Sentence examples for something at odds from inspiring English sources

He had been to the pub beforehand but denies being drunk, something at odds with the perception.

Your act may or may not help change football, but if you feel as your letter suggests, it will keep you from directly participating in something at odds with your own personal values.

The idea that there can be, inside the music, something at odds with the intent: whether it be antisemitism, or the philosophy of self-denial and death-obsession Wagner learned from Schopenhauer.

Curiosity -- whether intellectual, emotional or spiritual -- and the capacity to listen attentively convey something at odds with the bully's scant regard of another person.

Over time, we begin to understand our heroes' friendship as something at odds with the other almost robotic trainees and scientists.

"In many ways this [was] the first major scientific discovery -- the discovery of something previously unknown, and something at odds with all previous learning," Wootton said in the email.

"You've got the 'A' story and then beneath that something totally at odds with it.

Simplify! movement smacks of something entirely at odds with the unburdening that true simplification should bring.

He blinked 80 times a minute!' Our normal rate is about 15 and so clearly something is at odds, mentally".

President Bush may be on the brink of doing something stunningly at odds with his record as one of the worst environmental stewards ever to inhabit the White House.

That means a company doing something deemed at odds with its purpose-based mission statement or high-minded advertising campaign runs the risk of eliciting disappointment — or even a sense of betrayal — among socially conscious shoppers who consider themselves misled.