But if his rugby talent has rarely been questioned, his mental attitude has raised the odd quizzical eyebrow. |
|
An acute political awareness and a fondness for '50s comic strips inform his odd blend of malevolence and whimsy. |
|
In the meantime I imagine my obscure rantings and categorisations may draw the odd comment from those versed in literary theory. |
|
Anyway, to return to my story, the sprog has absolutely no concept of time and wakes up at odd times during the night and starts making a racket. |
|
And though the movies are starting to change and we have the odd Lara Croft, there is still a way to go. |
|
The wheel well all but disintegrated and the already broken front axle shattered to pieces that fell at odd angles. |
|
I also noticed that pike were fairly active taking the odd fish off of the hook. |
|
If you're a fan of Les Claypool and his odd lyrical content and vocal styling, as well as great song writing, you will need to own this album. |
|
It sometimes happens that acupoints that need to be worked will be sore or have other odd sensations like cold, heat, numbness, etc. |
|
So it is a bit odd that the nations choose to come here for a jolly festival of running, jumping and splashing about. |
|
The sudden vibration of her phone caused her to jolt, earning an odd stare from the boy sitting next to her. |
|
The sweltering conditions will run into the middle of next week with the addition of the odd thunderstorm. |
|
He also related some anecdotes on the joys of sailing, drawing on his 60 odd years of sailing. |
|
As odd as it may seem, water causes more damage to masonry chimneys than fire. |
|
It was odd that not too far away, it was probably pouring rain, while it was humid and sunny where Kace stood. |
|
Neither guy is robotic in the goal, nor is either above throwing in the odd ad-lib move. |
|
It's odd comparing which bits of material are standard and which were the ad-libs. |
|
He eventually was inducted into the army and served admirably, unloading cement ships and doing other odd jobs. |
|
What made it more remarkable was the weather, which was wet, cold and very windy, with the odd snow shower thrown in for good measure. |
|
In an odd sense, sir, is this some progress in your mind, that they are finally laying the charges on the table? |
|
|
A kind of levelling has taken place, in which works co-exist in democratic if sometimes odd juxtapositions. |
|
And, on the odd occasion, she did get a glimpse of a violent temper lurking beneath the calm surface of his apparent good nature. |
|
I go back and find some odd things like rope and natural jute twine packaged for the crafts market. |
|
My goodness, what a terrifically odd and bizarre wheaten bread product you are, upon my word! |
|
They all wore some attempt at full armour, usually the odd vest of ring mail or skull cap. |
|
Enter the UglyRipe, a lumpen, misshapen, odd duck of a tomato grown near Naples, Florida. |
|
Dozens of people have repeatedly reported the presence of these odd luminous objects. |
|
In the past they rarely consigned their refuse to plastic bags, leaving it out in an odd assortment of paper sacks and cardboard boxes. |
|
On the down side, she wasn't very athletic and she hung out with some odd people. |
|
While an airline boss may appear an odd choice at first sight, he does have plenty of banking experience. |
|
What may seem odd and unstructured at first glance, he insists, will soon seem fun and spontaneous. |
|
The odd thing is that the language differences the researchers discovered would seem, at first blush, to be rather benign. |
|
The beaver, which appears often on Canadian souvenirs, might seem to be an odd animal to have as a national symbol. |
|
Joining him will be close business associates and friends, and maybe the odd celebrity. |
|
It may be a bit of an odd shape for a listed company, but it's going like a bomb, and those who know such things reckon it's bound for greatness. |
|
In this odd urban pastoral, people wander about London, have lunch, try to make assignations, wake up with hangovers and never get anywhere. |
|
The schedulers assign an appropriate number from within that range and choose an even or odd flight number according to the direction of flight. |
|
When a screwcap problem is found, it's by the lorry-load rather than in the odd bottle. |
|
The odd crooked stitch or slightly askew angel wing just shows that it is homemade and adds to the charm. |
|
The odd person might wonder about it, but like I said, only a loony would do it. |
|
|
I will admit to smoking the odd joint and I am not embarrassed or ashamed of it. |
|
Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility. |
|
She allowed her gaze to rove over the gentleman, in some odd mix of sizing him up, and curiosity at this stranger from another time. |
|
That's odd for an Iowa farmer, most of whom sell the trees to loggers and raise resource-hungry animals or monocultured crops. |
|
His house was a simple, fairly primitive home, built from logs like an odd sort of mix between a tree house and a log cabin. |
|
