Sentences with phrase «odd touches of»

I love all her odd touches of glass.

They don't necessarily match; they have odd touches of paint.)

Here, punchy pink plains, florals and stripes bring life to a plain sofa, while the odd touch of rich grey helps to ground the scheme.

Not exact matches

He has recognized their native virtues (the touching affection of a father for his scapegrace son, or the devotion of a shepherd to his flock), but also the odd mixture of human motives.

The odd selection touched a nerve for readers of O'Connor's fiction, who rightly note the author's penchant for depicting humanity darkly.

I rolled the dough a touch too thin, added a touch too much filling, and chose an odd shape that resulted in a whole lot of spillage.

Living alone, I sometimes have really odd meals and I can tell you with only a touch of shame and sprinkle of embarrassment I ate a massive plate of edamame for dinner.

Throw in some home baking, a touch of gardening, the odd travel blog and a lot of chicken wrangling and you have yourself a lifestyle blog.

Brewed and infused with «curiously odd» ingredients, Dr. Jekyll's Beer Attack exhilarates the senses through its complex flavors and aroma by combining a touch of cinnamon with a mildly sweet, nuttiness along with a hint of smokiness from imported peated malt.

I find it odd Jon that you of all people it did not touch one hair or fibre, not even the slightest commonality even if you don't agree in full.

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.

Lastly, this is a bit of an odd request, but if anyone out there knows how to get in touch with Brad or Angelina or their agencies, could you please Contact Me?

I'm woefully out of touch with publishing news, which is odd considering that writing about writers is what I do for a living.

«A smoking ban in prisons without planning and resources seems an odd priority at a time when David Cameron's out of touch government has failed to deliver a so called «rehabilitation revolution».»

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.

A 1988 study had shown that 14 - month - old infants will imitate odd behavior — even the odd act of turning on a special lamp by touching it with the head.

It might sound a bit odd, but when blended up with miso, garlic, a touch of lime juice, and olive oil, avocado transforms into a rich vegan sauce.

It was her fancy coat and on the odd occasion I was allowed to touch it I can still remember the lightness and softness of the fur.

Add a touch of extraordinary to your closet through the Spanish label's odd proportions and exquisite embroideries.

It's a touch darker than I had pictured, and had an odd bright blue mark on the side, but I didn't want to lose my styling credit, and this was the item I pictured myself getting the most use out of.

Sadly absent is Michelle's best friend Jessica (Natasha Lyonne, Kate & Leopold), quite possibly the strongest woman of the entire series — and it is a touch odd that the bride would lack a bridesmaid here.

It succumbs to evasiveness and sentimentality at the end, but this does not extinguish the memory of the many funny, touching, and captivatingly odd scenes that have come before.

Critics Consensus: Odd, touching, and unique, Punch - Drunk Love is also delightfully funny, utilizing Adam Sandler's comic persona to explore the life of a lonely guy who finds love.

Critic Consensus: Odd, touching, and unique, Punch - Drunk Love is also delightfully funny, utilizing Adam Sandler's comic persona to explore the life of a lonely guy who finds love.

Pearce is very good at showing the little touches of transgression that this relationship involves: Moll asks Pascal to come to the family home to do some odd jobs, and Pascal, with instinctive truculence, smokes in the house and muddies up the carpet; Johnny Flynn's performance shows how Pascal is savouring the sense that he has the rights of a disapproved - of boyfriend, and it is by rudeness that he will bolster this position.

Silvestri's combination of toon music and film noir is touched on, as is Charles Fleischer's odd behavior on the set.

His relationship with the odd boy out, Gerner (Makepeace, My Bodyguard), might be one of the more touching mentor performances I've seen in such a fluff film.

Prince Avalanche isn't an all - out laff-fest, but it plays up the humor of Alvin and Lance's odd - couple roommate (tent - mate) situation with a gentle touch.

