Sentences with phrase «of odd angles»

One of the odd angles the movie seems to spend so much time on is how broke the family is throughout their whole ordeal.

Not exact matches

Pacific salmon have never surmounted Shipherd's Falls, a roaring, 60 - foot cataract in Washington's Wind River (although they now negotiate it by fish ladder), but the Steelhead is able to pick his way up by leaping from one small pocket of water, four, five or six feet to the next, often jumping at odd angles to hit the targets he must sense but can not possibly see as he launches himself.

Kyle exclaims, gripping the leash of a full - grown bulldog panting happily in a spiked collar, the dog's chest so huge that its legs jut out at odd angles.

He throws such a wide variety of strikes and from odd angles, with a lot feints to boot.

It was an odd sense of deja vu... a «I think I've photographed pillows just like that, at just that angle, with just that background before.»

This one has to be nursed sitting up due to his reflux, which requires a bizarre contortion of my breast and his head, all tacked together by clenching everything in my arms at odd angles.

One odd angle chosen by the curators was the inclusion of works by Van Gogh and Pissarro to demonstrate how European acclaim for Lowry came earlier than in London.

He adds, however, that a lot of TV watching can surely cause eye strain and fatigue, particularly for those sitting very close and / or watching from odd angles.

Fog is problematic for time - of - flight systems because it scatters light: It deflects the returning light signals so that they arrive late and at odd angles.

His crime was definitely hideous for he was tortured by his captors; I have visions of lavish quantities of sulphuric acid being poured onto his bare chest and abdomen while his arms and legs were tied in odd positions and at very peculiar angles to his body.

Knotting the end of a long belt: This is great for casual outfits — just make sure your belt is long enough and soft enough that it lies properly and doesn't stick out at an odd angle or dig into you awkwardly.

Horrible cliches, bad writing, emotional angles that are meant to be deep but come off pathetic... The South is a gold mine of odd balls and unique characters and unexpected situations, but this show falls flat on its face when trying to depict it.

The pic looks sensational, especially in the night scenes, not only in its lush survey of Tim and Lee's swank temporary pad, but also in the digging scenes, in which Richardson populates the wide frame with searing lamp light from odd angles.

This sequel is more religious thriller than superhero film, though the directing duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (whose other credits include Gamer and the maligned Jonah Hex screenplay) make it look like a car commercial, with their jerky handheld digital video, odd angles, and hollow showiness.

If Julian's character is revealed most clearly in his silence and the odd fantasies in his mind, Crystal is a collection of her stiff posture, the stern look on her face, and the way she poses with her cigarette held out an odd angle, waiting for her son to light it — refusing to make even the slightest effort to do something for herself when her trusty servant is near.

The camera behaves traditionally for most of the film, and will then randomly pan across the scene at an odd angle, just to be different.

Sometimes it does still have that odd magnetic feel when swinging or leaping towards a ledge at a weird angle, but it's a tiny oddity that can easily be forgiven in the grand scope of things.

In telling a story about young people, their parents, their community, their faith, and the odd angles at which they all intersect, director Stephen Cone turns in a story of uncommon compassion.

In Lynne Ramsay's fragmentary, ferociously beautiful You Were Never Really Here, the great shape - shifter Joaquin Phoenix balloons his body into a fearsome new form: a bulkiness every bit as convincing and psychologically revealing as the bony odd angles of The Master's Freddie Quell.

In one of those odd confluences of timing, McQueen's movie opens after two other films this year — Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels» The Butler — that examine race in America from numerous angles, measuring strides taken and distances to be covered.

Throughout the suspension's range of travel, SVI maintained stock - looking wheel travel so the Forester «s stance on a show stand wouldn't be marred by odd camber angles.

Being able to move the tie - down points to fit the cargo you're hauling is a lot better than having to use extra long straps at odd angles like I'd have to do with my older Silverado's regular tie - down points at the corners of the bed.

The roofline's reduced angle gives the 991 a hint of Panamera, which is odd when you remember that the Panamera was designed to recall the 911.

The exterior styling seems sporty, but, from some angles, there is an odd sort of frumpiness.

