Sentences with phrase «with odd choices»

Brendan Fraser has a career with odd choices and this film is a prime example.

But it loses most of those points with its odd choice of turning outdoor snowmen, gingerbread men and chocolate figurines into a Greek chorus that comments on the action with their silent scowls.

Not exact matches

Statistics Canada makes some odd choices when it comes to data collection and many useful series are released with a substantial lag.

It is only the odd and rare individual who has made a choice to have done with wants — to turn back to needs.

Is it it me or is that a really odd choice for an 11 - year - old to be obsessed with?

Adding oysters to Thanksgiving stuffing may sound like an odd choice, but it's a practice with a long history and delicious results.

So with the former German international set for a long injury lay - off it seemed an odd choice for me and as we reported here at Just Arsenal earlier in the week it has now been almost two years since we started a game with the club captain in the side.

The reason why these Arsenal team mates may be a bit miffed with Bellerin is his slightly odd and eyebrow raising choice of his best XI on The Fantasy Football Club.

Don't bet me wrong, I think this is brilliant, and so much better than 20 - odd years ago when the choice was limited to what you could find in the Simplicity catalogue in your local department store... but it also means it's quite hard to choose sometimes, with the plethora of options available to you.

For those of you who are familiar with the restaurant's menu, it seems like an odd choice for my food allergies (peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, fish and shellfish).

In some ways, a California company seems an odd choice for an upstate New York scientist who was determined to put down roots, but with a 90 % market share of gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers, applying to Thermo Finnigan was pretty much a no - brainer for someone with Burdett's experience, and it worked out.

With some, I believe the judges got it right, but others struck me as odd choices.

Had his astronomical achievements ended with his departure from Italy, Cassini would have been an odd choice for the name of a spacecraft sent to study Saturn.

This unpretentious paperback has 34 quizzes, each of 30 questions with answers: a mixture of plain query, multiple choice, spelling bee, anagram, odd - one - out and identify - the - drawing.

I must admit, I enjoy the odd Diet - Coke now and again which I know is not the greatest choice of beverage... but I haven't personally noticed any hunger pangs afterwards... but that could be just down to my discipline with food which I guess is what it boils down to if your going to keep yourself from loading up with bad food choices.

Most groomsmen will go with the obvious choice of a black tux, maybe the odd white or cream one.

I am discovering that there are several pieces in my wardrobe with the colors so I guess the Pantone's choice is not so odd after all.

While it seems like an odd choice for spring, I think it makes a great transition shade from winter to spring and looks really pretty with a gold eye for a night out.

Aside from this odd design choice I'm in love with this sweater.

One of the best WWII - themed games ever released... Despite minor flaws with the story's continuity, length of game and odd mission choices, the game stands strong as one of the best of this year.

The refined Emily Blunt (pictured below right) is a very odd choice for Sara, the shotgun - packing, former wild - child single mom with whom Joe seeks shelter, and her American accent veers erratically.

The Light Between Oceans is a laughable melodrama, and it ends up being quite an odd choice of material for Cianfrance, as he delivers it all with his usual grit and seriousness, making it seem even more daft as it is played so unrelentingly straight.

The soundtrack has some very eclectic and often odd choices, never seeming to be quite in tune with the themes and styles of the storyline.

The pairing of Aubrey and Dane together is an odd choice, but then again it could be said the romantic pairing of anyone with Aubrey Plaza would be odd.

An odd choice but Matthew Fox has hosted TV show Lost, and is very familiar with the Jungle environment.

Now, LaBute would seem an odd choice for a family comedy, having made his name with far darker, crueler humor in movies like «In the Company of Men» and «The Shape of Things.»

The overarching plot deals mostly with themes of duality, which is an odd choice for the Shin Megami Tensei series, which usually brands its characters with various levels of moral ambiguity.

The odd one out here is Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would have been the more obvious choice, but the parallels with Extraordinary Gentlemen are already too close for comfort.)

