Sentences with phrase «of odd design»

But like most other aspects of Lost Planet 3, there are still a number of odd design choices that manage to worm their way in and make the overall experience just all that more flawed.

The latest installment in Capcom's struggling Lost Planet series takes this one step too far into the cold, with a snowstorm of odd design choices and just overall off - putting weirdness...

While there's definitely some performance issues and a couple of odd design choices, I honestly believe that the gameplay systems and the way they interact with each other while creating the story, more than make up for any janky issues.

Kind of an odd design decision, as it could have easily been solved by making use of other buttons and thumbsticks.

Not exact matches

Produced by a small team of engineers tasked with blue - skying about future aerospace designs, the documents featured concept designs for an array of odd - looking planes.

Musk has already said that it's essential for the roof design to be beautiful, and the designs he touted were that, although it was odd to see a man who has revolutionized the automobile and, in his role as CEO of SpaceX, outlined a plan to colonize Mars slip into futuristic general - contractor mode.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Finally, I find it odd that Mr. Conway - Morris is quite prepared to recognise the power of the design argument in the realm of physics, in the form of the remarkable fine - wiling and interdependence of the various laws and constants of the cosmos, whilst at the same time being SD dismissive of the biological equivalent.

Thus we have the seemingly odd political instincts of a single, 35 - year - old McKinsey consultant living in suburban Chicago who thinks of herself as vulnerable and votes for enhanced social programs designed to protect against the dangers and uncertainties of life.

Nice job, odd play design to be called on that short of a field.

Adorned with a weird dragon, this shirt offers a wider appeal than that of a regular football shirt, and though it is an odd design, it's proved to be a hit with Americans.

Examples of odd fielding positions are the Williams shift, designed to stop Ted Williams (three men on one side of the infield), and the shift often used against slow - footed Ernie Lombardi in the»40s — six men in the outfield.

Sandi: When I am designing new fabric, it may be odd, but the title of the collection is the first thing that comes to me.

The last time lines were drawn, a decade ago, they were designed to protect Republicans (and Republican - friendly Democrats like Carl Kruger, whose odd - shaped district was the result of a deal he struck with former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno).

They come from an odd assortment of disciplines and have turned out designs for an even odder assortment of objects: custom - made blimps, remote - controlled surveillance planes, propellers for the windmills on California's wind farms, and drag - reducing fairings for trucks.

Engineers designed Cassini so it could survive running into odd bits of fast - moving dust.

TRuly an awkwardly placed contrast seam in your leggings... a line drawn from your crotch to your ass crack... I have a Nike pair and they are for home use only because of that seam... such an odd design

It is certainly a change from my 20 odd years of wearing designer duds so all my design clients would think I had taste that was transferrable to all the parts of my life.............

I find some of the design choices odd.

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.

The build up to Christmas can feel like an odd time to be online dating: you're busy with festive errands and so much of the silly season seems to be designed with established couples in mind.

The design of the site is easy to navigate, and I don't need to add any odd or unnecessary information.

The whole thing hangs together pretty well and the design looks good so we don't have too many queries until it comes to the odder features of the site.

This is a game that is hard to recommend to many players, but those with a taste for the odd and an ability to forgive rather bizarre design flaws will find a good little game hidden under a film of potential inaccessibility.

Carole Lombard, as a designing manicurist, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless playboy the former mistakes for her meal ticket, are both wonderful, but there's something odd about the tone of the picture, evidenced by the fact that our sadness for Ralph Bellamy, Lombard's unrequited suitor, outweighs our happiness for Lombard and MacMurray at the close.

Staying back is the gang's odd pal Barry (Tom Green), a seventh year student who serves as infrequent storyteller on an uninformative campus tour, a design that doesn't really work but does maximize Green's involvement at the height of his brief, MTV - fueled fame.

It's amazing to see just how far Pixar have come as a studio when you look back a the lifeless eyes and odd - looking faces of Toy Story to the «you - won't - believe - it's - animated» waterfalls and landscapes here.The designs of our lead characters are sublime too, and really do help carry some of the emotional weight.

Early on, the fights between you and the thirty - odd large monsters in the game are battles of attrition against gigantic, beautifully designed, imaginative beasts.

The images are a little odd, but then they were designed to be seen in 3D (you can watch them in action at the film's official site), and make the characters look like they're running through rubble or have just stepped out of the shower.

