But when you sit down with a bottle for dinner, a Champagne that is oddly sweet, harsh, out of balance or just plain dull is a tremendous letdown, especially if it was expensive.
Adams and Eggleston do, however, make an oddly apposite pairing, harsh though the contrasts and contradictions are.
Instead, for all of Santa Barbara's sensuous, sumptuous, if at times cheesy, charm, its namesake festival feels oddly cold, detached, harsh and lonely.
Jordan: Insulted coaches, teammates, opposing players and anyone who ever may have "wronged him" in a harsh, negative toned and oddly bitter-for-such-a-successful guy hall of fame acceptance speech.
Mr. Cook portrays a seriously obnoxious member of the primitive species Homo labutus (that's man according to the harsh moralist Neil LaBute) in this raw but oddly tender comic drama from 2004.
The portraits they took with Polaroid cameras developed oddly, and degraded rapidly, because of the high altitude and harsh conditions.
The harsh sunlight, the sharply cast shadows and the oddly placed flower, which rests beneath the subject's nose, add to the tropical feel of the work.
