The odder part was that everyone seemed to be happy.
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What's even odder is how you actually get your food.
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What is being built now seems odder even than that.
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Even odder, this "exclusive" doesn't seem to be all that original.
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The veepstakes is one of America's odder political and journalist traditions.
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The odd objects and odder events form a refreshing anti-spectacle.
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It's also one of the odder devices in the lineup, though.
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His odd voice and odder lyrics are reminiscent of Danny Brown.
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It feels a lot like daily life in Tokyo, but odder.
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The Treasure Truck program has always been one of Amazon's odder initiatives.
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What's even odder is snow also fell on the Sahara last year.
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The reality of the movie, directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, is odder still.
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The fall lineup of iPhones is where things get a little odder.
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The circumstances of Matt Canavan, the former minister for resources, are even odder.
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But the experience gets odder and more delightful once you start to listen.
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One of the odder complaints came from former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
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The result is an even odder hybrid, with private shareholders but government-run.
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But Trump's Sunday tweet seems even odder still given what happened hours earlier.
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I thought this would be straightforward, but Apple's world is odder than I expected.
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An even odder, and far unhappier, couple dominates the action back in New York.
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It may seem a long shot, but then, odder things have happened in Argentine politics.
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If that is dubious, the opposition of the Scottish National Party (SNP) is odder still.
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Of late, hopeful writers claim to divine hope in one of the Mets' odder projects.
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If the Red Sox' chances of torching Severino were slim, Montgomery's injury seemed even odder.
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Here's a sample link to one of Abovitz's odder blog posts which, again, is no more.
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We've seen odder collaborations at the Grammy's, and hey, Skrillex is up for one this year.
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The shoe feels odd when you put it on, and odder when you start to run.
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"I think that the men who are having children older are not necessarily odder," Malaspina said.
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Referendum night felt all the odder because the Remain and Leave camps are themselves internally incoherent.
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Providence's past would be odder, wilder and more intriguing without being seen through such modern spectacles.
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Odder still was what happened when the scientists exposed the cells to the MELK-targeting drug.
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Ezra Miller's 2019 Met Gala costume was even odder, featuring eye makeup as an optical illusion.
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Buber's commitment to the spiritual aim of political life brought him to espouse even odder political positions.
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This is how his interview with The Times Magazine began, and it just got odder from there.
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This is how his interview with The Times Magazine began, and it just got odder from there.
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Tropicana Field is even odder, with its "rings," fish tanks, dumb fence heights, and weird ground rules.
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Even odder: 10 (minimum number of days required by an inpatient internet-addiction program at a Pennsylvania hospital).
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The Pollock couldn't look any odder than it does now, between paintings by Yayoi Kusama and Roman Opalka.
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Wasabi chocolate; and almond milk, mint and ginseng are just a few of the odder scoops on offer.
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In appearance alone, Wolf — more an academic than a rabble-rouser — and Fetterman couldn't be an odder duo.
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Odd window groupings rub up against even odder facades, while the interiors look like casinos colliding with carnivals.
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It's even odder to bring it up, given that Biden is running for president as a Democrat in 2019.
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But they are starting to resemble regulators themselves, which makes it odder still that they act outside legal limits.
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This failure of monitoring is all the odder given the effort that companies expend on recruiting outside their ranks.
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But those lining up at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro this week look odder than most.
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What makes Anaconda even odder is that it is unusually sanitized for a monster movie and rated PG-13.
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They become at the same time odder — the "cuckoo" is quite a bizarre little creature — and also more sympathetic.
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One of the odder quirks of the trial testimony has been how often the word "effervescence" has come up.
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Odder still is the fact that participants then have to physically place themselves in different parts of the room.
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An odd image and an odder name, which made Icelanders laugh—if they had heard of Ok at all.
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One of Ms. Milch-Sheriff's odder inspirations is making the young Heidegger a lyric tenor (the robust Angelo Pollak).
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It may seem even odder that all the retail and dining venues in the hall have a theme … from Seattle.
