Suddenly, nursing-home residents resemble oddly dressed graduate students, and beautiful women in adult diapers are driving very slowly and blocking the grocery store aisles with their carts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

No fresh fruit or vegetables, no chicken or cheese, and, oddly, no tuna to help out with. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind was oddly clear all of a sudden. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The supply guy had a long face and his mouth twisted oddly when he spoke. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I almost think of him as my little brother sometimes,” Lucas said in an oddly serious manner. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My closeness didn’t seem to bother her at all, and her cool, hard skin was oddly comforting to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But Rachel began to behave very oddly whenever he came to the house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass directed a long and oddly comprehensive look at his profile. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Percy’s been acting very oddly this summer,” said George, frowning. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The souvenir pamphlet noted that even a full load of passengers had “no more effect on the movements or the speed than if they were so many flies”—an oddly ungracious allusion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The soft brown eyes combined oddly with the flying fair hair. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits there, still struggling to absorb the information, feeling awkward, oddly ashamed, at fault. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t be alone,” she said, oddly breathless. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight’s visitor seemed seedier than most, however, and behaved oddly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had not moved, and consequently she was obliged to raise her voice slightly in addressing me, so that it resonated rather oddly in the cavernous spaces of the dark and empty kitchen. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had a huge bed and flowing white curtains—and, oddly, a small antique rocking horse and a collection of old weather vanes arranged on a large wooden desk. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Over the next night or two the relative positions of the stars and Jupiter changed oddly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had seen Ligaroti’s head jerk up oddly at the wire. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, my voice sounding oddly hushed in my own ear. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This endless conversation, the tone plaintive but oddly cheerful, flew around and around in a circle. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And so it came to pass that Hear’Say’s poor, oddly placed little apostrophe was replicated everywhere and no one gave a moment’s thought to its sufferings. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Man nearby, lying on his back, one hand groping upward, oddly reaching for the sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me a dime, then looked at me oddly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were colored lights: red and green and yellow, twinkling from a tree which was, oddly, inside the room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

His body and mind felt oddly disconnected now, his limbs working without conscious instruction, as if he were passenger, not driver, in the body he was about to leave. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It felt oddly normal to be back in Austin. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

His mouth twisted oddly; if that was a smile, it was the queerest she had ever seen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad we found each other,” he said, voice oddly calm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I had dreams about Sing Sing while I was there and since, though oddly I never had nightmares until the book was published and I was talking about it every day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up and step back, looking at the three oddly shaped boxes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was the reef—a black crag of coral with a fig tree clinging to the top, an oddly peaceful thing in the middle of a maelstrom. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they stood before the large house, Dicey noticed oddly shaped piles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make vacations affordable, at public auction the Warden bought a bus that, oddly enough, had once been a mobile TB clinic, with a turret-like bulge in its roof to accommodate an X-ray machine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The packing was done; the hallway looked oddly big now that the bookshelves were gone. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted, oddly enough, to pray for Call. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I envy some of my friends who are convinced about telepathy; oddly enough, it is my European scientist acquaintances who believe it most freely and take it most lightly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are disturbing to look at, nightmarish, but most of them, oddly enough, are intended as lucky benignities. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly got rid of boxes that were oddly sized or misshapen or in bad shape and replaced them with new thick cardboard boxes, uniformly rectangular. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was oddly radiant, as certain small, qualified smiles sometimes are. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Much of the furniture in our house was garish and oddly colored and overpriced. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin, well-groomed woman in her fifties—Chanel cardigan, pearls at the neckline, hair brushed into a stiff, shoulder-length flip—was talking, in a nasal voice which was oddly familiar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But compared with Regalia, it looked unplanned, like a place where someone had lined up a bunch of oddly shaped boxes in rows. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each identity has been projected onto me and fits oddly at first, like a pair of shoes you have to break in before they’re comfortable. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her skin was sickly yellow, and it hung oddly on her too-thin body, like someone hadn’t gotten the size right. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He looked oddly at me, his face set to burst out laughing I thought. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty sat speechless, watching the shimmering hands dart; hours and days and weeks seemed to go by, yet oddly, only a blink, an instant, of time passed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her eyes fixed themselves upon Ashe in an oddly intent manner. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The moment it parted contact with Harry’s skin he felt free and oddly light. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My life turned to Hollywood oddly enough, and it proved a strange place to live and a surprising place to run into an animal that could and did change my life. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His dark mask loomed oddly in my blurry vision. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This last, emphasized word was oddly veered away from, as if the stress on it hadn’t been fully intended. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The pumps standing with their hoses oddly still in place. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Just after we passed the Little Giants snack factory, the road became oddly quiet and the bus slowed to a halt. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As I take in his profile, I find that it’s suddenly, oddly familiar. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I know I look good, but, oddly, I don’t want him to intentionally look at me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no,” Gogol says, shaking his head, laughing, at once insulted and oddly aroused. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you writing in your notebook?” he asked, his face and voice suddenly, oddly, desperate. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few voices hailed him with cries of “Taith!” and, oddly, “A Beauty! A Beauty!” but most were silent. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His voice was oddly muffled, as if he were speaking from a great distance. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She took the horn from him, feeling oddly calm. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Taylor adored the Court of Honor and was struck by the oddly sober manner people adopted as they walked among its palaces. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Another view of the Norse character, oddly unlike its heroic aspect, is also given prominence in the Elder Edda. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I visit them daily in their spacious glass dishes, and like any good mother I cajole, I celebrate when they reproduce, and I take special note when they behave oddly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In March an oddly appropriate movie had come out and quickly become a smash hit: King Kong. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s oddly shaped, and I can’t quite figure out what it is until I pull it out. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon looked as though he had something stuck in his throat; Aunt Petunia, however, was oddly flushed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I finished she smiled at me oddly, her eyes baffled and astonished. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one of those places that looks like a nightclub shoved into a warehouse, with oddly geometric light fixtures and a menu that changes every day. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But apart from that, the atmosphere was oddly peaceful and reassuring. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can hear them— an encompassing, overwhelming cacophony of radios, of heavy gates slamming, of shouts and whistles and running footsteps— but, oddly, at first you can’t see a single incarcerated soul. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We snake through a labyrinth of old furniture, car scraps, and oddly shaped metal sculptures that Annie welded together. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But oddly enough, Scoob thinks he gets it: Dad’s not the only one in the car who knows something about a mom the other guy doesn’t. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Among the things we could get fired for, Nigro advised, were arriving at the Academy late or drunk—once we were allowed to go out, that is—or, oddly enough, sleeping in class. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie, with her oddly light hair, was startling in other ways. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His left hand, motionless on the armrest, with a fresh, unlighted cigarette between the fingers, looked oddly white and inorganic in the brilliant sunlight. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A “grand canonical ensemble” is, oddly enough, the proper term for a quantitative model system in thermodynamics, borrowed from music by way of mathematics. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night seemed oddly quiet to her, though she could hear Yoren's muttered snores, the crackle of the fire, even the muffled stirrings of the donkeys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was thinking of his green worm, which had been behaving oddly, refusing to eat and hanging from the side of its box with its chin tucked in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She picked a large fig tree near the water and an oddly shaped pillar of rock as landmarks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell claimed that he felt bad about this, but oddly it seemed that Mai and I felt much worse. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Of course, I had absolutely no interest in going down that particular path, but now that others had said I couldn’t, I felt oddly unhappy. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They both moved into the light, looking oddly relieved. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My friends looked at me oddly as I spoke. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the rocker in the kitchen, looking out at the water, Molly feels oddly at peace. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

This power of deep feeling in a man of his tremendous strength was oddly endearing, but it worked immense harm, too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace suddenly felt oddly protective of her, like she had with Peach. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Arya there was something oddly familiar about him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At first sight it was an acorn, but it was oddly heavy, and when he looked more closely, he saw that it was carved out of a piece of tight-grained wood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The centerpiece of the complex is a grassy outdoor seating area populated with oversized, oddly shaped chairs painted in bright zigzag patterns. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And, oddly or no, Mrs. Glass invariably took this “tribute,” when it came, in beautiful stride. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron joined a number of oddly dressed men descending into what appeared to be an ordinary underground public toilet, tiled in grimy black and white. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The nurturer who had always been so pleasant to her, the one with a son named Jonas who took Abe to his dwelling at night, was oddly abrupt when she greeted him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the day her class voted on the attribution of each of the thirty-five paintings, Ms. Hussey was oddly quiet. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gebu halted, turned with an oddly abstracted air and held out his hand for the coins. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“He has his own room and he’s not interested in me at all,” she told him, which she found oddly embarrassing to admit. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps we may have noticed an oddly shaped insect of ferocious mien on a bush in the garden and been dimly aware that the praying mantis lives at the expense of other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Grace couldn’t help but giggle, oddly relieved that Maya wasn’t in some awful, oppressive home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Galluzzos’ had always been my second home, but as I moved through the kitchen toward the back porch, I felt oddly slow and awkward, like I was wading through a pool of water. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hazel had not realized how tall she was, how oddly thin she was, like a woman made of a cold breath. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe Bat Lady, but today, standing by my beloved father’s grave, missing him so much I wanted to rip my own heart out, I was oddly unmoved. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And oddly, they interact as if this is the case. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Like most hypochondriacs, he had an oddly soothing bedside manner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was oddly shaped, but he clutched it in his paws, looking quite pleased. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As for my mother, she was tranquilized, and remembers only that the pressure in her eyes made Father Mike’s face appear oddly elongated, like a priest in a painting by El Greco. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I feel oddly calm, though, tears and panic and pain somehow smoothed over. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

These women had oddly smooth features and eyes that were mostly pupils. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The houses there were modest but neat, with patches of new lawn that seemed oddly green and out of place in the uniformly brown surroundings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The ground beneath him seemed relatively soft, and oddly warm. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The routines of prison life following Shin’s interrogation and torture—discounting the screaming that periodically echoed down the prison corridor—were oddly sustaining. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She took a step back toward the steps, but the cat stayed where it was, looking miserable and, oddly, much smaller. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And the last thing I saw was her thin, oddly youthfiil thigh, as my aunt rearranged the sheet on the bed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled something that seemed out of place, something oddly familiar—cookies? Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had kicked off his tennis shoes but still had on his white tube socks, and she found this oddly endearing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were two other men on either side of him, men Seven did not know but who looked oddly familiar to her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

This morning, oddly, he thought of her and of his two children. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the ledge, with an oddly wriggling, person-size bundle hoisted on his shoulder, was the stranger who’d dropped out of a sky portal that morning. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The computer is large and oddly shaped, not like any I have ever seen, a six-inch square with two ports, both unused. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Now, oddly enough, speaking Quichua is what I need most to have a chance at being queen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, with an oddly twisted smile, “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The squad car was hot but, oddly, it looked darker outside now than when he’d first arrived—so dark, in fact, that he couldn’t see anything, not even the construction trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or with looks—he had a lopsided frog face and oddly thin arms for a field hand—or with luck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The shopkeeper looked at her oddly, but he was from the Indies and didn’t understand her accent, perhaps, although she asked very clearly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, several slaves would be in the house, cleaning or washing, but today, oddly, there were none. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I should be embarrassed, but they're so unlike people that I'm no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Moments later, the man’s head jerked oddly—once, twice. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, feeling oddly guilty as she thought about that and other things, she gave Lane’s arm a special little pressure of simulated affection. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

They were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her tongue seemed to have trouble forming words, but oddly, she felt more like herself than she had for days. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It looks like something out of a retirement home, but oddly enough, it suits her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My teacher said I had a knack for writing but that my language was oddly formal and stilted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was shivering foolishly and feeling oddly lightheaded. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly someone was calling his name, the sound oddly distant. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He watched it for a while, his expression oddly soft. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And yet Mariam saw that, oddly enough, the whole of these unmemorable parts made for a face that was not pretty but, somehow, not unpleasant to look at either. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At dinner her parents were oddly quiet, and Stella could tell that tensions were swelling. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s still warm; there are clouds of midges under the trees and the sunshine is streaming through the leaves, bathing the path in an oddly subterranean light. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time this oddly matched pair would play a large role in defining how the world viewed the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and, by extension, the very nature of the new Nazi state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were about a hundred students milling around, giving things an oddly festive air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kaede looked back at her before she exited the carriage, feeling oddly reluctant to leave her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They felt, oddly enough, safe and comfortable, and they had a great deal to think and wonder about. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was getting good grades in the third marking period, I was still improving rapidly on drums, I continued to be oddly popular at school. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I liked Francis well enough, I had always been nervous around him; oddly, it was this pass of his that cleared the air between us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make out what she was saying, though the timbre of her voice was clear even over the noise: cheerful, raucous, oddly pleasant. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Ten,” I say, looking past the anesthesiologist to the operating room wall, my eyes landing on a shape that’s oddly familiar. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The old man in his smelly black clothes was looking at her oddly, but Arya could not seem to stop talking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He is adorable,” I say, feeling oddly relieved, “but your mom is never going to let you get another cat. You already have three.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

That she’s also a girl who probably wants me dead is, oddly, the only part of this that feels at all normal. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Well behind the gangway, and oddly out of sight of the coxswains, the starter stood on a platform constructed atop the superstructure of a flat-bottomed boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You are very kind, I am sure; and I wish with all my heart it may prove so, for else they will be destitute enough. Things are settled so oddly.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sunny, oddly didn't weigh in on the sunflower seed situation. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She knew that she was a child, of course, but there was something oddly comforting about someone addressing the situation directly. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A scrubby beard covered his face to the cheekbones, giving him an air of ruffianism that went oddly with his large weak frame and nervous movements. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A flicker of appreciation ignited across my chest, yet oddly the spark fizzled out. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Bunny, I knew, had been hitting him hard for money in the past weeks, but though Henry complained about this he seemed oddly incapable of refusing him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Committee of Elders was sitting together in a group; and the Chief Elder’s eyes were now on one who sat in the midst but seemed oddly separate from them. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Luke and the doctor were standing on the veranda, looking out over the lawn; the front door was oddly close, beyond them. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pharmacy was looted but the store itself was oddly intact. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Still, it was oddly satisfying to see the notches grow in the weathered wood. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They'd ask questions, and my detailed answers would leave them feeling shaken and oddly satisfied. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Despite her faults, Judy was a kindly soul, and she was so bossy and talkative that I felt oddly safe with her. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She still didn’t believe she breathed as oddly as Ralph claimed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hulking boys though they were, they looked oddly lonely without the tall, pale figure of Malfoy between them, bossing them around. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My pretend armband was only going to pass at a glance, not to mention my oddly bulging shape beneath the coat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was a little knotty-headed boy with lips that stuck out like he was pouting, and skinny black legs that twisted oddly away from his body. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently Cilia brushed and brushed, her little oddly shaped face turned away, pretending she did not know that Johnny was there. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theresa swallowed again, so hard her heart thudded, or that’s how it seemed, everything oddly linked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put out a finger and gently poked a rather large and oddly mobile-looking bulge under the afghan. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Definitely,” said Snape, and even with his poorly cut hair and his odd clothes, he struck an oddly impressive figure sprawled in front of her, brimful of confidence in his destiny. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As a species, we follow living leaders and—oddly, but it seems universally—we one way or another honor our dead. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

After commenting on the customer’s oddly proportioned figure—the oversized torso supported by the undersized legs—he added, “I’m afraid we haven’t anything that would fit without alteration.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Helga, taking an oddly feminist stance: “See what you do for the mens? You suffer. Is not worth it.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Many soldiers and sailors sat about, oddly calm, like little boys in cowboy uniforms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in that realization I feel oddly free. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And oddly enough, there have been no problems with vegetables mysteriously turning white since. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Smooth and cool, I found it oddly comforting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And oddly enough, I found it kind of nice in that weird “I’d like to forget about real life and pretend that everything is okay” sort of way. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But in the summer of ’46, my father recalls, Rajesh had begun to behave oddly, as if a wire had been tripped in his brain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Cutie gazed upon his long, supple fingers in an oddly human attitude of mystification, “It strikes me that there should be a more satisfactory explanation than that. For you to make me seems improbable.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They were being quite friendly to each other, though oddly formal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ron gave a loud false cough, which sounded oddly like “Lockhart!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, somewhat oddly, both the Democratic front-runner in the primary and the ensuing Republican nominee became embroiled in scandals involving their ex-wives. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But he himself did not sound particularly happy and once again Hazel felt oddly perplexed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile at her, and the blush that rises on her face makes me feel oddly triumphant. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Kallner, with his baldness glistening, and his dress uniform oddly unsuited to the general mood, began with uneasy directness. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And for such a desolate place—she looked around and saw nothing but a barren landscape—he was oddly dressed, in a fashion that was unfamiliar to her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The house itself was high, white, and oddly proper to be the home of Phineas. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They're starting to like Mama's food, a. a little voice inside me whispers, almost disbelievingly, and it’s oddly comforting. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Her step is oddly energized; her heart feels lifted. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She spoke in an oddly strangled voice, as if she’d just seen a dead body. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He felt oddly numb, but himself again, calm. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Again, he looked straight into her eyes, his gaze oddly weightless, demanding nothing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Erm,” he said, smiling for what felt like the first time in months: The muscles in his face felt oddly stiff. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

El Patrons face seemed oddly familiar, and his hands— thin and blue-veined—had a shape that appealed to Matt in some deep way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large assembly, but as the three of us looked down at it from the top of the rise, it seemed oddly muffled and small in the great expanse of snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The information, oddly, originates from the regional director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that the scythes themselves were supervising the hunt and not just leaving it to the BladeGuard made Citra feel all the more terrified, yet oddly important, too. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They sampled a new, oddly flavored gum called Juicy Fruit, and caramel-coated popcorn called Cracker Jack. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was an enormous bubble around his head, which made his features look oddly wide and stretched. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As he delivered his poison against the Jews, the Japanese government, and the United States, he was oddly frisky, as if he’d just become aware that he was free. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her efforts to conceal herself were oddly provocative, far more so than if she’d simply gone about the business naked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Richard was always there before her, looking, oddly, much younger and less anonymous without the ugly, tight-fitting, black uniform that he had to wear when working. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My stomach burned but I felt oddly calm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Which is, oddly enough, more or less exactly what I was planning to do.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Though she had carried it at her side ever since she had left the Academy, it seemed oddly unfamiliar to her, as if she had never truly looked at it before. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One back leg was oddly stiff but the frog barely noticed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’d come to this particular courtyard because the wind moved oddly here. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A man’s work clothes, stiff with dirt, hang oddly ballooned in the closet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look at me oddly, and my mother shakes her head. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The majority of the Redwall mice thought that Matthias was acting a little oddly, but the young mouse knew exactly what he was about. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The driver, who was a kind and polite man, did not laugh at his oddly assorted passengers until he had been paid. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the hour and despite the damp, the stone was oddly warm. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Aru braced herself for more tears and rain, but the palace seemed oddly at peace with this statement. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was oddly frightening to lie on the ground without a shelter. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had run into a tree, it must have been an oddly shaped tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a small, very black boy with hooded eyes, a long, broad nose and an oddly shaped head. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt curiously heavy, slow, very tired, oddly sleepy. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby, she heard an oddly familiar, oddly frightening sound. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shared an oddly similar point of view about the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

James finally comes in and winks when he sees me, which makes me feel oddly all-over-the-place, even though last night was amazing. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The oddly shaped ones sat on top, and the tiny bones, like fingers and toes, went into her pocket with the gold ring. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He handed her a small, oddly shaped package, wrapped in leftover Christmas paper. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They had walked into a patch of tents that were all covered with a thick growth of shamrocks, so that it looked as though small, oddly shaped hillocks had sprouted out of the earth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Empty gaps for windows and oddly shaped doorways. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Is it something about the Chamber of Secrets? Have you seen something? Someone acting oddly?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

An oddly familiar voice was shouting, “Down with the oppressor Sang Hong-zhen! Down with the black executioner!” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Cathy, oddly enough, who served me my last drink. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorter than the natives, oddly dressed, and often unbearably dirty, the pallid foreigners had peculiar blue eyes that peeped out of the masks of bristly, animal-like hair that encased their faces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Prince would manage an hour or so of spectating before he and the Count would leave, the Count still oddly silent. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not when we married, carefree, drenched in bliss, on an oddly wintry May day seven years ago. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was unconscious and his face looked an oddly grey colour. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The face is yellow and waxy, a thickened, oddly bloated image. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not the sort of person normally mistaken for being fast and well-coordinated, and because of this, I found Martin's assumption to be oddly flattering. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

People ragged Leek, but they were oddly proud of him, too, he was a freak, he was so bad at everything. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It felt oddly dispossessing, being handed this first legal proof of my personhood: until that moment, it had never occurred to me that proof was required. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Do take care, won’t you, Harry?” she said as she straightened up, her eyes oddly bright. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It continued, and oddly, the noise played tricks, seeming to be close one second and far the next. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Harry felt oddly separate from everyone around him, whether they were wishing him good luck or hissing “We’ll have a box of tissues ready, Potter” as he passed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Plus the upbeat pop song playing through the speakers seems oddly disrespectful. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Eerie, yet oddly comforting, knowing he’s got some semblance to my brother BSS—Before Saint Sarah. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He was oddly free from doubt, though at first glance it was hard to understand why. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The cat’s ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely a bit bowlegged and its face looked grumpy and oddly squashed, as though it had run headlong into a brick wall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Char spoke to me, his voice oddly loud. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But, oddly, she didn’t lean back against the wall or mutter “Never mind” or let her hair hide her face while she did nothing but text. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She didn't want to seem oddly interested in a particular group. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a night full of bombing, the air seemed oddly still. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It's a man's voice, and his footsteps sound oddly heavy. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She was looking at me oddly, right in the eye. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But oddly enough, this laptop seemed more personal, more “him,” than any of those more classic items might. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was such a convincing illusion that even I, who knew the essential falseness of it, felt oddly comforted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In this account of the creation the gods seemed bent on experimenting with the various metals, and, oddly enough, proceeding downward from the excellent to the good to the worse and so on. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lissa looked at me oddly, but I was too upset to wonder why. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her voice was oddly flat, but maybe she was playing it cool. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She was more conscious than ever of the rhythm of the blood in her veins, but she felt oddly disengaged from her breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until he saw Ben and Alex staring at him oddly that Will realized he had been searching the cafeteria for Claire. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But the question is so oddly phrased that I can hardly deny him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom mirror, he saw that even the rims of his nostrils had whitened; they looked like an oddly placed pair of spectacles. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this tunnel, I was extremely startled to see protruding a pair of adult male feet, shod in some oddly familiar brown-and-white spectator shoes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She looked oddly at me, as if surprised by my reticence. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was oddly annoyed when I was unable to get parental help with a homework assignment. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite deep, even then, and oddly hypnotic, it went up and down in a rhythm. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Ophelia thought that Paul’s personality was built of oppositions—a need for frenzied activity that verged, she thought, on desperation, and a towering self-confidence oddly combined with a hunger for affirmation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This year, it seemed they looked more lumpy than muscled, more bullet-headed than bright, and oddly tainted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cloistered in his sprawling town house on Rutland Gate, Francis Galton was oddly unstirred by the “stirring times.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They’re all staring at me oddly, as though wondering where I got my underwear. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She felt oddly doubled, as if she could see everything twice as clearly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t even know what the devil I’m talking about, do you?” he said, with an oddly nasty tone in his voice. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His large, blond head rising out of the stripy collar of his pajamas looked oddly disembodied, his mouth gaping in astonishment and fear. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The most recent were also the smallest; a matched pair no bigger than mastiff's skulls, and oddly misshapen, all that remained of the last two hatchlings bom on Dragonstone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Nhamo couldn’t understand what they were saying, but the sound was oddly comforting. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are oddly shaped, each a six-inch square block, much larger than a home computer, and each is connected to its own battery dock. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When Lina went to work the next morning, the street was oddly silent. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That arm dangled oddly from her body, dark blood gushing like a river. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

