It's oddness and cuteness mix keep it fresh with nostalgia.
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Instead, they both add to the oddness of the design.
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It's in her walk, the complete oddness of her gait.
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And when everything's working, his voice retains that durable oddness.
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" Maeve Brennan's prose is remarkable for its "intensity and oddness.
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The Daily Mail also pointed out the oddness of Maxwell's pose.
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Pop with some off kilter synth-oddness and bass that bounds.
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For all the oddness of the component parts, it smells great.
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What catches Dillon's eye is always some measure of alluring oddness.
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The oddness of those rituals rooted in disrespect, one-upmanship, and violence.
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The oddities, or Barnum, who's making a profit from their sheer oddness?
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It's kind of like what the cover looks like, in space. Oddness.
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He definitely "clocks the oddness" in the final version of the episode.
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Part of the book's oddness is because Baldwin associated whiteness with knowingness.
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This oddness begins with simply the way that Trump talks about Putin.
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The oddness of the creatures and people, the odd perspective — they were captivating.
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Davis returns to a series of virtues repeatedly: clarity, compression, frank emotion, oddness.
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Kleeman, a highly cerebral writer, is especially fascinated by the oddness of bodies.
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But I like to think the place's inherent oddness has coloured my approach.
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And yet, despite the oddness, the paintings hold together — they become believable visions.
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The oddness and artificiality of clothing and makeup are brought to the forefront.
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Most blockbuster films are drained of any oddness by studio execs before release.
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It dipped slightly after reaching 3.79 million, adding to the oddness of the situation.
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That oddness, mystery and space between keeps love collaborative and keeps the story moving.
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"Natural Causes" is peevish, tender and deeply, distinctively odd — and often redeemed by its oddness.
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The increase in oddness is mostly to the good or, at least, to the interesting.
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She ate more, pleased with the oddness of this endeavor, comforted by the acceptable flavor.
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He spoke of the oddness of playing a sport that draws so few black fans.
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They know that it's all a bit odd, but no one explains what that oddness is.
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Back in London, Ms. Atwell recalled, she was bullied for her uncool "trainers" and general oddness.
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Our mania of it generates enough oddness for five minutes to push the whole thing forward?
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I like the oddness of sexy legs coming out of the bottom of the crazed moon.
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Ratliff's journey is not just one of miles logged on the ground, but of incomparable oddness.
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Compounding the oddness of it all was the Trinidad team really had nothing to play for.
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I did — to break the oddness of the moment — but I did not, actually, want to.
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"We don't think it's the oddness or uniqueness of psychedelic visuals that distorts time perception," he says.
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Despite the oddness and unfairness of this system, its defenders argue that it ordinarily "works" just fine.
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I tried to capture some of the speech's disconcerting oddness in my write-up of the event.
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The oddness of the presentation, however, didn't take away from the fact that "Day Ones" was pretty banging.
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There's some oddness to all these moves, given Cruz's reputation of less-than-coziness with other Republican politicians.
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Today in Kickstarter oddness, meet Nirvana, an oversized headphone-looking wearable that is actually meant for ear acupressure.
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Nathan Fielder, of "Nathan For You," is the guest, so it'll be a real bonanza of comedy oddness.
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Barnhill looks past their oddness to their humanity, and we identify with them and root for their success.
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Even when the poet is focusing on something banal and familiar, the oddness of his perception becomes apparent.
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Veering between stripped back electro and house mutations,—orchestral stabs and and looped vocals blur into meet arpeggiated oddness.
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Fontana's approach to making OZ, and making it his way, is what imbues it with its phenomenally enjoyable oddness.
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The oddness of his language — his fractured diction and superhero jargon (Ramsland includes a glossary) sets it further apart.
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There were few of the moments of outrage, flamboyance and celebratory oddness that have gee'd the spirit in years past.
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This argument isn't always persuasive for viewers, who can find the purposeful alienation and oddness of his films off-putting.
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Together, their collective erudition and oddness isolate them from their small French town, which is still intrigued by their precocity.
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Like "Wee Sister Strange," Davide Cali's narrative unfolds with the matter-of-fact oddness of a centuries-old fairy tale.
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She began posting online in a persona that combined playfulness, a daffy, almost campy sexuality, intense vulnerability and plain oddness.
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This situation — entering the hospital room of my wife's lover — risked exposing our oddness in a way that unnerved me.
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Attempts by Trump allies to downplay the oddness of the President's requests to McCabe and Comey are close to laughable.
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"Pardon me," Kelly manages to squeak out on camera as he can't help but giggle at the oddness of it all.
