Sentences with phrase «peculiar world»

And it's a most peculiar world, indeed.

Based on their award - winning 2010 short film Marcel the Shell, which became an internet sensation with over 12 million YouTube views, this «cleverly illustrated» (Kirkus) new adventure in Marcel's wonderfully peculiar world will transition «the winning, winsome, wee mollusk» (Kirkus) from a «ridiculously cute» (PAPER Magazine) web star to a classic picture book character.

Cable Griffith, the Gallery Director at Cornish College of the Arts, paints peculiar worlds, full of familiar elements such as trees, lakes, hills, and skies stacked in odd, architectural structures that recall Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Tower of Babel.

Out there behind fences and screens and Plexiglas portholes, the denizens of the bullpen live on the fringes of the game, in a peculiar world of their own

«However, this notion may be a peculiar world view that comes from living in an age where the number and size of animals have been drastically reduced from their former bounty,» the team of nine scientists write.

Built on crazy special effects work and even zanier antics, Waititi and screenwriters Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost avoid these lulls, perpetually pushing forward lots of in - jokes for MCU fans, and plenty of spoof - tinged moments to draw you into the peculiar world of comedy contained within a relatively basic plot structure.

While there is precious little overt «drama» per se, before you know it you've become happily ensconced in a peculiar world you've never visited or even imagined before.

«In the peculiar world, women are the protectors.

An adaptation of Martin Amis» 1989 novel, Matthew Cullen's London Fields distills the book's ideas into an unfortunate series of cliches and archetypes, never quite hitting upon the brilliance of Amis» peculiar world - building and prose — this, despite the fact that the author helped to pen the script.

Cage's matter - of - fact, lackadaisical voice over certainly does little to draw us in to his peculiar world philosophy, and colorful villains and wacky side characters also detract from the feeling of authenticity in the story.

Although brutal, perhaps to excess, Gibson's visceral style reels us into this peculiar world from the get - go, which helps us overlook the clichés of the last hour of the film.

In this day and age, the joke is really on the perpetrator of such a notion for sheer ignorance, but in the peculiar world that Identity Thief inhabits, being called Sandy as a male apparently requires snide retorts by nearly every character who hears the name.

While we may find similarities in how we react to these films, the stories and characters we find in the peculiar world they inhabit are completely self - contained.

From its opening pages, Ghostman effortlessly pulls the reader into Jack's refined and peculiar world — and the sophisticated shadowboxing only grows more powerfully intense as the novel moves toward its inexorable conclusion.

Yes, peculiar world, and you can always check out the future prices of a range of commodities at places like CME, NYMEX, etc..

Despite its awkward aiming and lackluster platforming, Stick it to The Man is a delightful puzzle game with a peculiar world worth exploring.

Rachel Goodyear creates drawings that present a peculiar world of disjointed narratives — they are sometimes absurd and ridiculous, and at other times full of melancholy and loss; mostly tinted with dark humour.