Sentences with phrase «such oddball»

At the time, one had the impression that she was massively influential, yet she was such an oddball that no one really seemed to know how to be influenced by her.

A painter and musician (she currently makes up half the experimental drum duo I.U.D., along with Lizzi Bougatsos), Sadie Laska crafts energetic assemblages with such oddball materials as bandanas, shoelaces, scraps of kites and old rugs, and pool noodles.

You're very welcome to your opinion, of course, but I think it's fun that they are trying to make such an oddball movie.

Agreed, I totally think it's fun that they are making such an oddball movie and I will definitely see it.

It's nice to see Team Meat still willing to work with Nintendo, even if it's at such an oddball request.

No one seems to know when he'll pop up again, but if he keeps discussing the meaning of life in such an oddball and entertaining way, I'll be there for him.

Jerry loves mystery novels and wonders why such an oddball group would be stuck at the worst table.

Yet that's exactly what recently turned up, providing researchers a rare peek inside the core of a massive star and raising questions about how such an oddball could have formed.

Scientists are suspicious of such oddballs, and soon some predicted it was part of a new third planetary realm.

The Shore is populated by characters that when you meet them, you hear those banjos playing and wonder how many places there are that hatch such oddballs.

Not exact matches

@ 2357: seeing you are such a knowledgible person on the exact occurances of phenomenon in the universe, i would figure you could atleast SPELL the word correctly before poking at an oddball number i just chose out of the air to cover that topic.

Even if Chilesaurus itself isn't a theropod, scientists still have a handful of other theropods that have «gone green» to puzzle over, such as the therizinosaurs and another oddball called Limusaurus.

To create such a feature, lava would have to remain fluid over great distances, prompting geologists to suggest that Venusian volcanoes discharge carbonatite lava, just like that one oddball volcano on Earth, Ol Doinyo Lengai.

500 million years ago, such creatures were part of the community of oddballs famously found in today's Burgess Shale

-- and the oddball people he introduces us to — such as those who can not tolerate any electromagnetic energy, like what cell - phone towers emit — are absolutely begging for Herzog-esque portraits devoted to them alone.

It is a great cast and the perfect one for a group of oddballs such as this.

Watching it amble along is enough of a treat, since the Coens populate this story with oddballs and bowling balls of such comic variety.

It's all such iffy politics given the lack of importance stressed on an entire Japanese population, even in a whimsical oddball fantasy.

I missed the kooky, at times cryptically obsessive quality that Joss Whedon brought to «The Age of Ultron,» but this is a smoother, more consistent film with its own oddball moments, such as Paul Bettany's Vision making paprikash for Scarlet Witch while listening to Chet Baker, and Falcon's startling name - check of racist police officer Mark Furhman.

The camera, the design (Gerald Sullivan), the editing (David Trachtenberg) are always doing stuff — there are always oddball flourishes like sudden camera tilts or exaggerated symmetries (it's almost superfluous these days comparing such effects to Wes Anderson, they're so much part of the landscape) and little comic riffs, like the photo of Hugh Jackman on Rachel's wall, which suddenly lectures Greg in the actual voice of Hugh Jackman.

Shannon isn't such a pervasive oddball, especially in this movie, that this outburst feels like hammy shtick.

Even during such weak spots, however, it's impossible not to derive some enjoyment from the oddball antics of the film's exceedingly eclectic supporting cast, which includes M.C. Gainey, Jason Flemyng, and Keith Carradine (the latter, playing a fu manchu - sporting henchman, is especially amusing here).

Scripters Simon Boyes and Adam Mason attempt to liven things up by sprinkling the proceedings with distinctly oddball subplots, including an assassin dying of a terminal illness, but, like everything else contained in this mess of a screenplay, such digressions wind up going absolutely nowhere (ie there's no satisfactory payoff for anything here).

Sure the decade offered such great rock - and - pop fueled song albums «A Nightmare on Elm Street 4,» «The Lost Boys,» «Maximum Overdrive» and «Trick or Treat,» but few were as well tailored to the tastes of Jerry Dandridge, a vampire who loved the nightlife, as well as the oddball rock rhythms of the teen horror geeks out to prove his existence.

Splendido Bar & Grillon Harbord Street offers fine dining with a modern twist, with oddball delights such as the foie gras parfait and more traditional favorites like roasted free - range chicken and rib steak sourced from a family farm.

We do this to prevent oddball bookings occuring, such as all of our cottages being booked out for one night eg.

10Tons have been in the videogame industry for over a decade and yet they still continue their incredible diversity in the genres they expertly tackle within their games such as match 3 puzzles in Sparkle and Azkend to physics based puzzles in King Oddball, shoot «em up Xenoraid and even top - down shooters in Neon Chrome and Crimsonland that showcase a clear departure from one another coupled with an extreme amount of enthusiasm and imagination to deliver unique experiences.

Mixing this with a few extra game modes such as Capture the Flag or Oddball (where you have to collect something and hold it to gain points) would have made for some excellent and tense matches with players ducking in and out of cover or water.

After running into enemies or commanding your team to attack in order to initiate combat, each character (provided that you first recruit them by completing small side quests for them) has his / her own unique and silly attacks that can be used in battle — such as how the VP's Mom can scold enemies or the Baker can use pastries, instead of typical Fight, Defend, and Heal commands seen in most RPGs — which reinforce the game's oddball and charming humor.

Back at the very end of the 20th century, Crazy Taxi was one of the key oddball titles we loved to see in the arcade, when such things weren't quaint places your grandad talked about wistfully.

While Melee mostly featured Nintendo's more prominent all stars, such as Link, it also had some oddballs like the Ice Climbers.

There are a few oddball inclusions, such as the late author David Foster Wallace, whose notebooks for his novel The Pale King are displayed like relics.

I do like the fact that plain vanilla «AGW uncertainty» skeptics such as punksta are starting to grow weary of all the crackpots that infest this site with their oddball theories.

Yannopolous ties his attack to a conference attended by about 200 such «oddballs» (who he describes as a «mixture of chippy girls with unruly fringes and sweaty, overweight blokes with bits of burger stuck in their beards») where the theme running through the event was, «I can't believe we're still getting away with this.»

As I've stated a few times, I really appreciate the lighthearted features that Cortana has always excelled at, such as telling a joke, answering an oddball question like if it has superpowers, and so on.