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"Office Space" skewers the repetitiveness of that way of life, and the oddness of the rituals that come with work culture.
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If you're not tolerant of that oddness, you're trying to form something into your idea of what things should be like.
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And then the North Koreans in the room dissolved into laughter, perhaps because of the oddness of saying this to Americans.
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Maybe that was true of many more places in New York at the time, but it seemed to epitomize that oddness.
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Unless you were directly involved in one of the aforementioned properties, however, you probably just enjoyed the oddness of it all.
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"The script says that "Jon is too happy to be reunited with his little brother to clock the oddness of the statement.
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But there's a transatlantic sensibility—beyond the lyrics—that speaks to the New York punk and Midwestern oddness as much as London sludge.
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"Adopt a Highway" is the kind of film you recommend only to certain friends, ones who you trust to appreciate its occasional oddness.
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Of all those agitated tracks that opened it up, though, none were delivered with the ferocity of "Gook," his proud celebration of oddness.
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Describing trips to Sarajevo after years of absence, Hemon notes the oddness of returning to his family's old apartment, simultaneously real and remembered.
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An affecting oddness is the great virtue of "In the Distance," along with its wrenching evocations of its main character's loneliness and grief.
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While he acknowledged the oddness of presenting "Clarence Darrow" in an tennis stadium, he said a Broadway run would not have been possible.
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Visiting the city back then, he discovered troves of old-fashioned toys in secondhand stores and was instantly captivated by their jaunty oddness.
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But to come upon such nature-themed artworks in, well, nature, is to appreciate their compelling oddness — and quirky charm — in new ways.
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One oddness about the current market is that the meltdown in secondary markets seems to have had very little adverse effect on primary markets.
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A strange, primitive symmoriiform skull had been sitting in the South African Museum since the 1980s, and its oddness had bothered Coates for years.
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You find all sorts of oddness and extravagance here; ornate mausoleums for the 19th century's wealthy, intermingled with modest stones and markers of remembrance.
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Given the oddness of her time with Father Fogden and Coco, it might be just as well that she spent so much time alone.
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In 2010's "Dinner for Schmucks," Steve Carell's character builds dioramas out of dead mice, signaling in equal measure his oddness and his sensitivity.
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A person is holding up a phone, registering the skin-tingling oddness of what is being seen through the window of a neighboring car.
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It is the oddness and the likelihood of something unexpected happening in the painting — both in the shapes and colors — that makes them distinct.
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But what, in a man, are quirks that prove his commitment to his art, a mark of his genius, translate, in a woman, to oddness.
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There was an oddness hinted on Norska's self-titled debut that never fully reared its head, but could be felt lingering just outside the fringes.
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Then there is the oddness of the President of the United States demanding to be told he is not the target of an ongoing investigation.
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In "Baby Teeth," the daughter's oddness first becomes evident when she's a toddler, an age at which even the most agreeable babies often turn tempestuous.
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They suggested, no less to us as gay parents than to our sons with their polar personalities, how separateness could become solidarity and oddness accommodation.
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Perhaps the idea is to match Ensor's unquestionable oddness by displaying his sheer range of ideas and remarkable drawing skills in a variety of media.
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And after you get past the oddness of devices like a smart breast pump, you can appreciate just how useful it could be to new moms.
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The presence of buzzy left-field international artists like Japan's Chai and Australia's Divide and Dissolve, too, means there's a certain trendy oddness to Treefort's aesthetic.
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"On lips, I went with nude with a bit of grey undertone to add a bit of oddness to it and to add simple drama," he explains.
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In a show simply titled "Frank," work of the Berlin-based artist Michaela Eichwald escapes the trap through force of personality, a willingness to go with oddness.
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Their oddness was not only fun—togas worn with curled Eastern beards, Greek ringlets with Persian trousers—but also a sign that different cultures could blend, not fight.
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Eventually Fever Dream acquires a mythology to explain the worms and David's persistent oddness, one that involves toxic chemicals and a village healer, but nothing ever comes fully clear.
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If the show finds another home (and I hope it does!), it will hopefully be somewhere on a network where its oddness will be a blessing, not a curse.
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The disquieting oddness of her heads held my attention as I circled around them, recognizing their chilly, opaque presence, at the exhibition, Sarah Peters: Figureheads at Van Doren Waxter.
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But this chord sequence's slight feeling of discomfort, its oddness, combines with a familiar feeling, because it essentially still uses the most conventional four chords in contemporary Western music.
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It's weirder than it is pornographic, and the oddness is amplified by how the animals are drawn, which is sort of like if a child had drawn some piñatas.
