Bowie's style and his line readings were not those of a trained actor, and he continued to be mocked, affectionately and otherwise, for a certain space-oddity in his performance.
"It's not a surprise that it finally came to an arrest, given the fact that there were certain oddities that were unexplainable".
"There were certain oddities about the case that, I think, people around here knowing where the crime was situated — that he was on that side of town," said Kirk Sprenger, 45, the owner of Chappaqua Wine & Spirit.
Certain oddities and quirks still seemed fresh — James Caan's square-shouldered strut as Sonny Corleone, Brando's silent shrug after hearing that an enemy has been destroyed, John Marley's hyper-emphatic performance as Woltz explaining why Johnny Fontane will never appear in the studio's war picture.
On Tuesday, Judge Claire Eagan, of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, released an opinion that reflected a certain number of oddities, both about the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone-call metadata and about the entire set of N.S.A. revelations since this summer.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin September 19, 2013 On Tuesday, Judge Claire Eagan, of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, released an opinion that reflected a certain number of oddities, both about the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone-call metadata and about the entire set of N.S.A. revelations since this summer.
And then there are the oddities of business relationships.I still, I admit, feel a certain unease when the (female) estate agent or insurance broker, for example, expects a kiss on the cheek after only one previous encounter.
Through the decades, a certain cyclical faddishness has often driven the show's themes -- elegant displays, glamorous spectaculars and celebrations of oddities.
Battle scenes run to extravagant gore, and certain physiological oddities are dismaying.
If Washington would pressure the post-Aliev government for change in the "new age of democracy", it might run into certain intrinsic oddities, which could freeze the effort.