By displaying this number in all its multi-zeroed glory, Greene impresses upon us the fact that it is very small yet oddly precise. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I appreciated his wily maneuvering on the Net, his bizarre sense of humor, his oddly defiant view of his world, his striking intelligence and lust for ideas. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I too appear as something of a stranger in these early memories: watchful and grudging, oddly silent. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Giver smiled, though his smile was oddly harsh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other times he saw their children playing, with silhouettes oddly blurred in some places. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Cocktails are poured at the bar in a variety of oddly shaped and colored glasses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Probably because folk around here haven’t ever seen a real barrow, just heard about them in stories. When they find a hill with big mounds on it . . .” I pointed out the oddly shaped hillocks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Myths collect around her, and, oddly enough, not voluptuous myths. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some obvious things have changed at Truman, starting, somewhat oddly, with the name of the school itself. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was oddly colorless, with transparent eyelashes, wispy hair, and an insubstantial air, as though a single gust of wind might blow him away. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His arms and legs looked oddly white, in the aqueous light of the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The Hound gave her a push, oddly gfcntle, and followed her down die steps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Shouts and grunts and the sounds of machines, and oddly, an orchestra playing somewhere inside. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was conflicted about what he was seeing, a refracted version of his city, one where homes and trees were bisected and mirrored in this oddly calm body of water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He fitted himself for a new blue flannel suit, and a rich gray Homburg which balanced oddly atop his gaunt head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is oddly pretty, for being an old hat and a handkerchief and a card tied up in fraying ribbon. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He claims I rode inside the canoe, at my own request, because the weight of the oddly shaped battery tipped the boat dangerously. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was oddly soothing, being able to do that. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They were all addressed to the same person in Argentina, and they all sounded oddly alike, yet they came from four different American women. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Above us, the night sky gleams like polished glass, its wealth of stars reflected in the oddly still surface of the water. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her extended fingers, though trembling, or because they were trembling, looked oddly graceful and pretty. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He thought about the strength of the storm, its duration, how oddly minimal the damage had been to this house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her jumper was an oddly cheerful color, bright teal. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

One morning there was a different smell in the air, and the ship was moving oddly, with a brisker rocking from side to side instead of the plunging and soaring. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The other girls look at the pair oddly, but I don’t even try to hide my disgust. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She is acting oddly, and Vincent recognizes the symptoms of depression. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Being next to the casement window felt oddly comforting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bathroom was oddly still for a moment. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The hut felt oddly empty in their sudden absence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He stood to the side and gulped down his own glass, each swallow oddly loud. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He reached down to touch his oddly bent leg tenderly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I honestly am, and I find it oddly comforting. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The visitor’s back is to me, but his girth is oddly familiar. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He unbuttoned the shirt completely, as if the journey of three steps had taken him into an oddly tropical zone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But oddly enough, I found myself missing these corrections that summer. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Harry listened; a loud and oddly eerie noise was drifting toward them from out of the darkness: a muffled rumbling and sucking sound, as though an immense vacuum cleaner were moving along a riverbed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was metallic and oddly shaped, but was only odd because of its location. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was an oddly small hand, with short fingers like ripe pea pods. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So we set off through the crowd, toward the far end of the square where he’d pointed, our one last, thin hope pinned to a couple of oddly named streets we weren’t even sure existed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had smelled oddly musty, like clothes left for years in a chest of drawers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Other members of the staff seemed oddly tense too. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair was set in elaborate and curiously rigid curls that contrasted oddly with her heavy-jawed face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I arrived home, Grandma handed me a large oddly shaped envelope. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had read it in a matter of hours, oddly relieved that the names of the characters were never revealed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But she looked oddly well, it seemed to her as she stood by the long mirror on the wardrobe door, almost comfortable. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby of the building was clean and sleek and full of oddly shaped lamps. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was oddly and fearfully depressed that day; and John was not in a good mood. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was one of the little things that reminded me my brother was really gone, along with the oddly unsettling silence from his room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was very tired by now, but felt oddly invigorated by relating the story to someone at last. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The white, twisted bone angled out oddly from the hip. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Kennedys’ house shimmered for a few days like a mirage, an oddly distant but pretty vision, framed by jagged points of multicolored light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to tell Ron this, but Ron’s face had gone oddly slack, and next second Ron was yelling, “Did I tell you I’ve invented a broomstick that’ll reach Jupiter?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My fear is mixed oddly with excitement at the thought that I will get to see Lio if he, too, has been captured. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Time and Game Time and the Second Guessers and the Minute Men and Dr. Medina, with a pack of assorted animals who all seemed to, oddly, follow her every command, were present. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

None of the teachers were interested in teaching anything, and after a while it felt oddly like a snow day, an in-school snow day on the warmest, clearest, most beautiful day of the year. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Which I doubt;” His voice was oddly and beautifully rough cut, as some small boys’ voices are. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It was quite safe; the oddly garbed animal posed no threat to his authority as bailiff of this stretch of water. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The dark skin of his face, which had been oddly pale just a minute earlier, had turned purple, his eyes rolled up so far in their sockets they looked like glowing white marbles. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Four such bodies were in existence already–in Hawaii, California, Alaska, and Washington–but oddly none in the largest volcanic zone in the world. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They saw a young black man, and he seemed to be behaving oddly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He continued to remain oddly silent about his own boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“They’ve known each other a year,” said Ron, who looked oddly groggy and was staring at the closed door. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I haven’t showered since Sunday, and it’s oddly comforting to know that I look almost as disgusting as I feel. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She reminded Mia, oddly, of herself at around that age, traipsing through the neighborhood, climbing over fences and walls in search of the right photograph, defiantly spending her mother’s money on film. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered vaguely if what was happening in there was causing him to become so oddly solemn and solitary. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Pedaling rapidly down the path, Jonas felt oddly proud to have joined those who took the pills. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Southeast Portland, smaller but no less impressive Mount Tabor in Southeast Portland is home to an extinct volcano, huge cedars, oddly grand outdoor reservoirs and, at the summit, a beautiful view of the city. A guide to Portland, beyond the birds and beards 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

There’s something oddly potent about Mr. Burnett’s tenor saxophone sound, a tightly channeled and searing thing that cuts a trench in your mind without giving you a whole lot of graspable melodic information. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The narrator of "The Lost Times Accidents" is Waldy Tolliver, a college dropout with oddly antiquated mannerisms who has holed up in a cluttered Spanish Harlem apartment belonging to his recently deceased aunts. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

But until now, it's been an oddly subdued leave-taking. After 25 years, King is giving up his CNN throne 2010-12-16T14:46:04Z

In it, movement is robust, intricate and ever flowing; transitions seem oddly absent. Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

For her focus, there is yet something peculiar, and oddly admirable, about how unsatisfying many of these case studies remain. A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

This push and pull grows more violent in “Quantum,” but the mood remains oddly static. Dance Review: Big Bang Theory From Armitage Gone! Dance 2010-06-04T23:00:00Z

But older kids, horror-movie buffs and Burton fans will likely enjoy this oddly gentle tale of a boy and his dog. 'Frankenweenie': Tim Burton stitches together a weird, sweet film 2012-10-03T22:02:04Z

The first lady also remained silent for several days after the deadly riot, and then sounded oddly absorbed with her own image at a time of national crisis in a statement she released Jan. 11. Melania Trump spends her last days in the White House focused on her future, while her husband rages about the past 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

The flatness of Mary and Michael, in turn, makes Joel—whose disapproval of his parents, and, especially, of their long-soured relationship, is his defining trait—oddly central to the movie’s tone. “The Lovers” and the Limitations of the Modern Rom-Com 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

His outsider's eye renders these scenes familiar – shades of everyone from Walker Evans to the aforementioned Shore – and oddly alien. How Joachim Brohm set the world of landscape photography on fire 2013-03-28T11:25:50Z

Attracting so many of the world's brightest and best into cities such as London seems an oddly lopsided way of arranging global affairs. Why the left is wrong about immigration 2013-03-27T11:59:50Z

But for all the youthful exuberance on display during that show, his album is relaxed and unforced and oddly unambitious. Music Review: Wiz Khalifa Raps Beyond His Years 2011-03-30T16:06:49Z

But when you learn what they are — two takes on a digital-age discard you might find in any home — the paired images become oddly humble and moving. Isaac Layman's 'Paradise' transcends ordinary 2011-12-01T00:40:04Z

In attempting to transplant Nora and her journey into the 21st century, Mr. Gold’s production oddly seems to keep the play fixed in the 19th. | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z

"I went through five or six pages and said this is some of the best writing I've read in my life. And oddly, it's in my voice. It was bizarre," he said. As God in 'An Act of God,' Sean Hayes has his OMG moment 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

For all this excitement, Doctor Who is an oddly kind-hearted show. Why Doctor Who is Pop Culture Sci-Fi At Its Best 2013-03-15T13:30:58Z

Edgy cops with baggage are still my favourite sleuths, but there's something oddly satisfying about a good police procedural with an ingenious plot and the odd Albanian psychopath. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-05-25T21:55:02Z

The scene sits oddly with the rest but adds an extra dimension to the family dynamics. Harold Pinter's Moonlight at the Donmar 2011-04-01T10:54:25Z

There’s a moment when the past and present collide, creating a spark, and that spark is oddly emotional for people. Brian Unger on ‘the Big American Story’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Political Mother isn't yet perfect, there's an oddly flat 10 minutes in the middle, but overall it's a fine, excoriating work, fuelled by real anger. Political Mother 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z

It’s a simple idea, he points out, but one that is oddly “the hardest to wrap one’s mind around.” Books of The Times: ?The Quest? by Daniel Yergin - Review 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert and his players opened the program with a vigorous, finely polished yet oddly uninvolved reading of Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet” Overture-Fantasy. Music Review: New York Philharmonic With Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-24T21:51:03Z

Either way, in the words of Hudson’s oddly lipsticked Grizabella, a new day has begun. Litter-ally terrifying: is Cats the creepiest film of the year? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

A confirmed murderer, drug dealer and extortionist, Duffy remains oddly likable, something even Mr. Burns has a hard time explaining. R.V.s and Stolen Kidneys: Life on the Fringes in ‘Justified’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Salon noted earlier this month that the film, starring Matthew Broderick, was oddly released without a soundtrack “in the middle years of a decade dominated by movie soundtracks.” Danke Schoen! “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is finally getting an official film soundtrack 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Disheveled and preoccupied, he oddly places his wristwatch, his early-generation flip cellphone and car keys in a mailbox outside the home. 'Better Call Saul' creators breaking a sweat about their 'Bad' fans 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The filet, as big and oddly shaped as a fist, did not have that weird tunalike softness that some people expect, but it was tender enough and, for once, it tasted irrefutably like beef. Does New York Need a British Steakhouse? Yes, if It’s Hawksmoor. 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Whether they involve secret techniques for oddly shaped gifts or showing off unique gadgets that help make the process easier, these tips will help make the holidays a lot less stressful. Viral gift wrapping hacks for this holiday season 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Actually, I suspect people tell him secrets because once someone has a reputation like his for gossip, it can inspire an oddly competitive urge in others to confide the most scandalous secret. Working Piers 2011-01-17T08:00:05Z

From the skimpy outlines of a cartoon, Mr. Lane manages to make his oily Gomez a distinctive and oddly lovable character, a tasty but inoffensive parody of the suave European of old Hollywood movies. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z

I hear his voice, the voice that used to get on my nerves, because I believed in Peel, and it's oddly moving. Paul Morley on former Radio 1 superstar DJ Tony Blackburn 2010-05-28T12:21:00Z

There’s no “oddly” to the part about K’s cozying up to coupled men. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Holding the line when a friend crosses it 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

For all their troubles, this remains a band that can rub up against floor-tickling disco and oddly sonorous country-soul as enthusiastically as it can pitch itself headlong into the wide-open dream-pop ether. TV On The Radio keep heart despite nine types of trauma 2011-04-11T09:00:00Z

The pudding I remember most, oddly, is one I maybe never ate. The Menuist: An avocado chocolate pudding from Abbott Kinney that everybody will love 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

But the overall impression of age sat oddly atop the youthful exuberance of the orchestral outpourings. Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

His songs mixed thoughtful or witty lyrics with simple but strong melodies in oddly different styles, with echoes of acerbic Dylan, genial Donovan and even Sinatra. Rodriguez – review 2012-11-19T17:57:43Z

There’s none of the wispiness of sound, the mismatched registers or the oddly petulant tone encountered with lesser countertenors. CD reviews: Hitting high notes in the opera canon 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The Baltimore Choral Arts Society created what at times seemed a Babel of distinct voices, an oddly disjunct showing that furnished much of the “handmade” sense of the evening. A concert mass gets an intimate performance 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

That means that the British, oddly, have become the agents of the dissemination of Danish hygge, as if the very idea had been invented in London – which, in a sense, it was. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

One of the most charming and irritating things about the “Star Trek” franchise, ever since its inception in 1966, is that it has always been oddly aware of itself. “Star Trek” vs. peak TV: How can the campy, hopeful space drama compete with “Game of Thrones” and “The Walking Dead”? 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

That’s just the beginning of a complex scheme that allows the director to deploy his trademark split screens and double identities but, oddly, without the erotic tension in the heterosexual and lesbiastic couplings. Postcards from the Festivals: Seven Films at Toronto and Venice 2012-09-15T12:00:50Z

It’s an incredible reversal of fortune and a thrill to watch although in moments it seems like an oddly comical way to reintroduce such a character. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 5: On Your Knees 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

The result is a movie that feels distinctly, oddly, and not unpleasantly conservative. Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

The final spur for his most serious, personal play came, oddly enough, when he was joking around with his longtime producer Sonia Friedman several years ago. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

But to prove a negative, or to treat it as having been proved, is, oddly enough, an old and essential strategy of positivism. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

For one it’s a very good score, and oddly it’s the one thing I do remember from seeing the play. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

Rather like her character, it’s a performance that’s easy to dismiss without a closer look: Bong’s film isn’t morally one-sided in its class war, and her oddly sympathetic vacuity is instrumental to that tension. For your consideration: this season's most overlooked film performances 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Trans-Europe Express originally opened to the gentle, magical arpeggios of Europe Endless – instead, we hear this, rather oddly, after its reprise, Endless Endless. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night three: Trans-Europe Express 2013-02-10T11:36:08Z

On M∆tilda the melody creeps up on you, "creepy" being the operative word for such oddly unnerving music. New band of the day – Alt-J (No 1,275) 2012-05-24T15:26:10Z

The voice was “neutral, banal, oddly companionate,” and when she told doctors about it, they linked it at once to schizophrenia, resulting in a period of institutionalization that did more harm than good. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z

An Italian faience dish from Deruta, possibly painted in the 1530s with a spoofy rendition of a Turkish rider oddly holding a banner with Christian crosses, was similarly rejected. Special Report: Asian Art: 'Islamic' Culture: A Groundless Myth 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

This, he writes, "was an encouraging and flattering thought but oddly beside the point". Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III ? review 2011-07-29T10:43:00Z

"Boy" is a youngster in outline, but with something oddly ancient about his demeanor. At Davidson Galleries: Robert E. Marx's curious creatures 2012-09-27T00:00:08Z

Instead, it's oddly seamless, unsettling only on a subtle level. Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z

Jojo Rabbit received one- and two-star reviews in the Guardian and three stars from the Observer, with reviewers calling it “intensely unfunny”, “smug” and “oddly indecisive”. Taika Waititi says Jojo Rabbit's six Oscar nominations vindicate risks of making 'divisive' film 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

It's oddly touching because it includes Nixon's birthplace - a small, austere clapboard Quaker farmhouse that his father built by hand. All the presidents' libraries 2010-10-26T10:00:00Z

The Americans and Lakotas — two expansionist powers, as Hamalainen describes them — were occasional allies, oddly compatible for parts of their shared history. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

But the night proved to have an oddly anaesthetic quality, a temporary respite from life's pain provided through a combination of perfectly executed stagecraft and familiar songs performed by a charismatic, reassuringly smooth young Canadian. Michael Bubl? 2010-05-18T22:30:00Z

The result is not a smooth, seamless work, but a tense, oddly paced, tonally inconsistent one. Theater Review: ?A Map of Virtue,? by Erin Courtney, From 13P Company 2012-02-17T18:07:22Z

What links Ishiguro’s disparate novels is his voice, which is abstemious yet oddly lush and possessed of gyroscopic balance. Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Winner Whose Characters Are Caught Between Worlds 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

That would change, of course, and the evolution of a truly American style of hunting forms the subject of Dray’s enlightening and oddly bloodless new book. How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

For all the melodrama of his defenestration in the Walla Walla hotel room, and the potentially wrenching relationship at the movie’s core, Sleepwalk is oddly soothing, like a cup of camomile tea before bedtime. Sleepwalk With Me: His American Life 2012-08-24T04:21:10Z

But, oddly, “Harmony” suffers from the same problem as “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” the TLC reality series: the back story and ulterior motives of its star at times blunt the show’s stated purpose. The TV Watch: Prince Charles Dishes Dirt (the Organic Kind) 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z

On a technical level, the film veers between creative and oddly mediocre, namely in a driving sequence that looks so fake, you wonder if it was intentional. Review: Eastwood’s ‘Jersey Boys’ catchy but uneven 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Writer/director Pablo Berber has fashioned a dark, twisted and oddly beautiful film presented in glorious black and white.  Melbourne international film festival 2013: 10 things to see and do 2013-07-24T02:23:00Z

For all the grotesquery, the surrealism, the constant intimations of the vividness, movement and madness of the carnival, the photographs are oddly quiet. Behind the masque: Kanaval captures the hidden Haiti 2010-07-06T06:01:00Z

But as a novel, “The Parking Lot Attendant” suffers from an oddly under-edited quality. The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

But she’s already responsive to lapses of tone and language—Dom’s oddly hearty tone when he announces his wife’s death, her own mistake in the rude letter. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

If the scenario sounds oddly familiar, it's not just you. 'Louis & Keely 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

Though American Ballet Theater lists 12 principals on its title page in the City Center program, oddly only four principals danced at this gala. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center 2012-10-17T22:19:58Z

You’d probably guess as much after paging through Cook’s Illustrated, the oddly Victorian black-and-white cooking manual that Kimball began 19 years ago and continues to edit and publish every other month. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z

“Bonanza” begins as an oddly idealized vision of small-town life featuring long stretches of silence and natural beauty, interrupted by its residents’ articulately describing the freedom and pleasures of life off the grid. Critic?s Notebook: Going Under the Radar, and Into the Unknown 2011-01-11T23:53:39Z

There is good fiction about cuisine, but oddly little of it. What should Jamie Oliver read next? 2013-06-26T17:41:00Z

They were supported by a streamlined rhythm section and hired keyboardist, the whole package sounding oddly American. The Cranberries | Pop review 2010-04-02T21:30:00Z

And while Finch looks to be a simpler character than the masterfully devious Ben Linus of “Lost,” Mr. Emerson is as distinctive and oddly appealing as ever. Television Review: Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel in ?Person of Interest? - Review 2011-09-21T22:56:06Z

This is minutiae – crumbs, if you will – but oddly important. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z

And there’s something oddly reassuring about that simple, obvious fact, especially now, as the most common refrain among those affected by the coronavirus shutdown is: Where, when and how does this all end? Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

She can play clusters of dissonant or oddly harmonized notes with a rolling momentum and a tonal sensitivity that become their own comforting logic. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Cooper's an oddly engaging bad guy, his dreadlocks and gaudy red running pants setting him apart from the usual Hollywood heavy. Review: Shepard gives a good chase in 'Hit & Run' 2012-08-21T13:12:20Z

It’s oddly very moving to see these blokiest of blokes joking about cancer. Breaking the taboo: the director who has filmed the moment of death 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Stark's floaty, transparent computer screens in his home office, sort of like high-tech sea anemones, are oddly lovely, and it's a treat to see the Iron Man suit handily decompressed from a suitcase. 'Iron Man 2': Superhero sequel has charm but no Bam! Pow! 2010-05-06T18:07:00Z

It's made me very oddly secondhand British, I think, because it's not a name the British use any more. Roots Manuva: 'My whole career is just like a massive mistake' 2013-01-24T15:36:00Z

On a Sunday night, sitting in a theater, I, oddly enough, empathized with the characters. What "Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings" gets right about Chinese food 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

I became fascinated with the country’s oddly shaped baobab trees as I was cruising along its southwest coast. In Madagascar, an island with unique species is a biking biologist’s dream 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

That dramatic struggle is the focus of “A Ballerina’s Tale,” an oddly staid feature documentary by Nelson George that is most illuminating about Ms. Copeland’s support network of successful older black women. Movie Listings for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

On Disc 3, the Spike Orchestra fuses klezmer with surf rock in an oddly resonant admixture, run through the apparatus of a jazz big band. The Playlist: Pearl Jam Kicks Up a Fury, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

This is both a lot and oddly, not enough. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

But as different as the two works are, they’re oddly complementary. ‘Bandersnatch,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and the Myth of Certainty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

In one scene, Danny is playing with toy cars on the hotel's oddly patterned carpet. Fans breaking The Shining 'codes' 2012-10-24T08:06:46Z

Merwin’s prose, whether closer to fiction or to memoir, is an oddly complementary contrast to his poetry and offers a trove of surprises, delights, and revelations. W. S. Merwin in The New Yorker 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

As this exclusive clip from "8: The Mormon Proposition" explores, there's an oddly resonant and even hypocritical historical dimension to the LDS church's anti-gay campaign. Polygamy vs. gay marriage 2010-06-14T20:01:00Z

Yet the divide was there, an enormous distance that symmetries and mirrorings oddly served to stress. Review: ‘NOW.’ Uses Technology to Pair Dancers Thousands of Miles Apart 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

She loses interest after he describes being beaten up on a train and then having an oddly reassuring epiphany inspired by the sight of a smiling rat in a deserted lot. Theater Review: Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Minsk, 2011’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-17T22:04:19Z

Later, Carson and I would read together, sharing stages and backstages, which can be oddly bonding. Ciaran Carson’s Urgent, Hopeful, Final Lines 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Skagit Autumn” is a stark meditation on crisscrossing branches that manages to be oddly ethereal thanks to the way its sticklike traceries seem to be afloat in the air. Ed Kamuda, Dion Zwirner: Nature rules in Lisa Harris show 2014-01-24T01:37:10Z

The payoff is at once revolting, awkward and oddly powerful, not a combination you see very often. "Louie's" hilarious, poignant return 2011-06-23T11:24:00Z

Why do these people behave so oddly and believe anything they're told? Much Ado About Nothing – review 2013-06-15T23:06:00Z

If he was so happy then, why was he behaving so oddly? James Franco: ‘I was certainly taking myself too seriously before. But who doesn’t?’ 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

The actors respond with oddly variable performances – seen most striking in Darrell de Silva's two versions of Mark Antony. Are the RSC ensemble's glory days over? 2011-02-01T17:32:55Z

By the end, cast and audience seemed to have melted into one teary, sweaty blur, steeped in an oddly inspiring, paradoxical feeling of hopeful hopelessness. Far From Home, but Not Far Enough 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

The ensuing argument with her older sister is both ridiculous and oddly wise in a six-year-old way: “It’s not gonna be gay.” The Morning After: Honey Boo Boo Don’t Care 2012-08-09T14:36:08Z

Waller-Bridge recently commented that she felt there was something “refreshing and oddly empowering” about seeing violent women in dramas. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, why are dead women’s bodies still being used as entertainment? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Some celebrity references are oddly oblique, like a paragraph about "my friend Paul." Broken toe spurs Neil Young to write 1st book 2012-10-05T11:36:10Z

And yet virility, oddly, contains an element of misandry. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

And he even manages to build an oddly touching character. Movie Review: Aubrey Plaza Stars in ‘The To Do List’ 2013-07-25T21:34:31Z

She is oddly slotted into the goofy thrills of the disaster flick “Volcano,” in which she plays the seismologist who figures out that Los Angeles is about to be overtaken by lava. Anne Heche Onscreen: Wily and Funny but Also Unnerving 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

An interesting category here as it deviates from both the Oscars and the Globes with some choices, mainly Emily Blunt oddly receiving attention for the otherwise forgotten Girl on the Train. SAG predictions: who will win – and who should win 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Wearing a pale yellow unitard and point shoes, she guided her body through a sequence of static positions, creating an oddly mesmerizing movement meditation. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z

Her husband’s train is late, a detail oddly imbued with considerable import. Theater Review: ‘All That Fall,’ Pan Pan’s Take on Beckett, at BAM 2012-12-20T22:39:31Z

Something about nontraditional economic systems seems to attract oddly named entities. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Down East Dickering,’ a Reality Show in Maine 2014-04-22T21:44:48Z

It is oddly transfixing, though, as a study in the semiotics of the modernized fairy tale. ‘Cinderella’ Review: A Girlboss in Glass Slippers 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Director Michael James Rowland doesn't sensationalise the story – it is occasionally gruesome – but as a drama it oddly fails to engage. Formula 1 2010-07-10T05:45:00Z

His subversive but oddly effective approach caused Advertising Age to call him the father of the funny commercial and one of the 20th century’s most influential admen. Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The episode is not available on the Comedy Central website, although, oddly, an earlier episode depicting Mohammed is. "South Park's" radical patriotism 2010-04-22T18:23:00Z

The rest wasn't half so painful as the 1949 version, even if Daisy appeared oddly wooden, but it did still drag. The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view 2013-05-14T14:21:41Z

Partying aside, I find the urban Amazon a fascinating place – so much like other Brazilian cities, and yet so oddly different. Frugal Traveler: Nightlife and Beaches in Brazil, for Less Than the Cost of Rio 2011-03-08T21:15:24Z