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But it's almost odder that it took this long for a fertility app to be recognized as a contraceptive tool.
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It's even odder when you consider Apple has an Apple Music app on Android, which just reached 40 million downloads.
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Last Thursday, the Nuro cars looked even odder on second glance — because they were being trailed by regular-size vehicles.
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This makes it all the odder that Churchill has portrayed World War II as an unalloyed American-British-Soviet triumph.
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In a television season full of nonconformist new comedies, TBS's "Search Party," beginning Monday, is one of the odder ducks.
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What's odder, though, is that Wilde, who recently directed the acclaimed "feminist high school movie" Booksmart, is doubling-down, too.
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It is an odd thing for a cell to say I, odder still when that cell's existence is a team effort.
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However, during a dramatic scene in the episode the actress noticed something odd — or, you know, odder than the usual antics.
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Neither Haggerty nor any I.T.F. official participated in Wednesday's hearing, all the odder considering that the I.T.F.'s headquarters is in Britain.
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It was an odd bit of political news made odder because the nature of the dispute between the two men wasn't clear.
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Candidates: Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, Erik Jones, Jonathan Ebel, David Gill David Gill has had one of the odder political careers I've seen.
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It felt even odder considering that The Bold Type never once, throughout its entire first season, ever acknowledged Kat's blackness out loud.
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Donald Trump, Julian Assange, Susan Sarandon, Nina Turner, Vladimir Putin, and Dr. Jill Stein—political bedfellows don't get any odder than this.
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Odder still is the inclusion of a kidney transplant—from one human to another, regrettably, rather than from, say, wolfhound to peke.
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Odder still is that it is not thought to be associated with status or nobility; almost anybody might have elaborate tooth work.
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The mysterious warmth between Donald Trump and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin was one of the odder elements of the 19993 presidential race.
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"So two of the odder ingredients we chose to work with turned out to balance well and make a great beer," Jansen added.
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ONE of the odder things about President Donald Trump is that, though he cheers supporters up greatly, he has no discernible sense of humour.
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We learned that the odder the crowd, and the less informed about what they're getting into, the better a reaction we tend to get.
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But the odder twist — too strange to joke about, perhaps — was that Gert's soon-to-be-husband was her former brother-in-law, Bill.
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Aside from a shared sense of ambition with respect to Detroit as a platform, one cannot imagine an odder matchup than Massey and Gilbert.
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Odder still is the idea that a currency that has only fairly limited use outside China is suddenly a prime mover in global capital markets.
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Odder still to think that despite leaps in technological and analytical wisdom, parsing the relationship between humans and nature has become, if anything, more complicated.
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Stuck in its ways in the most reverential sense of the phrase, it's a seam in time, providing safe passage to an older, odder Philadelphia.
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But "The Twenty Days of Turin" is always, in its brief course, odder and stubborner than you expect it to be, defiantly resistant to interpretation.
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Yet here it is in Britain, in the thousands, an oddball little convertible with an ardent following and a back story that is even odder.
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But perhaps the odder argument that Rauch makes involves the implication that proliferating outside group spending is a direct result of campaign finance reform backfiring.
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The world of Agrabah feels properly (and practically) built out, filled with such color and verve that it's even odder how labored the musical numbers feel.
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Otherwise, the Marlins' season will be summed with an even odder statement than the one that applies now: that Stanton's play might've cost them the playoffs.
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This old-school affinity between coach and calligraphy appears odder by the year, as other sports (and even the N.B.A.) have embraced the ease of technology.
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On DVD Something odder than a masterpiece, Orson Welles's "Othello" is at once a credible abridgment of Shakespeare and a jigsaw puzzle that nearly defies comprehension.
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At the time, Fight the Future was an odd Hollywood product, and maybe an even odder success, taking in nearly $200 million at the box office.
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Seven years on from Father's funeral, we all looked bigger but droopier, the same people wearing odder, older masks, all of us like large, misshapen children.
