Sentence examples for oddball idea from inspiring English sources

But William F. Baker, the president of WNET/Channel 13 in New York, has an oddball idea, a way to capture some of the cult following attracted by Daljit Dhaliwal.

The film itself is powered by a typically oddball idea: it's set in the aftermath of the second world war and incorporates only those techniques available to film-makers in 1945.

It may seem like on oddball idea right now, but Garmin may really be on to something here.

Anthony Pesce and Lily Mihalik took a billionaire's rather oddball idea to break the state into six Californias and combined it with a jumble of demographics.

Missile defense is one of those oddball ideas, like flat taxes and school vouchers, that have hardened into conservative dogma.

That venture capitalists are skirmishing to finance oddball ideas that don't need their cash is a good illustration of the industry's problems.

Last spring, Greg Mankiw entertained oddball ideas for ways to make negative nominal interest rates a possibility.But really, is the zero bound actually a constraint?

Dozens of Pabst employees defected, and some top executives spoke bitterly about their new owners, who they said belittled and overloaded employees with impulsive, oddball ideas.

"This is not just one of those California oddball ideas," said Peter V. Lee, president of the Pacific Business Group on Health, which represents big West Coast employers.

What if he took one of the pillars of that type of humor, a French man's relationship with his mother and grandmother, and asked Frederika to play along with some oddball ideas?

However, the fact that they were greeted here with straight faces, or even appeared at all, underscores another, less appreciated facet of Japanese society: its fondness for oddball ideas and inventions.