Sentences with phrase «unlikely setting»

A most unlikely set of political heroes was offered by the candidates last night.

I discovered that I could indeed use some of my talents in unlikely settings.

Sports courts are unlikely settings for dreamy photography but photographer Ward Roberts captures an artistic aspect in his series «Courts».

Her simple pictures are often enlarged to life size, imported into unlikely settings, and rephotographed.

To believe that Humans are the predilect object of Creation and that the universe exists simply to have us in it is not only egotistical in the extreme, it limits one's ability to appreciate the incredibly unlikely set of circu.mstances that has allowed us to exist in a hostile universe.

While Eddie Howe's have not officially been promoted just yet, their superior goal difference compared to Middlesbrough means it would take an hugely unlikely set of events on the last day of the season to prevent them from joining Watford in England's top division next season.

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence star in your not - so - typical romantic comedy featuring two similarly mentally unstable individuals, Pat (Cooper) and Tiffany (Lawrence), who end up falling in love with each other after a most unlikely set of circumstances develop following Pat's release from a mental institution.

As in Rodney Dangerfield's «Back to School,» which shares a number of similarities, the ill - fitting new student manages to bring warmth and enthusiasm to a comically unlikely set of circumstances.

A fascinating and unlikely setting for a P.I. flick.

From the unlikely setting of Ottawa, Shopify has quietly been powering an e-commerce revolution.

If he rolled four on every 6th roll while he was in Vegas that would either be a miracle (answering his prayer) or an unlikely set of events.

But I would judge this as an unlikely set of events.

It's an unlikely setting for a celebrity — many of whom live lives of seclusion, purchasing homes in obscure corners of the Hollywood Hills or deep inside the walls of gated communities.

The unlikely setting for the pair isn't too surprising considering the success they had together as commentators during the 2014 Winter Olympics and their role as correspondents at the Kentucky Derby.

The garishly colored and ornamented resort - hotel nightclubs that screamingly herald the approach to Las Vegas form an unlikely setting for a golf course, let alone a major golf tournament.

But what an unlikely set of personal nominations we were offered.

This is Mesaieed, a closed industrial city ringed by security cordons in the Gulf state of Qatar — and the unlikely setting for a remarkable oasis.

Back in the 1800s, the warehouses which formed a large part of the city's commerce started to become the unlikely setting for old school dates, as they gradually got converted into restos, shops and art exhibition spaces, including the well regarded Arnolfini.

A memorial breast cancer bike ride becomes the unlikely setting where Bette and Tina reveal their rekindled passion, Jenny and Nikki shoot a steamy video, Molly stalks Shane, and Alice and Tasha consider a major move.

Removed from the corporate media landscape of central London, it's not an unlikely setting for such a resolutely independent film director, one who wholly embodies the term «auteur.»

But who could have guessed that the old maverick would fetch up in the unlikely setting of an English country manor in the 1930s and that he would deliver a real treat that ranks as his most thoroughly satisfying in a long time.

From opposing sides, an unlikely set of heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their families, their people and their home.

The idea of true «evil» arising in such an unlikely setting is one of the film's greatest assets.

The slum is home to 700 000 people and considered an unlikely setting for a ballet school, but Wamaya's dedication to his students has seen many of them become accomplished dancers, winning scholarships to further their education.

The result is that, in this unlikely setting, the superintendent and school board are pursuing perhaps the nation's boldest attempt at suburban school reform.

Relaxed and carefree, roughly four hours north of Laos» capital city of Vientiane, Vang Vieng seems an unlikely setting for arguably Southeast Asia's premier party town.

Hauser & Wirth is renowned for its unconventional booths and this year it has excelled itself with a tongue - in - cheek presentation that introduces the dusty interior of a forgotten museum - fire extinguisher and all - into the unlikely setting of a contemporary art fair.

Burmese artist Htein Lin spoke to Art Radar about finding creative freedom in the unlikely setting of prison life, his yearning to return home and the changes in Burma's art scene.

Revolution: Russian Art 1917 - 1932 The art of the Russian revolution, from avant - garde experiments to propagandist portraits, in the unlikely setting of the RA's plush galleries.

Martha Beck, an art curator who made use of a converted warehouse to found the Drawing Center, an alternative museum in downtown Manhattan that provided a first showplace for emerging artists and an unlikely setting for rarely seen drawings by the likes of Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Cézanne, was found dead on Jan. 6 in her apartment in Manhattan.

Roger Hiorns Hiorns was shortlisted for a Turner prize for his eerie blue crystal cavern, Seizure, a subterranean realm of beauty created in the unlikely setting of a derelict flat.

Before World War II no one could have guessed that a splinter group of star international modernists would embed itself in this unlikely setting.

At first sight, the subject matter of Case C - 658 / 11 may seem an unlikely setting for a judicial showdown on democratic oversight in a polity such as the EU.