Sentences with phrase «odd sort of»

First and foremost, don't sit down while you wait for your interviewer to come and greet you; it puts you in an awkward position where you have to stand and gather yourself and your belongings in an odd sort of shuffle.

If you do have an odd sort of router that offers WPA2 in either TKIP or AES flavors, choose AES.

An odd sort of an announcement today about a White Paper on the implications of Web 2.0 for the legal profession, but without any indication how to find the white paper.

Odd sort of way for the «one or three decades» of cooling to be progressing.

Appendix A: 1) Yes, this is a bit odd sort of thing to give to Congress, unless a surprising fondness for equations has been discovered.

«Climate science» rather than empiric science seems an odd sort of throwback to millennialist cults that emerge occasionally in human history.

It would be an odd sort of feedback that exceeded the forcing.

An odd sort of thing.

The big feature of the combat is an odd sort of «execution» system: When enemies get low on health, you press the right trigger to «execute» them, which involves pressing corresponding buttons when the enemy flashes different colors, sort of like that old Milton - Bradley game Simon.

This is an odd sort of science simulation game where you take on the role of a historical scientist and try to build your fame and fortune through research and discovery.

Curiously, it seems as if the players who would read the manual are also the players with confusion endurance — which is an odd sort of situation; the players who least need help understanding how to play are those that are most likely to read fully detailed instructions of play.

Now there's another reason that Battlegrounds is an odd sort of game.

It makes an odd sort of sense, actually,» Clove said.Clove is working as a maid in the Finchley household while she spies on Katherine Finchley and Matthew Galloway.

Dark and Disturbed by Morgan Winters is a collection of short stories that combine elements of horror with a very odd sort of sense of humor.

The exterior styling seems sporty, but, from some angles, there is an odd sort of frumpiness.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: This new 2015 Subaru Outback 3.6 R Limited is an odd sort of vehicle.

There's nothing like the 720's rearward vision, either, but in an odd sort of way I don't mind that: I don't want my # 2m - plus (at current market values) hypercar experience to be too friendly, too easy, too accessible.

Once that was out of the way, we went on to talk about the odd sort of intimacy... Read More»

... In an odd sort of way it made me realize how independent I was, much to my surprise.

A dedicated, growing army of admirers flocks to the group's concerts and makes Merritt an odd sort of anti-celebrity, one who is happiest not being recognized, whiling away the hours in gay bars on either coast or spending a good part of the day soaking up obscure movie classics.

Decisions.I love the Remembering Violets dress in a really odd sort of way - it's so insanely comfortable and darling, but it also is a bit hard to pull off without looking preggers (I'm going to post pics and my own review on it on my blog soon) so I'm not entirely sure on the wearability.

Regular polling remains sparse given the ongoing inquiry and that we're in that odd sort of political interregnum with Labour yet to elect their new leaders, but there have been a couple of polls on the Labour contest and the EU.

This afternoon Lib Dem MPs assumed an odd sort of huffiness at which Miss Piggy would have humphed her approval.

The above procedure, then, is an odd sort of runoff system in which one of the alternatives (status quo) is guaranteed a place in the runoff.

It's an odd sort of tension.

But the rumors of Elway's calm, cool and collected attitude, and even more importantly that he's happy right now, have put me and several others around here in an odd sort of serene mindset.

And it has been an odd sort of growing year, hasn't it?

But this is an odd sort of praise since it comes at the cost of dismissing the very thing which gives this «literature» its heart, something even Wellhausen did not fail to recognize: its serious portrayal of a God who stands over and goes before its «author.»

John C. Calhoun, in being removed, was awarded an odd sort of honor: His ideas were treated as relevant and dangerous.

I see this as an odd sort of parallel to «when do we grant a fetus / child rights?»

The light of God, it may be said, is an odd sort of light, for it fails to illuminate.

On Nov. 17, the Wienermobile sits idly in front of the factory, rain dripping down its sides; it's an odd sort of paean to the past.

Not exact matches

Yet it felt odd constructing an email with only the most basic of information, eschewing any sort of salutation.

Famous people evoke all sorts of odd and perhaps extreme moral judgments in us.

(Example: A perk like membership in an exclusive private club might look odd from the outside, but a moment's reflection should reveal that an executive who is responsible for massive fundraising efforts genuinely needs to be part of the kind of clubs where he or she can network with the right sorts of people.)

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

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.

Yes, the India trip was odd, it had a sort of waiting for Godot aspect to it.

I had a gift for memorization, and to this day my brain is cluttered with trivia of the oddest sort.

I also appreciate Richard Reinsch's introduction to Ralph Hancock's excellent book The Responsibility of Reason, which Peter links below, but it seemed a little odd to me to use Rawls's concept of «public reason» as the key example of the sort of reason - reliance that Ralph wants us to see the insufficiency of.

wilderness, impressionistic... but then, you realize the sky isn't just gray, it has other odd colours, and the tree isn't really like any tree you know... and then it occurs to you that it looks like a landscape of another planet, that is sort of like earth, but not earth.

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.

Man's purposive existence may express itself in all sorts of hidden ways and under many odd names.

I say it is odd that Heideggerians have not done this sort of analysis, because Heidegger's thought seems to demand it.

Very odd jump unless there is social pressure or some sort of goal in mind (in other words, disingenuous).

So as I was writing Out of Sorts, I began to realise how often music played a big part in my story — which is odd because I'm not a musician or a singer or even someone who can carry a tune.

But he doesn't let the disciples go without adding one more thing: an odd little parable of sorts, with some curious comments about gifts.

In an odd way, the tree is victorious — she has the boy with her and they are both wrecks but they are together — but it is a pernicious sort of victory, bought at the expense of her «treeness» and the boy's humanness.

I sort of understand, but I do think that it is a bit superst.itious... and odd to think that the trash fairies / demons wouldn't figure it out.

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.