Sentences with phrase «oddities into»

The Chromecast's design is one of its most attractive features, and helped turn the «smart stick» form factor from an oddity into a budding industry standard.

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In the complementarian manifesto, the Danvers Statement, egalitarians are accused of «accepting hermeneutical oddities devised to reinterpret apparently plain meanings of biblical texts,» resulting in a «threat to Biblical authority as the clarity of Scripture is jeopardized and the accessibility of its meaning to ordinary people is withdrawn into the restricted realm of technical ingenuity.»

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

Writes McKnight, «Blue parakeet passages are oddities in the Bible that we prefer to cage and silence rather than to permit into our sacred mental gardens.

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.

Leaving aside such oddities as the Anglo - Italian and Anglo - Scottish cups, this will be the Foxes» fourth foray into continental football, and however their games turn out, the six group fixtures will constitute their longest European campaign.

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.

While this may seem a bit of an oddity, like who even noticed this trend, but some people put a lot of stake into this frigid sign.

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.

Although these stellar oddities emit radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, observing in the X-ray band offers the greatest insights into these unusual, incredibly dense celestial objects, which, if compressed any further, would collapse completely into black holes.

One of the most intriguing oddities to surface in 2012 was that the new particle appeared to decay into pairs of photon more often than our current best theory, the standard model, predicts the Higgs should.

Just a few months into its mission, NASA's newest Mars orbiter is finding an assortment of oddities in the Martian atmosphere, researchers report March 18 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

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 oddity is caused by a scheming bacterium that tampers with its host's reproductive organs and turns male mites into females.

Instead, let's look at a turbulent flow as a single physical entity by translating it into a crude metaphor, a swinging pendulum — with some marked oddities.

Among the oddities of liquid impacts into granular solids: slow - falling droplets can make deeper craters than their speedier brethren

Nonetheless, there are moments of piquancy as children play in the detritus of a wasteful world, and others of sheer oddity as we see plastic morph by the ton into unrecognizable shapes (like giant tubes of toothpaste - like goo) whose processing appears an open invitation to cancer.

He has ventured into Antarctica, Alaska, the jungles of the Amazon and the forests of his native Germany in search of oddity and revelation.

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.

To say the couple lives modestly after marriage is an understatement — together with their young daughters, the Barnums live in a tiny, squalid apartment and are barely scraping enough money together to live when «Phin» schemes his way into a big bank loan, buys a decrepit museum of oddities and turns it into a (literal) freak show.

Previous non-canon entries into The Legend of Zelda series have taken the form of ways to show off a system's features, such as Link's Crossbow Training for Wii, or just other little oddities, such as Tingle's DS games.

It edges into the non-sequitur weirdness of Quentin Dupieux («Rubber,» «Wrong «-RRB- and the fantastical romantic yearning of Michel Gondry («Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind «-RRB- but doesn't persuasively mint a uniquely «Daniels» brand of oddity.

In Allen's hands, Wonderland was tackily transformed into a plush extended episode of Fantasy Island, featuring such oddities as Ann Jillian running at the speed of light, John Stamos flipping his pageboy back and forth at a unicorn, Carol Channing turning into a goat after promising a little girl jam tomorrow or yesterday but never today, and Patrick Duffy in furrie - kabuki makeup eating a tin can.

Segal straddles the line between easy - going friend and confidante and overeager, at times inappropriate oddity, never turning stalker but tipping into an undue influence in Peter's life.

A fishing game isn't the immediate thing you'd think of when considering potential gameplay directions for titles spun off from the mainline Final Fantasy series; after thirty years we've seen more than our fair share of deviations from the established JRPG formula the franchise helped popularise, including forays into real time strategy and even Chocobo racing games, but FFXV: Monster of the Deep truly stands out as an oddity amongst even those initially curious choices.

One oddity that Reitman uses is a split - screen graphic in which characters over-lap each other, walking into the others» half of the screen.