None of that mitigates the curious sense of cluelessness and antiquity around this whole enterprise, which evinces little actual understanding of the Internet or social media and features a set of oddly dusty cultural references. “Sex Tape”: Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel’s R-rated Apple infomercial 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The instrumental work that followed, Courtney Bryan’s “The Hard Way,” was oddly and, I think, overly gentle after those tough words, with an easygoing clarinet solo for Mark Dover. Review: Good Music, but Julia Bullock Makes It Great 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Format aside, the images still speak for themselves with wry, understated eloquence, and they do so almost always by juxtaposing oddly disparate yet similar objects. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z

“And yet something about the man across the room seemed oddly familiar, like someone I already knew.” Sue Mingus, Promoter of Her Husband’s Musical Legacy, Dies at 92 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The disconnect between the centuries was oddly real. Modern Love: A Love for the Ages, but Which One? 2011-05-12T21:31:23Z

No, not the talent of the animals that perform at the circus that is, oddly, housed within the mall, but rather the talent of the actors who lend those animals their voices. ‘The One and Only Ivan’ Review: A Gorilla With Heart 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Like so many of Tatum’s mannerisms, it’s a little funny: there’s some machismo there, but it’s also goofy and oddly sweet. Channing Tatum’s Body of Work 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

This simple gesture is oddly expressive, lending the peepers a surprised look and a frisson of the illicit. Comic sights, mysterious sounds at Martin Kersels show 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

What puts “With the Old Breed” across is, oddly enough, Sledge’s sensitivity. ‘With the Old Breed,’ an Intimate Look at Terror in World War II 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rhodes’s production isn’t grim, but it’s oddly uninvolving, and only some of the many cast members emanate the vivid magnetism that is a musical’s life blood. Review: Divine Decadence Revisited in ‘Grand Hotel’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

And oddly enough, this appears to be the result of living with a man who, try as he may to shed his skin, simply can’t help but play life as a series of con jobs. We are all Kim Wexler: “Better Call Saul” and the painful realities of mid-career crisis 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

She poses against scratched-up kitchen cabinets in an empty cabin; in a separate photo we see a picture of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, whom, oddly, she resembles, on a whitewashed wall. A Tale of Two Female Outcasts in the American Southwest 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

In both cases, Calderon’s spare touch triggers an oddly florid effect. At Kucera Gallery: Mark Calderon, Sherry Markovitz 2013-05-30T19:45:07Z

The choir was the Mariisnky Theatre Chorus, whose idiomatic Russian was a bonus, but who often sounded oddly underwhelming in the Albert Hall in a first half comprised of intriguing rarities. Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda ? review 2011-08-01T10:12:14Z

But paradoxically Mr. Chasalow’s digital palette could seem oddly pedestrian compared with the flamboyant acoustic sounds heard in previous works. Music Review: Talea Ensemble at the Tenri Cultural Institute 2012-03-11T22:02:12Z

The result is extraordinary, intense, and — despite the grisly stuff — often oddly funny. New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z

This all brings us back to what a terrific protagonist the film has in Landis: beguilingly weird, oddly charming, with his own sense of logic.  'Art and Craft': The life and times of Mark Landis, devoted forger 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Yet, it’s oddly peaceful to see families with young children offering cigars, tequila, prayers and silent reverence – definitely as worth a visit as any neoclassical, robe-swishing church. Dead or alive: culture is kicking in Pátzcuaro, Mexico 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

He’s got a very strict, almost blind sense of loyalty, oddly. Matt Smith on Playing the Rogue Prince of ‘House of the Dragon’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Rooms are small and oddly shaped, and each one is named after a prominent Baltimorean. Spending a city weekend in Fells Point, Baltimore 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

For Anderson, who has performed many of her concerts solo backed by intense multimedia sound and imagery, the presence of a band so sensitive to her needs was appropriate and oddly comforting. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z

In the vestibule, there are cheerful notices of church curry evenings, details of “pray-as-you-go” MP3s – an oddly tranquil place to have starred in such a bloody film. First the gangsters, then the bankers: how The Long Good Friday foretold the future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

"Last Christmas"; there's the oddly powerful disjunction of Buddy Holly singing "Every Day" while Eva drives through a menacing crowd of Halloween revelers. Cannes: Tilda Swinton's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is a grim shocker 2011-05-12T15:15:00Z

It’s a buttoned-down but oddly moving performance not quite like anything else on television at the moment, and it might be enough to pull you through 10 episodes of formulaic mayhem. | 'Missing': Ashley Judd in ?Missing? on ABC 2012-03-14T16:05:08Z

It’s the songs you know all too well, but played by an avant-garde madman with an oddly appealing sense of melody. John Fahey made the best Christmas album ever 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is also oddly timely, since Twain’s foxy-grandpa persona has been changed by a century’s worth of hindsight. 2010-02-11T08:05:00Z

Eve Hewson’s performance as Lucy, which earlier in the season seemed interestingly reserved, now seems oddly flat. 'The Knick' Recap: Dismay and Despair in Season 1 Finale 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

As Springsteen shouted his indictment of “Murder Incorporated,” before taking a fiery and frenetic guitar solo, the crowd was oddly quiet. Springsteen’s subversive joy: On the Bruce concert as antidote to nihilism and American self-destruction 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Finally there is something oddly powerful about English. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

It’s just a fleeting switch in perspective, easy to discount, but oddly base-shifting if you pay attention. Review | Kristen Arnett’s ‘With Teeth’ gives voice to a parent’s darkest thoughts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

This approach also evokes a feeling of comfort missing from other talk shows that’s at once enticing and, oddly enough, relaxing. All hail HBO's "2 Dope Queens" and their unpredictable magic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

On Boxing Day she looked out of her hotel room window and noticed that the sea was behaving a bit oddly. The tsunami survivor who lost her whole family 2013-03-09T23:00:01Z

During Jefferson’s retirement at Monticello, one of his granddaughters recalled a picnic in which he oddly “mixed the wine and water to drink with it.” Even Thomas Jefferson's most lavish White House banquets had the common touch 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

Clinging to Hannah’s naïve viewpoint and the cherished ideal of her friendship with Anne results in some hard truths being hidden away or oddly sanitized. ‘My Best Friend Anne Frank’ Review: Separated by the Nazis 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

The ending is oddly unsatisfying; yet the bulk of it, in its balance of churning energy and structural rigour is De Frutos at his best. Royal New Zealand Ballet ? review 2011-07-15T14:29:47Z

Onscreen, he’s still oddly insinuating, with an oily sort of charm, but it’s now seen by more people than ever watched his independent films. James Spader on 'The Blacklist': 'I Don't Know What Our Competition Is' 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

And them, oddly, the music went downtempo and sentimental as the video cut to a series of servicemen and women saying hello to their families from far-flung bases around the world. Bruno Mars Injects Soul into the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2014-02-03T01:31:22Z

The shelves were filled with ancient bottles of grappa, honey and, in oddly close proximity, insecticide. Frugal Traveler: A Gaucho Detour From Buenos Aires 2010-12-08T04:00:00Z

I’d drunk oddly flavorless pints, too, and pints with a taint of burnt barley, and pints so dreary I almost suspected them of being doctored with dishwater, a trick not unheard-of in earlier centuries. Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

The oddly simple procedure works and soon Lucy is carrying not one, but three babies. ‘False Positive’ Review: Pregnancy Scares 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Mr Epstein, an oddly shy former student at RADA, has been lucky. The Beatles: a trigger for a musical revolution 2012-10-04T09:56:03Z

The eponymous album's charms are summed up, for me, by this song, which manages to be, all at once, deliciously tuneful, utterly absurd and yet oddly touching. Old music: Stephen Malkmus – Jenny and the Ess-Dog 2012-06-26T12:49:20Z

Expect the raw and the oddly tender in equal measure from the man who revitalised fashion photography in the 1980s and whose most vital work of late has tended to be his most personal. Geraldo de Barros: master of montage 2013-01-18T18:29:55Z

The portrait’s distinguishing feature, though, is its oddly sloped perspective — described in Sargent’s day as a “worm’s eye view.” The Secrets Behind Sargent’s Intimate Portrait of a Jewish Family 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Levitan's partner in the show, Christopher Lloyd, was oddly absent from the onstage celebrating. Split personality for Emmy Awards 2010-08-30T13:39:00Z

This is a novel full of wit and spark; I found it oddly irresistible and arresting, despite my cavils. This Story of Love and Gaming Pits the Real Against the Virtual 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

The musical’s book incorporates several other Steinman songs, and happens to be oddly similar to the unabashedly comical one Ben Elton cooked up for “We Will Rock You.” The Pop Musical: Go Big (and Loud) or Go Home 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

So there were all of these beautiful, deserted, shingled mansions, which were oddly enough called cottages. Q&A: Frances Mayes on the Lure of Southern Landscapes 2014-04-24T17:45:21Z

On the screen, it is a rapidly cut sequence of ketchup and interior views of veins, less horrifying than bizarre, and like the sex, oddly anticlimactic. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?Part I. More Like Breaking Yawn 2011-11-17T17:30:14Z

But who they are and what they want from her remain oddly opaque. International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

This is a mean teen hero, obnoxious and grandiose, but oddly endearing, too. First sight: Craig Roberts 2011-01-06T23:03:00Z

Mussorgsky had never written an opera when he created this often brusque, raw, darkly sober, oddly spare score about a troubled czar and his troubled country. Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Conversations are laced with information and humour, and, oddly, not as much in-fighting as you'd expect. Top 10 US podcasts for road trip listening 2013-07-19T23:10:00Z

“A Wealth of Pigeons,” a collection of more than 130 cartoons at once surreal, silly, satirical and, at times, oddly moving, bears the initial fruits of their collaboration. How Steve Martin and illustrator Harry Bliss ended up working on the ‘upbeat book’ we all need right now 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

Here, as Marguerite steadfastly climbed tiers of steps to meet her heavenly reward, the choristers, still in white lab coats, stood on the side balconies and stairs, looking oddly serious. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z

The pilot of Ryan Murphy’s new anthology series is in a fairly straightforward true-crime style, though there’s the occasional oddly comic or Grand Guignol touch reminiscent of “American Horror Story.” Television This Winter: 20 Shows to Keep on Your Radar Screen 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

She’s usually a bottle blonde, stuffed into a tight sweater that outlines her oddly conical breasts. 2010-02-06T01:50:00Z

I became very scared my brother would die; though, oddly, I felt my father could take care of himself. Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh 2011-08-10T20:30:02Z

Jerrod Carmichael, a winner for writing his comedy special “Rothaniel,” gave a slow, halting series of thanks that was oddly compelling — you kept waiting for a “but.” Review: The Emmys Keep it Light and Forgettable 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

But the experience felt oddly thrilling: As with the rattling sound of a nearby subway, it was often hard to distinguish if the soundtrack was the movie’s or the city’s. Hearing the City, Too, at an Outdoor Berlin Film Festival 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

But then, hip-hop had grown up rather oddly in Bristol, the result of the city's well-established reggae sound system culture and the lasting impact of its post-punk scene. Massive Attack: Blue Lines (remastered) – review 2012-12-06T15:29:01Z

It was bad news, of course, but oddly, it soon became good news – I found that a lot of people were on my side. Gavin Turk, visual artist – portrait of the artist 2013-05-07T17:30:01Z

Etc. And there were serious downsides, as Gloria Steinem found out when she went undercover in the clubs -- downsides that the series seems oddly inclined to downgrade even when it's putting them front-and-center. Empowerment, with a tail and ears 2011-09-19T18:20:00Z

And oddly enough, it was the same stunt woman who did the — did you see the Snickers commercial on the Super Bowl? It's Friday, So Why Not Talk to Betty White? 2010-08-06T14:21:00Z

And he was delighted when his house was bombed because it made him feel oddly weightless. ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z

It’s oddly clinical: Lab coats replace costumes, and men and women remain at a distance from one another. | 'The Speaker?s Progress': ?The Speaker?s Progress? in Brooklyn - Review 2011-10-08T00:55:17Z

Carolyn Drake's strange and evocative pictures of rural Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and China are compelling too: a glimpse of another kind of street culture that is strange yet oddly familiar. Henri Cartier-Bresson: who can beat the master of monochrome? 2012-11-07T14:58:41Z

Paved roads, the effects of logging and even an oddly placed satellite dish are visible in these pictures of the Pacific Northwest. In the galleries: The intersection of nature and man 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Best, oddly, was chickpeas with roasted peppers, black olives, lemon, and parsley — this really worked. Dining With 'The Demons' 2010-07-12T19:47:00Z

The bright barber pole looks oddly incongruous, even surrealistically so, on this dingy street. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z

As I waited on line to pay, a monitor tuned to Fox News flashed an oddly appropriate headline: “Israel-Iran tension.” Frugal Traveler Blog: Dining Out at Ethnic Supermarkets in Los Angeles 2012-04-24T20:07:55Z

We have a lot less data, oddly enough, about the relationship patterns of gay men. Expert: Guys don’t want casual sex! 2012-11-18T02:00:00Z

Selling it turned out to be oddly easy, too. Books of The Times: ‘His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir,’ by Dan Jenkins 2014-03-04T20:04:03Z

Another appetizer, steak tartare, is deftly seasoned but oddly dry. The Backroom at Kingbird, previewed: Civilized and sophisticated 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Because of how the gallery sits near the top of its white building, oddly situated on a triangular lot, the view of the city is freed from the rigidity of the grid. Art That Rose Through the Cracks 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

He slaps a skinny-jeaned thigh, and flicks about his oddly cut blond hair, shaped so that bits of it hang down and almost touch the keys during hopeless, head-down, lovelorn sections of his songs. Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs' 2013-03-24T00:06:37Z

Suddenly, oddly, your warm fuzzies fade, and your desire to invite them over for pizza later fades with it. How to raise kinder, less entitled kids (according to science) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

But this is an oddly joyless work and an often inhuman one. Identity Crisis: Theater Productions That Refuse to Be Theater 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

A former football player himself, Johnson, whose voice is often oddly reminiscent of President Obama's, is not a great actor. On the watch list: 'Ballers' and 'The Brink' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Cooper’s film, in comparison with that film’s oddly camp country-rock milieu, feels more rooted in, well, if not the truth but a truth of the music industry. A Star Is Born isn't sexist or 'rockist' – it's a cutting insight into so-called 'authenticity' 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Why is “Everlasting” so oddly missing from this season? ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 7: ‘You Need to Get Over Me’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

“Game of Thrones” is at its best when it’s complicating our sympathies, whether it’s Dany cruelly crucifying slavemasters, the Hound exploiting weak farmers or the loathsome Joffrey dying in oddly poignant fashion. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: The Battle at Castle Black 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

But his critics, oddly, seem no more pleased. A New Book and Film About Rare Amazonian Language 2012-03-21T22:17:15Z

And oddly enough, I never reread my books, but I had to reread “Mother’s Milk” the other day for BBC Radio 4 Bookclub. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The face of the dominating figure is oddly distorted, with one eye squinting, mouth hanging open and head torqued to the left. Davidson Galleries: Artists play mind games using sharp skills 2012-07-18T18:52:03Z

All of which makes this Friday’s release of “Overseas Live: 2002-2012” — a two-and-a-half-hour mixed bag of live recordings from the band’s first 10 years — feel oddly timely. Music From a Distance? Eivind Opsvik Has Been Making It for Years 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Photograph: David M Alexander Jack Vance, who has died aged 96, was a writer of science and high epic fantasy whose work was oddly at variance with the journeyman genre in which it first appeared. Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction 2013-05-29T23:13:06Z

He was caught because he failed to sedate the hummingbirds, who fussed around in his britches and made him behave about as oddly as you’d expect. The 5 weirdest smuggling busts of all time 2014-04-17T09:00:00Z

In its place we got a sound that was often almost lugubrious, a lot of oddly murky textures, and heavy, heavy playing from the NSO’s soloists. Conductor Juraj Valcuha takes NSO program to a near-slog 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

And, oddly, many of the most prominent had surnames beginning with the last letter of the alphabet. Saul Zaentz: What Does a Producer Do, Anyway? 2014-01-09T17:04:41Z

Foreigners are welcome, though, at plenty of cheap, local places like the oddly named Stars and Bucks Cafe, which overlooks Al Manara Square, in the city center. Next Stop: Ramallah?s Clubs Attract Young, Diverse Crowd 2010-06-04T15:11:00Z

The location was oddly fitting for a conversation in which Kuang pondered how her novel might be received within the industry she brutally satirizes. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

“Untitled” feels oddly diffuse; perhaps that will change over time. Review: At the Royal Ballet, a Landscape and Soundscape With Dance 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

The elusiveness of the central character, the renowned head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967, may be partly intentional, oddly enough. | ?Lombardi?: On Further Review, the Coach Stands 2010-10-22T03:39:00Z

It is bizarre and dizzying and oddly beautiful in its fervor, as fantastical props and effects distract from the nonsensical plot. ‘The Advent Calendar’ Review: A December Full of Tricks and Treats 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

There is an odor to the river as well, vaguely sweet and earthy, though oddly more like the sea than like a mountain lake. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z

This is meaty and oddly moving stuff, right out of Arthur Miller or David Mamet, and I wish I could say that Professor X’s prose retains its poise and elastic snap throughout. Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z

And some of Cole’s lines—“You miss junk food/ that’s why we work/ You bring cooked food/ and I bring dessert”—seem to diverge oddly from the topic at hand. Watch the Video for Janet Jackson’s Sultry New Jam 'No Sleeep' 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

“Veep” and “Game of Thrones” won for best comedy and drama again, capping off an oddly fun and legitimate night. What Happened at the 2016 Emmy Awards 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

The "Cabaret" incident was the latest in a series of events in which the actor behaved oddly in public. Shia LaBeouf appears in N.Y. court in disorderly conduct case 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Miles Kane's songs also feel oddly burdened by the north's indie past – as does his haircut, the first Stone Roses barnet of the day. The Stone Roses – review 2012-06-15T18:00:00Z

I had hoped it could be true; it sounded oddly karmic. Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus 2013-06-02T20:00:00Z

Entertainment Weekly's Kyle Anderson said the album "furthers the uncomfortable and frustrating disconnect between Brown's hotheaded personal life and his oddly edgeless musical persona," and gave it a 'C-minus'. Chris Brown's 'Fortune' a miss for critics 2012-07-04T02:06:16Z

Last week Oscar showed up at Noah’s house, almost solely to let Helen know that he’d run into Noah in Ditch Plains oddly early in the morning. 'The Affair' Recap: Do You Prefer Cole or Noah? 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

These sections also seem oddly beholden to the original Civil War, and not in an illuminating way. Jeff VanderMeer on the biggest dystopia of spring, 'America War' by Omar El Akkad 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Under glass, the oddly evolved specimens symbolize the Seoul-born artist’s adaptation to U.S. culture. Galleries: Big Brother is watching 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Locked inside under stay-at-home orders, a pandemic appears oddly routine. The Pandemic Ad Salutes You 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

Substantial as the themes are, they’re generating an oddly light puzzle of a play. Fading into the woods with D’Amour’s mysterious ‘Cherokee’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Why are some of the laws so oddly specific? Saluting the red, white and brew: ‘The Field Guide to Drinking in America’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

But whatever mental effect it does have—and we can hardly say for sure—it may look oddly close to distraction. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

In the 1960s Mr. Geller moved on to houses with oddly shaped windows cut into flat facades, like architectural versions of Cubist paintings. Andrew Geller, Architect, Is Dead at 87 2011-12-27T02:51:39Z

Realizing his days are numbered, Jacques adopts Lucas as his protégé, teaches him to bartend, and drills him on the rules of his establishment, oddly named the House of Oysters; foremost among them, no women. | 'The Good Heart': Tale of Mortality, Featuring Brian Cox and Paul Dano 2010-04-30T00:07:00Z

Marie-Antoinette was a conflicted and largely unloved period extravaganza where flagrant anachronisms sat oddly alongside Coppola's customary melancholia. Sofia Coppola on The Bling Ring: 'What these kids did really took ingenuity' 2013-07-04T19:00:00Z

"Cezanne, hmm, yes," you say, looking hard at an oddly proportioned Cezanne and seeing, sort of, how it relates to the figure in the Matisse to its right. Matisse at the Moma, New York 2010-08-15T22:00:00Z

Weir has put together a good film – oddly, though, considering its scale, it feels like a rather small one. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z

It's oddly effective, fencing off the first part of the sentence to give it existential bite – "When that I was… " It's the kind of enigma Feste loves. Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z

While he's appeared in a number of disparate roles, he most recently appeared in Olivia Wilde's oddly controversial thriller "Don't Worry Darling." The origins and evolution of the ongoing “Best Chris” debate 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ani says the first word of the episode, and oddly, it’s “trees”: That’s primarily what she remembers from being abducted and molested at the age of five. “True Detective” recap: The beauty of the finale couldn’t save this flaming disaster of a season 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

But her dreams were light and oddly pleasant — heartbreaking only upon waking. 'Birds of Paradise': a teenage runaway leaves a wake of anguish 2011-09-22T20:47:04Z

This version of Los Angeles is only slightly different from the current one — fewer cars, computers accessed via compact earpieces, men wearing oddly high-waisted pants — but this version of romantic comedy is something utterly original. ‘Her’: a comically Siri-ous love affair 2013-12-24T19:09:09Z

If you are a real Stewart fan, Noah’s line rings oddly familiar.  “The Daily Show” is dead to me: Trevor Noah will never, ever be good at his job — also, thanks a lot for Donald Trump 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

It’s not just the ideologies that feel oddly out of step with the present day, but the clothes, hairstyles and interiors — which are meant to register as lavish — instead come across as low-rent and sad. | 'Atlas Shrugged: Part I': A Utopian Society Made Up of Business Moguls in Fedoras 2011-04-29T00:13:06Z

But they remain oddly unmoving, despite fluid direction by Mr. Mantello and polished performances from an ensemble that also includes Adam James in a juicy assortment of roles. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z

Florence seems to revel in this dichotomy, making her either the most calculating vixen on the show or oddly detached from reality. "Dancing with the Stars": Bristol Palin, monkey-style 2010-10-19T12:30:00Z

Trim and lithe, if oddly diminished by his James Brown hairpiece, he performs solos in a velvety voice interspersed with friendly chuckles, occasionally working in a frisky improv-style bit. 'Kiss Me, Kate' an ingenious adaptation at Pasadena Playhouse 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rose, whose high, electrocuted-tomcat wail gave Guns N’ Roses its edge, sounded oddly dulcet during the early part of the set. ArtsBeat: After the Rain, a Night of Rock 2013-06-09T19:08:59Z

Remaining subjects in "My Arm" are desultory but reflect different kinds of flawed, raw musicality in speech: an oddly compelling, drunken back-and-forth between two former child actors; brief, angry histories of Seattle's evolution. Review: In On the Boards solo show, Charles Smith explores levels of misunderstanding 2011-03-27T20:17:05Z

Ruhl is one of the most produced and oddly controversial playwrights in America. Noises off: Problems of recognition 2010-05-21T14:58:00Z

Sane and reasonable people would say they've had their fill of death and oddly enough, being in that headspace makes a person ripe for a re-watch. The lesson of "Six Feet Under," 20 years later: "We're not really as in control as we all think" 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

She remembers one 1973 piece, “Altar with Egg” — a colorful, elaborate, oddly shaped shrine that’s an early highlight of the BAM show — as a turning point. BAM hosts a dazzling Patti Warashina retrospective 2013-07-11T21:05:52Z

Even the labels for the groups – pro-choice and pro-life – seem oddly tortured. Buffy drives home an important issue for women 2012-02-10T17:09:04Z

After taking a snort, she tries to put on lipstick; the high hits her before the lipstick reaches her mouth, and her hand hovers there, uncertain but oddly calm. With “Labyrinth,” Mark Dendy Confronts His Demons 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Adding to the book’s airlessness is the way the characters seem oddly isolated from the rough and tumble of daily life. Lydia Millet’s “Magnificence” offers anything but 2012-12-25T14:00:00Z

As a teenager, I found the idea mildly disgusting, not to mention insulting, and yet it was oddly reassuring. How to stay obsessed and enamored: The best way to save a marriage is sex 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Yes, some of the other passengers looked at me oddly, but that’s because they haven’t been watching nearly enough survivalist television. Critic?s Notebook: Gutting a Porcupine and Other Tips for the Apocalypse 2010-12-29T20:22:17Z

But, oddly, it only sold high-end drinks during a few midday hours and it quickly became better known as a restaurant. Heads Up: At a Toronto Bar, Rules and Creative Cocktails Mix 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z

Before last week’s heat wave, the prevailing narrative among weather watchers was that the summer of 2014 was oddly cool. The beauty of the dry garden

