Sentence examples for odd flawed from inspiring English sources

But it is also a treasure: an odd, flawed, but nonetheless beautifully handmade object as apt to win affection as to provoke annoyance".

His case suggested the potential loneliness of a Catholic clergyman's circumstances, and those circumstances, in the eyes of many Catholics, cast priests as odd, flawed messengers and counselors on the subject of a person's intimate life.

In Rwanda, Uganda, Eritrea and Ethiopia in recent years, power has been grabbed by well-organised rebels who, despite the odd flawed election, have failed to shed their undemocratic ways.

It works, albeit with the odd flaw: recently, wags kept altering the entry on Kazakhstan to say that the nation was ruled by Borat.

Perhaps there is some odd flaw in his judgment of people – he had also been rather ungracious to those who had opposed his original selection as MEP in the east Midlands, such as the Chesterfield MP Paul Holmes whom he had sacked as housing spokesman.

Right away, the recording sounded odd and the performance flawed.

Odd technical flaws aside, this remains a chilling portrait of a collapsing system kept going only through the tacit co-operation of warders and prisoners.

Suzanne Rutherford and Susan Lindquist, cell biologists at the University of Chicago, became curious about the role HSP90 might play in evolution when they noticed that about 2% of fruit flies with a mutated HSP90 gene had misshapen wings or legs, abnormal eyes or bristles, or other odd physical flaws.

That, in the end, suggests the odd fatal flaw of the Koolhaas project here: It kept the town's maximalist aesthetic at arm's length, rather arrogantly refusing even to aspire to the spectacle we all expected of it.

"I created my first toy and loved the final result –- by being a little odd and different, it was distinct, not flawed.

Street dance might seem an odd style for a Dickensian tale, but in choreographer Tony Adigun's imaginative if flawed version of Oliver Twist, the nifty footwork and ducking and weaving suits all the pickpocketing and scamming in the story.