Sentence examples for offbeat manner from inspiring English sources

Don't Give Up was another example of him reworking a black American sound in a modern but offbeat manner.

Ms. Leigh, like Ms. Parker (who won a Tony for her star turn), has a naturally offbeat manner; they share an odd, syncopated physical grace and a penchant for quirks of elocution.

Ms. Filner confirmed that she had indeed initiated e-mail conversations in this rather offbeat manner, noting that a good source of e-mail addresses were the joke messages people often forward to friends -- in most cases, leaving all the previous recipients' addresses visible in the headers.

Furnishings, too, may be combined in an offbeat manner.

Bernie's offbeat fashion sense and seemingly benevolent manner slowly curdle into something more sinister -- namely, a capacity for morbid violence (think fork to the eye), providing many of the film's most shocking moments and dark laughs.

Paley's stories combined an offbeat, whimsically poetic manner with a wry understanding of the ironies of family life and progressive politics.

IN the first moments of "Together," an offbeat comedy of manners from Sweden, a slim, red-haired man named Goren, whose glasses and neatly trimmed beard make him look like a graduate student, lies on his bed reading.

Not aging boomers of the kind who taped Peter, Paul & Mary reunions and tuned in to "A Prairie Home Companion" ("I hate that show," April, who wears cat's-eye glasses and shares Lance's sweet manner and offbeat wit, told me.

In 2007, when Neighborhood Restaurant Group opened the adjoining EatBar, a fleet little gastropub, Anda was clearly headed in a meaty direction, creating all manner of offbeat and offal-based products.

The Web site, billed as the Curiositorium, is a digital curio cabinet, stuffed with all manner of offbeat, oddball sights and sounds that are intended to bring to life the brand's promises that it is "a most unusual gin" and "it's not for everyone".

You'll find Method-style tics à la James Dean (that would be Mr. Hawke); quintessentially British classicism; droning monotones in the manner of secondary characters in offbeat sitcoms; wild-and-crazy guy frenzies that would fit right into a remake of "Animal House"; and a few exquisite gems of calmer, multilayered portraiture (most notably from Joely Richardson as Ivanov's ailing wife).