But the same might be said of Mr. Spangberg's "Epic," which had seven face-painted performers constantly donning outlandish combinations of clothing, dancing and manipulating a profusion of shiny objects as pop music (Aaliyah, Coldplay, Lenny Kravitz and more) played.
Like other composers of his generation, Mr. Dorman, who turns 36 on Thursday, can make outlandish musical combinations work because he is comfortable with an enormous range of styles, assimilated during a musically omnivorous childhood and adolescence.
I love that combination of outlandish and commonplace, of public and private, of cultural and personal.
It blends farce, suspense, science fiction, melodrama and quite a bit more, not into an approximation of Mr. Mitchell's graceful and virtuosic pastiche, but rather into an unruly grab bag of styles, effects and emotions held together, just barely, by a combination of outlandish daring and humble sincerity.
This Final Four combination is so outlandish that more than 70 percent of ESPN's entrants have none of the Final Four teams.
The combination is not as outlandish as it may seem.
That combination of tenderness and outlandish hubris was purely his own.
Like Jorge Luis Borges, Arreola cultivated the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story, a combination that lends authority to quite outlandish propositions.
An avid gamer, Hawk insisted on creative input and met with the developers weekly, tweaking the combinations of aerial stunts while ruling out outlandish moves and rejecting some backdrops as too cornball, like one of an Egyptian pyramid.
It seems the skunky smell is down to a particular combination of these composites, making it unusual but not outlandish.
