Sentences with phrase «odd twist of»

What Lenovo has attempted with the Tab 4 8 Plus is a mix of the two, throwing in the odd twist of personality with a classic, understated tone.

Jack Thompson has publicly offered to help publisher EA buy - out his rival, Take - Two, in an odd twist of fate.

Daisy is the princess for some reason, though in a really odd twist of fate, they hook Daisy up with Luigi in the end, something that Nintendo wouldn't do for another eight years.

In an odd twist of faith, topbonus the reward program is continuing its zombie - like existence: majority owned by Etihad and also in insolvency, they continue to look for a buyer of the program.

In an odd twist of government logic (is there really such a thing?)

Then an odd twist of fate sent him to Thunder Point, where he made a good friend in the first hour he was there.

In an odd twist of adaptation, his audience is Martel himself (Rafe Spall), arriving at Pi's door at the urging of one of the survivor's relatives, and whose inquiries prompt the film's inevitable flashbacks.

In an odd twist of casting, four of the leading characters are played by Brits: David Oyelowo as MLK, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon Johnson, Tim Roth as George Wallace and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King.

Even thought there are a couple of other excellent comedy options out there this season, The Other Guys will surely bring an odd twist of hilarity to your summer vacation.

But in an odd twist of movie - making fate, neither of the ponytailed twins lifts this film above wait - for - video status.

In an odd twist of fate he's been using «Michael Finkel, reporter for the New York Times» as an alias.

In an odd twist of PR fate, McDonald's employee guidelines recently told employees to avoid eating foods high in fat, sugar, and salt.

Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards, the man best known for running (through an odd twist of fate / NYS Election Law) as Carl Paladino's No. 2 in 2010, is now trying to change Albany from the outside, urging his local Legislature to reject the «sham» 2 percent property tax cap champhioned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Not exact matches

An odd twist for some, perhaps, but Paul's logic demands it: If these creatures await God's coming freedom, then they are — in their own way — recipients of the same eschatological hope as humans, and that eschatological hope grants them a certain dignity we must respect.

We are all children of God, anti-Mormons try to use this to make it look like Mormons somehow worship Satan or something odd... that only shows the twisted anti-Mormon thinking, not the Biblical thinking.

You can look at it as a few decisions get away from you, a few twists in a game, the odd scratch of luck.

Though it has barely started, the Brooklyn district attorney's race has become a very crowded contest with an odd twist: Its central figure, and the man most likely to shape its themes and contours, is no longer alive: the late DA, Ken Thompson, who died of cancer last year.

And he claimed «Trotsky entryists» were «twisting arms» of young activists and said contact with his boss is often limited to «the odd text, usually about family stuff».

In an odd twist, the DeWitt home was purchased by Joan O'Donnell Dadey, the wife of Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey - one of Maffei's most vocal critics.

Every sound is uniquely filtered by that odd maze of flaps in your ears, and every little twist or nod of your head alters the whole aural picture.

But, even in the U.S., there were some people who got very concerned that — there were a few hurricanes that — around that time that took some sort of odd twists.

Here the rocks reveal an odd twist in the story — eventual regeneration of the greenhouse.

Although it sounds like an odd combination, the pink is a pop of colour to a modern outfit and the leaf print adds a contemporary twist to the look.

Inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns and celebrating the Western genre with an interesting twist, Good for Nothing follows an odd romance and the resulting emotional confusion of an outlaw who reluctantly develops strong feelings for a woman he has kidnapped.

Odd and twisted, The Dark Backward has plenty to thrill admirers of ugliness and enough food for thought to interest the rest of us too.

With heavy overtones of Hitchcockian mystery and intrigue, this stylish thriller is the enjoyably melodramatic story of a rather odd 9 - year - old boy and the adults caught in a twisted vortex around him.

What the film lacks is genuine suspense, because for all of its twists and turns, the set - up never reels us in effectively enough to bother paying attention when things become odd, and all interest is jettisoned in time for the epilogue where all is supposed to be explained.

Though deceptive advertising is nothing new in movies, the DVD cover art of Coming & Going takes the practice far, keeping the wheelchair out of the picture (save for the title logo's odd twist on the familiar handicap symbol), portraying the leads as young and hip in their jeans and tall boots respectively, and, most egregiously, placing a chihuahua poodle hybrid that features in a single 1 - minute scene front, center, and large.

