Sentences with phrase «odd lines of»

Whether beating up a woman is worse than cheating on taxes or drunk driving is an odd line of thinking to comment on as the degree of all three could vary materially but if we are talking about cheating a few thousand dollars on your taxes vs beating up a woman then to me that is laughable.

Foremost, while we can probably all recognize Paterson's goal is to deflect blame from himself, this is an odd line of argument.

Curiously, the only English subtitle option is English SDH, meaning the captions sometimes distractingly include the odd line of dialogue spoken in English and various foley cues.

The film doesn't make an issue of gender beyond the odd line of dialogue (referencing the multiple all - male squads that failed), but given the prevailing mood in Hollywood, its timing is impeccable.

Not exact matches

Still, it struck me as odd that the sort of high - end folks who were the core of Exclusive Resorts» and Airstream2Go's business would be lining up to take a similar trip.

1080i video looks fuzzy because each frame of odd and even pixel rows don't quite line up with each other, as the video has progressed from one frame to the next.

Even when she made it through the odd jobs, milking cows and clearing tables, when she became a cook for the university, I imagine she did not see that she would eventually become the Head Dietician and that for decades businessmen from all over Chattanooga would swarm to that dining hall and stand in line with undergrads to buy a plate of her remarkable food.

For complex, zig - zag polygons, such as illustrated in FIGURE 1,1 the general condition is rather that such a connecting straight line cuts the boundary an odd number of times.

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

Unexpectedly, I find that odd lines from the Psalms drift around my head in the strange dreamy hours when the railway is quiet and the black hulks of the Pennines are just traceable against the lesser black of the sky.

I hadn't planned for this little distraction at all since I had a nice bowl of oats lined up in my head (hmm, that sounds odd?)

A lot of people realised the position of Vettel's Ferrari on the grid for the Chinese Grand Prix was a little odd, as he was outside the white lines of his box.

these players rarely getting out of second gear is the reason we havent got what it takes - an its quite disgusting to see sadly i feel this has happened for seasons now, its just the odd game where we push ourselves, the difference being we had match winners to get us over the line.

The sound of line play, if you are close enough to hear it, is a low thunder, lightened now and then by the odd clacking of plastic helmets meeting and accentuated by an occasional expletive wrung from beleaguered guard or tackle.

The report suggests that his style of play is more suited to games in which the opposing teams will be playing a high line and this does not apply to Arsenal too often over the course of a season, which is why a lot of people thought that Arsene Wenger trying to sign Vardy from Leicester City was a bit odd.

As usual Jon you make some good points but with all respect to Leeds, Villa and Forest, no way would Spurs spend the amount of time in the lower leagues [just one year] that those three have spent recently and I'm sure you remember that great Spurs side in their double year dropping their first point after 14 games to Man City and suffering their first defeat to Sheffield Wednesday by the odd goal in three on Boxing day and almost beating our 66 point record [2 points a win in those days] which stood from the glorious thirties thanks to a shock home defeat on the last day of the season by West Brom with their frightening forward line of Jones, White, Smith, Allen, and Dyson and to make things worse the following year the signing of Jimmy Greaves, and don't let anybody tell different without doubt the greatest striker the English game as ever seen.

The Saints have won eight of their last twenty four EPL away games but fully covered a -0.75 line just twice as it seems if they do win on the road it is usually by the odd goal.

We are looking at Coutinho, Firmino, Sturridge and Benteke though; and so at first this formation may seem odd, with only one player — Benteke — playing in his preferred position, whilst Firmino and Sturridge are out wide, and Coutinho is played in a left centre - mid position, however, one of the best aspects of the 4 -3-3 is the ability to have a fluid front line, with Benteke, Sturridge & Firmino all able to interchange and move into the position that the game situation requires.

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.

I give them kudos for putting some thoughts out there on a subject that has drawn much debate in the public affairs community as of late; however, I found the seven listed «tips to make sure you're reaching bloggers most efficiently» was walking the line between obvious and odd — «odd,» as in, «disturbingly oblivious to what I think most of us would consider standard good public affairs practices».

I think, in hindsight, what's odd about the story is the way that Labour thought they could simply turn up, appoint Dolly king of the Internet, dictate terms, and the whole blogosphere would simply fall in line.

The settled view is that he's out of touch, not statesmanlike enough — and frankly a bit odd, with his credibility as a potential national leader seemingly in line with his ability to eat in public.

«I think some of Mike's decisions in choosing to become a whip, when he couldn't vote against the party line... people see as rather odd.»