Streep, on hand to honor Reynolds with a humanitarian honorary Oscar, read the two teleprompters dutifully, but appeared oddly nervous and stilted. Hollywood's big weekend at the Governors awards – what we learned 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The result is unexpectedly mysterious: choreographed stealth extended, through video, into oddly graceful, deconstructed dance. White Cube? These 3 Art Shows Buck Convention 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

So many of Moore’s moves over the past weeks seemed oddly familiar. Perspective | Roy Moore thought attacking the press could save his campaign. Voters opted for the truth. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

A later scene of them burying their baby in the ocean is poignant and oddly beautiful. Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

The song is brutally long, oddly cavalier and lyrically lazy, with Dylan sifting through a shoe box of old Polaroids, trying to make them rhyme. Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Evocative of Avenue Foch or Park Avenue in the 1970s, watered-down versions of their oddly uptight offerings are being embraced by women intent on sidestepping trends. Fashion? They’re Over It 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

The Steads, meanwhile, even to those who delight in the slightly old-fashioned, pale and limpid perfection of their style, seem oddly suited to the 19th-century vigor of the white-suited author. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

But "Rain Dragon" flirts with other subject matter, too, from an angle that's oddly difficult to read. 'Rain Dragon': searching for greener pastures (organic version) 2012-05-02T19:30:06Z

Quite the opposite: there's something appealingly snotty about Settle, both in its unrepentant popness and in the way its guests feel oddly incidental to proceedings. Disclosure: Settle – review 2013-05-30T14:29:01Z

It proves that they can still write bizarre, inventive, oddly moving pop songs, but these are interspersed with passages of ominous drone lasting up to 20 minutes. The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men' 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z

Lister comments: “Should a lover ever approach you carrying an oddly squashed farmhouse loaf, don’t say I didn’t warn you.” ‘A Curious History of Sex’ Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

A paragraph in Elizabeth Hardwick is “certainly ‘well written,’ which means: quite oddly written, but subtly so.” A Witty and Original Writer Shares His Love for the Essay 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

They opened with Beethoven's Violin Sonata in A, Op 30, No 1, and at first seemed oddly matched. Pekka Kuusisto/Olli Mustonen – review 2013-04-14T17:12:07Z

As observed on the thread, it's a beautfiul 32 minutes, though I found the mood to be oddly stuck halfway between soothing and spooky. Readers recommend: Songs about flowers 2010-06-03T23:01:00Z

For one thing, they've attracted some of the biggest stars of their respective eras -- though, oddly enough, none of the best-known Robins have been played by actual Englishmen. Robin Hood's appeal tested again at Cannes 2010-05-12T01:41:00Z

There were no politics — the host Kelsey Grammer oddly restrained — just a guild honoring its members, a group so talented and skilled that it was palpable. | Inside the Directors Guild Awards 2012-01-31T16:27:55Z

His pragmatism makes him an oddly likeable curmudgeon; Otto is a man who abides by the rule of society and expects others to do the same. As "A Man Called Otto," Tom Hanks' gruff yet noble curmudgeon will warm your heart 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Silliness, of the Harry Hill variety, is also Simmons's stock-in-trade; his show Meanwhile is a volley of skilful nonsense, culminating in an oddly moving taco-smashing routine. Edinburgh 2011 comedy awards: who should have the last laugh? 2011-08-24T16:56:37Z

The assemblage of bells and organ on Theresa, Lark of Ascension is simultaneously wistfully pastoral and oddly unsettling. Broadcast: Berberian Sound Studio Original Soundtrack – review 2013-01-03T15:30:02Z

For some reason, I became oddly frustrated with the distinction drawn in that first question, of whether Vainity is an outsider artist or just a knowingly — and the subtext here is “self-consciously” — strange one. What does “outsider artist” even mean? 2012-09-16T00:00:00Z

The trailer ends with five seconds of oddly performative strangled screams, and has been shared online a week after it premiered ahead of a screening of The Room in London. Big Shark: Tommy Wiseau releases 'preposterous' trailer for follow-up to 'worst movie ever' 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The rows of transparent glasses are, oddly, as crisply focused in back as they are in front. Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z

Clad in uniformly dun-colored garb, with little differentiation and definition among them, they also seem oddly generic, at least in appearance. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Many disgraced politicians suffer from the same blend of naïveté and grandiosity, but oddly, some of them are better actors. The TV Watch: Famous, With Foot in Mouth 2011-02-28T23:15:24Z

What abides is a giddy awareness of history as a tale told by unreliable narrators, as well as the oddly comforting impression that senescence has its own poetic license. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

One of the virtues of Kirkery is the brio, oddly unjealous, with which he squares off against other actors; stealing a scene, perhaps, but always content to share the loot. Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

And oddly, the tree tested as more likable than 60 percent of current reality stars.” Reality shows we'd like to see 2011-09-01T12:02:00Z

But managements do seem oddly reluctant to enforce their own notices and announcements on behaviour. Disruptive behaviour at the theatre? 2013-05-21T09:13:00Z

So once the screen goes black, it’s no shock that the next image is oddly creepy: a bird’s-eye view of Mr. Burnham in a hooded sweatshirt hunched over a book. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z

This double-reflection technique is familiar from any hairdresser’s, but in Rosen’s tiny dollop of a shop, on Elizabeth Street, which she opened earlier this year, this simple act of hindsight feels oddly illicit. How High Can High-Waisted Pants Go? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

There was a famous falling out with noted impulse control avoider Alec Baldwin that led to his exit from the Broadway play “Orphans” – and his oddly familiar sounding apology for the fiasco. Shia LaBeouf: A cool kid’s sad decline 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

He watched dance films to prepare, but, oddly, found kung fu movies more helpful. The Film ‘Enemy Within’ Melds a Variety of Dance Styles 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

The garment is tied with a rope that would look more at home in Popeye’s hands, and the body glimpsed through the filmy fabric is oddly sexless, revealing neither breasts nor nipples. Full-frontal absurdity: The world of Louise Bonnet's fleshy, surreal portraits 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

I knew them less well than I thought, which feels – oddly – like a loss of intimacy. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Which, oddly enough, is sort of like being high. I quit pot and now feel weird 2012-11-19T01:00:00Z

But mostly, they play with familiar ideas in conventional high-tech settings: They’re futures that seem oddly dated. Review: In ‘Electric Dreams,’ the Future Seems Outdated 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Four weeks later, while walking up a hill, my legs went oddly weak. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z

For all its exploration of personal experiences, “The Tale” is an oddly impersonal personal movie—yet its dramatic thinness is, in its own way, revelatory. “The Tale,” Reviewed: A Filmmaker’s Daring Excavation of Her Own Memories of Sexual Abuse 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Peterson could use a dab more emotional restraint in his performance, especially in Jake’s final summation, which is oddly accompanied by swelling music that underscores its intrinsic sentimentality. Race and justice drive stage adaptation of John Grisham's 'A Time to Kill' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes, I was oddly exhilarated. Where the Sidewalks End, and the City (Really) Begins 2010-09-10T04:30:00Z

It's a rich idea, though not particularly well fleshed out in the programming and also oddly irrelevant to Portland, which, according to the U.S. Portland Jazz Festival highlights African-American and Jewish collaborations 2011-02-10T00:35:06Z

The plot is unruly and sometimes hard to follow, but it's propulsive and oddly secondary to Hand's themes and scenes. Elizabeth Hand's mystery series takes on art and death on the way to whodunit in 'Hard Light' 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

They act in ways that I would never but their relentless spite, right up until the finale, is oddly satisfying, a dogged commitment to not forgiving, forgetting or pretending that wounds have healed. The War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

They say Houston behaved oddly, chatting about nothing in particular for minutes on end, took a 15-minute break only half a dozen songs in, and had trouble reaching some of her high notes. Why has the media mauled Whitney Houston? 2010-04-15T10:44:00Z

In Control he captured perfectly the sensitive, strung-out and oddly charismatic Ian Curtis, the Joy Division singer who killed himself at 23. Sam Riley shot to fame as the doomed Ian Curtis in Control. Now he's playing creepy Pinkie in Brighton Rock 2011-01-12T08:00:03Z

Engaged in acts of searching, examining, collecting and displaying the meteorites, the hunter is revealed as heroic, absurd, self-assured and oddly vulnerable. Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-W?chter 2010-12-16T21:53:12Z

There, amid a pageant of human pettiness and oddity, he gradually discovers within himself a resourcefulness and a curious charm that transform him into an oddly irresistible hero. Top 10 Fiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The least successful were the most conventional: Gulf grouper with beurre blanc felt flat; a side of carrots almandine was oddly gritty. A New Orleans Restaurant Where Creole Meets Caribbean 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

I think it also oddly mirrors a little bit of Marie’s plight, right? Zendaya on ‘Malcolm & Marie’ and That Toxic Relationship 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Broadway’s flip side is represented in the openings in rapid succession of three new musicals, each one an oddly ersatz venture, of shoddy conception and all too brassy execution. For the Tonys, which of the two Broadways will prevail? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Assessing the success of “Cult” is oddly challenging. "American Horror Story: Cult" is FX's way of saying, "Tag, America — you're 'It'!" 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a dark brick of shredded pork, a heavy-tasting and oddly inert centerpiece for a summer salad of shaved corn, watercress and wheat berries. Made Nice Is Fast and Casual. But Is It Good? 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

I did not think they would oddly apply this sort of super-fandom to him and try to justify every single thing he’s done as being intrinsically heroic. Ryan Condal Was Surprised People Liked ‘House of the Dragon’ So Quickly 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

The dance starts on a deliberately diffuse note, as six dancers occupy the stage in oddly assorted pursuits. Review: 'little hunger,' 'Entwine' need to cook a little longer 2010-05-28T16:49:00Z

Watching and rewatching all the plane crashes on Seconds From Disaster was oddly comforting to me. 'What should I have done differently?' A conversation with my son about divorce 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

No, and what's on the line usually with these things is embarrassment, which oddly is the worst thing. "I've done my share of bombing": Marc Maron talks about navigating failure, grief and embarrassment 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z

In the deep, quiet space of the London gallery, shut away from Mayfair's millionaire traffic jams, all is minimal, tasteful and oddly calming. A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z

Resisting the charms of Johansson should indicate a bravura performance, but Walker, a rambunctious delight in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, seems oddly passive here. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – review 2013-01-18T10:08:04Z

One is an "interruption" routine, perfectly executed, involving a coveted hat, an oddly mobile mustache and multiple juggling pins. Nanda's 'Jacket': comic martial-arts mayhem 2011-10-10T15:59:53Z

He speaks to the cameras now with an oddly casual air and no obvious sense of contrition. Television Review: Voices From the Buses on the Road to Civil Rights 2011-05-15T22:04:53Z

A fat man in a straw skimmer, looking oddly isolated, moves through the center of the scene. A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Onstage, this idiosyncratic musician perches behind an unsuspecting piano and emits a headbanging, oddly cathartic blend of classical, heavy metal and avant-garde. Pop & Rock Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:11:06Z

“When they are small, I sit with them in their boxes,” Ms. Rossellini said of her oddly speckled and spotted brood. Down on the Farm With Isabella Rossellini 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

It's oddly endearing, because for all of Tony Danza's classroom and social failings, I don't doubt his sincerity in wanting to do a good job. "Teach": The useless tears of Tony Danza 2010-10-01T00:30:00Z

Onstage, Andrew W.K. is an idiosyncratic musician who is perched behind the piano, playing a headbanging, oddly cathartic blend of classical, heavy metal and avant-garde riffs. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

But, oddly, none of those was for costumes. It's time to survey, and protest, Emmy nominations 2012-07-19T17:57:10Z

Over the many months of her health crisis Ms. Gainsbourg grew oddly fond of MRI scanners and their grating, grinding sounds. 2010-01-23T15:48:00Z

My first blindfolded self-experimentation at home without taste or smell was with cocktails, oddly enough. How I enjoyed eating when I lost my sense of smell and taste 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

An encyclopedic, oddly structured, grimly funny novel, it was met with both enthusiasm and frustration: Entertainment Weekly ran a piece despairing that it was impossible to finish. The genius of “Infinite Jest”: How David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece saved the “big” novel — and why it’s not “a thousand-page suicide note” 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

It was oddly not at all a science-fiction show, because these guys would then be in a historical setting. Adult superhero fans make Daniel Clowes sad: “People need something that has very clear moral boundaries, I guess” 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Until I took my nosebleed seat in the theater, and ended up thinking about power, and femininity, and ya-ya sisterhoods up the wazoo, and feeling oddly moved. Perspective | Reese Witherspoon is selling frilly Southern womanhood, and I’ve been sucked in, y’all 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

This necessitated putting a high-pitched, oddly intoned excitement in your voice when reading a local news item – "There's a new zebra crossing in Shoreditch!" – which I found hard. Michael Bukht obituary letters 2011-08-11T17:43:10Z

Its couplings among bearded, tattooed San Franciscan hipsters prove laid back to the point of inertia; even the threesomes are oddly half-hearted. I Want Your Love – review 2013-06-27T22:30:00Z

Her introduction to the topics of the day was oddly stilted, and her usually fluid vocabulary felt heavy-handed. Radio review: Radio 2 2011-02-22T08:00:06Z

It felt oddly prophetic to stumble upon Santacon in London last weekend – the annual pub crawl for bearded losers. Dear Santa, All I want is not to have to buy presents | Eva Wiseman 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

“It’s oddly an incredibly cynical position,” he said, “in that it deprives therapists and patients of the possibility that we as people can do better, without such heavy-handed intervention.” The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

In the newly diverse TV landscape of 2018, 2008’s fixation on white, middle-aged, married men acting out against a perceived crisis of masculinity seems old hat and oddly unambitious. Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

To my ears, this now sounds oddly prescient. Why graphic novels are more than picture perfect 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

They and the other wives are supposedly competing not just as singers but also, oddly, as losers. Review: In ‘Six,’ All the Tudor Ladies Got Talent 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

His dancers — the company is based here — are among the city’s most accomplished, personable and sensuous; his repertory includes many of the world’s most oddly imaginative masterpieces. Paul Taylor Opens With Humor Intact, but Poetry Missing 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

It’s a delicious immorality play with an excellent cast, but the tempo is slow and oddly ponderous — a romp slowed down to a dirge. | 'House of Cards': ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix Stars Kevin Spacey 2013-01-31T23:08:08Z

The single has enjoyed a three-week rise on the Hot 100—it’s oddly addictive, if even just because it contains so many knots to untie. A Female Rapper Pushes Forward 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

In that, I am oddly filled with hope. Perspective | A secret 9/11 note from beyond the grave 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

Clement’s turn to fiction is oddly dreamy for such a topic, as if to suggest the self-delusion of the real-life actors involved. A Florida Trailer Park Awash in Lethal Weapons 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

AJ’s transformation from lovesick kid to wannabe vampire feels oddly believable. Graphic Novels to Give Kids Chills and Thrills 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

But then again, being reviewed badly, or oddly, or even well, is quite disconcerting and weirdly irrelevant – it all refers to work you did so long ago. And now there's a book out there with your name on it. Imagine that 2011-04-12T11:51:16Z

No one articulated this, oddly enough, better than Mr. Hicks. Bill Hicks, Revived on Video to Jar Viewers Out of Apathy 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

As a result, the voices of musicians who recount the humiliations of Jim Crow law in the South, the hardships of migration and the struggle for self-determination and creative independence remain oddly disembodied. Review: ‘Afterword, the AACM (as) Opera’ Lends a Voice to Stories of Black History 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

The voice is impressive too – but oddly he doesn't sound Welsh. Life and death of Dylan Thomas: BBC biopic to mark poet's centenary 2012-12-09T19:00:44Z

I do think of this as the most oddly impressive aspect of the sonnets. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The essay is oddly cynical and ungenerous, too quick to dismiss its subjects and too unwilling to consider anything positive they might have to offer. Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z

Watched that way, the series is oddly compelling, if you're prepared to meet it just beyond halfway, with a bottle of wine to hand. Your next box set: The Kennedys 2011-08-25T20:59:02Z

The treatment had, oddly, delivered a culinary benefit, he said. Stanley Tucci’s Passion Was Acting. Now, It’s Food. 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

In one oddly magical coup de théâtre, he actually builds this business, then trains his camera on New Yorkers cracking up and marveling at this bizarre new addition to the neighborhood. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

The result is an exotic but oddly familiar-sounding concoction, one that simmered for years before Ms. Zahra put it on record. ArtsBeat Blog: Popcast: Two Chanteuses 2011-09-29T20:23:00Z

Part of the difficulty in discussing whether an attempt at humour is edgy or just infantile is that reactions to comedy are subjective – a fact that is oddly often forgotten by fans and critics. Between Seth MacFarlane and the Onion, Oscars night was a festival of misogyny 2013-02-26T15:30:58Z

It is one of my favourite Morrison songs, a perfect ball of love and desire, belief and rock'n'roll, and, perhaps more oddly, one of the most frequently performed songs at his shows. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-03-31T21:33:00Z

In today's "always on" world, where conversations too often consist of exchanges of oddly spelled cellphone texts or "tweets" of 140 characters or less, that brief opening line serves as a complete book review. Sherry Turkle's 'Alone Together': lonely in a world with 1,000 virtual distractions 2011-01-20T22:21:04Z

And, oddly, the older you are the worse it is. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

And some numbers — like the oddly triumphant final song of Black solidarity — and a new Black activist character named Agamemnon, seem incorporated to counter the cynicism of Schuyler’s work. The Past Pushes Back in 2 Shows With Contemporary Blackness in Mind 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Challenge participants and viewers have described the activity as being "oddly satisfying," "relaxing" or "fun." People peeling raw eggs has become a viral trend on TikTok 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, there’s something oddly reassuring about the show. ‘Snooki & Jwoww,’ on MTV, Begins Its Final Run 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Although it is set in the near future, it struck me as oddly retrograde. Review: A Chic but Dull ‘Tenant’ With James Whiteside 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

For a Canadian with a green card, Mr. Sutherland is oddly smitten with the mythic American West. Kiefer Sutherland Returns. This Time the Oval Office Is His. 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The drama of the film is a separate tragedy—the way that, under the force of circumstances, doing the right thing can sometimes seem oddly wrong. Early Meryl Streep and Peak Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Personally, I found the cape oddly matronly, but the choice, and the reaction, especially its lack of skepticism about either the origin of the dress or its cost, was notable. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the Obama Effect 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

In a third, she appears as an oddly buxom skeleton, wearing a T-shirt with the words “I’m Going to Die.” Martha Wilson, Dressing Up and Poking Fun, in ‘Mona/Marcel/Marge’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Jeannette, the central voice and consciousness in the book, is an oddly blurred character on screen. Review: Woody Harrelson as a Wild and Crazy Dad in ‘The Glass Castle’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Here he’s played as a paranoid but oddly understandable stalker by Patrick Vaill, as a pale, weedy man with the kind of grudge that lands sociopaths on the front page and in prison. Review: There’s a Dark, Golden Haze in This Reclaimed ‘Oklahoma!’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

That none of the Beltway lifers in “Veep” believe in anything is not exactly unrealistic, but it’s also oddly comforting. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The two were vacationing in Las Vegas from Vancouver to celebrate her birthday, and Mr. Deren said that they were far from the first to feel the need for proximity to the oddly beckoning towers. Building an Artist’s ‘Magic Mountains’ to Draw Visitors to the Desert 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Despite this weird worship of wealth and power that’s grown up in post-Great Recession America — which has helped Swift immensely — not everyone loves Swift or her oddly lifeless, machine-made music. The inevitable Taylor Swift backlash begins: Watching the critical mad love crumble, right on schedule 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

She leaves a small trail of blood along my skin, then dispenses the contents of the large syringe into several containers; a spring-like gurgling sound that I find oddly hopeful. I flew to Greece and began solo IVF. Then the world shut down 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

In the finale, fleeting bits of melody never complete themselves and keep breaking off into episodes of repetitive, oddly hymnal chords. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The perfunctory dead mother — which is by far the majority of the tribe — is swept away tidily in the first few pages, leaving her oddly unmoved but handily pathetic child on the road to adventure. There’s a glut of bunnies and dead moms in children’s books 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

What an odd misapprehension and yet oddly apt. ‘No Exit’: Ready for your close-up 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

A concerned neighbour popped in and talked to me very oddly. My life had grown distant from my mother’s – but she tended my baby while I read Marx 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Amid the indifferent evening air, nakedness never looked so poignant, or so oddly full of value. Timon of Athens – review 2012-06-06T13:07:03Z

A brief flashback seems like a perfect way to handle superhero origins, but screen creators have been oddly reluctant to embrace it. Pulling punches: why origin stories keep superhero films from soaring 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

The beet is cleaned of pottery shards and transferred to a plate with a red-wine and beet-juice reduction that is oddly pungent in a way that may remind you of Worcestershire sauce. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The piano part is a kind of busy but oddly breezy toccata, with melodic flights and chord patterns that often cleverly match the word patterns. Music Review: Pianists Embracing the New 2011-05-25T21:52:25Z

The slow sarabande movements are the emotional heart of each of suite, and Ma made them sing like the most penetrating arias in Bach’s cantatas and passions, sorrow so excruciating that it becomes oddly liberating. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

The Russian novelists, oddly, those with the biggest reputations for psychological and historical realism, quite often took to the chat of animals in order to strike for imaginative gold. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

Like Gee, and many others, I felt oddly consoled by its unremittingly miserable pages. WG Sebald: Darkness on the edge of Anglia 2011-01-25T21:31:00Z

So the invitation went to Jeb Bush, who, during an oddly paced conversation, earned from Colbert some lukewarm and circuitous praise. Hillary Clinton Seeks a Viral Hit with Jimmy Fallon 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

As a result, “Paint” feels not just dated, but oddly sad. ‘Paint’ Review: Watch It Dry 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

A majority of the characters hold Hollywood jobs — save for a poet, a musician and a blogger — and an oddly large number are recently single and boohooing over their exes. ‘Distancing Socially’ Review: Scenes from a Quarantine 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Constant shelling in the distance provides surreal background noise, though the gang is oddly blasé about their situation. What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

She is convinced of her impending doom, but seems oddly resigned to it. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Major Dix also compiled “Ellis Island,” an ostensible exploration of immigration that oddly contained only Americana chestnuts like “Oh, Susanna” and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” New York Philharmonic’s Fourth of July Celebration 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

And, oddly enough, I still was convinced by the narrative. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z

Strange robot ritual music, but oddly soothing with it. F&M playlist 2010-08-19T22:55:00Z

Harris Dickinson, who is generally magnetic on screen, oddly fails to make much of an impression here. "The King's Man": Come for the goofy revisionist history, but stay for scenery-chewing Rasputin 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

He became its first archivist in 1980, and as he took up the job, he encountered a jumble of musical and historical materials, along with, oddly, one oil painting: the Signac. Vienna Philharmonic Finds Owners of a Nazi Gift 2014-04-11T22:37:31Z

And you said, "fester," before, so I just have to say, good ... you used it in two other ways, and it's just oddly appropriate. We don't have a healthy relationship with death. Can humor and science help? 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Byrne seems happy enough to revisit the early days but it's an oddly anodyne, airbrushed history. How Music Works by David Byrne - review 2012-11-09T22:55:01Z

And yet death proves oddly congenial to this grumpy beast, who spends his time in the afterlife haunting the soldier who caused his death while pondering the mysteries his ongoing consciousness presents. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z

And the exterminator enters, once a month: a person with a Dickensian grotty aura about him that feels oddly comradely. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

He excelled only when called on to be earnest and emphatic — and it was in the Wagner and Beethoven in the first half of the program, oddly enough, that his weaknesses were most apparent. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

At one point in the film, production assistants enter the room and move things around while the conversation is going on, lending it all an oddly artificial feeling. Art Review: ‘Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi’ at Museum of Modern Art 2013-01-10T21:33:58Z

And, oddly enough, it seems to provide back support. | Ode to the Undergarment 2013-09-12T14:00:24Z

Musicals, oddly enough, were Peck’s portal to Balanchine. Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’

Precisely crafted and yet oddly nonchalant, Davies's music is profoundly invigorating. Tansy Davies – review 2013-04-10T17:30:04Z

Even as it exists in history and speaks to historical realities, it is also oddly out-of-time. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Their surfaces are filled with interlocking shapes and textures that reflect the influence of Gorky and, oddly, Morandi. Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

In one of the most oddly bracing moments, Mr. Mercy shatters a glass while trying to balance on it. Dance Review: Swimming Through Bausch?s World 2010-09-30T21:15:00Z

Essentially the story of a motorcycle gang, its illegal sidelines, and its oddly symbiotic relationship with Charming, its Californian hometown, this season asks us to recognise who the bad guys really are. Michel Roux's Service 2011-01-19T08:00:04Z