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Having lived through start-up life in a previous career, I enjoyed seeing the experience through her eyes, watching her shake her head at the oddness of business-speak.
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Taken together with a barrage of tweets, Trump's day reflected the sheer oddness of his approach to the presidency and his apparent insecurities nearly three years after being elected.
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We stayed longer in Manhattan, for an arc that had a sublime Lynchian progression, moving from oddness to absurdity to sexiness to dread to near-unbearable cover-your-eyes terror.
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Each film also confirms that the now-vanished breed of seedy grindhouse theaters were home to images and moments of creative daring and breathtaking oddness that would never be seen elsewhere.
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Good though that lineup may have been on paper, it was always going to struggle to live up to the sheer oddness of Barkley's first time hosting the show back in 1993.
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The ways technology-as-object operates within the story (rationed out in nursing homes, final registration as a fiddly part of hospice paperwork) suggests a cautious oddness without undercutting the human drama.
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The satellite&aposs oddness comes from its tiny size and the fact that, although it&aposs out in the realm of the retrograde moons, it&aposs orbiting in the opposite direction to them.
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If these efforts succeed, it's possible that all the apparent oddness and confusion of quantum mechanics will melt away, and we will finally grasp what the theory has been trying to tell us.
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Arcade Fire probably thought the idea of a fidget spinner / USB combo was funny because of something about chindogu, or millennials, or whatever oddness goes on in the meta minds of Arcade Fire.
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The oddness of this is sometimes reflected in the way that mental health providers speak about transgender people; even those who are technically supportive may use language that no trans person would ever use.
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The bosses seem more interested in dress code infractions than in thinking how our clients perceive the oddness of clerks hiding in vampire-like caves working and talking to them in the dark. Thoughts?
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To what sounds like a record played backward, the dancers (especially Matthew Albert, who resembles a young Mr. Brooks) bounce up from a fall, and the oddness of the momentum is novel, a discovery.
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As someone who's spent the last decade researching and writing about Sarah Winchester and her house, her story has captivated me not just because of its oddness, but because of the unique period she straddled.
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Yet when he pitched his script he downplayed its oddness: the history-of-the-gay-pride-flag interlude; the magazine photos from 1955 of people kissing that appear when Oliver imagines his parents' early connection.
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She was already thinking of a new novel — one that might have an unreliable narrator, like the one in Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier," and have as its subject the oddness of memory itself.
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To be a proper modern maximalist, you have to have some things, and not just ones you pick up at a nice shop — they must be pieces you are attached to, despite their oddness or age.
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In other words, it is the part of the whistle produced by this odd-shaped feather which is the flight signal—and, given the feather's oddness, that sound really is the equivalent of an evolved alarm call.
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The Lakers already have added JaVale McGee and Lance Stephenson, the N.B.A.'s own king of oddness, and Rajon Rondo, whose court sense is brilliant, whose personality is a prickly pear and whose jump shot is nonexistent.
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And I think that's so fundamentally wrong, and it led to a lot of oddness in the discourse around David and Charles Koch, who, more than any two people, are responsible for the postwar, post-'60s libertarian movement.
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It's a perfect illustration of grime's impact: The trans-Atlantic conversation that the genre has sparked and the oddness it has brought with it is not only a marvel, but a seriously exciting precursor to hip-hop's immediate future.
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The show argues that Guston's staying power — grounded in fresh oddness, compelling authenticity, and dodgy compositions — was a direct consequence of his relationship with poetic language and form, as well as the ideas of the poets who wrote them.
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History-based podcasts like Lore and The Dollop have gained popularity in recent years partly because there's just so much oddness in the annals of human history that's predicated on quirky belief systems, from medical quackery to the paranormal.
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A good Vine could unearth the oddness of an outlying moment, forcing you to re-examine it again and again in a way that could either surprise you with its small revelations, or calm you with its familiar twists and turns.
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If Brookner doesn't seem, wholly, to understand sex, her books get at the oddness of intimacy, the way mere proximity or some other accident of circumstance can link one life to another, whether forever or just a fevered few months.
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The oddness of the imagery prompts questions about the origins of the hunter/hunted symbolism — whether it lies in the existential dread that Grosz felt in Hitler's Germany, and whether the artist saw himself as the diving bird or the dying rat.
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That's a very big deal -- and speaks not just to the fractured relationship between Trump and Comey but also to the remarkable unconventionality of Trump and the ways in which the oddness of his approach to the presidency impacts others around him.
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MADRID — As a child, Carolina Marín was drawn to badminton because of its oddness, an attraction that grew once she switched from plastic shuttlecocks to the ones used for competition, each made of 16 feathers plucked from the left wings of geese.