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It was certainly one of the odder stage crashing moments in recent memory, but at least it got the entire viewership of CBS talking about Kevin Gates.
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The Lakers are an odder deal, not the least because James arrives at a new team with work crews on his heels, set to rehabilitate the joint.
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The Heritage Foundation's involvement is a little odder, if only because Trump was widely expected not to do much to advance a conservative agenda on social issues.
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Your whole being oozes something unseemly, unwholesome; not self-consciousness as such, but something odder and intangible that fences you off away from the rest of the world.
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In Britain, however, there is an altogether odder phenomenon — both major parties are at war within themselves after an election, and one that had a surprisingly clear result.
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One of the odder things to ever happen in a presidential interview is Dobbs attempting to ask Trump a question about his choice to chair the Federal Reserve.
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It gets odder when the most recent attempt at a fighter's association—the awfully named MMAAA—was headed by a number of CAA's prominent athletes in the UFC.
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It's one of the show's odder running jokes, which is notable because the host regularly has to make fun of himself for slicing off parts of his hand.
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Even odder is Denny (Philip Haldiman), a young boy whom Johnny is mentoring: He talks like a high school freshman but appears to be in his mid-20s.
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It's even odder for a man with a chance to forge a legacy as the governor who rescued one of the greatest infrastructure projects in the United States.
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One of the movie's many odder moves is that it takes the original's dance company setting — a purely functional backdrop than anything else — and puts it front and center.
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A prominent running gag is Tati's string of ever-odder odd jobs, which include breaking in other people's shoes and turning the second hand inside an enormous clock tower.
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One of the odder themes of the questioning — familiar to those who study sexual harassment cases — involved whether Comey should have reacted more strongly to Trump's allegedly inappropriate requests.
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President Obama will, for the last time, take part on Wednesday in one of our country's odder Thanksgiving traditions: the annual pardoning of the turkeys at the White House.
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The whole thing is made even odder by the fact that Schmidt is tweeting about what could be a major Samsung competitor on the day of Samsung's big S8 unveiling.
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ONE of the odder pieces of evidence turned up by investigations of Javier Duarte, a former governor of the state of Veracruz, was an exercise book with his wife's scrawl.
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But Bochco used what was effectively a blank check to indulge the odder corners of his imagination, which is how Cop Rock (co-created with William Finkelstein) came to be.
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The Prius is an intentionally odd-looking car that gets odder with every generation; I'm pretty sure even ardent defenders of Toyota's flagship hybrid could agree with me on that.
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What is odder, and much more culpable, is its failure to address the mismatch between its grassroots supporters and its policy agenda into which Mr Trump has tapped so effectively.
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There is nothing pompous or pallid about his prose, which makes it all the odder that so much of the music that he wrote seems to have no other qualities.
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One of the odder things about interviewing an elite female gymnast is how quickly a conversation about the sacrifices and difficulties of her sport can suddenly become all about sparkle.
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" And it flat-out mystifies in odder selections like the twittery aria "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" from "Sweeney Todd" and, of all things, the Brechtian "Gun Song" from "Assassins.
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Melisandre's appearance marked a stunning return and final chapter for the character, who has been one of the most morally beguiling and odder individuals on the Game of Thrones roster.
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These rules, some of which are odder than others, are broadly intended to keep lawmakers' focus on the trial, so they can devote their full energy to serving as jurors.
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Sorted by major party affiliation, the findings become even odder, because Democrats and Republicans diverge sharply on almost every point except Amazon (and the military, and their loathing of Facebook).
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Even odder, Augusta National has proven itself capable of more accurate representations of the U.S. map: on the buttons of the famous green jacket awarded every year to the Masters winner.
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In search of stimulation, and with the help of Eric Clapton, we investigated the science of Cocaine and what biotechnology might have to offer in terms of odder coffees (Strange brew).
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After the first morning's extended safety briefing (the expected warnings against sunburn, dehydration and back injuries, and also the odder cautions against feral pigs and hantavirus), we begin by constructing scaffolding.