So if you traveled back in time to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance and went to a market in England, you'd probably see an oddly familiar sight: women wearing tall, pointy hats. Women used to dominate the beer industry — until the witch accusations started pouring in 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

But while the postindustrial English milieu of “The Last Ship” would seem to place it in an oddly populous genre — “Billy Elliot,” “Kinky Boots,” “The Full Monty” — it studiously avoids specific period references. Sting and Jimmy Nail on the Musical ‘The Last Ship’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Southern Cal Transit Fans is a refuge from all this, a place devoted to an intense and oddly focussed interest. Where Transit Fans Unite 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

A housedress with oddly placed pockets that looked like amateurishly sewn patches looked like a housedress with oddly placed pockets that looked like amateurishly sewn patches. Critical Shopper: Marimekko in the Flatiron District - Critical Shopper 2011-10-19T22:14:30Z

Yet far from being monstrous or grotesque, it's an oddly serene and benign presence. At Davidson Galleries: Robert E. Marx's curious creatures 2012-09-27T00:00:08Z

Sacha Gervasi’s “Hitchcock,” about the director during the time of the making of “Psycho,” is by contrast an oddly sunny piece of work, filmed in bright color and filled with sly wit. ‘Hitchcock’ is surprisingly sunny 2012-11-30T03:28:09Z

The performances were typically polished, and the material was sometimes elevating, though a bit oddly organized around a putative theme of “Legends.” Charlotte Hellekant and John Luther Adams at Spoleto USA 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

But even before the journey begins, the journalist's 10-year-old son has joked that she's decided to fall in love with James, and her behavior around him is oddly imperious and demanding. Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role 2011-03-12T22:01:00Z

That sounded about as exciting and oddly specific as a museum about the Department of Motor Vehicles. We now know that the Postal Service can change history. This museum has argued that for decades. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

I mean, Chelsea Handler, I would say, made room for herself in that and still doesn't get, in my view, reference in that, oddly enough. "There were weird silver linings": How Sarah Silverman worked through grief to still make us laugh 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

Of course, there is history, and it’s nasty — as we learn from lucent black-and-white flashbacks and Asher’s oddly poetic internal monologue. Review: ‘My Father Die,’ Full of Testosterone and Misogyny 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

But the famous funeral march felt oddly numb, and the finale passed in a blur. Music Review: Yundi Plays Chopin at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-21T23:56:00Z

“Walking” conveys ambulatory actions with an oddly angular and hollowed-out approximation. At the Frye: an amazing sculptor you didn’t know about, and a treasured cartoonist 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Still wondering why the "Terminator Genisys" title had an oddly spelled version of "genesis" in the title? Well, wonder no more, we've got the answer. Why was 'Terminator Genisys' spelled with a 'Y'? 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

It felt oddly poignant to stare at an exhibition of ornate battle armor while being so physically vulnerable. I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

An oddly alluring object in the medieval display is a gilded copper plaque featuring a large champlevé enamel crucifix surrounded by smaller enamels, cameos and intaglios. Art Review: ‘Salvaging the Past,’ on Hoentschel, at Bard Graduate Center 2013-05-09T20:53:25Z

That view has not changed — but in empty Rome, still reeling from a year’s cultural deprivation, I felt myself oddly moved by this catastrophic imposture, and the hopelessness of Hirst’s Roman holiday. Alone in the Temporary New Ruins of Rome 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

We compensated with riveting, original music making, everything seeming not only vital but oddly relevant. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

A clever and oddly exciting scene mimics a thousand drug-deal-gone-bad shootouts, with felt flying and green puppet blood staining the walls. Watch List: Yahoo! Screen Introduces Shows With Puppets and a Tiny Rambo 2013-09-08T21:53:03Z

It’s like a silent disco inhabited by people with the oddly loud footfalls of small children. Review: A Dance That’s Just Not Weird Enough 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The closest we get to independent analysis is when, on Paltrow’s third day without solid food, she says: “I feel oddly weak,” and her husband replies: “Well, it’s not really ‘oddly’.” Bow down to the vulva! Why Gwyneth's Goop Lab isn't all bad 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Their case leans somewhat heavily on the plight of salmon, and the oddly casual voice-over is misjudged. Movie Review: ‘DamNation,’ a Documentary, Wants Nature Left Alone 2014-05-08T22:45:18Z

Cosmopoli’s professor of physiology then adds that, despite his murderous resolution, he remains madly in love with the oddly named Uniqua. Review | Escapist reading in the fantasy novels and weird tales from another time 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Definitely the books' oddly charming, often funny mix of the mundane and the absurd. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z

There should be some real electricity seeing Gosling and Evans duke it out in a water fountain, but it is oddly underwhelming — especially after some of the film's superb actions sequences. Netflix's "The Gray Man": Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go loud in Russos' propulsive action flick 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Crushing the little cigars is certainly oddly satisfying. Stir-fried ice-cream: an ‘oddly satisfying’ Thai treat 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Like “Scenario: Script to Perform,” Ms. Walsh’s last work, this one casts an oddly meditative spell, even when it seems to be going nowhere. Review: ‘xgzdiiiiiicdiirrwjfffffffff (pronounced grief).’ Not a Typo. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

But oddly it is Ms. Seibert as the dim Alicia, content to be pretty and confident in her shallow ambition, who delivers the deepest characterization. Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets Roasted? 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

Included is “Ruins,” an oddly beguiling entry by the postmodern choreographer Douglas Dunn, with whom Mr. Williams frequently dances.  Review: ‘Spirits of the Air & Heroes’ Takes on Legend and Fairy Tale 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Despite all the traffic, moving around seems oddly uncomplicated. A sojourner cheats the chill in the warmth of Argentina and Uruguay 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Part of the problem, oddly, is that I missed the catfighting, the tabloid exposés, the sulks and tantrums for which at least two of these acts are famous. The X Factor live tour ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:37Z

The pair come from different but oddly compatible backgrounds. Despite Scary Buzz, Director at Under the Radar Says Don’t Worry 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

His cringe comedy often began as a spoof of the hustle of American entrepreneurs, but invariably spun off into melancholy, oddly poetic moments. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

After preliminaries the two of them embarked, wrote McEwan, “on a long conversation oddly compounded of intimacy and abstraction.” Perspective | Conversation over video is maddening. So take a lesson from literature’s great dialogue writers. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Pamela has 47 suitors vying for her hand, but, oddly, even when presented with the “semifinalists,” she takes a fancy to none. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Who I Am” is an earnest, tortured, searching book — by turns eloquent and long-winded, revealing and oddly elliptical. Books of The Times: ‘Who I Am: A Memoir,’ by Pete Townshend 2012-10-09T00:36:11Z

The evening before the inaugural was oddly warm, given the brick cold that would come on Inauguration Day. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

I’m not much of a cook, and I’m extremely unlikely ever to whip up, oh, cheese curd fritters, but these videos are oddly enchanting. What You Should Watch This Fourth of July Weekend 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

At the Anthem on Tuesday night, the 76-year-old Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner only added to his reputation for intrigue, performing a 20-song show that felt both riveting and oddly removed. Review | A Bob Dylan concert is still as challenging as ever. But why try to change him now? 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

While fish and seafood are chief among the lures here, scallops are ill-served by soft pads of squash puree and oddly chewy cavatelli. Review | A chef who reveres the region brings his act to D.C. 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

On Years, the voice wobbles like a imitation of Auto-Tune, reaching for rapid changes in notes and never quite achieving mechanical perfection, which is unsettling and oddly beautiful. Laurel Halo: Quarantine – review 2012-05-31T20:49:01Z

The real star, though, was out of the way — a few blocks off the southern end of the stretch of Germantown Avenue in an oddly industrial area. Frugal Traveler: Off-the-Beaten Path History in Philadelphia 2011-05-03T20:50:37Z

"The Living Wake" is an oddly alluring, micro-budget fable about the quest for a literary legacy and the romanticized notion of death as an antidote for a misconstrued life. 'The Living Wake': high-minded, with lowbrow pleasures 2010-06-03T22:32:00Z

Mr. Hodgman found the prospect oddly comforting, since the knowledge that he had to die was softened by schadenfreude: Everybody else would, too. Theater Review: John Hodgman Steps Out of ‘The Daily Show’ 2014-01-15T00:01:14Z

Advance reading copies of books – uncorrected proofs distributed to booksellers, editors and other interested parties before publication – usually contain little mistakes: stray typos, misspelled words, oddly formatted paragraphs. Capitalized Clues to a Glitch 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

You know what’s oddly liberating about this is that we would go off and make movies that have absolutely nothing to do with any of these topics, but journalists bring them up, you know? Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the nonsensical can be an oddly useful way to accomplish that. 'I thought psychics were full of shit': how a sceptic turned to clairvoyance 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

But for a movie that’s meant to be contemporary—at one point Fassbender’s character stumbles into a street protest about all the disappeared young girls of Juarez—there’s an oddly retro vibe going on. The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum 2013-10-24T09:45:41Z

There is also something oddly exciting for viewers of a certain age at the thought of Joss Whedon returning to television. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Which Joss Whedon Will We Get? 2013-09-23T20:19:18Z

And yet, for a show all about excess, the production is oddly spare. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

So it falls to the plucky, oddly homework-free students to protect Boston’s populace. Books of The Times: ?The Technologists,? by Matthew Pearl, Is Set in 1868 2012-02-23T00:25:22Z

The CBS response, though, was oddly inconsistent, evidence of how uncharted this territory was. The Smothers Brothers and the Birth of TV Buzz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Elizabeth Watts mayhave seemed incongruous – a tiny soprano in velvet coat and breeches playing an oddly chirpy general – but the audience loved her for her gleaming singing as much as for her levity. Radamisto – review 2013-02-11T17:31:00Z

This is among the best of its kind, confident and not completely imitative, but it sits oddly with the modern, standardised block it covers. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z

But when I ask where the family is based at the moment, she turns oddly cagey. Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

Ben Arnold Despite the occasional glib line about it being an "Orwellian nightmare", the super-surveillance computer that forms the central premise of this new procedural is oddly treated as a good thing. Series: Watch this TV highlights 14/08/2012 2012-08-14T13:57:25Z

Instead he presents a conventional tale of sexual and professional jealousy with oddly dull characters. | 'An Error of the Moon': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln?s Assassin 2010-08-31T02:01:00Z

The message is defiant, but it’s delivered in an oddly calm, almost dispassionate voice. Defiant Showman Demands His ?Wow? 2011-06-03T15:21:47Z

Defined by an ingenious knack for manipulating layers of feedback into oddly melodic hums and buzzes, this is a headphones record that gets more absorbing with every listen. Seefeel: Seefeel - review 2011-02-03T23:00:01Z

It’s a place of “dark-bruised El Greco skies,” troubled only by the artwork of Pueblo gods in their rental home that leave Michaela oddly disturbed. Review | Joyce Carol Oates captures the wobbly reality of widowhood in ‘Breathe’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

I'm not convinced it ever truly did stem from one, really, with its mix of 1950s formality and oddly polite Victorian parlour game, yet it was a gentle, endearing illusion. Some radio voices never age. Sadly, their owners do 2010-08-04T08:52:00Z

Gonzalez is terrific at depicting Angel’s oddly endearing combination of streetwise swagger and innocence. Review | Heaven sent: ‘Jesus Hopped the “A” Train’ at 1st Stage 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

But the way various scenes intersect and explain events from past episodes is fun and oddly Pulp Fiction-like. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 6-10 2013-05-27T13:36:17Z

Yet the performance itself is oddly hypnotic, a complete surrender to a movie that, at its core, is mainly concerned with bodies: at rest and in motion, swarming and pummeling, wounded and wasted. Review: ‘A Prayer Before Dawn’ Drops a British Boxer Into a Thai Prison 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

All this set in a police station attached, oddly enough, to a racquetball court on which members of the cast actually played. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z

“But oddly enough, when you draw off the liquor from this, it tastes delicious, and doesn’t taste fishy.” Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

It was oddly comfortable sitting next to him. When Your Uber Driver Brings a Time Machine 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Two of them, oddly enough, feature the consumption of human flesh. Critic’s Notebook: Film Comment Selects Festival Offers 22 Intriguing Picks 2014-02-13T22:30:25Z

Almost the opposite is true of “Bon Voyage, Bob…,” a baggy, rambling gush of a piece that, at close to four hours with an intermission, is way too long and emotionally overwrought, yet oddly absorbing. Two Choreographers at Work in a Pina Bausch-Haunted Land 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

With a subtly feminist attitude, Ms. Kilgallen drew and painted cartoon images of oddly solemn women who seem to belong to the 1920s and ’30s. Art Review: 5 Artists in ‘Energy That Is All Around: Mission School’ 2014-04-24T21:50:22Z

From such oddly named seeds, true flowers bloom, a moral that those of us with similarly strange names find deeply heartening. To Kill a Mockingbird: the backlash 2010-06-29T19:30:00Z

Hiding within “Mary Kills People,” debuting Sunday at 10 p.m. on Lifetime, is a compassionate, oddly accessible and, dare I say, lively examination of assisted suicide. “Mary Kills People”: An agile drama about the risky business of delivering a good death 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

And without much fuss, it gives equal space to Munch early and late, reducing their differences with a new sense of consistency based, oddly, on restlessness itself. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Even Judith, in her oddly adorable gut gown, thinks he needs to get it together. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 8: We Must Protect This House 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

He used my name more often than he needed to, and with an oddly intimate intonation that, in combination with his British accent, seemed not only precise but proper. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Some are helpful when it comes to topical references and the myriad minor poets Mr. Fest mentions along the way, but others are oddly placed or intrusively judgmental. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z

Yet beyond the social context, and even if people’s darkest fears are confirmed, it’s hard to see what harm the publication of the book, somewhat oddly titled “Go Set a Watchman,” would do. Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Its conclusion is oddly reminiscent of the end of the great Carol Reed movie “The Third Man.” Martin Amis’s New Novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Opera Moderne oddly decided not to include any of his music from the 1940s or ’50s or works by the blacklisted Copland, Blitzstein or Morton Gould. Music Review: Opera Moderne Completes Its ‘Red Scare’ Series 2012-06-17T22:12:58Z

Most oddly, the musical makes room for another strand that provides the long biography of a rock in Central Park that’s a favorite spot of Lindsay’s, related by a young boy played by Giovanni Cozic. Review: In ‘Up Here,’ Boy (and All His Inner Demons and Angels) Meets Girl 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

It’s, oddly enough, a field that has gotten extra attention in the past decade or two, as the study of the social anthropology of eating has become almost a scholarly mania. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Lindsay Roggenbuck shared a video on her page that shows how to wrap an oddly shaped gift. Viral gift wrapping hacks for this holiday season 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Aashayein” has sad moments — patients die — but the prevailing mood is less maudlin than oddly playful, with a dash of mysticism. | 'Aashayein': Handsome Guy Is Dying, but He Can Afford Care 2010-08-29T23:11:00Z

“It’s a delicious immorality play with an excellent cast, but the tempo is slow and oddly ponderous — a romp slowed down to a dirge,” Alessandra Stanley wrote in The Times in January. Video: ‘French Masterworks: Russian Émigrés in Paris 1923-1928’ 2013-06-07T20:56:00Z

Ostrovsky was oddly charming and surrounded by a small posse of friends with whom he grew up. At the first-ever SopranosCon, meet the fans who never stopped believin’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

They're still oddly shy about sex, shooting around naughty bits when they show the act at all. The problem with American remakes of British shows 2011-02-09T15:01:00Z

The powdery croutons in the lobster salad are also oddly sweet, and a kicky side of baby bok choy reveals grit in the heat. Review | Bar Charley has grown up. Now, you’ll dine as well as you drink. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The lyrics allude to weariness and healing, but the tone of the music and dance is oddly sleepy, almost drugged, for a comeback piece. Review: The Stephen Petronio Company Reconnects 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

In stretches, the work seemed to present several duets occurring all at once, and then shifting, an oddly poignant vision of a little society made up of many small conversations. Review: Wet Ink Ensemble Pays Tribute to Anthony Braxton 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Sophia and I can now laugh about the incident, about how oddly coincidental it all was. My open relationship went awry 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z

She isn’t ridiculous in the role, and her eyes do look violet, but she is oddly passive, sleepwalking through scenes that call for passion and caprice. Television Review: ‘Liz & Dick,’ Starring Lindsay Lohan, on Lifetime 2012-11-23T21:58:09Z

Shot in the oddly diminutive rooms of a derelict house, the photographs create an intriguing tension between reality and fantasy. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z

Despite a few bustiers and songs entitled Sex Is in the Heel and What a Woman Wants, this is an oddly chaste show. Kinky Boots – review 2013-04-05T09:57:07Z

However you see the matter — and some people consider Ms. Kusama’s self-proclaimed psychosis little more than savvy self-mythologizing — the photographic image of her grave, guarded but oddly affectless gaze is integral to her art. Art Review: Yayoi Kusama at Whitney Museum of American Art 2012-07-12T21:34:04Z

Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California contains an array of stunning landscapes, dotted by its namesake oddly shaped plants. Pick Mojave National Preserve over Joshua Tree: Twice the size, a quarter the visitors, all the beauty 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Under the direction of Casey Childs, Stuart's masterful solos certainly heighten the enjoyment of this production, but at times they seem oddly disconnected from the flow of the narrative, with awkwardly abrupt entrances and exits. Review: Artist meets artisan in 'The Morini Strad' 2012-04-04T15:10:12Z

Both last movements were delightfully playful; both Andantes were reflective, if oddly balanced; and the Mozart first movement spoke with authority and moments of repose. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

But at the same time that it all seemed totally insane, it was also oddly attractive. My ironic sorority disaster 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Though Lindeman’s music sounds nothing like Drake’s, their origin stories are oddly similar: Both are former Canadian child actors who managed to reinvent themselves, in adulthood, as respected musicians. Climate Change Is Worsening. So the Weather Station Is Singing About It. 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

The images are absolutely quotidian, but the effect is oddly entrancing. Near downtown L.A., an oddly entrancing art installation, at once beautiful and troubling 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

People tend to describe Parker's melodies as Lennonesque, which in the era of Beady Eye sounds an oddly backhanded compliment, like shorthand for saying he's not trying at all. Tame Impala: Lonerism – review 2012-10-04T14:29:01Z

And that powerlessness, while painful, is also oddly comforting. What We Can Learn From the Bobbi Kristina Brown Tragedy 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Touch Kiefer Sutherland plays the single father of a mute but oddly gifted boy, on Fox, this Wednesday night at 9, Eastern and Pacific times; 8, Central time. | 'Touch': In ?Touch,? Kiefer Sutherland Plays a Single Dad - Review 2012-01-25T00:38:52Z

Then again, it was in three languages, none of which I speak: Hungarian, German and oddly enough, a Slavic language I did not recognize. Frugal Traveler: A Weekend in Hungary, Chosen at Random 2014-02-05T17:08:45Z

That she pulls it off — that there is something oddly mature about her face helps — is its own kind of weirdness. Early on, 'Intruders' gets swallowed by the dark 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Throughout, Daum parses then tallies emotional truths; her revelations are exhilarating, terrifying and oddly comforting. Contemporary Womanhood, in Fact and Fiction 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Though the site is nominally branded around young British men, its offerings hold an oddly universal appeal. The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

His captions were often oblique references to familiar sayings, seen through a clear but oddly angled lens. Charles Barsotti, New Yorker cartoonist known for his simplicity, dies at 80

The film, which was shown on public television, depicted the black soldiers as fiercely patriotic and courageous while offering an oddly good-natured — and moving — critique of American racism. William Miles, Maker of Documentaries About Black History, Dies at 82 2013-05-19T03:14:06Z

These bursts are captivating, even oddly adventurous, and for the audience, a chance to grasp something of the performers’ sensorial secret language. Review: Lindy Hopping Into the Present With Caleb Teicher and Co. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

But oddly, he picked the Garden as the place to try a more sober, conversational style. Aziz Ansari Plays Madison Square Garden 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

I think mine must be worse than most as I caught a glimpse of Pedro and found him oddly attractive. Pit lit: the Chilean miners' story 2010-10-14T17:11:00Z

The remake of “Scenes From a Marriage” split the difference oddly, opening with the fourth-wall-breaking image of the cast and crew working under Covid protocols, then letting its domestic dissolution play out sans masks. Wondering When the Pandemic Will End? On TV, It Already Has. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Long-frozen bodies moved oddly, mechanically, like wobbly figures in a cuckoo clock, impelled by forces other than their own will. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Interprets Ideas of Oliver Sacks 2013-04-23T22:10:51Z

At one point the camera rises, sneaking up on an empty, abandoned sports car oddly parked on the freeway shoulder. Ricardo Valverde at Vincent Price museum: Fresh look at a probing eye 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Stepping off the bus near Pennsylvania Station on Sunday, I soon found myself surrounded by people in yellow jerseys speaking an oddly familiar language. A Taste of History in the South, and a Hint of Home in New York 2010-09-08T03:00:00Z

The study found that, oddly, close friends are often genetically similar in their sense of smell. Study: BFFs May Have Similar DNA 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

It testifies in particular to Rosewoman’s talents as an arranger of lushly braided horn harmonies, which fit oddly — but just right — into the wobbly flow of the group’s three batá drummers. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

After the non-success of my Yale volume, “Some Trees,” I found myself living in France, no longer on that Fulbright, and no longer supported by the odd but oddly supportive waves of our national patois. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

I can trace at least part of my wanderlust and love of remote islands to the book, so when I first visited this extreme place, closer to Norway than Edinburgh, I felt oddly at home. Savoring the Shetland Islands on the small screen 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

What ought to have been a match made in theatrical heaven seems oddly tentative, as if performer and part have yet to fully align. Review: ‘The Entertainer,’ ‘Unfaithful’ and ‘They Drink It in the Congo’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

For a reporter whose last book, “Lust in Translation,” was about infidelity in different cultures, Ms. Druckerman is oddly unjournalistic here. Books of The Times: ?Bringing Up B?b?,? a French-Influenced Guide by Pamela Druckerman 2012-02-07T22:55:40Z

But oddly, what happened is that as I worked to deliver the message, the message was delivered to me. Kate DiCamillo: ‘Reading aloud binds us together in unanticipated ways’ 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

He holds his arms up around his neck, an oddly awkward gesture by which he seems to be trying to contain his own explosive impetuousness. ‘Egon Schiele: Portraits’ at Neue Galerie 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

However, films such as Before Midnight are oddly rare. Before Midnight rages against film's dying of the light 2013-06-24T15:50:20Z

While her eyebrows twist, contort and furrow, her eyes and body oddly show little depth of emotion. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1, Episode 3: Gender Treachery 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

With her personalising of what were intended to be universal tools of self-knowledge, Apter oddly exhibits a version of such characteristics. Difficult Mothers by Terri Apter – review 2012-08-24T21:45:04Z

“Say, mate, let’s travel around to Britain’s most oddly pronounced places,” Tom said Cholmondeley. Style Invitational Week 1081: It’s the stupidity, stupid — be a dumb-ask

Thinking back to situations where he has oddly questioned things, I realize that he has been tracking me for a while. Perspective | Ask Amy: Addict in recovery wonders about disclosure 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

Yet oddly, when the review published its 32-volume report and 3,000 pages of evidence last year, his government said almost nothing. The Brexit dilemma 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

But they were oddly sidelined, often appearing backstage surrounded by cast members of the nominated shows, and nearly everyone who appeared seemed to be obeying orders to keep themselves under wraps. Critic’s Notebook: The Tonys Show Celebrates the Stage Without Any Real Theater 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Thomas Dausgaard, who had an oddly brief tenure as Morlot’s successor, took the label in a rather less inventive direction, so it’s good to see the orchestra returning to form here. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

That vocal quality came through strongly in Derya Turkan’s soulful improvisation — which included the same languid oscillation of pitch that had struck me as so oddly expressive in the Pomo d’Oro concert. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

But since then, every time I've played that song while driving – but, oddly, only while driving – the result has been the same. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

"The Detour is a beautiful, oddly moving work of fiction, a quiet read that lingers long in the mind, like the ghosts that linger in our homes, and in the land around us," he wrote. Independent Foreign Fiction prize goes to Gerbrand Bakker 2013-05-21T10:30:05Z

But as a call for us to hurry up and re-engage lest judgment day arrive first, “13” makes an oddly pro forma case for the reawakening of passion. Theater Review: They're Ripping Themselves Apart Onstage, Inside and Out 2011-11-01T13:30:07Z

The visuals occasionally overwhelm the plot, which loosely accommodates some oddly amusing encounters. 'Bunny and the Bull': Buddies jump into an offbeat adventure 2010-09-16T22:17:00Z

Though it features several well-drawn and vibrant performances, “Merrily” comes across here as oddly quaint and self-conscious. Theater Review: Sondheim?s ?Merrily We Roll Along? in Encores! Staging 2012-02-09T23:44:16Z

