In contrast, the Imam Mosque is the whole damn Tiffany's, big and slightly odd, the entrance forming the end of the square, facing straight down the plaza.
Her slinky, oozing compositions — which take surprisingly prickly detours from time to time — are odd and entrancing.
In accordance with the descriptions of this procedure in literature (Monnier & Syssau, 2014; Montefinese, Ambrosini, Fairfield, & Mammarella, 2014; Moors et al., 2013), the samples were split into halves in order to form two groups, depending on the odd and even entrance ranks of the participants.
The word melancholy occurs several times in "Tabu," Miguel Gomes's odd and sometimes entrancing new film, memorably at the beginning, where it is used (in a voice-over) to describe a Portuguese explorer making his wistful way through the wilds of Africa, haunted by ghosts and threatened by crocodiles.
But it wasn't until I went there recently with someone in a wheelchair that I noticed, just inside the entrance, an odd door to the left.
The odd thing was, college entrance exams barely came up.
It's difficult to separate their influence from the surrounding, immense gravitational force of US cinema in general, but it does seem like they helped mould the overarching international market that floats above individual cinema territories; especially the terms on which the odd foreign challenger could gained entrance to take on Hollywood blockbusters.
We experience a catastrophe -- World War II in "The English Patient," the Sri Lankan terror here -- in a fashion made more intense precisely because of the entrancing or disconcerting odd ambles that turn us so we don't see the slam approaching the back of the head.
Many people will be entranced by the odd behavior of the ocean and not realize something is wrong.