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For more than a year, Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin have admired each other from afar and have laid the groundwork for one of the odder geopolitical relationships of modern times.
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Now, however, they're a geek oddity and they don't get any odder than in the MB&F Nixie Machine II, a candelabra-like clock built with the help of artist Frank Buchwald.
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Yet that would make the emphasis Mr Mueller laid upon the possibility of Mr Trump's guilt—in stressing that his report did "not exonerate" the president—even odder than it already seems.
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A new report from the Anti-Defamation League confirms that one of the Trump presidential campaign's odder legacies is the revival of a strong form of anti-Semitism in American political discourse.
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The Danger of Trumpism Kelefa Sanneh on conservative intellectuals' man-crush on Trump is one of the odder pieces to appear in The New Yorker in some time ("Secret Admirers," January 9th).
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"Paimon" is a real thing from the odder corners of Christian mythology, and if we take the Satanic Panic at face value, then somebody out there is trying to resurrect him right now.
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Odder still is the funereal way the dancers seem to defy the beat by drifting across the stage in slowly curving shapes that twist their bodies in one direction and then the next.
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This results in buildings that are square — in ambition as much as aesthetics — but as the cost of land, particularly in Manhattan, has increased, builders have begun to look to odder-shaped plots.
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There's reasons sometimes we often — and very "Veep" — like to shoot through stuff, to be sort of on odder angles, or to be away from the joke, which is a very "Veep" thing.
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In one of the odder compliments, Coach Pete Carroll said afterward that Kaepernick should be a starter in the N.F.L., but the Seahawks already had a starter, so they were going to pass.
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In one of their odder and more chilling moves, the Nazis occupying Lithuania once collected Yiddish and Hebrew books and documents, hoping to create a reference collection about a people they intended to annihilate.
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As Business Insider noted, establishing safety zones around commercial launch sites is not an unusual practice, but that the safety zone contains a residents ("nearly all of them not by choice") is much odder.
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Among the odder items that Miró kept on hand was the mummified corpse of his cat, which hangs from a wall in a room where he found the pet dead after accidentally locking it in.
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One of the odder things about modern zoning codes as applied in much of the Northeastern United States is that they generally would prohibit the construction of existing neighborhoods that people live in and love.
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" Beyond the inevitable outrage from conservatives about Wolf being disrespectful to the sensitive, innocent flower that is President Trump, came an even odder reaction: the idea that Wolf had attacked Sanders for her "physical appearance.
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The duo have enough command of pop-writing and depth of influence that they could easily skate by on surface pleasures (and those pleasures are for sure there) but they opt for an odder proposition.
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The Wanderlodge was an even odder spectacle than I had anticipated: a great brown absurdity with the words IMMORTALITY BUS WITH TRANSHUMANIST ZOLTAN ISTVAN neatly hand-painted in white across the length of its midsection.
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One of the odder cases the city's lawyers pursued was against a chain of novelty restaurants in Florida called NYPD Pizza (New York Pizzeria Delicatessen Pizza), which had opened its first location in Orlando in 1996.
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One of the odder stats to come out of the game is the fact that in New England's seven Super Bowl appearances in the Brady-Belichick era, the Patriots haven't scored a single first-quarter point.
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The show, which opens on Saturday, is the first Folger exhibition to pair Shakespeare with another writer, and the first to dig deep into some of the odder artifacts — antique bellows carved with Will's face, anyone?
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In one of Washington's odder embraces, their strongest defenders are congressional Democrats who abhor the Justice Department's policies under the Trump administration but see Mr. Rosenstein as a firewall between the president and the special counsel.
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"One of the odder pieces of evidence we got was from someone who had gotten a summons from the department of health for having a rat infestation on her property," said James Moore, a supervising hearing officer.
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And it was even odder to follow this ultimately muted, hauntingly inconclusive work with Hurricane "Rosenkavalier": the popular suite drawn from that Strauss opera, given an all too forceful performance here that swept "Stride" off the stage.