Like Koch, Graziano, when entertaining such seemingly fanciful ideas, shifts into a mode that oddly mixes lyricism and technical rigor. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The rules ranged from the vague promise to eliminate “unsavory illustrations” to the oddly specific vow to not depict werewolfism. Sex and the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Movie superheroes are being scrubbed of desire 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

You can call it post-fashion, this disregard for how the other 99 percent live, and even on a brief exploratory visit, it was oddly liberating. | Peter Elliot Men: Peter Elliot Men: Looking Like You Don?t Try Too Hard 2010-07-07T00:42:00Z

I guess acting and negotiating have a fair amount in common, oddly enough. "I'm not trying to fool anybody": From Elvis to Zod, Michael Shannon is versatile but no chameleon 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Even the encores seemed oddly distanced: three chestnuts — Schumann’s “Träumerei,” Debussy’s “Golliwog’s Cakewalk,” played with rubbery sprightliness, and a Chopin waltz — followed by a composition of his own. Review | A brilliant pianist offers a so-so recital: Kissin returns to Strathmore 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Two of the shows will be in English — and both, oddly enough, involve madness in some way. In Istanbul, Theater in Many Tongues 2010-05-03T10:00:00Z

On a Thursday night there are about 400 people in the main lounge, a vast liver-coloured space, brightly lit and oddly hushed. Bingo is back – and even the hipsters have got their eyes down 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Wolfe seemed pressed to find a convincing conclusion, ending oddly on a sustained cluster. JACK Quartet tries to achieve cohesion amid dissonance 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Other applications include grilled cheese and crepes, but, oddly, no omelets. Hannah Kirshner of Sweets & Bitters and Her Omelet Pan for the Backyard Bounty 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

If you are familiar with Mr. Marti’s work, “Set Pieces” may look oddly restrained. Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z

Beyond that, there wasn’t much to report: a bathroom, a cantilevered TV and, oddly, a small bag of Fritos, apparently the Econo version of a mint on the pillow. Places to Be a Suburbanite in New York City 2012-05-31T12:00:00Z

It looked, oddly, like a full moon having almost cleared the horizon. My Last Day as a Surgeon 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

“We always say that we don’t like looking back because we think it kind of paralyzes you,” said Russell, 72, encapsulating the constant creative forward motion that has defined the band’s oddly incomparable history. Now Sparks Can Confuse Fans on the Big Screen 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

It is not possible to have followed events on American campuses in recent years and be blind to the terrible practises in male societies; yet Linklater persists with his oddly tone-deaf celebration of these jocks. How cinema failed diversity in 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

After more than two hours of flaming arrows, loud music and defiant sloganeering, it’s oddly hard to tell. | 'Robin Hood': Crowe and Blanchett in Ridley Scott?s Nottingham 2010-05-13T19:58:00Z

It could, and while it could be said more colloquially than in this odd and oddly affecting rumination, it really couldn’t be said a whole lot better. Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

But it also got a hemorrhage of emails and tweets from persons who were oddly angered at what seems to be just a bit of good-natured noodging from a lobbying organization. Here’s what happens when people petition In-N-Out for veggie options 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

For a show that begins and ends with feline fascination and goes nowhere in between, “Cats” is oddly divisive. Review | Love it or hate it, ‘Cats’ the musical has way more than nine lives 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

He wrote in a galloping, oddly punctuated style, treating literature almost as an outsider art. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Then, because Trump’s so oddly angry for a guy born into millions, I cut it with bitter Cynar and topped it with milk. Trump’s Towering Inferno and other cocktails inspired by presidential candidates 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

She gets lots of visitors,” she said, seeming oddly pleased. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z

The songs sported much of the ageless, defiant joy they did so long ago, and as the four band members bounded across stage, muscles rippling beneath skintight clothes, they looked oddly immortal. Danzig on Getting the Band (the Misfits) Back Together. Briefly. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

As we approached West 18th Street, a group of young women spotted the comedian and instinctively began laughing and, oddly, cheering. Only Gilbert Gottfried Could Be So Dirty and So Heartbreaking 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

“The 4400,” focused on the undead but with none of the zombie horror effects, shows the newly risen wielding oddly assorted superpowers. The Dead Get a Do-Over 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Yet, there’s an oddly emotional sequence when June breaks into her mother’s dating app and, for the first time, learns to see her as a woman with her own desires. ‘Missing’ Review: Mom’s Lost in the Matrix 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

And I resisted the urge to touch the oddly adorable, five-legged, two-headed calf — but only because it had a sign saying “Please do not pet me.” The Met, they’re not: The oddest museums in New York City 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Bale, turning in a respectable if oddly chipper performance under the circumstances, has the unfortunate task of playing a character who doesn't really add up. 'The Flowers of War': an oddly frivolous take on Nanjing massacre 2012-01-19T20:42:08Z

The show is as puerile and scatological as any male-centered series on Comedy Central, but oddly enough, it’s the self-degradation that gives it feminist cachet. Television Review: ‘Broad City’ Brings a Female Twist to Failure 2014-01-21T21:57:40Z

With his hands and shirt covered in blood, Mr. Lucic turned to Ms. Netrebko, seeming at once desperate and oddly detached. In the Met’s ‘Macbeth,’ Anna Netrebko as the Scheming Wife 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

“There are very few French collectors, oddly enough,” he added. Antiques: Suddenly, Lalique Is Back in Vogue 2011-06-23T21:22:39Z

On the studious and oddly organized cocktail list, what are called Hawksmoor Classics mingle with alcoholic and nonalcoholic tributes to New York. Does New York Need a British Steakhouse? Yes, if It’s Hawksmoor. 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

And yet, oddly, in their characteristic mix of autobiography, of fiction and of fantasy, Fellini's films raise the very same question I wish to ask. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

The plastic bags appear organic and oddly sensuous. Review | In the galleries: Intellectually engaging, visually striking and open to interpretation 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

They spend the day together, seemingly still strangers, though their rapport cuts oddly deep at times. What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

With tendrils drooping down, extending its length to an astonishing 10.2 inches, it suggests a corsage gone awry or dripping blood — disconcerting and oddly beautiful. The Brooch Is Back, Baby 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

But by the time Francie’s own mask finally falls, the revelation feels oddly bloodless. Review: In ‘The Butcher Boy,’ an Anti-Coming of Age Story 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The need for a new biography is not entirely obvious; and unfortunately, the man who lies at the heart of all these turbulent personal and political maelstroms remains oddly and frustratingly distant in Eisner’s telling. Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Sala, good-hearted and oddly practical in spite of himself, is a prototype of Dr. Gonzo, the bulky lawyer who would be Sancho to Thompson’s Quixote in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” | 'The Rum Diary': Hunter S. Thompson?s ?Rum Diary,? With Johnny Depp - Review 2011-10-27T22:54:08Z

Every day or so, NMA produces oddly dubbed CGI shorts based on our country's tabloid headlines, gaining particular notoriety for their Tiger Woods and Lindsay Lohan reenactments. Five weird Taiwanese animations you haven't seen 2011-03-30T21:01:00Z

Simply ambling along in these tunnels, hundreds of steps beneath the ­bustling streets of Paris, is fascinating and oddly serene. Beneath the bustling streets of Paris, the Catacombs are silent as the grave 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

First single Shapeshifter is thrillingly catchy while not being remotely pop – as per the standards of today's charts, anyway – a song seemingly about possession and betrayal that, oddly, you can imagine singing along with. New band of the day: Tokolosh (No 1,487) 2013-04-08T16:06:47Z

From blowup to makeup to uneasy détente, “My King” is repetitive yet oddly tremendous. Review: In ‘My King,’ Blindly Falling Fast and Furious 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

References to Mozart’s time during the ball scene at the end of Act I include, oddly, a slew of cheap-looking masked, gowned mannequins in the windows. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

Blurry Zoom screens, along with strange lighting and oddly close-up shots, led many on social media to wonder whether the Globes producers just remembered they had to throw together a remote show this weekend. At the Golden Globes, faulty connections and some mixed messages about diversity 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

And on that slender but oddly believable premise hangs our story of deception, despair and some surprising aspects of persistent hope. Theater Review: ‘Last Man Club,’ at Axis Theater 2012-10-19T22:47:58Z

There was something oddly comforting about Xanax—the way it came in many shapes and colors, like peach and blue. My road to hell was paved with Xanax (and Klonopin, and Ativan, and Halcion) 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

With a typically effusive Baker at the helm, though, this three-part powwow was oddly compelling; you even found yourself warming, fleetingly, to Jeremy Clarkson, revealing his partisan support for the Who. Catch-up TV guide: from Educating Essex to Hashtags 2013-02-16T06:00:07Z

Anthony Bourdain once described the classic Philippine dessert Halo Halo as “oddly beautiful.” Don’t call it a snow cone: Nothing tastes quite like Hawaiian shave ice 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

And, oddly enough, most of the gaffes weren’t even related to politics. Is it Friday yet? A look at everyone’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Those wits are gone in “The Life of Saul Bellow,” a dry, digressive and oddly stunted biography that seems to have been written less on autopilot than on autofill. Review: Zachary Leader’s ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

What we could not have foreseen: the open, talkative, oddly at-ease woman who would emerge from this interlude, ready to explain it all. Perspective | Lisa Marie Presley understood how to live life as a nepo baby 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Nearby, an automatic Disklavier piano produces an oddly lyrical cacophony: a fragment of music by Cage with its own sweetly disordered logic. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z

West is "not the world's greatest singer and oddly nervous last night", Letts wrote, "but he does radiate a dashing dastardliness". Dominic West's musical on song 2012-12-19T15:22:24Z

The play, drawn entirely from the real words of real people, nonetheless manages to sound oddly synthetic throughout. Bumpy Starts to London’s Fall Theater Season 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Her work — both violent and yielding, fiercely willed and oddly relaxed — is the subject of a commanding solo show, on view through July 28 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Sculpture as personal as it gets 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Slowly Shirley, a basement bar in the West Village, has a whole section of them, which it titles, rather oddly, “Evening Cocktails.” Lukewarm Drinks, Enthusiastic Reaction 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

It makes the work of some of his acclaimed contemporaries look futile and oddly amateurish. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z

I felt oddly close to my own dead parents as I read along. I’m Dying Up Here: Books on How to Grieve and How to Die 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

And she has a strong heroine, even though Caren is oddly passive even when she aggressively tries to uncover Belle Vie’s secrets. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z

And it doesn’t hurt that he was the director of “Contagion,” the 2011 film that now seems oddly prescient. Her Role at HBO Max? Challenging Netflix 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

It is oddly endearing, too, that nearly 25 years into her musical career, Kylie's voice remains a valiant squeak rather than an octave-scaling tour de force. Kylie Minogue ? review 2011-03-27T16:34:54Z

Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States. A Journalist Abroad Grapples With American Power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Large photographs show ceramic vessels or an oddly artificial cedar tree. Art in Review: DAVID ZINK YI: ?Pneuma? 2011-07-21T21:44:44Z

The puppets’ journey, crossing and circling the stage, now seemed oddly affecting, and the puppets themselves not only seemed more lifelike but had even taken on individual identities. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z

Here, this macabre art is celebrated in all its gory but oddly hilarious glory. Internet picks of the week 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

Ferrante leaves many threads dangling; we’re left to wonder at the initial forecast and the novel’s enigmatic, oddly heroic conclusion: What is this progress that seems to contain the seeds of regression? Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

And as for that oddly dislocated British poet who was drawn here, along with thousands of other Europeans? 2010-02-06T04:33:00Z

In general, if you presented more masculine, there was an idea where people would just assume that you were funnier, oddly. Margaret Cho's message to drag show haters: "Take equal rights like a man" 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

The "tasters" seem clunky and oddly downbeat – "Mountbatten Speaks on World War 2; In Colour: Verdict on the Paris Fashions" – but the portrait, with its clever crop, could have appeared on any magazine this morning. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

Here he reaches into a bag of tricks that includes vertiginous work with a hand-held camera and oddly massed, almost Expressionist images. DVD: Landmarks of Early Soviet Film Come to DVD 2011-10-09T03:23:03Z

Bowles did seem to recognize the musical collection as oddly essential to his legacy—a big deal. The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

All a chap needed to get the most out of camp life was a tent and a canoe, although oddly, Holding also suggested making blancmange from scratch. The Art of Camping by Matthew de Abaitua - review 2011-07-06T09:00:01Z

It was an oddly inarticulate explanation for an anchor known for his verbal facility and poise. Brian Williams, in Raw Form, Delivers an Apology on ‘Today’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Though it lasts only 75 minutes, the production feels long and oddly cluttered by its gnomic dialogue. Review: In ‘The Prisoner,’ Peter Brook Ponders Crime and Punishment 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

It is perhaps fitting that “New York Animals,” which chronicles the existences of disparate and desperate city dwellers, should be an assemblage of such oddly assorted collaborators. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Of course it was irresistible: people behave very, very oddly when they are giving birth or partnering someone who is. Fly on the wall has become surveillance TV 2010-11-21T22:16:00Z

That’s an oddly uplifting conclusion to a film that shows so many storms of temperament from a man in a foul-weather mood. Review: Mr. Turner: A Sour Man With a Painterly Genius 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Medicine cabinets are typically crammed full of oddly shaped objects and tiny bottles that fall over every time you try to find what you need. Perspective | How to squeeze more storage space out of your kitchen, closets and more 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

And yet, oddly, for a while at least, British cinema still glimmers with the promise of great things ahead. The view: British cinema ? what now? 2010-05-07T09:53:00Z

I was oddly moved by the scene where Lloyd confronts hunters on his property, and he is vulnerable. Thomas Haden Church on his offbeat new "Acidman" role: "There is clearly something wrong with Lloyd" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Their songs revolve around pinpoint Minimalistic patterns, set against sustained, oddly leaping vocal lines, and they have made each album distinct. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z

Graham's oddly appealing, sometimes poignant performance takes place only on Thursdays, through May 2 in the downstairs Huron Club at Soho Playhouse, a small room complete with full bar. Review: Comic loser in 'This Too Shall Suck' wins 2013-01-29T01:10:09Z

Watching the crew on her first shoot care for Bella — who is so green she doesn't know about douching — is oddly touching. "Pleasure" is a gutsy, humane film about porn stardom 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

More oddly, the officer then delivers one of the evening’s weirder soliloquies, in which he announces that he’s been anointed a secular saint, and then floats through the air a few inches off the ground. Review: ‘Nice Fish,’ Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins’s Quirky Ice Fishing Tale 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

It's why we're fascinated, if not obsessed, with Google and Twitter and all the rest of their oddly named species. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z

His romance with Hudson’s Erica, oddly, is the most misjudged departure from the book, substituting something overt for elements that, in the novel, are hauntingly, insolubly elusive. ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’: solid movie from brilliant book 2013-05-02T21:25:34Z

Blood Ties is brazen, cheesy and oddly enjoyable. Cannes film festival 2013 diary: day six 2013-05-20T11:09:43Z

As the N.B.A. finally begins another season, it is playing through the hangover of a lockout, an oddly voided trade and reverberations from the LeBron James Decision. Books of The Times: ?Whore of Akron? and ?When the Garden Was Eden? - Review 2011-12-25T22:22:07Z

He can, and he did, and it makes for a surprisingly engaging, oddly moving work about love, commitment and missed opportunities. ‘Illusions,’ a Tale of Two Couples Who Are Lifelong Friends 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Almost billboard-size and graphically bold, with its carefully detailed but oddly empty image of well-dressed amblers on a drizzle-slicked Right Bank street, it was a showstopper. Review: Paris Is Reborn in ‘Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Drawing on personal letters and diaries, author Amy Gary draws a colorful — if oddly speculative — portrait. The bold, boisterous woman behind the classic children’s tale ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

At about 11, she made to leave, but not before paging curiously through a bedside volume of Robert Louis Stevenson essays, one chapter of which, suggestively titled “Portraits and Memories,” seemed oddly familiar to her. Stockard Channing and Friends Usher in a New Chelsea Bar 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

On the contrary, many of the horrors described seem oddly familiar. Global warning: the rise of 'cli-fi' 2013-05-31T07:00:04Z

By the time they closed with Runnin' – whose lilting verses slipped into a lovely, oddly mournful singalong chorus – the night felt like a proper house party. The Pharcyde – review 2012-07-19T17:15:01Z

Lockwood manages to make her father not only more complicated than he seems, but also oddly lovable in his lurching way. Patricia Lockwood Is a Priest’s Child (Really), but ‘From the Devil’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

“It oddly pushed me into making more music than I would have had we the more luxurious deadlines of yore,” Jenkins said. Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard to Sell Vinyl 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Stezaker's images can often look oddly old-fashioned – the end result of scissors, paste and board – and disturbing. Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review 2012-07-14T23:06:08Z

Lonergan’s history with Hollywood began, oddly enough, when, as a promising but unknown playwright, he made a very cleareyed, even craven, business decision — which wound up paying off very well. Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece 2012-06-19T19:43:37Z

The woman is oddly trusting, wanting to talk and share although Elizabeth threatens her early in their chat. 'The Americans' Recap: You Should Trust the Organization 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

He then quickly ran through his familiar word-association stump speech, full of angry ideas and half-expressed goals, all told in oddly cheerful language. The Fake Donald Trump Movie Isn’t Funny Enough 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

And like Ms. Mantel, he writes historical novels that are not just pastiche or painstaking waxworks re-creations, but books that make the past seem oddly contemporary. Books of The Times: ‘Pure,’ a New Novel by Andrew Miller 2012-07-03T21:48:27Z

Surely Saturday will be busier than Friday, goes the festival chatter, but these rolling hills are still remarkably empty – which, oddly enough, makes it feel rather special. The Big Chill 2011-08-07T11:53:31Z

But the people she meets on the way to Oz and in the Emerald City are oddly like those she knows in Kansas. The Wizard of Oz: No 5 2010-10-21T10:50:00Z

And Patrick does not abuse his sons; oddly enough, he regards their protection as coming within his remit. Patrick Melrose and the Fall of the English Élite 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to miss them, however, since the straight black wigs and oddly cut, closefitting costumes they wear make them look like androgynous alien joggers. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The unpredictable scene transitions are particularly clever: an emotional moment turns oddly into a song; a remote man suddenly whispers so a scene becomes impossible to hear. | ?Hysteria? and ?If That?s All There Is?: The Ordinary Can Pave the Road to Insanity 2010-12-19T22:49:44Z

Those precious early years seem oddly clearer to me now, at 70. Books of The Times: Judy Collins?s Memoir ?Sweet Judy Blue Eyes? - Review 2011-11-13T22:52:02Z

Costa-Jackson goes for a broadly comic and oddly shrewish Musetta, setting aside charm and seductiveness in a role that is set up to walk off with the show in her pocket and often does. Seattle Opera welcomes back live audiences with a moving ‘La Bohème’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

No, and oddly enough I’m quite a nostalgic person, but I’m not that nostalgic about my own stuff. Love Story: A Q&A with Singer-Songwriter Robyn Hitchcock 2013-03-05T20:02:08Z

But the song was oddly nostalgic, too, because listening to it in 2000, when Napster first came on my suburban radar, was a staunch reminder of how proudly pre-aughts "Rent" was. 10 Year Time Capsule: When Napster changed the music industry 2011-02-23T13:23:00Z

That is forgivable with Smith, who is playing the genuinely nice guy, but Dickinson, who is usually magnetic on screen, oddly lacks charisma here, which is fatal. "Where the Crawdads Sing" is a stupefyingly bad adaptation of spoon-fed melodrama 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

It’s an oddly specific thing for the president to repeatedly insist upon, and so, I assume, it must serve some kind of thematic purpose. Perspective | Why does the president keep talking about women and duct tape on the border? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

While it envelops the viewer, the dancers seem oddly indifferent or immune to it, continuing their measured, hovering balances and paces without paying it much regard. zoe ǀ juniper’s ‘BeginAgain’ mixes movement, stage magic 2014-03-28T15:50:49Z

II” who suffered dramatic brain trauma in a car accident and came back an oddly changed man. Critic's Notebook: Kindle Singles, Genre Between Magazine Articles and Books 2012-03-06T13:00:00Z

But while any kind of blatant censorship is depressing, this story is also oddly heartening. Noises off: How Burqavaganza pitted theatre against conservative Pakistan 2010-07-07T14:47:00Z

The conceit of Whitehead’s novel is oddly whimsical: He imagines that the Underground Railroad, the system of safe houses and clandestine routes used to smuggle slaves north, was, in fact, an actual railroad built underground. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

At dinner, the groom's tearful words about his father, who died when he was a teenager, were oddly exalting. Summer readings: Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 2011-08-25T08:38:22Z

That and her oddly spliced video apology, later swapped out for an unedited one after she bailed on Matt Lauer and the "Today" show, "made her seem shifty, sort of erratic and strange," Min said. N-word controversy: Is Paula Deen done for? 2013-06-25T20:19:18Z

Though at times tasteless and barely coherent, the story is oddly affecting, the very strangeness of Nyholm’s folkloric vision and its unnerving execution pulling you in. ‘Koko-di Koko-da’ Review: Torture, Kill, Repeat 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

So his insistence on knocking both parties, even when his jibes at President Obama are clearly dutiful at best, seems oddly contrived, if not self-defeating. Critic’s Notebook: Comedy and Politics, Uneasy Bedfellows but Snuggling 2012-10-03T20:05:01Z

They are oddly specific celebrations of near-term nostalgia in which music made to help teen-agers flail their way to adulthood provides an opportunity for adults to succumb to the histrionics of teendom again. The Rise of Emo Nostalgia 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

In “Ballo,” Verdi juxtaposed chilling dramatic episodes, focused on the plot among conspirators to assassinate the king, with oddly lighter scenes depicting the superficial strivers at court. Review: James Levine Conducts a Noirish Verdi at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

After all, the play is oddly filled with echoes of Phillips family history, including a dog with the same name as Arthur Sr.’s onetime pet. Books of The Times: Bogus Shakespeare in a Fake Memoir. Really. 2011-04-27T16:15:14Z

Still, there’s something oddly rigid and predetermined about the lives onstage, as if the real problem was that they were limited not by society and culture but by the playwright herself. | 'American Sexy': A Quest for Life and Sex. And Doritos. And Sex. 2011-02-03T21:27:44Z

The choppy audio of this virtual cheering section made it feel oddly of the moment, and not just because we spend so much time muting and unmuting to speak to each other. Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

The show oddly omits an obvious example, the Gandhi Memorial Museum in Ahmedabad, Charles Correa’s first major independent project, which Nehru inaugurated and loved. When Architects Made Worlds 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

One girl whom he wooed in Wooster, Ohio, recalled his “hypnotic eyes” and “oddly proportioned body.” How a Fake Priest Duped Oxford and a World-Famous Historian 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The most oddly soulful of Ms. Hilltout’s images are of objects: the homemade balls fashioned by children from plastic bags, old socks and rags, tied up with string or strips of tree bark. Jessica Hilltout Captures Africans? Love of Soccer 2010-07-07T22:10:00Z

But they still grate, and sit oddly alongside the film’s high technical polish. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z

But they feel oddly appropriate on this bright, frosty morning in the company of men whose distant triumphs have recently had the cobwebs dusted off them. On your way, Pinochet! The factory workers who fought fascism from Glasgow 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

As soon as the Huntsman and Snow White slip from the clutches of Finn — who, oddly enough, might be the most distinctive character in the film —  devolves into the routine. Spoiler Alert: Snow White, Warrior Princess, and Her Forgettable Dwarfs 2012-06-04T10:45:38Z

Dale and May continue to have an oddly negative dynamic, now disagreeing on how to serve the Scotch eggs. "Top Chef: World All Stars" elevates the best of London's classic pub dishes 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

They also claimed that before leaving the restaurant, the oddly dressed individual shoved the location’s manager. Man in shark costume is wanted for shoving McDonald's worker: report 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

An oddly shaped knife, she explains, is used for fish. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Review: I Remember Mamaw 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

The next 15 years were ones of slow maturing, revealed in a trying-out of various idioms that to the world must have seemed oddly tentative. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z

Getting your mouth around the overlapping and oddly shaped dialogue can be like eating an unpeeled pineapple. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Yet there is something oddly tender about these scenes, too. Art Review: A Burgeoning Film Career Built on Random Encounters 2011-02-24T22:35:21Z

Small and stagy and claustrophobic, “Shining Moon” is visually rough yet oddly enticing in its experimental awkwardness. Review: In ‘Shining Moon,’ Two Gay Chilean Actors Confront the Past 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

A parallel part is set in space, where Maxon is oddly at home, imagining that his and Sunny’s son will join him. Books of The Times: ‘Shine Shine Shine,’ a Novel by Lydia Netzer 2012-07-04T21:05:09Z

