears to be a Visual Novel Dating Sim, full of sweet anime girls with odd habits.

These games affected me deeply and shaped most of my gaming habits in the ensuing 20 odd years.

From Frida Kahlo to Coco Chanel, Salvador Dalí and more, Artsy has explored the fascinating (and, at times, odd) superstitious habits of famous artists, designers and musicians.

My impression is that some of my bosses still don't get it, but they kind of let me keep at it, in the way that a family tolerates an eccentric uncle with odd habits.

But I agree: the locations are odd this year which makes this an odd year... weather seems to make a habit of being odd.

Sorry for the confusion, my habit of including odd literary and historical allusions sometimes encompasses the obscure.

The report also looks more deeply into other habits of this younger demographic, even noting odd tidbits like how they'll delete apps with bad logos, how they tend to organize apps into folders, and how they position apps on their device for easy access with their thumb, among other things.

It is odd but couples and family fall into the habit of having generic conversation with one another.