Sentences with phrase «oddities for»

Other oddities for sale include Tony Shafrazi's prescription medication, a signed rock by land artist Robert Smithson, and Princeton theorist Hal Foster's breath mints.

Volume 67 offers up a gauntlet of new oddities for our heroes to contend with, as they get split up and kick off exploration of the tumultuous, unpredictable Punk Hazard island.

Both experience Texan pride, meet attractive cowboys and marvel at the oddities for sale at roadside convenience stores.

The cult of John Lennon has made this an essential film for completists, but it's little more than an oddity for everyone else.

The mostly uninhabited town began life as a set for Western films in the 1940s, eventually settling in as a tourist oddity for looky - loos and tourists passing to - and - from Palm Springs.

It is refreshing to know that there are others who are not compelled to interact with locals simply because they are there, and I may not be such an oddity for giving only a smile as a greeting and going about my way.

But in another oddity for 2018 coverage, gold plans in some areas are actually less expensive than silver plans (since the cost of cost - sharing reductions has been added to silver plan premiums), despite the fact that the gold plans have higher actuarial value.

Which is an oddity for a backbench MP...

And in an oddity for a gaming laptop, it's available in white as well as the traditional black.

You'll have to buy the actual ring sound - called the Chime - separately, though, which feels like an oddity for what's meant to be a doorbell!

Not exact matches

Sign spinning has morphed from curbside oddity to performance art — and a surprisingly effective way for a startup to grab attention.

So the fact that Tesla, one of several innovative companies that Musk is juggling, is now a newly minted member of the 500 Club — arriving for the first time this year on Fortune's annual register of the biggest U.S. companies — might strike some as a curious, if marvelous, oddity: the brash, antiestablishment carmaker parked in one of the reserved spaces for America's corporate elite.

You'll have to wait two to four months from the initial fitting to put actual tires to pavement, but in the end, you'll have a bike that feels like an extension of you, rather than a bike for some human oddity Tour rider.

Since penny stocks are smaller companies that are more prone to things like related - party transactions and non-GAAP accounting oddities, don't walk around the footnotes for a penny stock.

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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.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

There are, though, oddities of various kinds - an actress known best, indeed mainly, for asking «Where's the beef?»

By focusing exclusively on English we might even have begun to recognize the oddity of our names for certain cardinal numbers such as «eleven» and «twelve.»

However, the canons of logic may not be suitable for judging this statement; for this assertion, just because of its logical oddity or paradoxical form, may trigger a disclosure that is essential to the possibility of a religious commitment.

Theology belongs in the realm of secular discourse, even with all of its logical oddities, for like the sciences and humanities it has its models and metaphors.

We ought to be careful not to fall asleep on this text and piously nod our slumbering holiday approval, for John's words bristle with oddities.

As hashtag activism has gone from an Internet oddity to a full - on force for change, we have become enamored with what what we either call «being a voice for the voiceless» or «giving a voice to the voiceless.»

At any rate, there is an oddity in Whitehead's technical terminology that is grist for the mill of the Bergsonians.

Blanche A. Jenson meditates on the losses, precisely for women, entailed in the subjection of the biblical narrative, in all its hard - edged oddity, to the demands of feminist theory.

United Biscuits UK will be further growing the buoyant savoury biscuit category throughout 2013 with the launch of new flavours from its incredibly successful Jacob's Oddities brand and a new product extension for its Carr's range to tap into social sharing occasions.

Kopi Luwak is a rare oddity in the coffee world that every coffee aficionado should try at least once in his or her lives, if for anything but the rights to say you have tried it.

The fridge is nearly bare, save for some lingering leftovers and oddities that have been hiding in the back for quite some time.

Where I was an oddity, at that time, I find myself ever more frequently asked for interviews and vegan recipes by professional pastry magazines and organizations.

I'm not looking for anything that is not a liquid or sauce, so therefore there are no dry rubs, seasoning blends, chili mixes, dip mixes, snacks, chocolates, candies, or any other oddity or specialty food.

[pours one out for the architectural oddity]

The oddities and ironies that were so characteristic of this Series began to assert themselves in the third game, at Ebbets Field before a riotous crowd described by Red Smith, then a columnist for the Philadephia Record, as «curious creatures that are indigenous to Flatbush.»

Oddities tended to attract an undue share of public attention: there was amusement over the King and Queen of England eating hot dogs while visiting President Roosevelt at Hyde Park; outrage when the President changed the date of Thanksgiving from November 30 to November 23; excitement when Al Capone was released from a federal penitentiary after serving more than seven years for income tax evasion.

Fleischer had a section reserved for pugilistic oddities that included facts like the greatest weight difference in a world championship fight — Primo Camera (270) vs. Tommy Loughran (184).

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.

It seems an oddity to me that the transfer window stays open for a further two weeks after the season has started.

Needless to say I am a bit of an oddity in this category so it isn't a common concern for most, but if you are of taller stature or pine for the legroom of the ’78 Satellite Sebring you may want to try the RAV on for size.

This sort of thing could be a problem and might explain certain oddities in the latest guidelines for treating VTE, for example.

Of course, we do like to slow down from time to time and there is always enough room in the itinerary for trip off the beaten path to check out some off - the - wall roadside oddity.

On first appraisal it's easy to dismiss this event as something of an amusing oddity (unless you work for the architect perhaps).

Post hidden or deleted; was a video of an astronaut on the space station singing Bowie's «Space Oddity»... not exactly advocacy content, but good for audience engagement.

Regarding parliamentary elections, single member plurality voting for most MPs developed from the various reform acts of the 19th and early 20th century, although oddities like the University MPs continued until 1950.

Although it's not strictly a rebellion — thanks to the oddities listed by Andrew Sparrow here — it's still rather embarrassing for David Cameron.

«I keep on being told that my campaign is niche, that I am some sort of oddity because we are speaking up for women, but actually women make up half the population and its so important their voices are heard.

Instead of a rosy time capsule of Earth and its history and inhabitants made for consumption by unknowable alien civilizations, it carries a dummy in a SpaceX space suit, and will blast David Bowie's «Space Oddity» at top volume from its speakers.

That's just one of the rules oddities that became clear last week as the 168 members of the Republican National Committee and top party functionaries met in beachside splendor to discuss the GOP's messy search for a consensus presidential candidate.

That's one rules oddity that became clear last week as the 168 members of the Republican National Committee and top party functionaries met in beachside splendor to discuss the GOP's messy search for a consensus presidential candidate.

A magnetic structure proposed for the natural oddity known as ball lightning makes an appearance in a newfound variety of a knotlike entity called a skyrmion, a team of scientists reports.

One of history's most expansive minds was no match for the boundless oddity of nature.

Walter was legendary for his oddities, including arriving once at Buckingham Palace in a stately brougham drawn by four zebras.