Her most popular photograph, “Night View, New York,” from 1932, offers an overhead view of Midtown that is oddly oblivious to the disfigurements of the Depression. Berenice Abbott: She Was a Camera 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

David Woodhead's set, tidily crammed with office supplies and multiple desks, is oddly familiar to any modern cubicle worker. Review: The wolf is at the door in 'Cornelius' 2013-06-12T22:22:08Z

It's a fitting act of schizophrenia from our greatest, weirdest band – disappointing only because they sound oddly normal. Guns N' Roses fail to ignite Reading festival 2010 2010-08-28T15:09:00Z

That was weird and also oddly sort of engrossing. We Should Probably Have a Conversation About ‘Damn, Daniel’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The current booth is not off-center, she said, resulting in oddly shaped images. Costs mount for Ford Theatre renovation; the rush is on to beat El Niño 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

It was around the time the Icelandic volcano was erupting and people started behaving so oddly. Maggie O'Farrell: 'My writing is tougher and much better since I had children' 2013-02-23T17:00:01Z

Until this moment, oddly enough, she was unaware of quite how popular it has been here. Alicia Keys: 'Everything I do comes from a primal place' 2011-07-14T20:30:02Z

Despite pushing for it, when the opportunities have arisen I’ve found it oddly difficult to switch into the necessary head space. 'What were her knickers like?': the truth about trying an open relationship 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

This week, the 2015 Crossing the Line festival hosts a trilogy by a celebrated contemporary choreographer, which oddly works its way backward. Review: Miguel Gutierrez’s Deep Questions in ‘Age & Beauty Part 3’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

It’s oddly comforting and is the rare show where people in legitimate dire straits get actual help. What You Should Watch This Week: Spring Finales, ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘The Americans’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Some viewers have found the show to be oddly life-affirming, despite its premise that billions died from a respiratory illness with a 99 percent fatality rate. Finding Joy Through Art at the End of the World in ‘Station Eleven’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The show feels, if anything, more at home — and oddly, more intimate — in a Broadway palace than it did in a house many times smaller. Review: Being Brainwashed Into Joy in Derren Brown’s ‘Secret’ 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

He has made a complicated virtue out of riding genres and trends, making him oddly impervious to attempts to puncture his credibility. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

On the day we moved in, I walked the bare halls of my new home, feeling oddly removed from this major life milestone. I finally own a home – and can relax my 'transient immigrant' aloofness 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Unless these are very pitted, this seems a shame; I rather like the chewiness they add, but oddly enough Child’s apricots are the best tasting of the lot, being both sharp and sweet at once. How to cook the perfect apricot tart 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The somewhat prosaic conclusion is that moderation is key – whether you're killing aliens, racing cars or trying to place oddly shaped blocks that fall from the sky. Are video games really the villains in our violent age? 2012-12-30T00:05:46Z

Quite what it is or why it's there remains a mystery, but the effect is oddly unsettling. m b v – review 2013-02-04T18:22:24Z

I’m sure some might be reassured by this, but I find it oddly unsettling, as if I am being posed a complex philosophical problem at bedtime. Can an app guarantee a good night’s sleep? I tested them to find out 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

The result, at least as recounted in this single, oddly fashioned production cycle, seems as animated and hyperbolic as anything in the Hunter S. Thompson canon, for example. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z

And he identified how it felt oddly comforting, in the way that a hypochondriac might be comforted by a dire diagnosis, to live in the shadow of that suspended threat. After The Bomb: Don DeLillo Tells Us What to Fear 2011-11-28T17:53:47Z

In the film, it seems the main goal, oddly, is to make him inaccessible. Review: George Clooney's 'The American' Fails to Thrill 2010-09-01T10:15:00Z

Maybe that’s why Christie, who also designed the costumes, has oddly given Lenk plain white sneakers to wear with her dressy scarlet pantsuit. Review: In a Gender-Flipped Revival, ‘Company’ Loves Misery 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Adding an oddly off-putting dimension are the silhouetted shapes of women’s arms, legs and rumps cut from flat pieces of white marble. Art in Review: PATRICK HILL: ?Clumsy Angels? 2011-01-27T22:53:38Z

There are few people in these pictures, and most of them are, oddly, standing quietly in shallow water, cooling off in shimmering heat. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Spanning more than 30 years, Brohm's places and edges are all his own, even if they seem oddly and enigmatically familiar. How Joachim Brohm set the world of landscape photography on fire 2013-03-28T11:25:50Z

But in Jessica Dickey’s pensive new play, “The Guard,” a senior museum guard and two young painters get into an oddly antic mood. Life is short, so touch the painting 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Most oddly, Rice accepts an offer of magic mushrooms at a time when he needs all of his wits. Review | Deep in the heart of Virginia, it’s man vs. bear 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Often, the caption simply reads “Nailed it”—a self-appraisal that’s sarcastic and a bit nihilistic but also oddly joyous, a failure turned inside out to reveal something that’s like a less stuffy cousin of success. The Joys of Netflix’s “Nailed It,” the Baking Competition That Celebrates Kitchen Disaster 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

I've seen every shade of divorce and custody and all that stuff, so I consider myself an expert on that topic, oddly. Bethenny Frankel talks leaving "Housewives," the Depp-Heard trial & her book "Business Is Personal" 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Caliban's dream sat oddly with the nightmare vision summoned up in the Pandemonium section of the ceremony, but Boyle insisted the disjunction was deliberate. Were the Victorians cleverer than us? It depends which way you look at it 2013-05-14T17:30:01Z

Attachment parents shun basic baby conveniences such as bottles, cots and buggies in favour of extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping and “babywearing”, an oddly politically charged way to describe carrying your baby in a sling. Stop fetishising parenting - you’re sucking all the joy out of it! 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

Just ask the sad-sack Seymour, a put-upon florist tasked with caring for a carnivorous and oddly musical houseplant. Theater Listings for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

But his band enfolded those sustained melodies in oddly abstract arrangements, using instruments like a Mongolian dulcimer or a gourd drum. Worlds and Rhythms Meet, in Euphoric Result 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kudisch and Mr. Denman are at their best in duets, their voices blending beautifully into a sound oddly reminiscent of the Kingston Trio’s, though of course they are one short. Theater Review: ‘The Holiday Guys: Happy Merry Hanu-Mas!’ 2012-12-24T23:03:06Z

Even more oddly, for someone so clearly invested in the genre’s history and in its technical specifics, he has very little interest in R&B’s potential range of feeling. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Just Glad to Grab the Mike 2011-01-04T01:07:08Z

Her hushed, near-reverent tone seemed oddly suited to the otherwise deserted space, its plump seating and high-pile carpeting absorbing stray sounds and lending it the aura of a velvet-lined jewel box. After ‘Mission: Impossible,’ Rebecca Ferguson’s Impossible Calm Amid a Whirlwind Mission 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

“It’s also about crossing borders — animate, inanimate — a way to add life to the space in an oddly sensuous way.” Inside Art: Adding Green Space to MoMA With Tropical Terrariums 2010-12-02T22:21:00Z

But they feel oddly sterile, cloaked in outmoded dogma. Arts & Leisure Preview: ?Green Zone,? ?The Ghost Writer? and Conspiracy Comforts 2010-03-31T20:54:00Z

What's weirder still is that the incidents seem oddly prescient of one of his upcoming movies, "Knock Knock." In Keanu Reeves' bizarre intruder incidents, life imitates art 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

But for all of its enduring appeal, “Little Women” has remained oddly sidelined from the literary and cinematic canons. Can real men love ‘Little Women’? Greta Gerwig thinks they should. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The city outside is a surreal mirror world, filled with fake cigarettes, counterfeit bottled water and oddly aggressive medical personnel. Stuck With a Sick Parent in Hospital Hell 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, some 60 musicians traveled to the heavily patrolled enforcement zone oddly named Friendship Park for an annual musical event known as the Fandango Fronterizo. Sharing Music Across the U.S.-Mexico Border’s Metal Fence 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

And when King Herod appeared in heels higher than any platform shoes I’d yet seen in the early 1970s, I laughed with the best of them and felt oddly at home. What You Remember About ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

A selection of orchestral songs based on Lewis Carroll, and partly drawn from Ms. Chin’s opera, was the highlight of the concert, which otherwise felt oddly tentative. Music Review: Unsuk Chin Celebrated in Composer Portrait at Miller Theater 2014-03-16T20:54:53Z

Yet Sunflower Seeds is contingent, oddly moving and beautiful. Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand 2010-10-11T13:08:00Z

What the magazine doesn’t have, oddly, is articles. Ground beef, yes; sumac, no. This editor knows what food magazine readers want. 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Yet brisket remains oddly off limits for one large segment of the population: home cooks. Brisket for Beginners 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, if there is one aspect of Basquiat’s life that lies oddly outside the documentary’s purview, it’s any sense of the artist’s origins and family life. Inside Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teen years 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The scandal was kindled, oddly enough, by the genre question. Love or Hate Emmanuel Carrère’s Forceful Tangents, They’re Back in ‘Yoga’ 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

And, oddly enough, the lit floor that the second girl is about to step onto, like the pink piano top in the Matisse, provides a low horizontal plane that is perpendicular to the dominant verticals. Stumbling Upon Greatness: Discovering Sergio Larrain 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

The piece ends with an easygoing, descending single line, followed by a sudden, loud, dissonant yet oddly stable closing chord. Music Review: Peter Serkin at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-11T22:25:52Z

The architect worked with her team to devise an oddly shaped container in copper-patina green, known as the “wizard’s hat,” to hide and muffle all the machinery, thereby liberating the roof “for the people.” Why Libraries May Never Stop Being People Places 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The tag­line for the Invi, priced at about $70, is “Provoke Independence,” which is an oddly upbeat way of reminding us that without some kind of protection, women’s freedom is not a given. Locking panties and man-repelling bracelets: Is this what the women of 2018 need? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

But the preparation necessary to transform into a tireless performer like Brown - “the hardest working man in show business,” after all - was oddly reminiscent of working out on the baseball diamond. A double-header of biopics for Chadwick Boseman 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

I’ll take that cacophony over the internal consistency of the Village — its oddly superior sense of rectitude, its sense that its middling architecture ought to put it at the top of the class — any day. Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

And the somewhat elliptical title is oddly apt, a tip-off of obscurity yet to come. Television Review: ‘Turn,’ on AMC, About the First American Spies 2014-04-04T22:10:45Z

Notaro’s character plays a radio storyteller, and her tales wend oddly, taking precious time to get to their destination; the space they take up is all the more pronounced by the show’s abbreviated six-episode run. How Low-Key Comedies Are Owning Fall TV 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

But this program, however oddly conceived, was given a lovely first performance on Thursday at David Geffen Hall. Review: Odd, Delightful Juxtapositions at the Philharmonic 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Of course they were an item – and so they are in the obituaries – with a helpless, crazed and oddly innocent man beholding an immense, impervious beauty. Jane Russell: 'An immense, impervious beauty' 2011-03-01T19:55:54Z

“Odd Mom Out,” however, is itself oddly in. Review: In ‘Odd Mom Out,’ Competition Among Manhattan’s Wealthy 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

The Balanchinian daisy chains are oddly wilted and the displays of emotion rather soggy. Review: Alonzo King Lines Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Sandler plays the devoted but put-upon husband with a delicate balance of compassion and aloofness, and in moments like this, a wounded candor comes through that is oddly touching. Adam Sandler Grows Up (Mostly) 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

"I just eat the oddly shaped ones before anyone sees," another user joked. Cookie-shaping hack for turning oval cookies into 'perfect round cookies' goes viral 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

The event was impromptu, engaging and oddly equitable; Smith has the gift of seeing himself as a figure not just of Jedi righteousnes but of fun. Kevin Smith's 'Cop Out': Too Flabby to Fly 2010-02-26T20:35:00Z

Instead there are classic landscapes and, oddly, religious scenes: “Christ Preaching,” also known as “The Hundred Guilder Print”; “Christ Presented to the People,” also called “Ecce Homo”; and so on. Art Review: Pride of Place, Brighter Than Ever 2011-02-18T00:30:05Z

The fetes and dances are entirely delightful and oddly poignant as they bring symmetry and rhythm to chaos. Lily Rabe in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

This is a week oddly short of orchestral music, with even the New York Philharmonic taking a deserved break. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

She changes the subject by asking him a question he finds oddly inspirational: “So, how was your Fourth of July?” Books of The Times: ?Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb? 2010-08-05T22:00:00Z

It is an image both mysterious and deadpan, like much of Brohm's work, which conveys the ordinary and the everyday in landscapes that – even when they show people doing things – seem oddly empty. How Joachim Brohm set the world of landscape photography on fire 2013-03-28T11:25:50Z

The show seems oddly well-adjusted: The unfathomably deep disturbances and tranced-out speeches that marked so much of Shepard’s early work aren’t engaging forces here. ‘Fool for Love’ at Round House, taking the edge off Shepard

He seems oddly out of kilter with his environment, speaking slightly too loudly, with unexpectedly blunt honesty. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

This is that rip-off; a shameless and oddly lifeless slasher that sees Perseus hack a swathe through Greek mythology, slaughtering reanimated skeletons and ludicrously sized monsters using equally outlandishly proportioned weapons. This week's new games 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The exchange was like a scene from one of their plays: oddly funny, unexpected and charged with meaning, yet impossible to entirely understand. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z

And surprisingly, it isn't an oddly worded creation about dark worlds or winter soldiers. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' sequel gets a surprisingly concise title 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

But, oddly again, Pilate, though little more than a foil, comes closest to real melodic effusions. Music Review: ‘Collected Stories’ Series Continues at Zankel Hall 2014-04-25T20:41:35Z

And I liked the way the episode carried her and Mitchell and Cam through the idea, making it seem impulsive and ill-advised, but also natural and oddly sensible. The Morning After: I?ll Be There for You 2012-02-16T14:06:31Z

But the slave sequence also fits oddly, but definitively, into Leia’s character arc. The 'slave Leia' controversy is about more than objectification 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

A playful breed with an oddly expressive, almost human face, this breed spurs baby fever in the most callous of hearts. The 5 Most Popular Dogs on Instagram 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

He took charge of the “pops” himself, spooning up some oddly sugar-free servings of Lehar and the Strausses, but having glorious fun in Victor Herbert. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Packaged chips, an oddly un-seasonal fruit salad, and a fancy chocolate sandwich cookie rounded things out. Dining With 'The Demons' 2010-07-12T19:47:00Z

It was oddly satisfying that Mohammed could use the same ninja power to jump half a world away and appear, like magic, live in the U.S., sitting in the Armory. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

From the first pages, this collection compelled me to read it in an unnatural, oddly bovine way — straight through. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

One theory is that sleeplessness accounted for the oddly seductive style of the strip’s writing. Magnum Opus: ‘Bloom County’ 40 Years Later 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

It is oddly organised, with later parts doubling back chronologically on already-trodden ground. Marching through Georgia 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The effect is eerie but oddly reassuring, as if all the films we have ever seen are part of the same unspooling narrative. The second coming of Jesus: how the Big Lebowski bowler was resurrected 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

This film, which was released after the Great Depression and before America’s involvement in World War II, feels oddly relevant at a time when entertainment escapism can feel both necessary and trivial. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Seeing America With Megan Rapinoe’ and ‘The Last Narc’ 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

The car continued to behave oddly, with the engine revving even while parked. Toyota's Runaway Crisis 2010-02-23T23:09:00Z

For a while, it’s a gripping, oddly enjoyable approach. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

When Jazz at Lincoln Center opened 11 years ago at the Time Warner Center, it was hailed as an architectural success, with one exception: its oddly configured lobby areas. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, a Lobby and Venue in Sync 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

As the room peppers him with suggestions about what to sing next, Bob is tentative, oddly unsure about which songs will sound good on a recording. My father recorded young Bob Dylan: How the historic "Minneapolis Party Tape" was made 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

In state-after-state, GOP lawmakers carved out new and oddly shaped Congressional and state legislative districts to bolster Republican candidates’ chances. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z

But she's also oddly skittish — indeed, terrified — of the inevitable attention. 'In Harm's Way': Ridley Pearson's Fleming and Boldt team up to solve a murder 2010-08-05T20:27:00Z

“Take Care of Maya” is grueling, but it is also oddly deficient, wanting for the precision and perspective essential to deriving insight from profound trauma. ‘Take Care of Maya’ Review: A Chronicle of a Family’s Pain 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Piero has lavished most of his affection on the doomed monster, a comical and oddly sympathetic creature. Monsters and merry mayhem 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Upon donning a tiger mask, she became, oddly, more human, crossing her legs and reclining into lounging poses. Velocity Dance: A mix of rap, Cyndi Lauper, daring ? and a need for tightening 2011-10-29T17:29:03Z

What if the Roman Empire — with all its decadence, corruption and power-grabbing rulers left unchecked by an oddly docile Senate — never really ended? In the Met Opera’s ‘Agrippina,’ the Roman Empire Never Ended 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The head is also oddly distorted — flattened in such a way that it resembles a digitally manipulated three-dimensional photograph or a hologram. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z

Like so many of those responsible for keeping New York running, its doormen are both omnipresent and yet oddly unseen. From White Gloves to Latex, the Doormen of New York 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Like so many things in this intimate work and in life, the image feels both private — unknowable — and oddly familiar. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

The oddly named Doctor Willard Bliss — yes, Dr. Doctor — comes off as a villain to rival Guiteau, making bad decisions and barring other physicians from assisting or advising. Review: ‘American Experience’ Traces President Garfield’s Assassination 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

It is an oddly two-dimensional work, both in its constricted expressive range and in the coolly intellectual absorption of its main musical influences. We’ll Never Have Paris 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

And while iTMOi is a far from perfect work, fractured and oddly paced, it is through Khan's shockingly imagined chaos that we're drawn into the creative maelstrom from which art is born. Akram Khan Company: iTMOi – review 2013-05-30T18:49:35Z

Rostropovich's strangely harsh recording of it, oddly, badly misses the spirit of the piece. French accent at SSO: Morlot to lead works by Ravel, Debussy, Dutilleux 2012-03-08T22:02:11Z

But there is something oddly moving about it, a sense of naiveté that comes further into focus as you watch and rewatch it. Fasten your seat belts: Winnebago Man returns 2010-07-08T11:01:00Z

“What’s harder to communicate is the emotive or sensory content, the feeling you have walking into a room,” she said, describing the oddly calming light of the psychiatric ward, for example. Ai Weiwei Takes His Work to a Prison 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Those who oppose him are always ill-willed, unreasonable, “oddly stubborn” or burdened by “painfully cloudy theology.” Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The opacity of the central woman’s identity, though, feels obfuscatory rather than interestingly mysterious, and much of the male-female partnering is dominated by upside-down swirling lifts that are at first breathtaking, later oddly routine. Review: Liam Scarlett’s ‘Symphonic Dances’ Celebrates a Ballerina 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

To watch: I oddly love watching the ceremony scenes. The Handmaid's Tale stars on playing Janine and Serena Joy: 'I wanted to give Offred a hug' 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

That’s the trouble with this oddly flat biography of such a colorful character: It presents so many irreconcilable aspects of Ms. Mengers’s character and then does so little to meld them into an intelligible portrait. Review: ‘Can I Go Now?,’ a Biography of the Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

For all of Hollywood’s supposed political correctness, some of the bigger awards went to movies with an oddly atavistic way of righting social wrongs. The TV Watch: Billy Crystal?s Shtick, and the Academy, Need Freshening 2012-02-27T05:54:50Z

Alas, the pointlessly updated production by the acclaimed British director Richard Eyre, with oddly monumental sets by Rob Howell, is a major disappointment. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

The green, purple and orange schemes may be intended to evoke the grass, trees, heather and bracken of Scotland, but they transport us to a much more oddly blazing locale. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The truth is, this is an oddly difficult year to boil down. Great TV 2014: Not a List, Not in Order 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Both Georges Braque and Jean Arp are surrounded by studio clutter, but both exude a calmness that is both relaxed and oddly formal – Arp is even wearing a hat and white gloves. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z

The streets are oddly empty of cars, enabling Hazel Motes to get on the bonnet of his own vehicle and attract ragged crowds with his preaching. Reading group: John Huston's Wise Blood is an unlikely cinematic feat 2012-12-21T15:10:19Z

There’s an oddly charming florist/speakeasy, where she played some early gigs. The Rough Harmonies of Sharon Van Etten 2012-02-05T04:55:45Z

And when he does, even viewers with agitated nervous systems will be oddly soothed by how faithfully replicates the strategies and shocks of Alien. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z

I guess that is oddly appropriate given the nature of the story. Elijah Wood: 'Frodo's never going away' 2013-03-07T13:44:34Z

Their one-way relationship is an echo of what Byron is trying to make Hazel into, a wife machine, but it’s also oddly tender and respectful. Review: In ‘Made for Love,’ She Can’t Get Him Out of Her Head 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

It’s a gloomy wreck filled with dusty antiques and oddly robotic servants. Review | ‘Mexican Gothic’ is a creepy, intoxicating mystery that’s almost impossible to put down 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The movie opened in Berlin some 14 months later, as the Nazi regime inaugurated a major public works plan with which “Gold” seems oddly in sync. Alchemy Amok in ‘Gold’ and Its Offspring, ‘The Magnetic Monster’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

But this album, Mr. West’s fifth, is a reminder of how single-minded he is and how musically gifted; it’s easily his most florid record, and also, oddly, one of his most stark. The Purpler the Bruise, the Sweeter the Song 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

Now, on to today’s letter, which oddly enough concerns procrastination, among other things. I’m avoiding work 2013-02-07T01:00:00Z

A well-wrought but oddly bloodless tale, “A Nearly Perfect Copy” is regrettably true to its title: cleverly rendered but lacking the spark of a true original’s inspiration. ‘A Nearly Perfect Copy’: seduced into art fraud 2013-04-10T18:14:27Z

Not the late political scientist Frank Wilhoit, oddly enough, but another Frank Wilhoit, who is a classical music composer in Ohio. Perspective | The baffling defense of Herschel Walker 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

In his way Tallow is almost as weird as the hunter, and yet he’s also oddly endearing, so single-minded you can’t help rooting for him. Books of The Times: ‘Gun Machine,’ by Warren Ellis 2013-01-02T21:35:39Z

An oddly flat “Revelations” concluded the program; although both dancers and audience perked up a bit in the final section, there wasn’t even the obligatory encore. Dance Review: Voodoo, Vivid Colors and Strange Visions 2010-12-08T23:56:00Z

However, despite these flaws, its five or six hours of mellow tanking remain oddly compelling. This week's new games 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Then, he pushes the two oddly shaped halves together and proceeds to slice the pizza into eight slices. Pizza worker's viral slice stealing hack has customers worried 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z

It is oddly familiar only if you notice its similarity to numbers in otherwise dissimilar shows. Ridiculous! Fabulous! On Broadway, Tapping in Quotation Marks 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

The whole experience felt oddly religious and deeply cleansing. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z

For all its Tolkienesque grandeur, the Battle of Winterfell felt oddly inert, main characters ostensibly fighting for their lives though we never really believed they were in jeopardy. Stop the nitpicking! This season of Game of Thrones is miraculous 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

It's simultaneously hilarious, oddly moving and deeply unsettling. New Music: Anna Meredith – Never Wonder 2012-10-03T08:00:00Z

At the end of the night, the speakers took the stage and occupied a line of chairs that had sat oddly empty next to Mr. Silvers throughout the readings. ArtsBeat: Old Friends Help New York Review Celebrate 50 Years 2013-02-06T18:26:41Z

The experience created in Ms. Stern a kind of emotional numbness — a calmness, even a fearlessness, that has proved oddly useful in her current work. Private Trauma Gives Jessica Stern Insights on Terrorism 2010-06-29T21:43:00Z

A curate's egg then; oddly incidental, often frustrating, but occasionally enjoyable. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-05-25T23:05:09Z

The offerings have grown in size, scope and specificity — some tailored to a company’s mission, others unwittingly reflective of it and still others that seem oddly random. There Is a Free Lunch, After All. It’s at the Office. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

He found the early pandemic oddly unifying: Everyone in the world was stuck at home at the same time. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

A horror movie might seem an oddly unambitious choice for rising starlet Jennifer Lawrence at this stage of her career. 'House at the End of the Street': Lawrence not afraid of being scared 2012-09-21T17:12:04Z

And Chaka Khan sang a vivid, if oddly cheerful, version of "I Loves You, Porgy." Bill Clinton is lauded at all-star jazz gala. But he left his sax at home. 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

So by modern standards Jane Austen's heroines are uncannily self-possessed and oddly detached from the need to be 'validated' or approved of by their suitors. Love hurts more than ever before (blame the internet and capitalism) 2012-02-12T00:06:44Z