It's a hyperactive, odd blend of interesting gameplay mechanics, poor level design, and humor only your high school science teacher would find amusing.

The Brothers Bloom is an odd, somewhat distancing, but still curiously satisfying confection that may not leave the indelible impression in the mind that Brick does, but, thanks to the brilliant performances, literary presentation, and kitschy European art design, offers a nice bit of escapism into its uniquely quirky world, not dissimilar to the way Wes Anderson might do if he were to create a film with more of a conventional plot (Anderson's Bottle Rocket perhaps comes closest to the spirit of Johnson's film from a story standpoint).

The choice of football as a theme (this is the claymation equivalent of One Million Years B.C. meets Escape to Victory) was obviously designed to appeal to children and general audiences alike, although its European flavour perhaps explains the film's underperformance in North America, and does give Early Man a very odd balance of elements.

By design, Foxx and DeHaan have the showiest roles, but they are at the mercy of Webb and the writing staff's odd whims.

And for every instance of jarring level design or incongruous enemy placement here, there's the odd brilliant boss fight — not least Looking Glass Knight, which is one of my all - time favourites.

Director and co-writer Peter Ricq (alongside Phil Ivanusic and Davila LeBlanc) have constructed the sort of depraved little B - movie that's ideal for late night showings designed primarily towards forgivable genre fans who crave considerably splatter, the odd quotable quip (my fave was probably «I think that if the blood's black, there's no going back!»)

Odd Man Out (1947): In Carol Reed's beautifully designed portrait of a wounded IRA man moving toward death, Mason brings you so close to his character's physical and emotional suffering that it seems as if you could actually touch the raw feelings that keep oozing out of him.

On paper, it may seem like an odd way of playing a game designed for one on one swordplay, but it manages to be more entertaining than the round - based team matches.

Amazingly, both are the original sites that Wiseau hastily created in promotion of the room — that much is clear by the incredibly basic and bombastic design of the sites, as well as the odd flaming picture titled «Shame On You» linking to a horrendously edited video of behind - the - scenes footage of the Room.

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The significance of the Common Core is that the advocates for the Common Core and the people who are designing the test talk very explicitly about, as Carol said, these instructional shifts, which have not been publicly debated, which got little public airing as 40 - odd states rushed to adopt the Common Core in 2009, 2010, and which portend a dramatic shift in how we teach 50 million children reading and math.

Very Odd Budget process / Contract Process this year — all designed to protect employee compensation at the expense of student services -

Merc's cabin is probably still half a notch behind the Bentley's too - not necessarily in design or technology, because it gets elements like the S - Class's dual - widescreen set - up and supremely supportive AMG sports seats, but in the finer details, such as odd switch carried over from lesser Mercs, or the quality of hide or wood.

It's more of an effortless GT designed to teach the odd boy - racer a basic lesson in physics by demonstrating the effect 624bhp has on accelerating a large object along any given stretch of tarmac.

Sessions claimed that the Honda was «straight from Planet Strange with its odd proportions and disappointing details,» while associate web editor Ben Timmins faulted Honda «for not pushing the envelope in terms of the design.»

The 5.0 - liter V - 8 in U.S. market LaForzas were sourced from Ford, while the design and the underpinnings of the SUV was an odd mishmash of ex-military and truck hardware.

This 1982 example's odd aesthetic is as unmistakable today as it was over four decades ago, but the 928's futuristic design wasn't just meant to wow onlookers, though it does that quite well — designer Wolfgang Möbius Möbius» masterpiece garnered stare - downs from countless bystanders and plenty of camera phones flew up as we cruised the ocean front boulevards of the Westhampton portion of Long Island, New York.

I find the price comparison with the Q5 S Line rather odd as EVO conveniently forgot to highlight the very high standard specification of the R - Design Pro trim, which includes 21» alloys, air suspension / switchable dampers, active 12» 3» driver display, active LED headlights with washers, dimming / folding mirrors, premium nav, heated windscreen, heated steering wheel, memory drivers seat and ambient lighting for the base price of # 43,845 The # 42,150 Q5 S Line has none of the above as standard and would cost # 49,345 if given the same specification as the XC60, so the Volvo would actually cost # 5,500 less.

«The project had its germination as a project for 100 - odd students of Coventry's School of Transport Design»

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.

Still, it's an odd and enjoyable little eco-car and the materials used in its construction along with the stunning design of the cabin almost justify the high price.