Released in 1995, mere months after the fan favorite In The Mouth Of Madness, Village Of The Damned is an odd duck, a bad film that never comes close to working as horror, but which features enough unusual touches and flourishes of staging to put it several notches above dismissiblOf Madness, Village Of The Damned is an odd duck, a bad film that never comes close to working as horror, but which features enough unusual touches and flourishes of staging to put it several notches above dismissiblOf The Damned is an odd duck, a bad film that never comes close to working as horror, but which features enough unusual touches and flourishes of staging to put it several notches above dismissiblof staging to put it several notches above dismissible.

Something that works to the games advantage but seems odd for a game that was originally on a touch screen device is the lack of touch and motion controls.

For all the talk of eccentricity, Day - Lewis didn't strike me as odd: just cheerfully, thoughtfully confident and a touch dandyish, turning up in biker leathers and guffawing about an affable beef he was having with director Stephen Frears (who launched him in 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette).

Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star in the odd but touching drama with the most unconventional special effect of the year: the ghost is an actor under a simple bedsheet with cut - out eyeholes.

And the film also touches upon issues of mental illness, with Doug and Frank having met in a mental institution, and some Asperger's - like glitches clearly behind Frank's odd programming.

Odd Man Out (1947): In Carol Reed's beautifully designed portrait of a wounded IRA man moving toward death, Mason brings you so close to his character's physical and emotional suffering that it seems as if you could actually touch the raw feelings that keep oozing out of him.

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: black comedy immersed in real life tragedy is your thing OR you don't want to miss a wonderfully odd and touching performance from Jack Black (and lots of hymnal singing)

To be fair, and despite the absence of personality, the first half of Fantastic Four isn't a bad science adventure in the gee - whiz mode of Fantastic Voyage, with an apparently genuine curiosity about interdimensional travel and the odd, welcome corny touch — like Reed's passion for Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

I have only touched on the greatness that is Berberian Sound Studio; the performances are haunting and stilted with enigmatic and odd characters that could happily exist in the Lynch universe, as well as some truly unique ones, in particular the unseen sinister gloved hand that manically controls the projection of each scene.

If the insulation is damaged near a grounded part of the engine or frame, and the bare wire exposed due to missing insulation touches it, odd things will happen.

The textures, from the soft touch plastics on the door handles to the smooth tactile finishes on the control surfaces and column stalks, the A-class feels reassuringly premium, even if the odd iffy plastic creeps in out of sight.

The door panels are made out of this odd soft touch plastic that is hard unless you push hard on it.

And they do, with just the odd aberration such as the upper door panels that look a bit scuff - prone and a prevalence of hard - touch (good quality) plastics.

The only thing that seemed odd was the 8» touch screen, which seemed like more of an afterthought than a part of the design.

There's also the odd instance of a touch of extra feedback coming through the wheel as the front wheels search for drive out of sharper corners.

The fact that this odd box can travel so quickly and move so nimbly can bring a touch of giddy delight to an ordinary commute.

That odd — crudely drawn yet o - so - expressive — little being represents Brosh in this amusing (often laugh - out - loud), honest and touching collection of illustrated essays about her life, from her childhood antics to living with dogs to her struggle with chronic depression as an adult — and lots of moments in between.

The resistive touch screen is one of the biggest challenges that comes with using the CherryPad — typing requires very firm taps, and it feels odd to be mashing the screen to type a URL in the browser.

In a move that will wring out more than the odd sniffle of sentiment from thousands of Indian book lovers, Chandamama, India's oldest children's publication (it has been around since 1947), has got an app avatar on the iTunes App Store, and can now be read on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

The Goldfinch may have won Donna Tartt the Pulitzer, praised by judges as a novel which «stimulates the mind and touches the heart», but the acclaimed title's 800 - odd pages appear to have intimidated British readers, with less than half of those who downloaded it from e-bookseller Kobo making it to the end.

It is odd to write this about a Sony device, but one of the Touch Edition's strengths is its support for a wide variety of media formats, and some of them are even DRM - free.

The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch has received a price cut of $ 20 and is now available at the company's 700 - odd retail stores and its online store, as well as through other retailers.