Sentences with phrase «odd people which»

One quick sniff of a hallucinogenic and the audience is greeted to a bizarre animated world of odd creatures and odd people which Wright describes as «an addict on a bad acid trip».

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These are apps the average person may not use every day, but they do come in handy on the odd occasion, which creates an expectation among users.

Sorry, if this comes off as some super-sensitive defensive reaction, it just struck me really odd as I've only ever heard one person phrase the differences between men and women quite that way before and it was a man who was also an engineer which he kept bringing up to point out that that made him more analytical than any woman was capable of (apparently they don't have women engineers where he comes from).

I have conversed with some people who are almost «cultish» about it, which I found odd.

I read a comment that the person said Islam teaches «convert or be killed», which I find odd as I have been married to a muslim for 6 years now and neither her or her family have taken me out yet.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

Anyway, despite all the confusion about pre-millenialism, a-millenialism, post-millenialism, the recent invention of the rapture, Paul's confusing statement about «we who remain», the entire book of Revelation not appearing to be written by John because of the Greek used, and the odd way in which eschatological views seem to change in the New Testament Pauline letters, and the bizarrely easy way people like Thessalonians became convinced Christ had already returned in their time, and all the other confusing things about New Testament prophecy — the truth is that it is all trustworthy and you should not question this.

The queer thing — by which she means the odd thing — about the people at New Hope is that their identity is not that of gays who have become heterosexual but that of gays who are now ex-gays.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

What strikes me as odd or funny is how democratic it all remains; very few people champion the hook - up culture as a means of Darwinian or aristocratic self - sorting, which of course it could be.

We were an odd combination of declining imperial power, industrialized hell - hole, and socialist welfare state, which made a surprising number of people content all at the same time.

I find it very odd that some people seem to think it has a very mild flavour, which is why I suspect it might be a flavour experienced differently by different people (we all have different sensitivities with flavours — some are extra sensitive to bitter tastes for instance).

And I hope it warms up soon so you can enjoy a frozen treat < 3 I'm of the odd population of people that crave ice cream in a snow storm;) which I hope we have no more of this year ** crossing fingers **.

Some people who tried didn't even realize there was pumpkin in eat which I thought was odd.

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.

At the present time we are 36 points behind City — our two worst seasons over the last 60 years was the 1960 - 61 season when we finished 25 points behind the spuds (12.5 wins behind) and the 1994 - 95 season where we finished 38 points behind (12.33 wins behind) Should we fail to win the EL which is a real possibility and we finish 40 odd points behind the leaders it will surely spell the end for not just Wenger but for a lot of people at Arsenal — Bould and the backroom staff for sure and many of the players.

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.

Just looking back to conversation and how it began, now realised you suddenly popped in between without knowing what the debate was.The debate was started when a person signified that we do smart tranfers unlike other teams, to which I said getting 4 quality players for 77 odd million is smart and I also wanted to know what smart actually means and thats why I picked old examples.

Providing Wenger plays him down the middle and not on the wing, which is not a guarantee, he'll score you 25 + goals a season and their's no where in the world you'll find a better striker for # 50 odd million, some people talk out their backside.

Beautiful, amazing, odd, strange, fascinating and sometimes sad objects; a whole lot of interesting people; tired bones (from walking and hefting all day) and tired eyes (from looking at so much stuff); a lot of quick decision making and haggling (neither of which are skills I excel at); and what I love most of all - an entire day of uninterrupted conversation, laughter, food, and stories with a dear friend.

Most people do not tip, even on poker wins, which my husband found very odd.

I don't plan on letting her have juice except special occasions, which people think is odd of me, but I don't see the nutritional value in it when she could just have fruit.

Some babies teeth early — around three months old, and some teeth later, granting exhausted parents a few extra nights of well - earned sleep which they may spend worrying about the fact that the baby has yet to teeth when everyone else at Mommy and Me has already gained the admirable but odd - looking lower central incisors that make baby grins look hilarious to people who don't have children.

Tony Blair declined to be interviewed and thus his side of the story gets little airtime, other than the odd clip in which he outlines the scale of Saddam's atrocities on his own people.

We're all different characters and we're all very good friends... It's the most surprising thing I think I could tell people — actually we all get along quite well, which in a way is odd.

Meanwhile, he instructed the commission to negotiate potential reforms with legislative leaders — which was doubly odd, since their research had just begun, and since they were in the midst of investigating some of the very people on the other side of the bargaining table.

