He learns that the Internet in many places has a smell, one he describes as "an odd but distinctive mix of industrial strength air-conditioners and the ozone released by capacitors".
Mr. Ai has carved one end of the piece into a map of China, an image that dictates the odd and distinctive contours of the bench, and renders it useless as furniture.
He plays poker most nights, letting the game with its odd hours give a distinctive rhythm to his quotidian life, and finds his most intense emotions, high and low, at the card table.
The odd shape exhibits the distinctive signatures of a very low-angle impact: elongated pear-shaped plan (90 × 60 km), crater widening transverse to the inferred trajectory, and central peak ridge (Schultz et al., 1998) (Fig. 2).
However, distinctive forbidden diffraction spots of (odd, odd, even) type were observed on the selected area electron diffraction patterns of the film.
ARTS & LEISURE Walter Matthau Is Dead The actor, whose performances as cantankerous but endearing characters like Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple" made him a distinctive leading man, was 79.
But the nose of the Q45, with its bulbous, Gatling gun headlights and frowning mouth, simply doesn't evoke the right response you don't think "character" or "distinctive"; you think "odd".
The Washington-based Teen Beat label has long been home to a distinctive roster of gently odd experimentalists.
But Mr. Fagan's distinctive vocabulary and strong odd rhythmic accents make it hard for him to get away with repetition.
Another distinctive characteristic is its odd, high-pitched alarm call.
And we think this car is at best distinctive and at worst, downright odd-looking.
