Sentences with phrase «odd pair of»

Himid wins # 25,000, money which she will spend on commissioning other artists and, perhaps, the odd pair of shoes.

On winning the # 25,000 cheque, she said she would use the money to help support emerging artists, adding: «And I might buy the odd pair of shoes.»

He goes on the search for the missing girl that means everything to him, leading him to an «odd pair of American surgeons», one of whom will be played by Rudd.

Ginger (Isabelle, Insomnia) and Brigitte (Perkins, Juno) are an odd pair of teenage sisters, not really part of any particular crowd by choice, and they like to spend their time creating gruesome photographs of their own suicides.

You may be tempted to skip right over this odd pairing of ingredients, but I dare you to just give it a try.

Such an odd pairing of colors, but it looks so lovely together!

It is not interesting watching the odd pairing of Chow and Scott, known mostly for dumb - guy roles.

It's an angst - ridden, sometimes contrived film, but it features Paul Reiser on a motorcycle, a full - blown meltdown from Mary Steenburgen, and the odd pairing of Bell and Ed Helms as husband and wife.

Based on a true story, Philomena involves the odd pairing of a former journalist turned disgraced government advisor and elderly Irish woman on a road trip to discover what happened to the child that was taken from her nearly 50 years ago.

Despite my reservations about the Sterne - Steinberg matchup, the quality of works on view is so high that any excuse to see them will do, so get to the Menil for this odd pairing of wonderful artists before it closes at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Not exact matches

Change the spelling of a word, use odd word pairings or add accents to letters to make the name stand out and differentiate it from competitors.

Retail makes for strange bedfellows at times — and in this week's odd annals is the pair - up of putative rivals Best Buy and Amazon.

Retail makes for strange bedfellows at times — and in this week's odd annals is the pair - up of putative rivals Best Buy...

For, once we have defined inside and outside by specifying that every closed curve in a plane or curved surface in a space divides the plane or space into two regions in such a way that pairs of points in different regions can not be joined without crossing the boundary, very odd things happen.

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.

Some of the ingredients do seem odd to pair together, but I find it so satisfying to have so many flavors and textures in one meal.

Superstars like Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury and Tim Duncan were paired with mercurial head coach Larry Brown and asked to lead an odd - fitting bunch of characters that included rookies LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade.

This love for the odd side of the road led him to create the two - person sideshow act Numbskull, the Human Blockhead in collaboration with Jennifer Ann Coffeen, which the pair has performed throughout the midwest.

The inclusion may seem odd at a glance, but there's every chance that Klinsmann has selected the pair to help ease the integration of his two new prospects.

«Either of the pair tend to partner captain Vincent Kompany at the heart of the City backline, and the 34 - year old appears to be the odd man out.

ZKC: Non-Kid: trainers, black leggings (to wear under dresses, to do the odd yoga class, to lounge), pair of Havaianas, gold hoops, big drapey scarf.

They make an odd pairing, the serious interviewer up against the often facetious and occasionally ridiculous darling of popular culture.

It was one of the oddest pairings in politics.

For Byrne and Twigg, very much on the Blairite wing of the party, demotion is punishment for a summer of relative silence and an inability to make headway against a pair departments which aren't strangers to the odd gaffe,

Venus orbits the Sun, but not exactly on the same plane as the Earth, so it only passes directly between us and the Sun — what astronomers call a transit; think of it as a «mini-eclipse» — every century or so (and then, due to the odd dance of gravity, it happens in pairs separated by 8 years).

Now, a pair of scientists based in France and Switzerland have discovered another odd fullerene property: They change the amount of electrical current they conduct when they are squeezed.

But analysis of the data revealed something odd: the paths of certain pairs of particles flung out after the collisions seemed to be linked in unexpected ways.

And vice versa, owning a pair of flat and depressed calves, especially if your quads and hams are huge, can make you feel rather odd and insecure.

Although barefoot shoes may look odd, there's more behind this current footwear than a funny looking pair of shoes.

At first glance the pairing of cocoa and cayenne can seem odd, but it's long been a favorite for Mexican - inspired hot chocolate drinks and desserts.

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

So, if for some odd reason you don't have a pair of black pants in your closet....

I think I look odd in trainers with skinnies, don't wear heels at the moment and own just one pair of ankle boots, so maybe I will wait for warmer weather and try it again with some ballerinas.

A pair of pants, a straight skirt, some kind of jacket, even the little black dress - all wardrobe staples that just kind of fit the bill for the odd occasion if not an everyday item.

I got a great new pair of flares (william rast) and had them hemmed for a low / flat heel — I just wear heels so, so rarely — like the odd night out.

If someone on the streets wants to judge me of my suit paired with my odd shoes, I don't care.

Maybe I am the odd one out, but I cringe if I ever forget to put in a pair of pearls, I think I look schleppy and plain.

I then thought to wear my sweatpants out, without looking lazy and odd, so I paired them with a pair of comfy heels an oversize shirt and a blazer.

The unmistakable chemistry at play between the well - mannered, erudite Lemmon and the sharp - tongued, earthy Matthau exploded when they were paired onscreen, and was on particularly brilliant display in the hit film version of The Odd Couple (1967).

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.

That this odd - couple pair beats the career - minded duo to the altar is but the first of a string of hindrances for Tom and Violet.

«Finding Mr. Right» has the standard odd - couple pairing you've seen on the menu before, but there are moments of substance in this macaroon of a movie.

Audiences flocking to Philomena, Stephen Frears» (Lay the Favourite) adaptation of Martin Sixsmith's non-fiction investigation The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, may do so for its central pairing of Judi Dench (Skyfall) and Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa); their instincts may be at odds with the serious subject matter that canvasses religious interference and societal intolerance, but they suit the easy - going tone and amusing odd - couple act at the film's core.

Second only to Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» Davis and Jackson offer the most atypically fruitful pairing of Black's true - blue odd - couple structure — bickering over misheard England Dan and John Ford Coley lyrics, bonding over bad pasts and blasting down bad guys.

A nifty implementation is that player characters are cute little totem fellows while computer - controlled battlers are odd cubes with one eye and a pair of wings to boot.

The pairing of Aubrey and Dane together is an odd choice, but then again it could be said the romantic pairing of anyone with Aubrey Plaza would be odd.

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!

And so, as old men, the actors make an odd kind of sense paired off as old friends in Youth.

Carberry and Tweel make the smart decision to never really mock this pair — they're larger - than - life but not cartoons, and it's what we can see of ourselves in this odd story that makes for a memorable film.

However, the overriding theme is still very much the importance of family — an idea punctuated by the addition of Ingrid's also - spy parents (played by, in an odd but inspired pairing, Ricardo Montalban and Holland Taylor), who still haven't come to terms with her marriage to Gregorio.