Instead, one is consumed with cinematographer Thimios Bakatakis» mesmerizing tracking, panning and zooming, rather than the odd plot twists or the script's lack of linguistic logic.

All this is, of course, entirely predictable, with a few amusing slapstick twists and the odd sweet soul - searching moment.

The movie crackles with an emotional energy, and cackles with a rueful laughter, that have been missing from his recent films, but which return in full force now that Baumbach has again taken up his theme of children being twisted into odd shapes by a parent's monstrous self - regard.

Departures Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Yôjirô Takita's Departures chronicles in tenderly sentimental terms the odd, life - affirming journey of an unemployed cellist (Masahiro Motoki) who, through a twist of fate, winds up preparing the deceased for burial.

Briefly put, Lost Highway tells the odd tale of Fred Madison (Pullman), a saxophonist in the sleazy night - time world of Lynch's eerie, twisted California, who mysteriously finds himself on death row for the murder of his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette) despite having no knowledge of her death.

I wasn't expecting a last - minute twist of the sort that he painted himself into a corner with years ago, but in fact the film concludes with something decidedly odder — a throwaway coda in which a former Shyamalan star ruefully turns up to acknowledge an allusion to one of MNS's earlier movies.

I Am Not a Serial Killer sells itself on being one of those quirky and slightly surreal indie horror movies that has a premise that sounds familiar but adds a few twists and turns to throw you off your guard, and for the first half of the movie this approach generally works; the sense of a small town in the grip of an apparent serial killer comes across thanks to the geography of the houses and the interactions of the people we meet, and as a character John is well - written and superbly acted, making him instantly interesting and, despite his odd character traits, slightly endearing.

The twisted, darkly funny, and thrilling picture features a fantastic lead performance by Jake Gyllenhaal as an odd but driven man who starts working as a freelance photographer, taking video of grisly car crashes, break - ins, etc. that he then sells to the local news networks for their morning broadcasts.

On the narrow, undulating serpentine coast route, this two - ton sedan seemed to shrink to the size of a sports car as it dug in and spit out hairpins, switchbacks and any other odd twist the road threw at it.

It also is comfortable, thanks to good support and folding armrests on both sides.The odd angle of the wheel may provoke some operators into a bus - driver's hunch on twisting roads.

In an odd twist, Trivedi is currently participating in the reality show Bigg Boss, the Indian counterpart of Big Brother.

I also avoid Twitter and LinkedIn, sometimes using Facebook to post twisted jokes and the odd item celebrating a milestone for one of my books.

There's an odd strength to it, because he's facing his past instead of running from it, but it's also quite depressing and unhealthy, and a little twisted.

With a far away land, a young protagonist, an odd treasure, an unexpected twist and a narrow escape, it's a bullwhip and a fedora short of being an Indiana Jones movie.

In an odd twist, the Everyday Preferred is getting a lower signup bonus of just 15,000 points.

But there's a twist: as the palace starts to «come online», odd creatures begin to form themselves out of the muck.

Being able to give my troops commands to enable various areas of the board seemed like just the kind of odd twist that would make the game unique.

MGS5 has an odd plot already, and the ending is a super out of place twist that was created for the sole purpose of tying all the games together, even if it's literally tying in one of the oldest possible Metal Gear games with all the strength of a wad of bubble gum.

At first it feels like an odd fit, but it works surprisingly well, and there's the same little twist of joy when looking at a new and much more powerful gun that has dropped, when sinking materials into re-rolling a good gun to reach more of its potential, or when literally doubling the DPS by combining and inserting upgrade cores.

Eyeballs on trees that vanish, the odd flickering of torches; each act has its own twist as well, such as using perspective to hide paths through gates or seeing blazing infernos that aren't really there.

Twisted pieces of paper, toothpaste swashes and soap scum, were just a few of the odd findings and castoff materials Brassaï used as subjects in a 1932 photographic series he coined, «Involuntary Sculptures.»

Chief among those deniers is David Schnare, who in an odd twist serves as the pro bono director of the group's Center for Environmental Stewardship.