Sentences with phrase «so idiosyncratic»

Some of these stories are so idiosyncratic that it is not possible to draw definitive conclusions about how the process of becoming aware of the alienation occurred.

Why is it, then, that citation systems for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the Canadian McGill Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive in scope?

Each artist is so idiosyncratic that they should not be mistaken for ambassadors of a country, or even its art scene.

Moreover, contradicting another widely held belief, excellence in teaching is not so idiosyncratic that it can not be measured.

Yet McDormand's so warm, so idiosyncratic, that Marge never comes across as a kooky scold; she makes the woman's carved - from - marble personality traits seem an outgrowth of Marge's worldview rather than a grab - bag of eccentricities.

Originally aired on the IFC, Sofia Coppola's 1998 debut short introduces many of the thematic elements (loner female protagonist, outsider perspectives) and stylistic flourishes (all her films have opened with the lead actress being driven) that have nade her work so idiosyncratic.

However, when a film is so idiosyncratic, stylized, and unique, the filmmaker is taking a chance that the audience will be into exactly those things, which isn't always the case.

His visual vocabulary is so idiosyncratic, so singular and distinct, it has practically become a brand or genre unto itself and it can be appreciated by anyone who simply loves movies.

Not exact matches

So these days, many smart companies are developing their own idiosyncratic interview questions tailored specifically to their organization's culture.

Because it so intimately concerns human beings, and the variability of our loves, such awakenings of love's intellectual desires will evade the grasp of rationalist reformers, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic.

So the courageous pro-choice position must be that whether a fetus is a legal person must not depend on the mystical, idiosyncratic determination of the mother that her embryo is or isn't a person to her.

Bitterman came to learn, as all chefs now have, that before salt was just salt — before it was industrialized and homogenized — it was a regional and idiosyncratic ingredient, perhaps the quintessential one, precisely because it was so universal.

Now, please remember that beauty routines are specific and idiosyncratic, so I'm not recommending mine to anyone or claiming that it will work for you.

The British have always been different in an idiosyncratic and quirky way, but so have the French, the Germans, the Italians and all the rest.

But she's passionate about them, no matter how idiosyncratic they may appear to others, so she makes time to fit them in — and she believes they have helped her career.

IBM's megacomputer, Watson, creamed the hominid competition at the quirky, punny, idiosyncratic Jeopardy! This contest, calling on such skills as language, grammar, and wordplay, is among the most human of games — much more so than the mathematical system of chess, which IBM's Deep Blue mastered in the 1990s.

This is a bit idiosyncratic and personal: I'm sensitive to itchy fabrics and fitted jackets, so I'm careful about not buying things I won't wear.

What could be a relentlessly grim procedural (again, «The Killing») is instead a compelling drama that works (so far, at least) on a number of levels: as a mystery, as an idiosyncratic buddy story, and as a textured sociopolitical treatise.

True «outsider» art is a rarity in any age, but more so in the plugged - in present, when technology makes the idea of privately cultivating an idiosyncratic style very nearly obsolescent.

But Perry borrows from several influences to make something unique and idiosyncratic, so he's also a pricklier Woody Allen, a less fastidious Wes Anderson, and so on.

Produced by James L. Brooks, who knows a thing or two about character - driven comedy (The Simpsons, Broadcast News), The Edge of Seventeen screams with an idiosyncratic voice at a time when so many movies just want to fall in with the popular crowd.

Amazon's contenders such as Wonderstruck and The Big Sick are artistically idiosyncratic, and so are their campaigns.

Enter Black Gold, whose idiosyncratic and unpredictable screenings have so far spanned cult smashes like F. Gary Gray's Friday, under - appreciated but culturally significant titles like Hype Williams's Belly, and esoterica like Edo Bertoglio's Jean - Michel Basquiat - starring Downtown 81.

The presence of Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, both usually so over-the-top, should at least guarantee some laughs, but the film manages to even make these idiosyncratic actors uncharacteristically flat and uninteresting.

But the H.F.P.A. is famously odd and idiosyncratic, so maybe conventional wisdom is not the way to go here.

Written, directed by and starring Lena Dunham, and costarring her real - life mother and sister, Tiny Furniture is a loose - limbed and pleasantly idiosyncratic independent film that takes an amusing look at romantic humiliation and twentysomething dawdling, when deep - seated ambivalence is so frequently mistaken for a lack of ambition or intelligence by adults who've forgotten the choppy waters of post-adolescence.