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The gun has long been a museum favorite, and one of the odder, more dangerous forms of tomb protection in the 19th century, when "resurrection men" stalked cemeteries in search of fresh corpses to offer doctors for dissection.
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It was darker, grimmer, and more pessimistic than most, but it was free of Trump's odder tics — he stayed on teleprompter, he bit back his riffs, he didn't try to settle old scores or freelance on major policies.
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Lauren Groff's review of American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins's new novel about a mother and son fleeing cartel violence in Mexico, is one of the odder articles that The New York Times Book Review has published in recent memory.
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Anyway, the point is that these Jellicle cat names were clearly designed for a two-year-old, thus making the whole concept of Cats even odder (or more delightful, depending on your POV) than you may have imagined.
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And now that it's gifted with directors like Doctor Strange's Scott Derrickson and Thor: Ragnarok's Taika Waititi, its newest movies and TV spinoffs can be bigger, odder, and more visually distinct than the franchise experiments studios like Warner Bros.
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It's an odd and creepy title for an odder and creepier film, in which Lily (Ruth Wilson, The Affair) plays a young nurse who moves into the home of an aging horror author (Paula Prentiss) inspired by novelist Shirley Jackson.
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One of the odder effects of the movement, however, has been its impact on the catwalks over the last month: It effectively sent designers down a wormhole to the 1980s, the decade when glass-ceiling-breaking really became expressed via clothes.
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The Japanese, in one of the odder experiments in World War II, outfitted paper balloons with incendiary bombs and sent them on an eastward course across the Pacific, transported by a steady air current that Japanese scientists had chanced upon.
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One of the odder ideas to snowball its way into the zeitgeist during the decade's turbulent second half is the idea that a person can be "canceled" — in other words, culturally blocked from having a prominent public platform or career.
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The "climbing the ladder of the hip-hop world" aspects of Atlanta aren't exactly foregrounded, but they're there, and they give the whole show something to hang onto whenever it embarks on one of its odder flights into the surreal.
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All three are intensely glammed-up, vividly colorful versions of L'Engle's alien strangers, which underlines one of the odder things about this Wrinkle adaptation: it feels like a feature-length version of the costume ball from Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast.
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If it sounds that sounds strange, the prospect is even odder still when you consider that Ursa comprise three quarters of Cormorant—a cult favorite that has carved out a 10-year, proudly-DIY career delivering bleak, reflective, genre-flaying progressive black metal.
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She'll hold a town hall in Sterling, Va. One of the campaign's odder mysteries was solved last night, when Joe Biden's campaign walked back the candidate's claim that he had been arrested while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in his South African prison.
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Rust Belt despair translated into support for Trump — and Putin Rust Belt despair translated into support for Trump — and Putin The mysterious warmth between Donald Trump and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin was one of the odder elements of the 2016 presidential race.
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WASHINGTON — The DC Council on Tuesday tackled one of the odder side effects of the partial federal government shutdown, unanimously passing emergency legislation that makes it possible for couples who want to get married in the District of Columbia to once again get a license.
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But what about those of us whose lives have taken an odder turn than Liz's has, who are not baby-crazy, who cannot afford to buy our own apartments, and who do not even have the option of "settling," even if we wanted to?
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It is odder still that Ryan and Trump are trying to hasten a vote in order to end-run the Congressional Budget Office, rather than hold off for a few days to allow CBO to vindicate the legislation by dispelling all these supposed misconceptions.
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It got less attention than the odder, even less attractive exchange with Klobuchar, the Minnesota Democrat — the one where he disregarded her touching remarks about her father's struggle with alcoholism and asked her if she had ever consumed alcohol to the point of blacking out.
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What these ever-odder interventions had in common was that they always offered some reason wrong was right — why Taylor had been right to warn against easy-money policies even though higher inflation, the problem he predicted as a result of these policies, never materialized.
