Sentence examples for determinedly odd from inspiring English sources

"Vic and Flo Saw a Bear," by the French-Canadian director Denis Côté, is a determinedly odd mishmash of lesbian romance, melodrama and thriller, with a flair for tonal shifts and a taste for the grotesque.

The religious symbolism in some of his photo-calls the 2001 election camphoto-calls thein front of a stained-glass window, last week's image of khaki-clad troops in a khaki desert, with Mr Blair in bright white shirt, arms uplifted—is all too plain.It seems odd that the determinedly secular British go for this sort of thing, but they appear to.

It is odd that someone as determinedly uncontroversial as Sandberg should have written a book like this, which is also the reason for Lean In's significance.

And she did this while remaining a determinedly private person.

If it gets a little more Odd Couple and a little less determinedly shocking I'm inclined to stick around.

Portraying a woman who grew up in a shack in Illinois with gross redneck caricatures for parents, Ms. Driver strives determinedly to carry off a role that at odd moments suggests a worst-nightmare parody of Kathie Lee Gifford.

We're the ones determinedly not talking about the film, except to make the odd disparaging comment about Emma Watson's new haircut or Daniel Radcliffe's new shoulders (which we decide are entirely too large and muscled to belong to the wiry "Chosen One").

The odd thing about this press trip, especially given that it had been billed as a Bach Tour, is how determinedly uncultural it was.

Belfort is determinedly sexist.

She was determinedly litigious.

But Spain remained determinedly neutral.