It seemed a little odd to his mind, this mixture of rough furnishings and the truly fine finish of the structure itself. |
|
The system was rock solid at this setting, though after about 15 minutes, we experienced some odd lockups. |
|
But it's not as odd as it seems because chili peppers are one of the main crops rotated with cotton in the area. |
|
The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America. |
|
Offshore, seals loaf around on the Carracks, two rocky islets and the odd small fishing boat bounces across the surf. |
|
Despite the odd venue choice, Billy Corgan and his openers still rocked out. |
|
It is possible to swallow, but expect the odd rivulet of saliva to escape down your chin. |
|
She was a natural early riser, and found it odd to sleep this much, even if it was only thirty minutes past her normal rising time. |
|
The odd thing about being an executive chef for a posh cruise line is you spend more time on planes than boats. |
|
Now, I have the odd pint and maybe the odd line of cocaine on a special occasion. |
|
An odd feeling rose up inside of me as I watched, and I wasn't sure I liked it. |
|
That odd anger rose up in him again, because her rejection seemed wrong, unfair. |
|
Her hair, tied at the back with a pencil, is flecked with the odd strand of grey and, of course, there are lines on her face. |
|
As for the dub, it just sounded odd after seeing the original, the wolves didn't sound right for a start. |
|
What's more, does anything except the odd ant lion and rare aardvark eat ants? |
|
|
It may seem odd to see people rigging sails on their ships in space at first but what a glorious backdrop this is. |
|
Then of course the relevant integrals involve odd functions, and it results that the centroid lies on the y-axis. |
|
The difficulty seems to lie primarily in getting used to the odd way metre will stress unimportant words or syllables. |
|
The overall pace is so even you scarcely notice when the odd rocker slips by, creating a slightly flatter feel than the songs deserve. |
|
The music is an odd mix of very cinematic orchestral pieces, techno, and hot guitar licks. |
|
My mother was standing at the kitchen window watching a column of thick black smoke rising into the sky, punctuated by the odd lick of flame. |
|
It seems odd that the memos were simply typed on blank sheets of paper instead of some kind of letterhead. |
|
I think it is one of Bradford's biggest let-downs and I don't just mean people dropping the odd crisp packet or cola can. |
|
For some odd reason she always turned too little, reversed too far or accelerated before changing the gear back from reverse to drive. |
|
It's odd to think of myself as an anomaly, a quirk, an oddity, but that's what I am at the moment. |
|
You've probably seen annual flowers planted in all sorts of odd containers, from discarded tires to old boots! |
|
The graph may seem odd at the moment, but looking at the results will show the information. |
|
I find it odd to have such an Anglocentric viewpoint in British Archaeology. |
|
The architect squeezed a labyrinth of wood-paneled corridors at odd angles within the already-small rooms. |
|
We had pushed the piano into the TV room the day before and now it sat toward the corner at an odd angle to the rest of the room. |
|
It's been a very odd week so far, a proper rollercoaster of anger, joy and passion. |
|
On the odd occasion I spent an extra hour on the training ground, but my legs were like lead the following day during the match. |
|
Yet for some odd reason parent's seem to prefer that their kids be thought of as lazy rather than ignorant. |
|
This odd little book weighs collective ideology against individualism, caricaturing both. |
|
Soon after his arrival in Vienna, Carol Reed heard a local musician, Anton Karas, playing an odd sort of Austrian guitar, called a zither. |
|
|
This is not to mention an ability to play on or perhaps just over the edge of the off-side law, nor putting in the odd illegal late tackle. |
|
According to Alamsyah, most of the squatters in the area work as garbage men, scavengers and do other odd jobs. |
|
Other pieces depict odd moments of repose, for instance two identical boys asleep on a field of camouflage. |
|
Before repairing to a local hostelry for beer, cosmopolitans, odd conversation about the noise cotton wool makes and other such essential trivia. |
|
First of all, it's odd that the film stars a Scotsman and an American when it's set so prominently in Belfast. |
|
I myself am an amasser of many odd and pretty things, so I could appreciate Steven's menagerie quite well. |
|
However, he soon returned to it, and started doing odd music assignments, such as singing remixes and cover versions, besides ad jingles. |
|
The terraced square of rough stone blocks follows the terrain, suggesting an odd reminiscence of prehistoric megaliths. |
|
And the odd bureaucrat who will speak his mind tells you why he has no use for journalists in his State. |
|
Observers have remarked on the odd love Canadians have for the game of hockey. |
|
