Sentences with phrase «oddity among»

Venezuela is a major exporter of oil to the USA, and large trading partner with the US State of Florida, itself highly reliant on burning oil to generate electricity (an oddity among US states).

These facts alone make Ossorio something of an oddity among the abstract expressionists, but he was also, to single him out even further, a devout (but conflicted) Catholic of Hispanic, Filipino, and Chinese heritage, and a gay man who lived with his partner for decades.

Sharks, skates, and rays are oddities among the fish: They have appendages growing out of the gill arch, a small cradle of bones that supports the gills.

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Among the many oddities of the present circumstance is that a new twist is being given to the old maxim, Hate the sin but love the sinner.

Another oddity is that Bush did better (58 - 40) among voters attending mainline / oldline Protestant churches (e.g., American Baptist, Presbyterian Church USA, ELCA Lutheran, United Methodist) than among the born - again.

Among the singer - songwriters who emerged in the latter part of the 1960s, Leonard Cohen was something of an oddity.

The injury to Oxo, within 4 minutes of the start of the game, was an oddity as those sharp - eyed sleuths among you would have seen him on the centre line doing acrobatic calisthenics just before kick off, which indicated he was feeling something, dirty devil or he was trying to pose like a pixillated flamingo.

In fact, it is so important that among mammals and birds the norm is for a species to have a third eyelid and those lacking one — such as humans and some of our fellow primates — are the true oddities in nature.

Among its oddities: 52 chromosomes, including 10 sex chromosomes, as well as the highest number of repeated segments in the genome of any mammal sequenced so far.

Primary among those oddities was the famous uncertainty principle, which states that you can never know all the properties of a particle at the same time.

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

The notable oddity of the film is a logical lapse concerning how memories among the living offer an enduring afterlife in the land of the dead.

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.

Among other oddities, the film asked the audience to believe that perfect looking 29 - year - old Michelle and haggard looking 40 - year - old Robert Downey, Jr. had grown up together.

Another oddity: Using page up and down on a Web page sometimes caused it to navigate among HTML fields, instead of scrolling the whole page as I expected.

You control a variety of flying objects that can be mostly classified as planes (although there is a flying pancake in there among other oddities), with additional flying vehicles that you can purchase or earn over time.

(Editor's note: the interviewee was originally listed as Director Hidetaka Miyazaki, as that was the name on the interview schedule, among other circumstantial communication oddities.

Phoenix also do the recently NeoGAF obsessed - over White Van Racer, among other ultra-budget oddities, of course.

In Cabrito, the oddity of an anthropomorphized goat practicing archery in the mountains among sheep is offset by a sense of familiarity with the scenery and the harmony of the photograph's formal elements.

AMONG the responsibilities of the new Rural Affairs Minister Huw Irranca - Davies is one of those wonderful Whitehall oddities: he's the Minister of the Crown in charge of Kew Gardens.

Originally conceived as a puppet show, Ubu Roi is the story of a despotic king who, among other oddities, strode the stage barking the French scatological word «merdre.»

That might work if you're placing it near a curved television, but for many it's an oddity when placed among your other AV boxes.