Sentences with phrase «of odd characters»

Barcelona - based artist Jonathan Dalton creates amazing oil paintings of odd characters or bizarre stories and sceneries.

The narration is genuinely funny as it reiterates the actions of the Gunstringer and gives the history of the odd characters the Gunstringer encounters, like the love affair between lumberjack and alligator, which gave birth to one of the game's bosses - a hideous, plaid - wearing alligator lumberjack.

Brian will meet all kinds of odd characters, escape from terrible creatures, and unravel the hidden secrets of Sintracorp's dark past.

On some level, Peggy is a bit of an odd character, a fiercely independent woman in an era when misogyny ran amok, and Atwell pulls off the difficult trick of keeping her anchored in the time period while still playing as a strong character to modern audiences.

Alfred Hitchcock is undoubtedly one of the oddest characters ever to have had their wicked way with film.

Whilst Kai is certainly likeable enough, she's also one of the oddest characters we've come across, taking serious situations and turning them into games, eating worms, and requiring a good shake every now and then to bring her back down to earth.

Not exact matches

It may seem odd to carefully craft fictitious clients with names and backstories, but defining these characters and their attributes will help identify valuable types of visitors and customers and enable you to coordinate the efforts of the various parts of your company in extracting maximum value.

I thought it was odd and out of character when I heard Rush apologized.

The second Story - substitute proposal suggests that moral rights and duties can be squeezed out of the characters themselves, without the aid of any Story - like the odd movie that succeeds with good characters even without the benefit of a discernible plot.

I have never had a problem with the story of Jesus saving the woman... but that last comment of go and sin no more always struck me as odd... so out of character with Jesus previous statement...» Neither do I accuse you».

It is also worthwhile to trace the course of events that has led to the odd character and precariousness of our present situation.

It's a little odd that Ben & Jerry's pulled from two very recent SNL characters, since the show has literally dozens of possible characters stretching back decades.

Critics have remarked that Ginsberg's exit would have been more compelling if the character had been given more screen - time this season, instead of being called in sporadically to deliver the odd scatological joke.

Hall was born in Minnesota, and the editors speak admiringly of «his understated Midwestern manner, even after he became a New York character and an odd kind of international celebrity.»

Superstars like Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury and Tim Duncan were paired with mercurial head coach Larry Brown and asked to lead an odd - fitting bunch of characters that included rookies LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade.

Odd Mom Out by Jane Porter gives us a character that many of us can relate to.

The 30 - odd bronze gears and 2,000 inscribed Greek characters in the Antikythera Mechanism helped ancient Greek scientists track the cycles of the solar system and calculate the motions of the sun, the moon, and the planets.

The odd start to the evening was designed to be eaten as the film — Trading Places — began, with Dan Ackroyd, one of the two main characters, being delivered breakfast in bed by his butler.

All complete with action of the martial kind, a wafer thin storyline, and some odd characters for Jackie to bash up and now, a partner who is a lovable wastrel.

Sanders adopts some odd style of characters laughing at moments, when they aren't that funny.

While Klein reportedly did not wish to be a part of the film, the absence of any mention of his character seems odd, especially given that Shannon Elizabeth's Nadia is mentioned briefly in the film, though her character does not appear.

The balance and depth in the game is astonishing, and even the odd characters have their distinct charms... What's really a shame here is that the developer didn't manage to find a way to supplement the core experience with extras that would extend the life of the game by adding some variety to the package.

But like Shadowlands, it isn't hard to get beyond or forgive the stagey qualities of The Odd Couple once we have gotten on board with the characters and begun to laugh (or cry).

The quirkiest of these characters is the next - door neighbor to Max and Annie, a depressed cop played by Jesse Plemons whose odd nature keeps him excluded from the couple's fun - loving game nights.

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.

They weren't utterly dreadful and I did appreciate the odd bits of Scottish dialect that were thrown in but by and large I was bored by this game's characters.

Examines 50 - odd years in the life of its eponymous subject — a most compelling character — and in doing so literally provides the viewer with food for thought.