Between the yowls there was whimpering and barking and whining and yelping and the odd snarl directed at a feisty neighbour. |
|
The ones with even numbers of atoms are even alternant, with odd numbers, they are odd alternant. |
|
Apart from the odd tourist, there are many non-Malay people who reside in Sarawak year-round. |
|
At first, she did odd things like rearranging her shoes and alphabetizing the books on the bookshelf in her office. |
|
The odd bit is that English is harder to read than any other language using the alphabet. |
|
Rachael began mimicking Lamaze breathing techniques, which received odd glares from the rest of them. |
|
Since he was so incredibly prolific, cranking out the copy by the yard, he could hardly help committing the odd slip-up here and there. |
|
She came back to the table and rejoined conversation, but her thoughts remained on her dog and his odd behavior. |
|
She was chestnut-haired, her face bearing some odd and yet alluring familiarity. |
|
There were eight houses or forms that divided up the pupils at Bishop Luffa and Sherbourne had now become the odd one out, the unlucky one. |
|
|
In the Middle and Late Silurian odd specializations, like lacunose septa and complex septal formations in the body chamber, develop. |
|
It's an extremely odd little movie, all in all, and it's a little tough to understand the high expectations. |
|
Torticollis, also known as wryneck, is a twisting of the neck that causes the head to rotate and tilt at an odd angle. |
|
Lawyers tend to be wretched writers, which is odd given that the written word is their stock in trade. |
|
I love the idea that she krumps because it's empowering and I kinda wish we could get past the odd disconnect between her looks and her dancing. |
|
There is the odd door way that the wreckers left standing, but the original shikumen houses were demolished to provide space to build. |
|
As a youngster he fished off the rocks for the usual species of cod, pollack, coley, wrasse, mackerel and dogfish with the odd plaice or eel. |
|
Scott was an odd combination of macho daredevil and super-cautious worrywart. |
|
Despite noticeable speckles, nicks and the odd scratch, the first reel of the film looks quite good with excellent contrast and sharp images. |
|
Not that they didn't work the odd miracle at the odd club, but for years the glories they traded on were well past. |
|
The video seems odd to me, but it's probably the first rock video I've seen in about eight years, so what do I know? |
|
Despite his odd profession, and his generally humane views, he is as tough and as passionate as Caesar, and a redoubtable adversary to him. |
|
As a result, I am generally relaxed about the presence of the odd bit of red meat in the diet. |
|
Furthermore, one might wonder at the odd ratios of athletic facilities at our school. |
|
I suspect there will be a few raised eyebrows from the traditionalists and perhaps the odd wolf whistle from the Longhurst Stand. |
|
It's odd to hear this as you enter a country you have never before set foot in. |
|
It throws the odd wobbler, going nuts for no apparent reason and throwing everything out the window. |
|
It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust, but also flagrantly illegal. |
|
We saw lots of waterfowl, mostly Canada geese and mallards with the odd Gadwall. |
|
He has taken the odd piece of advice from Middlesbrough boss McClaren, whom he pits his wits against today. |
|
|
I grew to love and respect Xavier, who showed me many small kindnesses like tying my shoe-laces, wiping my nose or offering me the odd sweet. |
|
About an hour later I was on my way to his house warming up with ollies over sewer covers and the odd kickflip. |
|
Working in a bank, it's odd to see that people still have old notes and coins kicking about which they bring in from time to time to exchange. |
|
The only thing that really seemed odd about the scene was that no one was holding a wind instrument, like a flute or an oboe or anything. |
|
An odd assortment of home center and crafts store finds come together for this handmade wind chime. |
|
A slight, sickly child, he grew increasingly odd and eccentric, throwing tantrums, fussing about and repeatedly breaking wind. |
|
The evening ends with a downbeat number, an odd choice for an encore, but it winds things down nicely enough. |
|
The odd thing was is that Candice was sure she could hear the thump of his heart against his chest. |
|
So isn't it odd that the aggrieved parties always run to the papers for their moan rather than the game's governing body? |
|
He could hear an odd rushing sound, but he couldn't tell if it was real or imagined. |
|
And I hadn't fully realised how odd I'd feel, an omnivore who likes a drink dropped into a city populated largely by teetotal vegetarians. |
|
But I jotted down a number of references and educated myself on the odd weekend at the British Library, my old reader's card still being valid. |
|
It was odd how dressing unusually could cause people to feel scared and intimidated of you. |
|
