For these categories, which have medium-sized amounts of information around them, the best option is probably a quick scan of reliable Oscar pickers — a sort of roll-your-own prediction market.
Raquel Aedo and Emily Coates did a sort of roll-off-a-log duet in which, while delivering a Gertrude Steinish dialogue, they climbed on top of each other sideways and of course fell off, again and again.
Full from a meal of fleischnacka, a sort of rolled meat-filled pastry, I emerged from Caveau des Vignerons and looked up at the sky, which was that deep shade of blue that appears briefly on clear nights about 40 minutes after sunset.
Mr. Kasdan's film is ostensibly about the abyss -- a sort of (drum roll, please) Grand Canyon, if you will -- that separates blacks and whites, rich and poor.
In the last school year, seniors at Dartmouth College and Cornell University turned that tactic on its head, creating a sort of dishonor roll of peers who failed to donate to the class gift.
He presents osso buco without the bone, as a sort of veal roll-up splashed with marrow.
Mum and Dad are raising my nephew, Seth; I'm a sort of dad/uncle/brother rolled into one.
But we all sort of rolled up our sleeves and did whatever there was to do.
He walks with a sort of sailor's roll, which both broadcasts assurance and mocks it.
A sort of festive sausage roll, served as a generously filled pie with pieces of partridge (or, if you prefer, pigeon) breast tucked among the seasoned stuffing.
What connections, if any, I wondered, could be drawn between the hereditary political prince and the self-invented king of rock 'n' roll, between a sort-of Tennessee mountaineer and a deep-dyed son of the Southern flatlands?
