Sentences with phrase «oddities from»

In the lead - up to Christie's fall auction, we've highlighted record - breakers and oddities from Phaidon's Going Once, a compendium of 250 legendary, strange, or otherwise remarkable paintings, prints, and objects from Christie's two - and - a-half century history.

It's still unclear if other power weapons like the Rocket Launcher, Covenant Sniper or other oddities from past Halo games like the Hammer will be returning in Halo 5 as well.

It is a really cool mechanic and as the player progresses through the story there will be more and more little hints and oddities from the real world.

There you'll see oddities from Britain's past you've never laid eyes on, as well as more mud - splashed Aston Martins and Lamborghinis than you'd ever see parked next to Opel Adams and Ford Escorts.

Aside from the 2019 Volkswagen Arteon, 50th Anniversary «Blu - barus,» and Nissan Concepts — here are our funky favorites, must sees, and other oddities from this year's show floor.

If you not only enjoy but actively seek out little - seen oddities from the VHS era, then consider Miami Connection an out - of - left - field windfall courtesy of Drafthouse Films.

While Anderson's short delves into the backstories of prominent characters in Darjeeling, Linklater's knack for extracting oddities from the most interesting of persons can't be overlooked.

The Supreme Leader, Snoke (Andy Serkis), is the supreme leader because he is a one - of - a-kind oddity from countless generations of in - breeding.

In - between the original Apes franchise of the»60s and»70s and the current iteration (one that continues with this summer's War for the Planet of the Apes) exists this one - and - done oddity from 2001.

Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly, another Japanese oddity from Aksys Games, will be available for the Vita this week.

At the booth for Galerie Perrotin, two older women who had had, um, work done gaped at the offerings on display, which included the perfunctory Daniel Arsham sculpture and an oddity from KAWS.

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First, they've been secluded from the political and cultural events we stay - at - home Americans have known: from hurricanes to happenings in Washington to cultural oddities like the Fidget Spinner.

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

Similarly, Toyota's Prius hybrid car evolved from a neighborhood oddity (and celebrity eco-accessory) in 2000 to a best - selling vehicle in Japan and California.

From there, the digital Easter egg evolved to include pop culture in - jokes, creepy oddities, and other assorted brain candy.

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.

From ghosts to hoaxes, the city has some oddities in stone and metal Prague has more than its fair share... More

Ex-gay men are often closeted, fearing ridicule from gay advocates who accuse them of self - deception and, at the same time, fearing rejection by their church communities as tainted oddities.

Not far from where I live is a geological oddity.

We 20th - century readers, deeply familiar with a private reading practice that in fact developed in the Christian West from devotional reading, need to remind ourselves of the oddity of private reading in Augustine's time.

Many in the movement are shying away from the oddities and excesses of Pentecostalism, while evangelicals are moving towards the theology of Spirit - filled and Spirit - led ministries.

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.»

If you guessed any other state than Florida, you're off your rocker, because Florida is currently doing the rest of the U.S. a favor by acting as a repository to our nation's ends, oddities and at least one ominous vessel hailing from undead waters.

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.

South Philly water ice, which should not be confused with Italian ice, is a textural oddity, somewhere between a solid and a liquid, and just as easily slurped from the cup as eaten with a spoon.

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.

Of course, this game might just be a bizarre oddity, one of those strange games that football occasionally throws up from nowhere.

Until it happened, it was quite sad that the idea of a team from outside the usual suspects winning the league was, effectively, in the same bracket as a series of jokes and oddities.

Skating was ideally suited to the poor, however, and it took the Depression years to transform it from a fad, an oddity, into a slice of Americana.

Two thousand, one hundred and fifty - one days after writing that article, I was standing in the belly of the beast, with a line from David Bowie's «Space Oddity» running through my head:

If you want to make a crochet monkey stuffed toy then this free crochet animal pattern from Bodecia's Oddities is a great choice.

Father and Son Antiques is home to a bounty of collectables and oddities, from mid-century designs and vintage threads to»50s kitch, tiki, mod, and much more.

Babywearing has certainly made a major jump in the last twenty years, from being an obscure oddity to becoming an accepted part of raising a child.

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.

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.

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.

But the researchers discovered an oddity that made them question whether the gems came from an asteroid at all: The diamonds had grown around even smaller crystals of iron and sulfur, which normally would repel each other like oil and water, says EPFL physicist Cécile Hébert.

Others are local oddities, like Alabama's Red Hills salamander, which has been seen emerging from its burrows on steep forest slopes so rarely that it was only discovered in 1960.

From the horned and particularly hideous Carnotaurus of some 70 million years ago to more recent 200 - pound, saber - toothed relatives of the possum, South America was home to some of evolution's greatest oddities.

«It has been exciting to see it go from an oddity to something tangible,» Lorimer says.

Fifty years ago, Hugh Everett decided that the neatest explanation for the oddities of quantum physics was that new universes were continually being created — each slightly different from our own.

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.

Astronomers thought those oddities meant the jet was facing slightly away from Earth and expected the light to fade quickly.

Astronomers chalked up Ceres's oddities to its being a relic from an early, formative epoch of our solar system, when planets coalesced from many Ceres - like objects caroming around the sun.

Another oddity, described by Bolton's team, is how ammonia wells up from the depths of Jupiter's atmosphere.

The eye's tendency to latch onto visual oddities makes it a sensitive tool for picking out the most distinctive aspects of the Martian environment, the sights that stand apart from the terrestrial norm.

An excerpt from Eric Dinerstein's Kingdom of Rarities explores whether the anteater and other South American oddities can survive as Brazil's Cerrado grassland is converted into cattle ranches and soybean farms

The tune emanates not from an cellphone ignored by a visiting tourist, but from an acoustical oddity: the Great Stalacpipe Organ.

More planet - size objects could lurk at Planet 9's impressive distance from the sun, and no one knows what oddities might exist 100 times farther out in the enormous Oort Cloud.

Darwin's catalog of oddities was far from complete — our bodies are littered with parts we don't need.