Sentence examples for be an odd match from inspiring English sources

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A slapstick fight may be an odd match for Milton's tribute to Shakespeare.

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The two firms were an odd match.

They were an odd match, Kawamura and Ichiro.

A Hard Worker Still, by many accounts they were an odd match.

In some ways, Mr. Christie and Mr. Romney are an odd match.

The imperious Hitchcock and Hayes, a promising radio writer, were an odd match.

He's an odd match for Anne-Marie Duff, whose icy-chic Lady Macbeth looks as if she's wandered in from the Met Ball.

The teams were an odd match, the Paraguayans looking blocky in their red jerseys and white shorts, almost like a beer league team, but with world-level talent.

Borrowing from the German tradition of sprechgesang, or spoken singing, Mr. Hütter's flat, affectless voice — sometimes treated with a vocoder to further dehumanize it — is an odd match for the band's lilting music-box melodies.

The program included "I Don't Want to Love," a faux-naïf piece that is an odd match for the text of the accompanying Monteverdi madrigals and by "Grand Duo" the marvelous thumping ritual Mr. Morris has set to Lou Harrison's music.

The marriage of Haley and Chan Gailey, the dismissed coordinator, was an odd match, anyway: it paired Haley's aggressive play-calling style (think Arizona and its passing attack) with Gailey's far more conservative style (think last year's Chiefs, if you can stand it).

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