A standard growing pains set - up is imbued with originality by a glorious script, written with relish for odd vocabulary choices and attuned to the faux casual way some teenagers present.

Minus the aforementioned gripes that many are having with Polyphony's odd design choices, that is.

Given the plot, it's odd that Truffaut's Jules and Jim is never alluded to in any way, and the references to other movies that are included usually work better for the Cincinnati crowd (with its narrower choices) than for Parisians or Chicagoans (except for the one most American viewers are likely to find inexplicable — clips from the end of Robert Bresson's Mouchette to contextualize a suicide attempt, which I found offensive).

ABC Family, once again, is doing their 25 days of Christmas, and they've made a few odd choices with their lineup this year.

My personal initial read on this was dogs are simple and just not smart enough to speak Japanese but as far as we know these dogs have only ever lived in Japan so it admittedly is an odd choice that I've seen others take understandable umbrage with.

It no longer pays to predict outrageous or embarrassing choices: In recent years, the 90 - odd members of the HFPA have for the most part come up with solid nominations, though it's clear they have to stretch to fill the comedy or musical categories most years.

There are too many over-dramatized shots (especially with blood red scenery), some odd editing and choppy dialogue / narration choices.

Although not quite as sharp and clever as the aforementioned Heckerling vehicle, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman (its rather odd choice for a title is derived from a lyric to the 1997 White Town song, «Your Woman», covered by Tyler James in 2005, the same year this was filmed), is actually quite inventive in its own fashion, with Heckerling drawing upon her own experience in being an older woman working in a youth - oriented industry, making entertainment meant to appeal to people about 30 years her junior.

The 90 - odd members of the Globes - bestowing HFPA have always tended to vary from the choices of the considerably larger pool of Academy voters, whose ranks have swelled to nearly 7,500 this year with the addition of 1,457 new members, many of them women and people of colour.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

As talented as Penn is, he doesn't seem to connect with this character and physically he's an odd choice to play a brawny baby - faced former boxer.

Victoria seems rather an odd choice as a feminist heroine, given that her name became synonymous with sexual conservatism and rigid gender codes.

Auteil is excellent as the unfortunate Vrinks, with his expressive face and commanding presence, and although some of his scenes have their power diminished by some odd choices by Marchal — the non-linear format in this case reduces the impact of Vrink's fall — he really steals the show.

Despite the odd choice of making the Defender arcade machine green, they did a good job at emulating a dumbed - down version of the real thing, complete with Defender artwork and joystick.

The lanky, rubber - faced actor is an odd physical choice to play Russell — a short, pudgy man — and his love scenes with Ewan McGregor lack any appreciable chemistry.

The diesel engine tested here doesn't feel as keen as its torque figure suggests, but as a cheap to run company car choice it's hard to fault, with little fuss at motorway speeds and just enough grunt to make the odd country lane interesting.

In creating the US - market CLA, Mercedes specified the harder of the two available suspension setups offered in Europe — a move that seems like an odd choice for a vehicle whose mission is not sporting in nature, especially for use in a country with less - than - pristine road surfaces.

It's an odd choice for Nissan to lump in the sunroof with the safety tech, but no one ever said that option packages have to make sense.

Sony made a very odd design choice with the new sleep covers and other cover accessories.

The choice for a lower version of Android is an odd one since Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) has just been released and many people are seeking devices with the next gen operating system.

Also, this series seems to release super slow, too bad as it jars with the extreme fast pass of the story, its not a good thing, but the story and art and all that, pretty good, the concept alone is interesting, and the characters and concepts as presented are good, but, these volumes are edited to a degree, which is odd, this is a teen series, so, why cut the swearing, why change the names, why doctor the art when there's nothing mature to cover up in the first place... not good choices on the part of the American release staff, though this volume doesn't have those things to such a degree so, maybe those comments should be for a earlier volume.

That may seem like an odd choice to some, but veteran ThinkPad users and novices should have no problems navigating the 12.1 - inch display with just the stick.