Sentences with phrase «oddities about»

There were many other oddities about the text, too.

Yes, that struck me as one of the many oddities about Judith's (lack of) understanding of the contribution of human activity to global warming.

However, there are some oddities about Blue Reflection's combat.

A few oddities about this dress.

When Saudi Arabia refused Qatar access to its airspace this lead to various oddities about exactly where Qatari aircraft could fly.

Produced by The Lonely Island (ahh yes, Andy Samberg has a brief but refreshing role), this is a deliciously uncynical oddity about contagious creativity, fanaticism, and forgiveness.

But there is an obvious oddity about...

There is a slight oddity about the wireless setup whose root cause lies in the PS4's architecture rather than the PX4's - you'll still need to connect the headset to the Dualshock 4 to use voice chat.

He proudly carries on the American lineage of Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Norman Rockwell, but there is an oddity about his works that creates psychological pause within the viewer, and sets him apart from the Realist tradition.

Now, there's an oddity about Granger causation.

One oddity about Perry's inquiry is that it comes even as Trump's «skinny budget» has proposed an unspecified cut to the department's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, whose key purpose is to work on making the grid resilient.

There is a slight oddity about the wireless setup whose root cause lies in the PS4's architecture rather than the PX4's - you'll still need to connect the headset to the Dualshock 4 to use voice chat.

Not exact matches

They carry a sense of wonder with them wherever they go and inquire about the oddities around them.

This DealBook article about the new alliances between activist hedge funds and long - only institutional shareholders is full of enjoyable oddities; here is my favorite part:

One popular criticism of market - cap - weighted stock - market indexes is that they reinforce overvaluation, and if you are worried about occasional oddities in Chinese stocks — stocks that go up by their daily limit every day for weeks after they go public, for instance — then adding those stocks to international indexes at this particular point in the valuation cycle might worry you.

This particular item can perhaps be dismissed as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.

It came in the context of addressing the apparent oddity of a Jew composing a setting of the Passion» something that was widely noted in the press and about which Mr. Golijov had commented.

The sheer complexity and oddity of Christian theology, as C.S. Lewis noticed, «has just that queer twist about it that real things have.»

The U.S. Olympic win was passed off as a historical oddity: a blip of achievement brought about by a unique combination of great goaltending and home - ice advantage.

When the football media started to remind us about Arsenal's poor record in November in the Premier League under Arsene Wenger, with the stats showing that it was by far the worst month for the Gunners in terms of points per game, it seemed to be nothing more than a statistical oddity.

All those little oddities, snippets of trivia and quirky facts about goalkeepers that you were just dying to know about...

At this website you'll find articles about design, art, civic engagement, history, equipment old and new, photography, advocacy groups, bloggers and oddities.

But, how about covering the guy as something other than an oddity and letting his ideas stand on their own?

She kicked off proceedings by quoting David Bowie's Space Oddity, saying: «We've heard this great news about the launch today and Major Tim going up into space.

About a decade ago he noticed a juicy oddity buried in a pair of overlooked papers, one from Brookhaven National Laboratory, the other from a German measurement institute.

It was fun to go through all those old oddities, not least because it reminded me about, what in my view, is the strangest conjecture in the whole of mathematics — the sausage conjecture.

Of the many oddities in the case of Japanese researcher Hisashi Moriguchi, who admitted over the weekend to lying about a startling stem cell experiment, is how for years he managed to claim an affiliation with Harvard Medical School in Boston that did not exist.

He ponders nighttime oddities of nature, such as the Texas blind salamander, a cave - dwelling semitranslucent amphibian that has no need for night vision — a trait that it apparently shares with about 40 percent of Americans, who, being bombarded with light pollution, never use theirs.

Several things are nearly certain about these bike - sharing programs and the more than 25 others across the country: Since 2007 when the first program began in Tulsa, nobody has ever died on a bike - share bike, a statistical oddity to be sure.

Read about this carnival of oddities in the third excerpt of a chapter on the riveting history of spam

Ask a savvy astronomer or physicist about any of these oddities, and they will tell you, as they have time and time before: It's not aliens.

Although we stray from the path more often than we care to admit, human society is all about the age - old business of boy meets girl and sets up home under a roof, so much so that it explains such things as the size of our testicles, the manifest oddities of the female reproductive system, and why we prefer to have sex in private.

The «Lonely Mountain» is another oddity, a conical - shaped mountain about 4 miles (6 kilometers) tall which sits all by itself with no other similar features near it.

Really concentrate on the apple, thinking about all of the imperfections and oddities that make this apple unlike any other you have had or ever will have.

It's a design oddity that could easily be fixed by ensuring the lining is proportionally the same as the dress but so far after two seasons of complaining about this no changes from Girls From Savoy's design team yet.

Of course, we all have our quirks and our oddities, but those are the things that only the people who are really close to us know about.

The story seems intended as a plea for inclusions, with circus oddities such as the bearded lady singing about their own spendor and gloriousness.

Not much information about its existence or what happened to it is available online so this is a very cool little oddity that deserves further exposure.

Mix that in with a film that includes aliens, a god and an android (among other oddities) and it is difficult to believe that such a movie could be called the «most human» film in a massive franchise, but that's exactly how Anthony Mackie, who portrays the hero Falcon (aka Sam Wilson) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, feels about Avengers: Infinity War.

More about the «Oddities» would have helped the script immensely.

«It was really inspired by the group of oddities in the film, and what they came to represent and what [director] Michael [Gracey] talked about them representing,» he explained.

Tim Burton's latest fantastical oddity, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, earned a hefty $ 28.5 m at the US box office in its first weekend on release, but Peter Berg's acclaimed disaster movie Deepwater Horizon, about the 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, failed to attract an audience.

In one sense, there is a counter-narrative here about the creation of propaganda which is much more interesting than the film's tale of the oddities of North Korea.

Teorema An unwelcome visitor brings about oddly welcome changes in Pier Paolo Pasolini's hypnotic 1968 oddity.

Bousman's Gothic oddity is about a violently corrupt biotech company run by Paul Sorvino and Anthony Stewart Head («Buffy's» Giles).

My colleagues have written about other major films at Cannes, and beyond that, it was often more of a parade of oddities than misfires, in my experience.

Yorgos Lanthimos» previous film, Dogtooth, is a super original oddity and the same thing can be said about The Lobster.

And there may be a few self - discoveries and life lessons along the way... There's definitely a chicken with hooves and other oddities mucking about this intensely strange film.

There are two interior oddities: the fusebox opening is located only about an inch below the headlight switch, and I popped it open assuming it was a small storage cubby.

Check out the piece about how the Walmart.com and Amazon price wars, and other oddities, have affected the Boston Book Festival — or not — at the Boston Globe «s site.