Sentences with phrase «oddballs who»

I think that it is salutary that science includes a few cranks and oddballs who challenge the status quo and who hope to overturn the settled science.

In truth, the creatures are a community of lovable oddballs who are raising as one of their own an abandoned and orphaned human boy named Eggs (Isaac Hempstead - Wright).

Wain's comedy is populated by charming oddballs who define the zeitgeist in winsome ways.

In truth, the Boxtrolls are an underground cavern - dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs who wear recycled cardboard boxes the way turtles wear their shells.

He is by no means a prototypical hero, but he stands notably apart from the parade of schnooks and oddballs who typically populate their films.

Spinney is a one - of - a-kind personality, an oddball even among the oddballs who pioneered Sesame Street's Children's Television Workshop.

I am of those oddballs who open the car door for women, or give the seat to a girl or say ladies first.

Take a look at Ed Wood, his amazing biopic about the world's worst filmmaker and the oddballs who surround him.

I'm one of those oddballs who gets tears in her eyes on a perfect fall day.

There exists the perception that Labour has become a party for middle - class oddballs who are London based or focused.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Steve Jobs adopted «think different» as Apple's mantra in the late 1990s, the company's ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry - eyed oddballs who reshaped society.

Thank you for allowing me to be the oddball who wants to re-create this recipe and make it a versatile one.

I'm the oddball who hates peanut butter.

Satirical comedy starring Iwan Rheon and Rupert Grint that reimagines the megalomaniac dictator as an 18 - year - old oddball who dreams of nothing other than becoming a famous painter.

Tim Walker on the oddball who made men fall in love with rom - coms

It's also we get a Marvel movie that doubles as a weird buddy comedy that pairs Thor with Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner / Hulk, who spend much of the film stranded on an alien - junkyard planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's royal Grandmaster, a supreme oddball who finds great entertainment in staging gladiator - style coliseum fights.

Fred Ward is spot - on casting for Hoke, not so much a maverick as a slovenly oddball who isn't all that concerned with procedure, but his character is played down in favor of the equally offbeat psychopath of a crook, a freshly - sprung career criminal who prefers to go by the name Junior.

Chuta Kokonose is an oddball who hears a voice in his head that causes him to get in lots of trouble.

Not exact matches

Galifianakis is the plump, bearded comedian who gained national attention for his oddball character in the comedy film, «The Hangover.»

The show follows the story of «an oddball athlete who drives family, friends and strangers crazy after he's unexpectedly cut from his pro football team.»

These last 60 years, I have supported the club, Arsenal FC, NOT an oddball manager who puts his own happiness and obscenely unearned salary above the good of the club which should have sacked him a decade ago.

His theory is that in a low - income, high - crime neighborhood, if you offer social and educational supports to just a few of the kids who live there, their participation will always seem a bit oddball, and they won't have much of an effect on their peers.

For years, the Capitol's official Senate television channel has played — whenever senators are not actually conducting business on the floor — an oddball collection of anachronistic instrumental music that has mystified those who must endure it day in and day out.

The curator of this disquieting assemblage is Stanley Burns, a part - time ophthalmologist with oddball antique glasses who tends to his collection in the same midtown Manhattan brownstone in which he lives and sees patients.

To a generation of science readers, he is the oddball astronomer who reportedly called a colleague a Nazi, claimed credit for everything that happened in cosmology after Einstein, and assaulted his peers in print and in person.

The question «Who's the oddball?»

Consider the oddball doctors who took tobacco money to deny a link between cigarette smoking and cancer, or the handful of scientists who take oil and coal money to discredit global warming science, or the people who have done both.

And he Anyone who's ever had to take public transit knows that seeing weird subway people or the occasional oddball character is par for the course of city life.

Anyone who's ever had to take public transit knows that seeing weird subway people or the occasional oddball character is par for the course of city life.

-- and the oddball people he introduces us to — such as those who can not tolerate any electromagnetic energy, like what cell - phone towers emit — are absolutely begging for Herzog-esque portraits devoted to them alone.

Synopsis: Simon Birch (Ian Michael Smith) and Joe Wenteworth (Joseph Mazzello) are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs.

Just an oddball mama's boy from the back bayous of Louisiana, Bobby Boucher (Sandler) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt!

There's the oddball heavyset one, the Zach Galifianakis character, Megan, played by Melissa McCarthy, who's butch and frighteningly straight and comedically straightforward.

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.

But it's not meant to be examined seriously; this throwaway movie, with its oddball cameos (among them Snoop Dogg, Andy Dick and Democrat pundit James Carville, who must be hard up for a gig these days) and fat - kid sight gags, is only after a laugh.

But of course, it's Depp who steals the show once again, proving that he's at his best playing eccentric characters like Tonto, and it doesn't take a genius to realize that the oddball Comanche is the juicier of the two lead roles.

Their plan to stop him is part comic book fantasy, part elaborate heist, featuring an oddball gang of conspirators (Michael Peña, T.I. and David Dastmalchian) and a small army of ants, who prove to be team players and quite personable once you get up close and personal.

They are what is sometimes described as «quirky», «oddballs», «misfits», people who, unlike their exotic aquatic counterparts, seem to be not quite synchronised with their environment.

In Room (Grade: B), director Lenny Abrahamson's follow - up to the oddball music comedy Frank, Brie Larson plays a mother who's spent years locked away in a tool shed, a prisoner of the stranger who kidnapped her as a teenager.

There's clearly an effort here and there to mix it up, with quirky characters like Leonor (Heidi Gardner), Deanna's goth - y, agoraphobic roommate and Helen (Gillian Jacobs), an oddball friend of Maddie's who spent eight years in a coma.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Their secret causes them to be on the run from the Man in the Yellow Suit (Kingsley, who adds yet another notch to recent belt of oddball characterizations).

James Franco directed and stars in this hilarious oddball comedy that tells the true story of Tommy Wiseau, a talentless actor and director who made «The Room,» regarded as one of the worst movies ever made.

She shares this inside information with the other guests at the table, a decidedly oddball collection: There's the Kepps (Robinson and Kudrow), a boring couple who run a diner together; Walter (Merchant), a weirdo who may or may not have just come straight from prison; Renzo (Revolori), a horny teen who can't help but take terrible advice from his mother; and Jo (Squibb), a retired pot - smoking nanny.

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx - Oddball romance with Gene Hackman as a Dublin peddler of horse manure who falls for American student Margot Kidder.

Starring Joaquin Phoenix and distributed by Amazon Studios, the drama follows the life of a troubled alcoholic who journeys from rock - bottom to an oddball AA group; it also stars Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, and Jack Black.

Team «OK» team needs to win the Games, but the problem is the rest of the fraternity members are oddball monsters who aren't very scary either.

The core of the movie is about a sensitive boy and a grumpy girl who plan to meet for a private adventure; he escapes from his scout camp, she temporarily runs away from home, and while this sweet, odd, and adorable romance takes center stage, Anderson (as usual) populates the periphery with all sorts of colorful oddballs.

It's familiar territory: the oddballs with nothing in common who clash at first, then find true camaraderie and lasting affection.

Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) wrote and directed Seven Psychopaths which reunites him with actor Colin Farrell who plays a screenwriter struggling for inspiration for his script, which just so happens to be called Seven Psychopaths, who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (played by Sam Rockwell & Christopher Walken).