Only seventy odd years ago the whole of humanity thought that the entire universe verse was just our own Milky Way. |
|
In an odd way, both the teasers and supporters appear to help youths keep pledges. |
|
It seems somehow odd now to recall that none of these three could read or write, and that they did not speak English. |
|
I thought it odd that he kept on going into the soft dunes and not on the harder sand near the water. |
|
The other guys in your unit keep pinching your bike for odd jobs throughout the day, and you wouldn't mind keeping it stored underneath a desk. |
|
We are no longer in the business of taking the odd big scalp or doing reasonably well. |
|
And he kissed her, and went his way, with a slight wave of his hand, and his odd smile, as he closed the little garden gate after him. |
|
|
After a lull in the late 90s, it's now cool again to sport the odd label here and there. |
|
But aside from the odd moment, the album gets lost amid its pumped-up ethos of hard, hard beats, raw language and stereotypical outlook. |
|
On the odd occasion during peak times traffic backs up but it seems to be OK most of the time. |
|
The warped handiwork of a taxidermist has given almost all of the stuffed animals odd expressions. |
|
Later, he looked up into her eyes, and saw an odd concentration there, a lack of abandon. |
|
They vend odd concoctions of karela, carrot, beetroot and maybe even brinjal. |
|
So there is your factual evidence, but I'm sure you'll give some wackadoo response to justify your unique and frankly odd position! |
|
Family gather to share the oplatek, a thin white wafer sometimes called angel bread, followed by an odd number of meatless dishes. |
|
At first glance, this seems a rather odd sort of charge to make, but it carries a good deal of weight. |
|
He stopped speaking, and despite the sound of hooves and wagon wheels echoing in the tunnel, an odd sort of silence enveloped his listeners. |
|
After a series of odd jobs, he became a taxi dancer and then an exhibition dancer in New York City. |
|
I saw a walking leaf on an episode of Dirty Jobs, and it was such an odd looking, striking insect that I just had to design one. |
|
It's odd to see Ellis and Glover lined up with two hands on the ground, legs spread and feet even, more like sumos than sprinters. |
|
In an odd bit of casting, Kris Kristofferson has a walk-on as Karubi, Daena's father, who comes to a somewhat gruesome end. |
|
Community, whether caustic or politely consensual, has an odd knack of seeming a bridge too far. |
|
What is especially odd with cab journeys at the moment though is that most of them take place on a completely empty, beautifully tarmacked road. |
|
Such strange visions appeared during my delirium, beach demons with claws, odd quadrupeds, wings that staggered through dusk. |
|
For all her doughty declarations, there's the odd hint of vanity and vulnerability in this targe. |
|
There are motorcycles, the odd tractor, some hand-pumps, a flock of the most serene sarus cranes by the side of a pond. |
|
But when he was playing I used to go to all of his home games and the odd away match too. |
|
|
Largely under the impetus of the odd order theorem, there was an awakening interest in finite group theory. |
|
I found that phrases in the opening got lost because of some odd accentuations. |
|
When I am not filming I rarely eat away from home other than the odd lunch on jaunts to London. |
|
A jangly piano and high, slightly screechy, David Bowie-ish vocals bowl through an early New Wave review with slightly odd harmonies. |
|
A good toolbox has lots of trays designed to hold all those odd bits of hardware, such as screws and bolts, washers, nuts, and nails. |
|
Still, they already think we're a little odd because the man of the house hangs washing on the line. |
|
This is an odd but very Washingtonian combination of cynicism and credulity. |
|
All of this is very odd coming from a political party that in 1992 made presidential politics safe for Vietnam draft avoiders. |
|
Steven cuts the santolina back ruthlessly so that it does not produce its odd little flowers. |
|
Seven is not really a magic number, but does have an uncanny way of appearing in all sorts of odd situations. |
|
I know it's an odd detail to fixate on, but it just jarred with the rest of the scene. |
|
But if both of those are available, I'm up for taking a flyer on all kinds of odd stuff. |
|
If up early you can pick up the odd tailor or bream off the beaches or headlands. |
|
Put in the pulled breast, with any odd scraps of jelly, and stir about until the pieces are very hot indeed. |
|
They are creatures of habit and prefer the odd water vole or sparrow any day to a lamb that is half its size. |
|
There are garfish, tailor and bream around the headland whereas off shore the odd snapper or dolphin fish is being picked up. |
|
It's very odd knowing that people are watching me for little obsessive-compulsive quirks now, even though I'm pretty much all better. |
|
They wore odd clothing and made quirky, lyrically interesting music, how could I not love them? |
|