Which is odd, because people still care about Beauty — quite a lot in fact — especially here in Southern California, if I can be the first to make that observation.

«Very odd people must have trashed the trees,» says David Prior, a spokesperson for the U.K.'s Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions, which grants permits for experiments on genetically modified plants.

For some people, it doesn't even compute, which I found odd.

It wasn't always be chilly in Manado so whenever I went to Tomohon / Tondano / Sonder and in this case I had a chance to visit the Prayer Hill which has chilly spot last year, I jumped at the chance once again wherein I could dress up for the cold and wear my coat again without the thought of people will give me their odd stares when I'm out (one of the bad thing living in such a tropical country with only two seasons haha * crying *).

a San Diego girl looking for a good «bad» man I realize that I am young, which makes online dating feel odd - but - it is hard to connect with people in such a big city.

He is not available on weekends, which is pretty much odd as most people are free on weekends since weekdays are for work.

Traders (Blu - ray) Release date: July 11 Details: 2015, Dark Sky Films Rated: Not rated The lowdown: In a society in which many people feel lost and neglected, this odd thriller should resonate.

The character is funny, but he's also the only person in the cast going big, which is a bit odd... entertaining to watch, and a stylized performance, but still very odd.

It's a short, entertaining and kind of odd bonus feature which I guess is intended to treat Stan Ross as a real person.

Senran Kagura series has mostly received action focused hack and slash games so when it was announced that the developers are working on Peach Beach Splash, which was a third person shooter where the main cast had to fight among each other with water guns, it felt like an odd combination for a spin - off.

In telling a story about young people, their parents, their community, their faith, and the odd angles at which they all intersect, director Stephen Cone turns in a story of uncommon compassion.

And the film dips into half - sketched glimpses of the outside world — in which the poor live in stacks of prefabricated homes, in which corporations buy personal debt and enslave the debtor to work odd jobs in the OASIS for them, in which scores of people walk down sidewalks wearing OASIS goggles and gloves.

The significance of the Common Core is that the advocates for the Common Core and the people who are designing the test talk very explicitly about, as Carol said, these instructional shifts, which have not been publicly debated, which got little public airing as 40 - odd states rushed to adopt the Common Core in 2009, 2010, and which portend a dramatic shift in how we teach 50 million children reading and math.

Nissan let the current Pathfinder languish for years, and until a new model comes out — which is soon — it seems odd to remind people that it used to be a relevant SUV.

@Celeste, If, for some odd reason, a person can't find a Kindle app to fit his or her device, one of the options from Amazon is to download a book to one's computer as a digital file, from which one can transfer it to somewhere else.

In addition, you'll get Clipping Through, an intense first - person tome looking at a week at Game Developers Conference from Leigh Alexander's unique perspective, as well as Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 2, in which the «odd man out» in the early Mario games gets a well crafted book - length personal analysis from Jon Irwin.

In the same article, the reporter noted «an odd coincidence,» namely that «Bibi Chen had organized the Burma Road trip, in which eleven people went on a journey to view Buddhist art and disappeared.»

People love their Kindles, which is odd in a world of smartphones and tablets.

I think, as long as people can point to the outside options, it will be hard to break the lock on publishing (until they all go belly - up because of bad business sense and reader flight, [which leads to a really odd mental picture of a giant random penguin stranded, belly up and beak open, tongue sticking out, on a beach somewhere].)

Which is a bit odd, as the person most widely credited with the popularisation of the paperback (but not its invention) was Allen Lane, who, as founder of Penguin Books, introduced paperback classics to the British public.

But strictly speaking on the mortgage, which is what people are obsessed about, especially places like Toronto or Vancouver, they have these ginormous mortgages, set your payments for the bi-weekly accelerated plan, right away you've reduced 25 to about 22 odd years right there and be content with that.

Borderlands had considerably better loot and combat system's, making it all round a vastly better game, though I hasten to add that while they're similar they're still very different games, but the two both share that strange compulsion that I can not adequately describe, which is why I'm using this comparison, because many people out there have played Borderlands and will understand that odd desire to keep going.

Last week saw the launch of the Binary Domain demo, a 600 - odd megabyte download which offered a singleplayer experience containing futuristic third person shooting pleasure.

Figures of people seem to blend into hills or trees occasionally, which is a bit odd.