Sentences with phrase «only oddity»

The only oddity of note here is the 295X2's performance at 2560 × 1440 with detail set to Medium.

The only oddity I encountered was the suggestion that I change «spelled» to «spelt.»

Not exact matches

This DealBook article about the new alliances between activist hedge funds and long - only institutional shareholders is full of enjoyable oddities; here is my favorite part:

Will not such a criterion result only in a picture of his oddities, and not of his place in a trajectory of tradition?

The common principle here is only that each human should be moving toward actualization, with others, in and under the divine Love — a Love, one may be sure, that prefers variety, novelty, and even oddity (if I may say so!)

Rather, they have become relics — quaint oddities not to be taken seriously but only to be treated gingerly as part of a bygone culture.

There is an oddity in the text: We are told that God finished creating on the sixth day, only to discover that God is said to finish again on the seventh day.

Where they were an oddity only three years ago, they are now becoming more and more common.

Laszlo Papp, Hungarian middleweight and an Iron Curtain oddity (the Communist world's only pro boxer), knocked down Ralph (Tiger) Jones of Brooklyn three times to win a 10 - round decision before a sellout crowd of 16,000 in Vienna.

The true oddity has been the past 150 years or so during which people have only learned a single language.

Others are local oddities, like Alabama's Red Hills salamander, which has been seen emerging from its burrows on steep forest slopes so rarely that it was only discovered in 1960.

«We observed more than 90 stars and found only one planet, so this is truly an astronomical oddity,» he said.

Ultra-diffuse galaxies are oddities in their own right, having only been discovered in 2015 as they are very difficult to detect.

Of course, we all have our quirks and our oddities, but those are the things that only the people who are really close to us know about.

Historical oddities or Okinawa makes up only percent of the nation's land area; yet, approximately 62 % of.

This serious - minded, ambitious oddity shoots for the moon of a far - off planet, but it really only finds the grace it's looking for in its magnificent supple camerawork.

The oddity in the lineup was an hour - long discussion almost entirely dedicated to privacy, surveillance, and only briefly, Pokémon Go and totalitarianism.

baptized in order to get funding from the Baptist Church of Beverly Hills, an event that only added to his reputation as an oddity.)

(He had the entire cast of Plan 9 baptized in order to get funding from the Baptist Church of Beverly Hills, an event that only added to his reputation as an oddity.)

It's a trailer that newbies and devotees to the phenomenon that is The Room can enjoy, and if that's any sign at all, The Disaster Artist is only going to draw more interested parties to the oddity of a film that it focuses on.

Tonya is a self - proclaimed redneck and knowing the actual Harding served as a consultant on the film only adds to the oddity of how matter - of - fact the surprising amount of violence is.

«I, Tonya» is one of the year's surprises, a defiant, funny, and multi-layered saga of talent and class resentment, marred only by some technical oddities and a certain smug awareness of everything the moviemakers are daring themselves to do right.

I realize that the film is only 12 years old, but it's an obscure oddity and I was surprised by how nice this transfer is.

A generic oddity in his oeuvre, Ashes of Time was the director's only attempt to date at a wuxia picture.

If you not only enjoy but actively seek out little - seen oddities from the VHS era, then consider Miami Connection an out - of - left - field windfall courtesy of Drafthouse Films.

He worked with off - beat indie godfathers Jim Jarmusch (on Only Lovers Left Alive) and Michael Almereyda (on Cymbeline and Experimenter); appeared in Paul Schrader's troubled, disowned Dying Of The Light; and in Jodie Foster's Mel Gibson - starring oddity The Beaver.

But in the midst of these monochrome movies one oddity came along: Desert Fury, a film noir in glorious Technicolor, directed by Lewis Allen, perhaps the only other previous example being John Stahl's equally delirious 1945 film Leave Her to Heaven.

But the oddities of their educational experiences exceed even those of Teddy Roosevelt, the only other contender for this honor.

There are two interior oddities: the fusebox opening is located only about an inch below the headlight switch, and I popped it open assuming it was a small storage cubby.

But there are some oddities in the features list: The base SXT doesn't have a backup camera or parking sensors — really, on something this big, it's pretty much a must - have — while blind - spot monitoring, which is increasingly becoming standard on many vehicles, was only added to my top - line trim as part of a $ 1,450 package that also added adaptive cruise control, forward emergency braking, and lane - keeping assist.

More telling as positive markers, there are 36 seats — matching the number on the bus Parks rode, reportedly the only such bus then in service in Montgomery — and its automatic transmission shifter is mounted on the left of the steering wheel, another oddity.

A device dedicated to non-dedicated readers is a big risk to Amazon which also faces a few other risks when it comes to casual readers — Apple can easily kill two of the most important channels, Amazon doesn't have the advantage of being the default or the only reading app on these platforms, other companies can beat it, and it has little control over the complete user experience (resulting in oddities like users having to buy Kindle books through the browser).

I really only have a few grammar oddities to fix, and then Ghost will be ready to roll.

The iPhone and the iPad were oddities in that they were the only Apple products that had version indicators in their names.

Only the singular food commodity (wheat) can be dismissed as a 5 - day oddity.

It is refreshing to know that there are others who are not compelled to interact with locals simply because they are there, and I may not be such an oddity for giving only a smile as a greeting and going about my way.

Not only is it the only country that's also a continent, it's also a land full of riches and oddities.

We may find that if we don't buy the oddities then they will not produce them and the only games available will be homogenised and focus grouped to death in a desperate bid to appeal to all of the people all of the time.

Here's a real oddity of our modern digital times: Square Enix has released a free app on PlayStation 4 in Japan that includes a live performance of the Piano Collections — Final Fantasy XV: Moonlit Melodies album, but it's only fully functional for PlayStation Plus subscribers, and it will disappear after March 1st, 2018.

The other oddity pertaining to loadouts was the fact that players could only unlock custom loadouts and some of the better weapons by increasing their multiplayer level.

The fact they've only published 4 disc games total, despite their age / history and prestige, makes them an oddity worth mentioning.

These roles can lead to some oddities: You would think a basic skill like watering a plant wouldn't be limited to a farmer or that a robber wouldn't be the only one who'd know how to use crowbars.

That oddity aside, the tanks have very basic and straightforward controls, as you can only move, pivot, fire, and use a special ability once per level.

Resident Evil 0 is a bit of an oddity in the franchise, in the sense that it is the only Resident Evil designed in the style of the original but was never released for the same platform.

With the game out only a short while, and the first patch and driver combo under its belt, I imagine that the team will shake out some of these oddities.

The latter manipulation brings to mind iOS oddity Monument Valley, only without that game's clever Escher - like tricks of the eye - a missed opportunity.

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Otherness as a gap, however — as something that was not appropriated as a symbol, but that could be sensed only obliquely as an oddity and a strange discomfort that we are reluctant to face — existed only in a handful of works, some of them installations that included at least two objects and some digital media work.

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