Europeans seem to find them exotic, an odd case of culture-envy in reverse. |
|
I've seen video of that satirical guide to SXSW in 1998 where you asked a bunch of bands odd questions. |
|
|
But as his own presidency has amply demonstrated, only on the odd occasion does hope translate into reality. |
|
For Ankara to allow a suicide bomber through to launch a flagrant attack at this moment also would appear to be odd timing. |
|
An odd party of five orphans and their attendants are assembled for a birthday celebration on an East Texas ranch. |
|
In his black suits, Hitchcock always looked odd in the bright California sun. |
|
Her presence at an international conference on corporate and business ethics seems odd to Jimmy. |
|
Would he have been careful enough to destroy the odd pieces of jute you've left so messily about? |
|
I've done a stage show up in Newcastle and the odd day of filming, dramatized documentaries. |
|
Last night's abortive attempts at a barbeque, despite lashings of the odd smelling spray, proved that the only way of avoiding midges is to stay indoors. |
|
But what about odd concoctions we could have done without, like cheetos lip balm? |
|
The quags are usually very quiet with only the odd walker or birder to be seen and seem far removed from the busy spots further along the coast at Cley and Salthouse. |
|
An odd trait of the jackalope is its ability to imitate the human voice. |
|
A person with a simple partial seizure does not lose consciousness, but may experience confusion, jerking movements, tingling, or odd mental and emotional events. |
|
And you thought I was just some bitter provincial pseudo-intellectual getting by on warmed-up Kingsley Amis with the odd dash of second-hand Foucault. |
|
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. |
|
We see someone pull them from a rack and stuff them into the bag, which stretches accommodatingly around its large, unwieldy and somewhat odd cargo. |
|
Even in his younger days, the inimitable strength and fortitude in his voice was mixed with the occasional moment of weakness, the odd quaver and show of vulnerability. |
|
And the introduction of accumulators, where gamblers can win huge sums with a low stake by predicting a series of wins, gave him the odd heart murmur down the years. |
|
So it ultimately seems odd to blame these celebs for disclosing personal information when the public is just clamoring for it. |
|
It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust to Indian cricketers, but also flagrantly illegal. |
|
It is expected that the project will take about 6 to 8 weeks to complete and even if you can only go along for an odd session and a cup of coffee, you would be most welcome. |
|
|
The odd pair here is Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who were a hit on the vaudeville circuit. |
|
It must be hard for her to hurt her son, but the pain I have to suffer from my disease is pretty bad just now so please, God, excuse me for the odd word in vain. |
|
These resulted in trips to the ER for burns, corneal abrasions, and the odd amputation. |
|
But the breathless whirl of activity has an odd calm at its centre. |
|
The odd whistle and occasional murmur slipped through from the usually voluble Parisians but otherwise they remained as unemotional as the protagonists on court. |
|
It's an odd story, a keek through the keyhole at the inner workings of how to stay famous, but it also serves to illustrate just how far the writer has come. |
|
Here are people after my own heart, who love the great GKC and who incarnate his odd funky hilarious and sensible spirit better than anybody I know. |
|
My body is doing so many odd things I don't know if I'm coming or going. |
|
Her eyes opened to their usual startling wideness, and she recommenced her observation of him, an odd smile playing into the corners of her mouth. |
|
As odd as it might seem, the idea catches on and spreads like wildfire. |
|
Our weather today is very windy with the odd shower of rain. |
|
You get the odd hairy moment when coming over a ridge and round a corner at the same time as the car kicks down a gear and opens the throttle to maintain its speed. |
|
The tribe hangs out in the street, playing basketball, kickball or this odd game in which they just stand there in the middle of the road while you try to pass in your car. |
|
An odd looking assembly of musicians then clutter the Hollow's general performing area sporting several guitars, violins and a couple of disconcerting beards. |
|
I'm gonna start sticking the odd photo up in this blog, just to break up the wordiness and give the three people who read it something else to look at. |
|
I also had 300 odd emails to read from a work group I subscribe to. |
|
He usually volunteered in the office during his study hall period, doing odd jobs like shredding paper, copying worksheets for the students, and sorting the teachers' mail. |
|
And so begins the journey of a truly strange cinematic odd couple, tooling around in an open jeep trying to cajole the natives to exercise their rights. |
|
