Sentence examples for oddities from inspiring English sources

And there were pleasing oddities that suggested a venturesome actor not content to do as his agents told him, like Richard Kelly's extraordinary heroic failure of an epic, Southland Tales.

But the image-making in the film was a challenge, not least because one of the oddities about Turner, as Leigh explains, is that if you compare portraits of him, he looks different in each one.

Maybe we should work to save these oddities of our past.

My case worker constantly and professionally explained the legal oddities and remained upbeat.

Byrne describes the comic's world as a bit of a fantasy land where the oddities of daily life are blown out of proportion in a "cartoon animated" fashion.

Building a new theory to account for these space oddities is a big project.

London's underground networks—including the Tube, but also sewers, various government tunnels and oddities such as the Royal Mail railway must be negotiated.The city's medieval street pattern means that buildings cannot always have straightforward 90-degree corners.

And for all its oddities it has been doing rather well under its new prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, a Dutch-speaking liberal whose six-party coalition took office in July.

It is backed by The Economist what is the Czech for "blowing your own trumpet"?—and fun it is, full of puns and *palindromes, dialects, jargon, simplicity and pomp, cliches, metaphors, oddities, inventions (Bernard Shaw's famous spelling of "fish"—ghoti, with gh as in cough, o as in women and ti as in -tion is only just beyond the bounds of the possible).

The translation, although usually fluent, contains oddities: "Wahhabites" is not Anglo-Saxon usage; "ulemas" is an ungainly double plural.

He also says he was unaware of oddities in the Gyrus deal, even though he was the top European executive at the time.