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Be forewarned: it might make you reconsider your interest in your neighbors, because it could lead to obsession and madness — or something odder and less reassuring than a tidy end, of which there are few in this wonderfully unsettling book of 10 masterful short stories.
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It is one of the odder aspects of the race that five of its candidates — Mr. Gonzalez, Ms. Dwimoh, Marc Fliedner, Anne Swern and Patricia Gatling — all worked together in the Brooklyn district attorney's office, mostly under Charles J. Hynes, who preceded Mr. Thompson.
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" Tobias Menzies has now said goodbye to both his characters, Black Jack Randall and his descendant, Frank, but admits that he doesn't exactly feel emotional about losing either: "It's sort of odder than that, because they're all just like bits of you, so they don't go anywhere.
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It's a personal brand Reynolds is developing, and while it fit perfectly around Deadpool — a meta-character who breaks the fourth wall to talk to his audience, and is sometimes canonically aware that he's a comic book character — it feels a little odder around Detective Pikachu.
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But it's becoming increasingly clear that what happens in the White House is even odder than anyone can imagine—at least, that's the takeaway from a Friday Daily Beast story reporting that a 2017 meeting between Trump and veterans groups devolved into an argument about Apocalypse Now.
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His story, which our reviewer, Kevin Brockmeier, said "exists just this side of the border separating our reality from a much odder one," is divided into sections for the three principal characters Giovanni mimics over the course of this tale: his employer, his psychiatrist and his manager.
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One of the odder pitches, in late 2017, was to Paul Nehlen — an anti-Semite and self-described "pro-white" Republican running for Congress in Wisconsin — to use "unconventional databases" for "extreme opposition research," according to a document provided to Mr. Nehlen and later posted online.
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That removable display also fits on the even odder Raven R, which is a robot with an articulated arm that can dance to your music and, the company told me, locate you in space and always aim its microphone in your direction as you move around the room.
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And it is maybe already obvious to you that equating fashion criticism with rape culture is one of the more senseless recent uses of the English language, but what's odder about Munn's post is its lack of any acknowledgment of the disparity between her cultural position and the one held by an (albeit widely beloved!) pair of bloggers.
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One of his odder invocations of his experience in Afghanistan came in the following debate, where he took an uncharacteristically sharp and discordant jab at Beto O'Rourke, who had praised his military service, during a back and forth about O'Rourke's mandatory buyback proposal, which O'Rourke insisted Democrats should support regardless of polling and the advice of political consultants.
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With less than two weeks before California's June 5 primary, Democratic candidate Harley Rouda, who likes to refer to Rohrabacher as "Putin's favorite congressman," is taking a wry look at some of Rohrabacher's odder statements -- highlighting the Orange County congressman's unusual Russia connections with a light touch in a new digital ad featuring former 'Seinfeld' star Jason Alexander.
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On this week's episode, Ashley Carman is on to highlight some of this year's odder phone cases (there's a stun gun), I'm around to talk about the Echo Spot and Amazon's obsession with putting cameras all over your house, and we take a final look through The Verge's gift guide to discuss some last minute favorites.
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The vocal soloists were also excellent: the baritone Konrad Jarnot, acting as a sort of prophet, addressing the assembled throng of audience and chorus; and the soprano Marlis Petersen, in the role generally assumed to represent Brahms's lost mother (making it all the odder that she should hold forth swinging in relaxed fashion, as if in a park).
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As I usually find most author's photos peculiar, as they portray an earnest face that, over reprinting, is designed to become a trademark more familiar to potential readers, I feel obliged to note that this book's cover photo of Cage is yet odder, showing an unfamiliar face, perhaps from 50 years ago, looking more sullen than earnest or happy.
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While there's something oddly wonderful about a nightclub that refuses to engage in the kind of frivolity which has seen a large amount of the places people like to party in rebrand as creches with kickdrums become arguably the most famous in the world, what's even odder is the heteronormative appropriation of a sound synonymous with unabashed openness to queer experience.
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