Sentences with phrase «oddball things»

You have to make sense of the whole world, and there are all sorts of oddball things you need to look up.

The system's portability and detachable motion controllers, called Joy - Cons, allow it to do some oddball things.

Some of the more oddball things found along the coasts include over 4,000 candles, 236 toothbrushes and 117 mattresses.

Mini has tried to make crossovers, convertibles and a couple other oddball things that aren't actually Minis.

Defending the indefensible is an oddball thing to do, to put it mildly, yet still you do it.

For the average person, a recumbent bike might seem like a bit of an oddball thing to ride, probably because most of us have grown up riding an upright two - wheeler, not a short bike that you sit down to pedal, but for those who suffer from back or joint pain when riding a conventional bicycle, a recumbent is the answer to getting back spinning some wheels again, and when a third wheel is added to the design, as in a recumbent trike, these low - riding cycles offer increased stability as well.

Not exact matches

I think we can safely assume it's not a universally available thing... hello oddball US niche food product # 307?

Simply put, schools can't be trusted to get it right for the kids because the kids are the last thing they concern themselves with after teachers unions, administrative organizational charts, bus garage projects, etc., etc., and oddball foodie notions.

But one thing is certain: When the next oddball shows up, the scientists trying to make sense of it will not be working alone.

It seems to me that this monkey needs to be told a few things about how to not be a creeper and all around oddball about shit like this.

It helps enormously in the suspension of disbelief that the story is set in Vegas, a place where oddball types are as common as cacti and the unlikeliest things are far more likely to happen.

Lynskey impresses as a simple gal who's fed up with the world she lives in — note the title — and whose only drive is her instinct to set things right, while Wood adds another memorable oddball creation to his growing gallery of superb supporting turns.

Once you get through the story, the game really opens up because you're not worrying as much about trying to complete the game, and you can concentrate on things like saving all of those oddball survivors, taking out the wonderfully erratic psychos in the game or having a friend drop in to help you cut and shoot your way through the unbelievable number of zombies that Blue Castle manage to pack into a single space.

He's a weirdo oddball, but he's also a real human being, with nuanced ripples of anger and sadness running across his face whenever he's not saying things in his much - imitated Walken squawk.

The ongoing emphasis on charming musical numbers and oddball (yet funny) subplots effectively keeps things interesting, and yet it's worth noting that Trolls does begin to peter out once it passes the one - hour mark - with the movie eventually (and inevitably) progressing into a spinning - its - wheels third act that's rife with time - wasting elements (including an eye - rollingly ineffective melodramatic stretch).

Eccentric with a humorless intensity, this curlicued story of an oddball family features Toni Collette doing her familiar overexpressive thing as an unconventional feminist single mom; old - soul kid actor Jason Spevack as her genius son, Henry, who's a miracle of artificial insemination; and Michael Sheen as an emotionally impacted academic with a bad memory.

Things unfold in predictable fashion (Beca's comment, «I don't like movies; they're so predictable» notwithstanding), but what makes «Pitch Perfect» work are its funny one - liners, rousing music and oddball performances.

Scripters Simon Boyes and Adam Mason attempt to liven things up by sprinkling the proceedings with distinctly oddball subplots, including an assassin dying of a terminal illness, but, like everything else contained in this mess of a screenplay, such digressions wind up going absolutely nowhere (ie there's no satisfactory payoff for anything here).

The material's about as generic as it gets, enlivened — as these kinds of things often are — by a few oddball supporting turns (Weller, for one, seems to be having a great time chewing scenery).

Things open in Singapore, where resurrected Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), and their nigh - untrackable lot of oddball pirates turn to Sao Feng (Chow Yun - Fat) for help in locating Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), last seen being devoured by legendary sea monster the Kraken.

One of the things that drew me to MRFH as a reader was reading reviews about my favorite obscure and / or beloved oddball flicks from people who understood just enjoying movies.

The best thing about this series is that the comedy and action are centred on the likeably oddball characters.

The whole thing is mainly situational: we get to watch the heroine, Ruth Kimke (Melanie Lynskey) as she reacts to having her house broken into and follow along as she decides to locate and punish the people who did it with help from an oddball neighbor (Elijah Wood's Tony), who's enamored with morning stars and nunchucks.

That's an oddball, I don't want to call it odd because they're all stunning but that's one of the most interesting thing's we've drawn that I don't think most people have seen.

Our Opinion: Now that tall, 4WD wagons — in the form of «crossover utility vehicles» — have gone from oddballs to some of the best - selling vehicles in America, Subaru — who'd been making the things all along — has entered a period of unanticipated good fortune.

Every week or so, I take a journey down to the local fish wholesalers, where I purchase assorted feeders, dry goods and the occasional oddball fish — herp people are big on things like lungfish, electric eels, and the like.

Nintendo has a history of doing things its own way, and that's partially what's allowed it to deliver excellent, oddball experiences like Splatoon and Super Mario Maker completely out of left field.

Vita owners on the other hand will be getting King Oddball, a game where you use your tongue to hurl rocks at a variety of things; it seems like a concept similar to Angry Birds.

They have always been the oddball company that tries new things with their systems.

Back at the very end of the 20th century, Crazy Taxi was one of the key oddball titles we loved to see in the arcade, when such things weren't quaint places your grandad talked about wistfully.

It should go without saying that a number of things that most phones can already do just fine are enhanced greatly by the oddball screen ratio.

I have spent so many visits to HL in that aisle admiring and fingering the papers (because for some oddball reason I feel the need to manhandle things) and wanting a project to use some of them.