In for Plummer is Donald Sutherland, who plays Getty as distant, calculating, sadistic, and ever - so - slightly idiosyncratic in his daily routines and interactions with his girlfriends, children, the press, colleagues, and employees.

Hornaday's list is good, if idiosyncratic: She gives the magnificent Miller's Crossing and Raising Arizona their due, for instance, and if she rates The Big Lebowski lower than most, well, so do I.

The way he so effortlessly constructs an imaginary world of quirky characters, and a visual experience so resplendent and idiosyncratic that I wonder how he can even function in this bland, banal world that the rest of us inhabit.

Their idiosyncratic sense of humor and pristine attention to detail for various time periods have been the most consistently great trademarks in their filmography, which is why I was so hyped for their newest feature, Hail, Caesar!

Anderson has made it no secret that Isle of Dogs is his own idiosyncratic salute to the collective works of iconic Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon), so the hope is that the movie will also be culturally sensitive in its westernized take on Japanese cinema tropes.

This is bold, amazing, hilarious experimental protest cinema, so in your face and not giving a fuck about any kind of defined «rules», allowing the movie to operate on its own idiosyncratic wavelength.

The public has become so accustomed to his idiosyncratic behavior that anytime he acts kind of crazy or pulls some stunt, we just shrug and say, «Well, that's Bill.»

None of these touches are surprising; what is — refreshingly so — is how well Altman's distinct, idiosyncratic tools service the needs of as straightforward an entertainment as a this.

As to my personal choice, I'm going to surprise even myself and single out Washington in «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» The film is undeniably uneven, but Washington's performance as an idiosyncratic idealist is thought out in such detail, and so different from the characters he usually plays, that it won me over completely.

I worked to discover the idiosyncratic even as I probed for the similarities and commonalities — the places where people's stories converged and overlapped, even when those people at first appeared to be so unalike.

So I would say that what you saw in Harvard - Westlake and Seattle was the result of rather idiosyncratic routes to excellence that should, of course, be expanded as much as possible, but is unlikely to produce the two million expert teachers we need in the United States.

This ever idiosyncratic writer hasn't published a work of fiction since 2006, so this collection of short stories is highly anticipated.

What makes this book so enjoyable is that he ties the development of these advances to some brilliant but idiosyncratic personalities.

Of course, I've always been a fool for idiosyncratic voice, which is one reason why I so enjoyed Daniel Kraus» The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch and its protagonist narrator's use of what he calls his «flamboyant elocution,» a hallmark of which is the polysyllabic.

And more to the point, you begin to wonder how, even over the creep of time and tradition, we could have come to a point at which authors are typically paid in such an industry - idiosyncratic way, at such odd intervals, with so little verification of what's owed and what's paid.

Leon clearly loves her adopted city, but she is not so pie - eyed as to overlook — and report to often hilarious effect — its idiosyncratic imperfections....

So while there's always idiosyncratic agri opportunities on offer, a watch & wait strategy seems generally prudent — sugar, palm oil, grains & hogs will likely deserve the closest attention.

The idiosyncratic risk here is huge because the portfolios are so small.

Dogs use body language for 80 % of their communication, so it's no wonder they view our strange idiosyncratic human tendencies with confusion.

There are few forthcoming PlayStation 3 titles that are quite so keenly anticipated as Beyond: Two Souls, the latest project from Quantic Dream — the idiosyncratic French developer behind acclaimed 2010 adventure Heavy Rain.

Similarly, Silent Hill 2's way of determining your ending was so subtle and idiosyncratic and tied to weird, minor gameplay choices, it worked so much better than overtly branching narratives found in other games.

So you're dealing with a highly, highly specific property that's idiosyncratic to one persona and one person's point of view and the way in which they interpret sort of culture and Western culture and twist that back around into this super pure amazing property that has a tone that I think is unlike anything else that is out there.»

So they just commissioned several of their artists to produce idiosyncratic table lamps.

«Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,» which opens to the public Monday at New York's Museum of Modern Art, presents a fascinating account of the chameleon painter's shifting styles over four decades, from his pointillist pastiches of Camille Pissarro to his idiosyncratic innovations on Hollywood movie - poster kitsch.