It does not seem to have struck the organisers as at all odd or ironic that a sustainable development summit should have alighted on this city as its venue. |
|
The sound of footsteps gradually registered in her mind, and she glanced up, only to find Eric standing there, an odd half-smile on his deceptively handsome face. |
|
|
But before you can move, you hear an odd beeping sound as your ticket is scanned. |
|
In our house, a clear-out involves binning the odd pair of tights with more ladders than Bob The Builder, or removing a bunch of long-dead flowers from a vase. |
|
Second time was because Alvin, the fellow who comes twice a week to do odd jobs around the house and the yard, chopped his index finger with the cutlass! |
|
Selby says he doubts there was any direct link with Notarbartolo, but he was disturbed by so many odd coincidences of timing. |
|
Once Kennex and Dorian are paired, the pilot spends the rest of the time trying to sell us this odd couple as a duo. |
|
They gave the odd lilies the name of Maiden Lilies, for they had the same colorations of the pale skinned, blue haired, dark haired women of the village. |
|
They are a congressional odd couple, DOS amigos with a powerful third working in the wings. |
|
The exuberant, indefatigable Democrat from Oregon and the dour, taciturn Republican from New Hampshire made an odd couple. |
|
Keeping the sea on the left, the road passes through acres of paddy fields, interspersed with areca gardens and the odd patch of remnant rain forest. |
|
Some giant trevallies, the odd green jobfish and a solitary amberjack had paid us a visit, together with an ever-present and rather annoying pack of small reef sharks. |
|
It all sounds jolly odd to me, but as you're always saying, I'm just an old buffer, half plastered most of the time, but that's neither here nor there. |
|
Her trademark long blond bangs strike out at odd angles, whirling to and fro as she speaks. |
|
So it may seem odd that I've been eager to get a report card from my employees on the eve of my first year as the editor-in-chief of Fast Company. |
|
But one man said that he was better off as he normally handed all his benefit, bar the odd sixpence, straight to his mother for board and lodgings. |
|
Since the genes that control scale vs no scale in carp are not absolute, it is very possible that a genetic leather carp could have an odd scale or three. |
|
The end of the staff is an odd symbol, similar to the top of an ankh. |
|
Generally over the last eight years we had gotten along all right apart from his odd comments and the occasions when the old Adam resurfaced for a moment. |
|
An odd new study involving rhesus macaque monkeys, ethanol, and vaccines has found some benefit to moderate drinking. |
|
She also doesn't mind imperfection, the odd chip or scratch. |
|
That said, the El Head sound is embellished time and again with steel pan percussion, the odd echo-meter or reverberator and various bits of machinery that go boing. |
|
|
These days it's home to a wine museum, but don't be surprised if you come across the odd life-sized model of a suitably forlorn prisoner languishing in a corner. |
|
Mind you, she has practice aplenty in detecting odd behaviour. |
|
For those who don't mind the odd riptide, the water's inviting. |
|
They share their father's OCD and ritually recite odd thoughts. |
|
I loved to fish there and caught roach and perch as well as the odd boot. |
|
There's an odd melody that I remember not liking from when I saw the film, and it doesn't really work that well, although it's not too bad when it's mixed with dinosaur roars. |
|
I can manage the odd bowl of mash or a couple of roast potatoes. |
|
My relationship with him has been founded upon conversation and the odd long lunch, at which there has usually been some disagreement and lively discussion. |
|
Men may also do odd jobs as carpenters, roofers, or as informal vendors. |
|
These are rough-hewn musicians, concerned less with their appearance than their art, for what else explains the many odd fashion choices and un-coiffed hair. |
|
It's odd that I seem to spend all week waiting for this particular moment and when it arrives, I find myself wondering what I'll be doing with my weekend. |
|
It's an odd looking movie that embraces the idea of art for art's sake. |
|
Tape loops, samples, piano and the odd vibraphone take these songs away from the usual acoustic fare in favour of quirkier, yet still emotional, folk pop. |
|
Gradually, the sadness turned into odd and unpredictable behavior, Gladstone said. |
|
Instead the wearer will buy them flatpacked from a vending machine and assemble them instantly with a deft bit of folding, tucking and the odd tug on a cord. |
|
It also seems odd that a project praising the map would be so categorically troubled by gps. |
|
Manta rays cruise past, turtles lumber along, sharks scope the scene, the odd octopus creeps along the ocean floor, and further out, the whale sharks make their way north. |
|
A small lantern may seem like an odd item to include on this list, but Reid said lantern light makes a blood trail much more visible than the direct beam of a flashlight. |