One interesting note: At night, due to the design and angles of the windows, passing other cars on the highway tends to cause odd reflections.

It's so good at every angle of corner and every bit of topography we found that we got out of it looking at the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 265/35 R19 front and 285/30 R20 rear tyres with involuntary nodding respect, which seemed odd in hindsight.

In normal mode it's very lightly weighted, but has a very odd feel to it... it's off center and there's a lot of slop and response is slow, but then the system seems to catch up once more angle is dialed in and then abruptly turns.

It woud be easier to get used to the odd trunk if the Alfa did not underline it by sticking pieces of garish trim - extentions of trim that runs along both sides - at angles identical to those offending bodywork.

I am only five - foot - four, and I had to move the seat so far forward to be able to reach the pedals that I had an odd - angle view of the rearview mirror.

The shallow angle of Vanagon's steering wheel is odd and buslike, but the visibility from the high seat is great and the controls are easy to find and operate.

It also is comfortable, thanks to good support and folding armrests on both sides.The odd angle of the wheel may provoke some operators into a bus - driver's hunch on twisting roads.

Some of the first few aura's had a crosshatch when the light was turned on and you looked at the device at a very odd angle.

Oddest of all, because the HDX's edges are angled, the ports aren't straight.

If the online photos of your house are dim, blurry, taken at odd angles or of odd rooms, don't be surprised if you get fewer than expected appointments to view your home for sale.

Symptoms of elbow dysplasia include lameness, abnormal gait, holding the elbows at odd angles, unwillingness to move around much or play, tiring easily, stiffness upon standing, and a worsening of the condition after exercise.

This blvd starts several blocks up from the beach in Venice, crosses the iconic Venice Blvd and ends at Washington Blvd. Abbot Kinney cuts through town at an odd angle compared to most of the rest of the streets here.

What it amounted to at the moment is a lot of waggling and the controls for the movements felt really loose and jarring, with characters moving a bit too fast and at odd angles.

It wasn't uncommon to meet another Hound on the battlefield sporting all manner of bizarre configurations, with armor plates placed in front of the cockpit through careful use of spacers and extended mechanical proboscae of weapons teetering off at odd angles.

This show does not hide Stella's struggle with space, and the results are thrilling to the eye and the mind: odd colours, odd shapes, odd angles striving to break out of art as we knew it.

Other noteworthy works were a Katherine Bernhardt canvas of her usual 2 - d miss - mash of objects, Puppies Puppies, Nolan Simon's Earth which took up most of the What Pipeline (Detroit) booth, forcing fair - goers to squeeze into odd spaces and angles to view the paintings on the walls, and Mika Tajima's spray - painted Jacuzzi - like structures at Eleven Rivington (New York).

Despite the generally consistent upward motion of these images, the constituent visuals are frequently set at odd angles, at times even upside down, disrupting any attempt at orienting oneself relative to some stable horizon, as if travelling on a boat.

The dual lifelike and lifelessness of her sculptural models and disconcerting odd - angled lighting (more precisely, Roberta Smith notes that the paintings «seem lighted by a monitor's glow») make a room full of her work feel haunting.

Finally, cameras were often placed at an odd angle, at the back of the room, and therefore didn't produce the optimal angle and image quality for interacting with a displaced third party.

Outside of the odd color panel shift the display only dims a bit when looking at it from an angle, so viewing angles aren't great but they're not bad either.

From an angle, like many other AMOLED screens, there is the odd hint of whites turning pink or blue, but that only shows face when viewing at unnatural viewing angles.

The display is a bit reflective, and loses a lot of brightness if you view it at odd angles, but head - on it looks great, while the dual front - facing speakers deliver loud audio, although music can sound a bit flat through them.

The odd angles in that room along with the staircase have created some major design challenges + since it was an attic before, it has a tendency to house the clutter from downstairs that we don't know what to do with,,,,, we are in the process of going through our «stacks - o - crap» to deal with the unnecessary clutter that we thought we had dealt with in 2000...... amazing how it creeps in: — RRB -.

Kimberley's guide to colour correction Problem: Odd angles Solution: No need to get bent out of shape by awkward angles.