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I have no doubt his extreme oddness, bookishness, dabbles in the occult, fantasies of invincibility, though they failed to provide him with a proper chemical formula for mummifying his lady's corpse, supplied him copiously with lore, ritual, history, chants, prayers for launching her into immortality.
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Such low expectations mean that a summit that was always going to be mysterious -- given the oddness of Trump's relationship with Putin and the suspicion of critics that he is beholden to the Russian leader in some way -- is now going to be deeply surreal.
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Adding to the oddness was the fact that the high-powered lawyer Benjamin Brafman, who represents 34-year-old Martin Shkreli in the securities fraud case, was representing one of eight co-defendants of the other, 59-year-old Martin Shkreli, during Friday's proceeding.
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Beauty and the Beast's affection for oddness allows for more humor, too, changing some of the original's earnest laughs into something a little more cringe-adjacent, while enhancing moments of slapstick comedy, like a snowball fight between the diminutive Watson and Stevens's hulking, CGI-enhanced Beast.
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While they are all presented without commentary, the portraits make clear the oddness of the situation, and the questionable position the women were being placed in by their agencies: sent to the studio of a male photographer, to be assessed and judged on their physical allure.
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SEHGAL I'll admit a partiality to books that reflect on the oddness of the exercise — the artifice of memoir, the unreliability of memory, the coercive tidiness of narrative (perhaps this is why I'm drawn to memoirs by critics: Vivian Gornick, Margo Jefferson, Anatole Broyard, Clive James).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche founded Whoop Dee Doo in Kansas City, Missouri back in 2006, the vibe was of a cable-access kids' variety show: a blend of unabashed revelry in oddness, transcendent silliness, and earnest dedication to community-building.
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Among the album's other offerings are "No Distraction," with a strummy guitar part over a foursquare rock beat, and a chord progression partly cribbed from the Police; and "Dear Life," a late-Beatles-esque existential cry, with a welcome core of oddness within its retro shell. Capitol. November.
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" With the Pyramid of Khufu looming behind him, he took a picture of this comparatively unimpressive scene: "This visual sandwich of contrasting color, texture and form was intriguing not least because of the oddness of my position; standing at one of the great wonders of the world facing the 'wrong' way.
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If you think about this for a moment, it's not hard to piece together — the series is likely making a reference to Chick Fil-A's advertising campaign, which features cows begging people to eat more chicken — but what sells the oddness of the gag is just how little Earn seems to care.
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Knausgaard is terrific on the disorientation that goes with being an author who has made his private life public: the way in which the interviews you give never quite sound like the real you, or the oddness of having total strangers approach you in airports to share their feelings about your children.
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And what once seemed vices in Powell could be reevaluated as virtues: His fussiness was also a passion for precision in delineating what is exactly knowable about other people; his snobbery was also a sensitivity to the gradations of social milieu; his chilly dispassion also a necessary part of his anthropological curiosity about human oddness.
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Likewise, On Becoming a God in Central Florida (which premieres Sunday, August 25) combines the American milieu of the time period in which it's set — the "history is over and western capitalism won!" hubris of the 1990s — with the "is this a comedy or a drama?" tonal oddness of the Coen movies of the same era (which include Fargo and The Big Lebowski).
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The British actor Laurence Fox recently remarked on the "oddness in the casting" of a Sikh character in "1917," only to have historians point out that more than 130,21 Sikh men served in World War I. And in the comments section for a Newsweek article critical of Ms. Elliott's "Ford v Ferrari" review, a reader snarkily wondered what she makes of NASA during the John F. Kennedy era.
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His images, in their oddness, exude the radical air that wafts through such iconic Japanese modernist works of the immediate postwar period as those of Tetsumi Kudō (mixed-media creations evoking wartime destruction in the nuclear age), On Kawara (whose "Bathroom" drawings (1953-54) featured peg-like, naked humans in disorienting, tiled rooms), and Shūsaku Arakawa (whose early sculptures featured corpse-like cement blobs placed in elegant, fabric-lined, coffin-like boxes).
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Ferry's creamily elegant rendering of the epic, which tries to "correct" the text's oddness, is likely to leave you wondering why critics both ancient and modern have scratched their heads over Virgil's verse—his occasionally jarring or archaic diction (mocked by one Roman littérateur who made his point by writing a parody of the poet's early work); his "tasteless striving for effect," as Augustus's friend and general Agrippa complained; his "use of words too forcible for his thoughts," as A. E. Housman put it two millennia later.
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