The only reason i gave it a nine is because I found some of the characters to be a little too odd to my liking (the god of the forest and the boars were strange)

Critic Consensus: The Talent Given Us is an odd hybrid of reality and fiction, but works due to its engaging characters.

Which put the role of Todd in a very odd position of being the main character.

In The Last Airbender the characters sounded like they were from California, in After Earth they have some kind of British accent, it's odd and I can't quite place it, but mostly I don't care.

The figurine set is particularly nice, but it comes with a seemingly odd assortment of characters: Spider - Man, Groot, Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor, Star - Lord, Thanos, a new mystery villain, Doctor Strange and Gamora.

A key incentive is meant to be unlocking each of the 80 - odd different characters, but not only does this mean repeating the same missions over and over again but there's very little meaningful variety outside the first handful of main characters.

This is one of those films that is enjoyable because it's so odd that we don't really know what's going to happen next, or what any of the crazy characters are going to have coming out of their mouths at any given time.

An attempt to muscle in on Luc Besson's Taken - style of thriller, this is an odd mix of French setting, American characters and British cast and crew.

Odd to see a character that was just a one - note bit part get his own movie, but Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine, Over the Hedge) continues playing the quirky newscaster from Bruce Almighty, oh, for about a couple of minutes.

It's a bit odd that Firth's character Harry, codename Galahad, isn't played by Pierce Brosnan, because he's clearly channeling that version of James Bond — but if Bond survived all those missions, turned into M, and was now looking for a 007 to carry on his legacy.

** / **** Image B - Sound C + starring Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia screenplay by Mark Harris, based on his novel directed by John Hancock by Walter Chaw Almost fatally hamstrung by an appalling score by Stephen Lawrence, John D. Hancock's Bang the Drum Slowly is a character - driven adaptation of a Mick Harris's novel (Harris also wrote the screenplay) that evokes the odd twilit detachment of professional sports in general and baseball in particular with a tale made suddenly popular in 1973 by the success of Brian's Song.

There's an odd plot point late on involving ecstasy tablets that feels unnecessary, but in general Shelton has a good grasp of her characters, and treats them with equal focus.

It's quirky and odd with an outrageous story and over-the-top characters, and that may not sit well with some people, but that's the kind of game Swery is known to make.

LIVE FROM MINNEAPOLIS it is a lengthy, boozy, robust episode of the Cinecast, where bartenders, paramedics, rowdy billiard players, and the odd waitress all make for background character and salty language is tossed around in public spaces.

Neil Simon's comedies depend on comedy of character and snappy dialogue, and The Odd Couple is a perfect example.

Cemetery Man is campy at times, there's lots of old school gore, black humor, murder sprees, a supernatural reoccurring love story, odd characters and shifts in tone (the first half is VERY different from the latter half).

Both of these characters are, well, a bit odd.

The action parts of the movie were as good as previous parts of the series, and a step up from Mockingjay part 1, but I did feel as though there were lots of filler scenes where the characters moped around a bit and lamented over who Katniss would pick from their odd little love triangle.

Winstead has had a bit of an odd trajectory in her career, going from thin supporting parts in big dumb studio movies to a huge indie breakout with her magnificent performance in Smashed a few years ago that she unfortunately didn't really capitalize on afterwards, but here she gets the best of both worlds by developing a kickass character we can root for in a thrilling genre piece that also has some depth to her.

Dowd and executive producer Chad Hodge on how her «complex and odd» character is a welcome change of pace for the actress.

The characters in this movie have an odd, child - like approach to plenty of crudeness which makes it all the more humorous and ridiculous.

Despite all the famous character actor faces in The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Diane Wiest, M. Emmet Walsh, David Morse, Common...), the true star of the film is, perhaps not surprisingly, the titular twelve - year - old boy...

A picture like this lives and dies by its cast, and while it's easy to target Black as the odd man out in this ensemble, better to forgive the Malcolm character as an example of the frustrated intellectual, straitjacketed by potential and the belief that he was bound for something better promised him by people (parents?)