|
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher had an odd warning last week for the heartland Institute. |
|
Watching a computer-generated avatar steal cars and run over pedestrians is an odd accompaniment to the mood-massaging music, but undoubtedly an entertaining one. |
|
|
The mailrooms at Parliament House get the occasional odd item in the post. |
|
His odd appearance and manner attracted the attention of local children, who would continually taunt him, provoking him to lose his temper and damage property. |
|
In 1989, she was trying to make her mark as a singer in London but had succeeded only in eking out a living, playing tiny gigs and taking the odd bit-part acting job. |
|
However, those matches involving the odd incisive break at breathtaking speed, where the ball invariably ends up in the back of the net, are something of a tantalising tease. |
|
He goes on holiday to the beach in an odd little car that is constantly backfiring, and we follow him as he interacts with the other vacationers at a seaside hotel. |
|
Bizarrely enough, an odd little comic tune plays as background music. |
|
Yes, of course, there are the odd teething troubles, such as the boiler not working properly, but the joy of seeing it all fall into place more than compensates. |
|
In fact I do believe I'm actually enjoying the quiet time watching a little teevee, reading the odd book and being creative on the old knitting front. |
|
Writing about the experience, humorously, left him a favorite amongst both prisoners and their guards, an odd situation. |
|
Ruben was an odd bod. What else could he have been? It's one of life's mysteries how odd bods always find each other. |
|
I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it. |
|
The eggs of the Atlantic puffin are typically creamy white but the odd egg is tinged lilac. |
|
Instead, he began to focus on groups of figures and odd imaginary characters. |
|
This change also affected the men's Presidents Cup and Seve Trophy and women's Solheim Cup competitions, as each switched from even to odd years. |
|
Apart from the odd flare-up I suspect few of us spend our working days having massive strops and shouting matches. |
|
Whilst the new paint was a good metameric match under natural light, it looked odd under a fluorescent light. |
|
Mathcore's main defining quality is the use of odd time signatures, and has been described to possess rhythmic comparability to free jazz. |
|
Many scholars have found it odd that Shakespeare would, seemingly arbitrarily, use this rhetorical form throughout the play. |
|
Other skills, such as arithmetic and handwriting, were taught in odd moments or by travelling specialist teachers such as scriveners. |
|
Each row generally has an odd number of cylinders to produce smooth operation. |
|
|
I've seen some of her secret roleplay accounts and they get very odd to say the least. |
|
There is an odd convergence of themes around the festival of shavuot. |
|
That sounds odd here in Washington these days, but some of the old-timers still like to pretend there is honor alive among the political thieves. |
|
It is odd he gets so many cavities since he brushes his teeth religiously, every night, rain or shine. |
|
Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson? |
|
The Schnitzelbank Band, each member attired in an odd getup, received many comments for the manner in which the men marched. |
|
I do relish the smart sayins, the odd ways of furrin parts, and the sarcastic slaps at folkses weak spots. |
|
Is it just an odd coincidence that the first event of the diarylike text is also the earliest element of the prosecutor's case? |
|
The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie, and does not extend between coteries. |
|
Logodaedaly is filled with odd reflections and odder usage for words unheard of by even the most educated in English. |
|
The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers. |
|
Even with the odd looking add-on cartridge ejector, I find the classic lines and octagon barrel of this model quite appealing. |
|
Cow Farm was a rambling building, with dark, uneven stairs, low-ceilinged rooms, queer, odd corners, and sudden unexpected doors. |
|
His songs range from coal mining to out of control kids, launderettes to bicycle pumps with the odd sea shanty and rock and roll as well. |
|
With the theme being Nautical but Nice you can expect a lot of sailor suits on display and maybe even the odd mermaid or two. |
|
The rivers Tyne and Wear have produced lots of undersized codling with the odd better fish to 3lb, lugworm taking most fish. |
|
Forgetting all the odd bumfoolery going on with IE, you need to sniff the NIC and see what is really happening. |
|
The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas. |
|
A few wheels and a crate to make a billy cart would probably be acceptable, or the odd old alarm clock, but nothing more. |
|
Tension erupted as well, of course, between Dina and her parents, odd attacklike conflicts, suddenly, for no reason. |
|