Not to be glib, but pricing is an oddity of social science and I'll save the deep dive into Veblen Goods and pricing theories for another column (seriously, that's a column).

A functional oddity, the Targa is neither pretty nor practical, but it was the car in which my wife Raphaela announced to me that she was pregnant with our first son, so we took the roof off and drove into the sunset, vexed with emotion.

One oddity, with an iPhone plugged into the Civic's USB port, choosing the Audio menu on the homescreen immediately launched me into Apple CarPlay.

She wanders through Mr. Potter's Museum of Curiosities in the final days of its existence to watch dealers vie for preserved Victorian oddities, and visits the Smithsonian's offsite lab, where taxidermists transform zoo skins into vivacious beasts.

A fishing game isn't the immediate thing you'd think of when considering potential gameplay directions for titles spun off from the mainline Final Fantasy series; after thirty years we've seen more than our fair share of deviations from the established JRPG formula the franchise helped popularise, including forays into real time strategy and even Chocobo racing games, but FFXV: Monster of the Deep truly stands out as an oddity amongst even those initially curious choices.

Duke Nukem began as a very simple 2D side - scroller, notable mostly for oddities like the main character wearing pink and just wanting to save the world so that he could get back to watching Oprah, but nevertheless blossomed into Duke Nukem 3D before publicly wilting into Duke Nukem Forever.

I frequently ran into an oddity that caused fallen foes to stand upright, effectively becoming statues on the battlefield.

Risen 3: Titan Lords is a bit of an oddity; it suffers from a clunky combat system, some extremely cheesy voice acting and a number of small bugs, and yet I kept finding myself drawn into the game's atmosphere and sense of adventure.

Vergil comes into Dante's life explaining the oddities that have surrounded him.

Shoddy localization plagues the game's dialogue, turning meaningful moments into strange oddities instead, while the voice acting evokes memories best filed away beside other painful moments like Final Fantasy X's Tidus laugh.

Shoddy localization plagues the game's dialogue, turning meaningful moments into strange oddities instead, while the voice acting evokes memories best filed away beside other painful moments like

You could get sucked into the endless chain of Korok oddities, finding yourself deep in the muck of a swamp surrounded by lizalfos.

Often her subjects were favored domestic oddities, which she transformed into images that, in her words, «transcend the definition of the objects from which they are derived.»

His offerings are inspired by sci - fi; space; physics and horror movies; music; oddities and macabre; sea life; vintage and art nouveau — pretty much everything Rat is into.

While he primarily crochets yarn - based food, ChiliPhilly also delves into other oddities — like a giant yarn ball or a hat featuring his own face.

A peek into the prize's past winners reveal a Pandora's Box of oddities.

Interested in issues of perception and identity, Wegman used wordplay and simple line drawings to turn black and white photographs into simultaneously humorous and strange images / documents that destabilize the familiar and reveal life's essential oddity.

Delve into the oddities of human consciousness at «States of Mind,» a new exhibit at London's Wellcome Collection.

Beginning in the early nineties, McCollum expanded his interests in quantity production to include explorations into the ways regional communities give meaning to local landmarks and geological oddities in establishing community identity, and collaborated with a number of small towns and small historical museums in Europe and throughout the United States, bringing attention to the way local narratives develop around objects peculiar to geographic regions, and drawing comparisons to the way artworks develop meaning in a parallel manner.

Using the rich history and techniques of obscure magic performances, modernized for today's audiences, I combine these effects with interactive theater, installation art, and scientific oddities to craft interactive experiences where together the audience and I can delve into the mysteries of our perceptions.

Tunneling towards a mine of suppressed, latent, and untapped oddities, this rabbit hole burrows deep into the human psyche.

Of course the extreme oddity of these meltwater models is that they assume the water should automatically drain into the sea.

Anyone familiar with iPads can attest to the oddity of their charging patterns; plugged into a USB port they charge glacially, and even when attached to a normal wall socket are hardly snappy.

Even then, you may run into issues changing clock faces or syncing oddities.