When absence would be too conspicuous or odd, like at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Cuomo danced along a line of fulfilling obligations without letting himself slide into narratives of 2016 ambition.

«When Sheila was taking such a hard line stance as budget chair, keeping tax increases down and cutting every pencil and budget line she can, for her to take a patronage job at the Board of Elections is a little odd,» said another member of county government.

The last time lines were drawn, a decade ago, they were designed to protect Republicans (and Republican - friendly Democrats like Carl Kruger, whose odd - shaped district was the result of a deal he struck with former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno).

The evolution in the structure of their teeth, odd - toed limbs, obvious mobility of the upper lip, and other aspects, joins the horse to the evolutionary line of odd - toed, hoofed mammals: the Perissodactyls.

The book is studded with explanations of common but uncelebrated objects — those dumbbells that hang from the undersides of power conductors (to absorb wind - induced vibration); the odd holes in barns (for owls invited in to eat the mice); and the colorful globes on power transmission lines that cross rivers (to alert pilots of tall - masted boats and low - flying aircraft).

TRuly an awkwardly placed contrast seam in your leggings... a line drawn from your crotch to your ass crack... I have a Nike pair and they are for home use only because of that seam... such an odd design

The odd lines and squiggly contours of the quilting feel unique, and the details — the curve of that bottom hem, those weird - as - hell - but - somehow - really - cool armpit holes -LRB-!)

«I've been looking for a jacket like this for a long time — most of the ones you find have unnecessary details, faddish lines or odd - colored tweeds.

The subject line of Anthropologie's latest email struck me as a bit odd.

For all the odd lines which are funny or bizarre, these scenes feel like four episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Marco Ruiz and Sonya Cross» odd - couple pairing often mirrors the relationship between reporters Adriana Mendez (Emily Rios) and Daniel Frye (Matthew Lillard), and I still find all of them interesting, even if I'm a little concerned that their parallel story lines may take The Bridge too far again this season.

Bottom line apart from extra fight bits and various other odd small scenes the main crux of the director's cut are a few flashback sequences where Riddick sees a spirit - like entity of one of his people.

What's odd about this story line is that Captain America, the true (red, white, and blue) «patriot» of the group, goes against the US, abruptly leaving the meeting and going rogue.

I just can't wait for the odd intensity he will bring to the role, the off - kilter line readings, the strange bits of business in which he'll constantly be engaged.

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.

Still, there's not enough here to tell us whether this'll be a more successful work than Wiseau's last project, The Neighbors, or if its stream of random, noir - y images and odd line readings can amount to something more than just a new dose of nostalgia for Room fanatics.

It's deeply odd to see an actress of Helen McCrory's standing struck dumb by her character's lack of lines.

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Fassbender may have had a good, even great Macbeth in him, but he's been encouraged or allowed to deliver every line in a monotonal, whispery burr, and the rhythms of the exchanges go slack at odd places.

Everything works here; the characters are funny, the set - ups are funny, the lines are funny and even the odd moments of randomness (Mike Tyson singing «In the Air Tonight» has to be seen to be believed) don't seem too out there.

by Walter Chaw From John Ford to Akira Kurosawa to Sergio Leone then back to the United States with Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, trace the odd, international lineage of the American western genre as the seeds of its own completion are sown by Ford, only to be harvested a few decades down the line with a singular bloodbath south of the proverbial border.

She's a positive force, but also an agent of chaos, to the point where Baumbach is just as likely to pick up odd lines, dance moves, and bits of observation from her as he is to stage conventional dramatic scenes.

A London filmmaker (Submarine) and comedian best known on these shores as the Aspergers - y tech geek from the Britcom The IT Crowd, the bespectacled Ayoade is the odd man out in the group, and his offbeat, eerily cheery reading of every line lends the movie its single aspect of unpredictability.

It's an odd character trait but it ties in with the Shakespearean nature of the script and Rathbone pitches his character's absurd line delivery perfectly.

Davies chose to insinuate Nixon declaiming lines from Dickinson's poetry in voice - over at the oddest moments, sort of like ditties in a mediocre musical.

William Hurt brings his usual subtle menace and odd line readings to bear on his portrayal of Beverly's sad, wealthy and powerful father.

Jennifer Lawrence has made great strides in attempting to transform from the box office bombshell behind the success of films like The Hunger Games series, and the odd critical success of Silver Linings Playbook or Joy, into a legitimate, respected thespian, and with her most recent leading role in her then - paramour, Darren Aronofsky's mother!