Arsonists, she explains, are at once, oddly, extremely difficult to catch and unusually likely to be wrongly convicted. The Library Fire That Ignited an Author’s Imagination 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Even the death, when it finally comes, feels oddly flat. Review: In ‘Running Away From the One With the Knife,’ a Suicide Pondered 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bale, turning in a respectable if oddly chipper performance under the circumstances, has the unfortunate task of playing a character who doesn’t really add up. | 'The Flowers of War': ?Flowers of War?: Zhang Yimou on Nanjing Massacre - Review 2011-12-20T19:28:33Z

Although she was born in the year of the Soviet revolution and her final claim to fame was longevity, Zsa Zsa Gabor, who has died at 99, was in many ways an oddly modern figure. Zsa Zsa Gabor: oddly modern figure shaped contemporary celebrity 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

But their strength was set off by the sweaters with an oddly evocative detail: a kind of porthole dead center, which revealed a pale and vulnerable wafer of the wearer’s torso. London Men’s Wear: Burberry, McQueen and Others Puncture the Fashion Bubble 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The absence of these statues is an oddly visible reminder of what had been and residents are suddenly confronted with the question of what — if anything — should take their places. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Amid my exasperation and confusion, I have wandered into a devastating but oddly beautiful revelation: my generation will be the last to have known the world in its analog form. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Alternative Power to the People” is an aggressive, pseudo-instrumental, with vocals more like oddly distorted grunts. The Dandy Warhols' This Machine: The Indie Rockers Go Goth 2012-04-25T16:00:53Z

Speaking at the event Monday, she said that seeing so many women open up about their experiences has been "oddly unifying." Jennifer Lawrence Was Forced to Do a 'Nude Line-Up' Early in Her Career 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

He also quickly grew into an oddly polarizing figure. The Blame for ‘Barney’? I’m a Little Guilty 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

In this sense, there was something oddly iconoclastic, the faintest whiff of punk rock, about MTV's early days. Alexis Petridis on MTV's wild years 2012-10-07T19:31:01Z

So it seems oddly incongruous to meet a smiling CC – or rather actor Carr – at a yummy-mummy lunch spot by the Thames over a shared pot of jasmine tea. The Deuce’s Gary Carr on battling stereotypes on TV 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

The stories behind these indelible brandings vary from the fascinating to the oddly banal. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z

An instrumental album composed entirely on modular synthesizers, the 15 pieces within hum with oddly soothing tones and rhythms, like New Age music swimming through mystical Roger Dean-esque topographic oceans. 'At Long Last ASAP Rocky' a psychedelic trip through grief 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Even the most ardent fan of either Captain America: The First Avenger or Thor has to admit that those movies were superficially stirring and oddly hollow. Is Iron Man the Only Interesting Marvel Superhero? 2013-05-03T18:58:16Z

For Zeppo, Diamond and Zisk chose an old friend of Diamond’s named Matt Walters, who is at once extremely handsome and oddly nondescript, in the Zeppo manner. How a Lost Marx Brothers Musical Found Its Way Back Onstage 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

The movie, more often than not, has the look and feel of an edgy music video, which wouldn’t necessarily be a problem if it weren’t also oddly boring. ‘Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon’ Review: Escape From New Orleans 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

An official at Russia's customs agency said it had no official figures on imports from Belarus and declined to comment on whether officials were seeing oddly packaged Parmesan cheese. 'Parmigiano-Belarussiano' and other secrets of Russian chefs under food ban 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Her platinum hair was parted down the middle and her eyes were rimmed in kohl, and the whole ensemble seemed oddly festive for standing in front of a microphone and no audience. Perspective | Melania Trump’s convention speech was a moment of calm amid the Trump family rant 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

The most self-sustaining piece is an oddly poignant black-and-white image of the bare brown feet of a man who seems to hold another, smaller barefoot man on his back. Art in Review: DAVID ZINK YI: ?Pneuma? 2011-07-21T21:44:44Z

Whether he agrees with this himself is oddly absent from your letter. Carolyn Hax: The ex who won’t go away: Husband’s family can’t let go of his previous wife 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Supported by Norman Bowman's humourless but oddly charismatic Mack and Stuart Matthew Price's kindly Capra, she almost makes the case for Mack and Mabel's continued existence. Mack and Mabel – review 2012-07-13T14:38:35Z

It is all ridiculous, of course, even if it is oddly compelling. Compare Your Life; Horizon: The Secret Life of the Cat – TV review 2013-06-14T06:28:56Z

They are prickly, oddly cold, highly intelligent and take a fierce pride in their work. Mother and Child: The Heartache of Adoption 2010-05-07T18:00:00Z

These oddly coiffed gentlemen are the purveyors of a most unusual pop-up amusement park. Eccentric French 'Dragons' exhibits commendable humility 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Other architects Van den Broeck studies are oddly only rumored to have died by their own hands, as if history’s collective consciousness is exacting revenge for public works that didn’t work out. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Musically, Stromae sticks to the well-tilled ground of house and Belgian new beat, the result being a debut that mixes familiarity and misery in an oddly appealing way. Stromae: Cheese 2010-09-02T22:29:00Z

It is a strange fairy tale, oddly sad because it is so far from the composers’ reality. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

When Gawker reported on Mr. Wolfson’s auto-largesse, one reader commented, “It can be oddly soul soothing to click the ‘report as spam’ button for folks like this.” Circa Now: To Woo Twitter Followers, a Trail of Self-Promotional Tweets 2014-02-14T19:56:24Z

The compressed time frame gives the book an enormous amount of scene-setting detail and an oddly intimate look at Hitler’s experience of the world. Hitler’s turning point: Without his year in prison, “he could have disappeared into the sands of irrelevance” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Now that he has, it is oddly reliant on old newspaper stories to provide the narrative of his public life. In ‘Mayor for Life,’ D.C.’s Marion Barry takes pride in himself but little blame for problems

There are passages of dark and glossy depths, near-silent, on both albums, in addition to fearsome swells that are at once violently noisy and oddly natural. Sasha Frere-Jones: Nazoranai, Uniting Improvisation and Noise 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

When we arrived at a large and particularly oddly shaped outcropping, we were given paper and pens and asked to draw what we saw. Cultured Traveler: Drawing Yourself Into the Scene 2013-12-12T16:43:08Z

As Bryan Ferry signalled the climax of their performance and took a bow, Ross walked over to the stage and was about to thank the band when drummer Paul Thompson oddly started up again. Jonathan Ross's final Friday Night: an insider review of his last big BBC show 2010-07-16T06:30:00Z

So worried, in fact, that Seitz noticed he was acting oddly. Man proposes to his girlfriend underwater, during diving trip in Dominican Republic 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

For all that, Clemens seems oddly subdued throughout the book, his dialogue not at all like his writing, which was famous in part because of his unmistakable voice. Posthumously published 'Twain & Stanley' a bit too presumptuous 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Things become even more oddly unfestive when we see shuffling lines of people forced to throw their children’s toys into huge piles on the street, an image clearly meant to evoke the Holocaust. | 'The Nutcracker in 3D': A Dystopian Aftertaste to Those Sugarplums 2010-11-24T00:07:00Z

It's less of a behind the scenes document than a quirky, oddly moving film about the making of a film. Tribeca fest dedicated to Boston on opening night 2013-04-18T05:46:06Z

Throuple is a new word, younger than the century and sounding oddly like a board game, but it reflects an ond tradition. Meet Janie and Maggie and Cody, a throuple surviving the pandemic together 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

But even when Diana secures a moment of personal freedom, it feels oddly underwhelming. Kristen Stewart stuns in the moody "Spencer," a gorgeous yet superficial biopic of Princess Di 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Mr Lanthimos’s romantic comedy, winner of the Jury Prize, the third-most-prestigious award, turns darker, and even violent, but to oddly affecting results. Beachcombing 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

And he marries the result — in a way that is at once baffling and oddly intuitive — to an English interpretation of the holy book of Islam. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It also – and rather oddly – detailed three top-priority scenarios for new shows, which included a young woman discovering her father was a sperm donor, and two chalk-and-cheese brothers inheriting the family firm. Laughing stock: Jimmy Carr outed, comedy's top 100, Brand new Russell Kane 2012-06-19T16:15:22Z

When Steph started bawling out Greg the other night, and rushing him as if he were a tackling dummy, I felt an oddly comforting warmth. Theater Review: ‘Reasons to Be Happy,’ by Neil LaBute 2013-06-12T02:00:12Z

At a time of great uncertainty, that can be an oddly reassuring question as well as a scary one, if only because it can help to be reminded that uncertainty is nothing new. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

But there was something oddly enervating about the programme. Arise Black Man: the Peter Tosh Story ? review 2010-11-24T07:59:00Z

This was a revelation that came too late to be fully explored, which made the programme feel oddly weighted. TV review: Who Do You Think You Were 2010-09-03T21:31:00Z

There were other times, however, when the band seemed oddly stiff and timid, unwilling to embrace its intrinsically jammy setup. Daniel Lanois' Black Dub takes off in many directions 2011-06-11T14:28:00Z

Yet, oddly, Ray still felt that the story was “overlong and digressive”—so stubborn are some editors, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Postscript: Thom Jones 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

One, representing soldiers crawling under snarled barbed wire, is an oddly beguiling mix of cuteness, angst and formal elegance. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z

“K-Punk” ends with the first few pages of “Acid Communism,” an oddly hopeful manifesto for a kind of psychedelic liberation—for “a new humanity, a new seeing, a new thinking, a new loving.” Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The resulting portrait of Davis by Nisenson was an unsparingly intimate, complex, and oddly whimsical view of the artist in retreat. Kind of Clichéd: How the Miles Davis Movie Could Have Been Better 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Two of the spreads prove oddly sweet; only the garlicky hummus disappears after it lands on the table. Compass Rose points to a world of flavors

References like those — and a digression about the couple’s politics — are oddly literal for a nearly metaphorical story about art and mortality. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

But Cornell found all of this oddly comforting: “I’ve always felt protected here,” she says. A lot of Americans believe in ghosts. But what do their ghost stories actually tell us? 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Has anyone given us more pleasure playing perfectly oddly matched couples than Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara? Review: In ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ a Spoiled Little Rich Family Starts Over 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Familiar landmarks – delis, skyscrapers, the Guggenheim cloaked in snow – seem oddly unreal and old-fashioned. Cow-dung toothpaste? Taryn Simon's book Contraband unloads America's baggage 2011-01-03T17:51:54Z

From this perspective, oddly enough, Banville’s homage reduces the object it venerates. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

But there is something oddly plausible about the lack of a conventional dramatic falling-out-among-thieves. Cannes review: The Bling Ring 2013-05-16T11:11:33Z

Most of Battle Los Angeles shows a small unit of Marines trying to escape, outmaneuver and thousands of alien soldiers, whose weapons, oddly, are very similar to those of the earthlings. Battle Los Angeles: A Shaky, Breaky Mess 2011-03-11T11:05:00Z

So even with subject matter as dark as capital punishment, one can come away from “Dead Man Walking” oddly soothed. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Set against the rising Italian fascist regime, this chirpy animation has an oddly noticeable gangster-film influence. Every Studio Ghibli film – ranked! 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Monopolising the red carpet tonight isn’t, oddly, American Horror Story’s ensemble cast but the colour black. Emmys 2015: winners and performances – as it happened 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Other voices are less successful, and the novel too often relies on coincidences to bring the characters together, including, oddly, extreme sexual violation as a defining catalyst in their personal development. Notebooks From an Argentine Master, and Other Works of South American Literature 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Though this most recent campaign was, by all accounts, as violent as previous seasons of the show, its 10-minute conclusion was oddly peaceful. The 5 Most Ridiculous Moments and Subplots From 24: Live Another Day 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vidich’s contorted, hunching movement is weirdly creaturely, compellingly strange, and his nonsensical demagogical speech, as he exits, is oddly funny. Dance in Review: Mariangela Lopez and Arturo Vidich 2011-03-06T22:54:31Z

Freddie is an actor with a small, sad set of career highlights and a vast ego, who enters most episodes by swanning down the small flat’s oddly grand staircase. ‘Vicious’ Stars Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

It was an oddly funny detail in an austere work that explored the notion of repercussions. Dance Review: An Afternoon of Aggressive Hair and Forlorn Boots 2011-06-13T22:20:43Z

The door handles struck me as clunky and oddly shaped until I touched one; modeled on Gaudí’s own hand, it fit my grasp perfectly. Getting to Know Gaudí in Barcelona, From Park to Palace 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

And that has oddly provided me with more free time to spend with my family. J.K. Simmons on the Art of Being the Bad Guy 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

And when she ventured onto the streets, she would point her camera at people who seemed oddly familiar, even if she had never met them. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

My friend and I shared the Navajo Room, which featured a tiny balcony overlooking the vast pastures and woods beyond an incongruous cluster of palms and cactuses — flora as oddly melded as the guesthouse features. Perfect solution to the mother-son travel conundrum: A dude ranch in the heart of Dixie 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

More intriguing than this fact alone, however, is her oddly similar career as a chronicler of Baltimore crime. Laura Lippman: 'He's definitely taken more from my work' 2012-07-21T23:05:59Z

Still, “American Pastoral” leaves a residue of dread and despair that is oddly in keeping with today’s moment of uncertainty amid an ugly presidential campaign. Review: ‘American Pastoral,’ Philip Roth’s Fiery 1960s at Low Heat 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The single Bicycles / Isabelle Creeps brims with their vehement energy and constitutes an intriguing step in the evolution of their simple, yet oddly affecting, and certainly promising sound. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z

Farther afield, some new white walls and oddly angled metal surfaces had elevated a former jail into a modern town library. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z

But, oddly, there’s a really good novella within the War and Peace that is the new show. Review: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Is a Disappointing Return to Stars Hollow 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

That is also when I learned of “Kindred,” which was oddly one of my later introductions to her work. ‘Kindred’ Creator Wants Viewers to ‘Question Their Assumptions’ 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

But it has seen an oddly muted reception, thus far totaling $141.7 million domestically, well below the $368 million domestic haul of “Despicable Me 2.” A summer without swagger for Hollywood 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

The fourth season of “Arrested Development,” on Netflix, which arrived seven years after the show’s cancellation by Fox, was narratively inventive but still felt oddly airless and flat. Some Thoughts on the Planned Return of “Twin Peaks” 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The not-told-ness of the truth must be apparent to the reader in advance of any actual discovery, as here in Mr Bentley's oddly careful answer to a simple question. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2012-02-10T22:55:08Z

Whether it's at Live Aid, with a concert after 9/11, or as patrons of the Teenage Cancer Trust, the band remain an oddly contradictory mixture of rock'n'roll devastation and the promise of renewal. This week's new live music 2011-01-08T00:06:12Z

Even in this oddly unconvincing first half, though, her voice was suffused with warmth, if not much pointed specificity. Review: A Soprano Showdown, and a Winner 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

In a sanitized New York, there’s something oddly comforting about knowing that around midnight, Big Jay is probably perched inside a dark club, talking filth. Big Jay Oakerson, a Master of the Dirty Joke 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Yet even after reading all that I still feel oddly protective of Kael. The Perils of Reading About Pauline Kael 2011-11-02T09:00:57Z

The famous bogeyman of the global economic collapse is one of three characters in Ms. Margolin’s somewhat diffuse, oddly meandering meditation on the mysteries of the Madoff psyche. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z

These old-style Christmas shows have a tendency to catch the culture in oddly revelatory moments. Critic’s Notebook: Long-Ago Shows From Stars Like Perry Como and Dean Martin 2013-12-22T21:24:18Z

“Not that this pleases me given all the suffering people are enduring, but oddly this might help my business in the long run,” she said. Weddings Are Their Job. What Happens When Everyone Postpones? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

American viewers may be inured to sex and violence, but they are oddly sheltered on issues of class. Television Review: ‘Devious Maids,’ With Ana Ortiz, on Lifetime 2013-06-21T22:32:49Z

Perusing the comic racks, the average reader would be hard pressed to find a title more oddly foreboding than, “Disaster in a Jar.” ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: The Return of 'The Witching Hour' 2011-04-08T18:35:42Z

His menace takes the form of a twisted sense of ownership that's oddly intoxication. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

The early still lifes are more finished, but oddly so. Jane Freilicher’s Friends Celebrate Her Life and Art 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

But it’s also what made her oddly comforting. Bridget Jones: how to turn a female character into half a billion dollars 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

What happens next is gruesome yet oddly fascinating, like a toad describing what it was like to be hypnotized and eaten by a snake. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Like the song, it's a mess but there's something oddly compelling about it. New music: SuperHeavy ? Miracle Worker 2011-08-12T14:31:26Z

And, meanwhile, she seems to take herself so oddly seriously, the way she talks about her music in the third person, like she's Brecht or something. Joanna Newsom: 'Is it time for a glass of wine?' 2010-05-09T20:30:00Z

The crowd of about 40 is oddly quiet and patient, giving the whole scene the feeling of a country church under a big sky right before the service begins. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

The oddly perky musical setting lets Gore mine the character’s hurt while slyly mocking it; she is both the victim and the amused commentator. Remembering Lesley Gore, a '60s Queen of Teen Angst 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Taylor followed "Cat" with another acclaimed adaptation of a Williams play, "Suddenly, Last Summer," but that's an even more bizarre and dated psychosexual nightmare, with an oddly inflated reputation. The short and strange career of Elizabeth Taylor, movie star 2011-03-23T19:30:00Z

But it’s oddly reminiscent of that territorial battle between the jirds earlier in the documentary. Television Review: ‘Wild Arabia,’ a Two-Hour Special on Animal Planet 2013-08-05T20:35:21Z

I’d like to unwrap some brand-new words, oddly pronged words, to convey their wary intelligence and open heart. ‘Homie,’ a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

At 37, his pale, oddly smooth visage lends him a vampiric quality. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Atop each section rests an oddly shaped or tactile object. Go ahead, touch the art. That's the point of 'Twiddle, Poke, Hold' 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

The most crucial element of the show’s success remains the same: Mr. Emerson’s tremendously appealing, oddly moving performance as Finch, the programming genius who is uncomfortable in every situation but always rises to the occasion. ‘Person of Interest,’ Its Computers and Crime, Returns 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Even the cabbage whites seem oddly thin on the ground. Where have all the butterflies gone?

Look, it's got visual style and some of it is exciting, but as a movie I found it clunky and overblown and oddly masturbatory. Great Oscar debate: What is the real best picture? 2011-02-26T01:01:00Z

Everything else felt oddly normal, which itself was unnerving. VIRUS DIARY: A film writer goes back to the movies 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

I’ve only seen them on television and in documentaries — with men or women closing their eyes, shuddering and lapsing into oddly high voices and unfamiliar syntax as ancient spirits supposedly speak through them. Review: ‘Simon Says’ to Channel the Paranormal 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

For “Dreamhouse,” the New York Philharmonic shared the stage with a fine quartet of singers from Synergy Vocals and the oddly low-key Catch Electric Guitar Quartet from the Netherlands. NY Phil Biennial Offers Themes of Mining and Building 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

But “There Goes Gravity” is an oddly desultory book, often a joyless data dump, padded with long quotations from stale interviews. Books of The Times: Lisa Robinson’s Rock ’n’ Roll Life in ‘There Goes Gravity’ 2014-04-29T20:48:45Z

That included black White House staffers angered that they were paid less than their white counterparts: “It was quite surprising—and, at the same time, oddly not surprising” to learn of that inequality, Strong says. How The Butler Is Connected to Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2013-08-14T16:15:05Z

Some of them are unnecessarily duplicative, some oddly ill conceived or a tad staid. Bernard Haitink, Perhaps the Wisest Conductor of Them All 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

“No, but the back of my hand at the base of the thumb is numb. And oddly it doesn’t hurt.” Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Most of the ones that appear in mainstream TV or film are silicon prosthetics, and they are often oddly large. ‘Minx’ Reveals That All Nudity Is Not Created Equal 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

He looked at me oddly, thought about it for a moment and then told me something beautiful. The End of Small Talk 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Shot on or near the kibbutz where he grew up, and cast with people who live there, both works depict oddly pointless physical feats in spectacularly isolated landscapes. Last Chance: Emerging ?Young Israelis? at Lesley Heller Workspace 2010-08-11T22:45:00Z

The process of cutting entanglements, as Frances and Robert go from confrontation to mediation to litigation, is both sad and oddly invigorating. In ‘Divorce,’ Sarah Jessica Parker Wants to Ditch Mr. Medium 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The essay encourages an oddly suspicious, even paranoid reading of most free verse as phony poetry, as prose in costume. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Poetry is among the things that Mr. Uecker made, especially in a series of white painted reliefs in which fields of hammered nails create oddly soft-looking, undulant textures and clouds. Art in Review: G?NTHER UECKER: ?The Early Years? 2011-04-14T20:27:51Z

In the studio, Watteau used these figures like paper dolls, translating them into paint on canvas and composing oddly disjunctive scenes that seem at once ordinary and mysterious. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Mr Bostridge explains that when it has ended, with the hurdy-gurdy man’s plain and oddly inconclusive song, the audience usually sits in stunned silence for some time. Wintry passions 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

And oddly, that was probably the best scene so far this series. Lost the feeling? 2010-05-13T13:02:00Z

The crowd, trickling in late, was oddly subdued. Searching for Transcendence with Radiohead 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Forte said he and his collaborators were taken aback at first but remained “oddly proud of our disgusting little movie.” Will Forte Is Still Waiting for ‘MacGruber’ to Blow Up 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The descriptor fits, but oddly enough, so does the notion that in its own way, it's also a family sitcom. "Breeders" feels your parenting pain and cusses right along with you 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

But even the movie's funny moments seem oddly chosen. 'Magic Mike XXL': Abs and raunch aplenty amid the skimpiest of plots 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Hill's facial expressions are oddly riveting, too, as he makes his way through his backward-spoken speech. A stroll with sound/video artist Gary Hill through his new show 2012-05-02T22:15:08Z

It's ridiculous, satisfying, jaw-droppingly savage, and oddly pleasurable, often all at the same time. Want to punch a Nazi? Amazon's "Hunters" is the show for you 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

There is probably some truth to that, but you’ve got to get into this oddly precise definition of “personal,” because it’s the farthest thing from autobiographical. D.I.Y. Sci-Fi: A Talk With Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

The result is hilarious, touching but also oddly empowering. No joke, being a psychiatric patient has its funny side 2010-08-04T09:53:00Z

And just as in the latter seasons of Breaking Bad, Plemons steals the show by creating one of the most unnerving, yet oddly sympathetic monsters in modern pop culture. El Camino: is the Breaking Bad movie worth the wait? Discuss with spoilers 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Watching Missy now, though, I'm oddly, yet fiercely, protective of her character in a way that I wasn't of myself at that age. Why Missy Foreman-Greenwald of "Big Mouth" is one of the most relatable characters on television 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

Weird, oddly delightful, a laugh every time, but why? The Best Jokes of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

I was exhausted, but my mind felt oddly clear. From good girl to prostitute: My path from ultra-Orthodox Judaism to Craigslist sex ad 2014-02-03T01:00:00Z

The series unspools in an oddly captivating alternate South peopled by whimsically twisted archetypes and marked by sudden shifts between folksy black comedy and graphic violence. Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z

And the part where people got hurt the most was, oddly enough, when they were throwing the albums. Video Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Matchbox Twenty 2012-08-20T12:00:43Z

This was what he most liked: to give advice about the strange, small, things that can sit oddly close to a person’s heart, and sometimes press against it painfully. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Those oddly assorted images can help kick-start a collection. | Inspiration: Jonathan Simkhai: Coaxing the Clothes From His Head 2013-07-17T20:28:17Z

And later, when Adrelene’s back at home and in front of her rogue mirror, her parents are oddly absent as well. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z

Yet they seem, oddly, to undermine his purpose. How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright – review 2012-08-07T11:25:01Z

The second episode, set largely at Big’s funeral, is oddly paced and grim without quite managing catharsis. Review: ‘And Just Like That,’ It All Went Wrong 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

"Posthumously this is a great honor but, while you’re alive, oddly intrusive and melancholy." Russell Brand skipping SXSW premiere of his 'oddly intrusive' documentary 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Again, oddly, a black single mother is the catalyst for institutional reprimand — although in this case for the protagonist’s failure to be harsh enough with her. In Two New Novels, the Trouble Is Academic — and All Too Real 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Featuring songs about alienation, capitalism and the impact of modern technology, "OK Computer" sounds oddly prescient in a politically divided and anxious Britain in 2017. Sound of silence opens UK's Glastonbury before Manchester classics fill the void 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

For one that’s based on physical labor, it is oddly lacking a sense of texture and effort. Review: The Disappointing Blandness of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

His latest release, the oddly titled “lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar,” sounds like all of his previous records played at once. Robert Plant exclusive: “I don’t want to be stuck in the ’70s or the ’80s” 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

With time, those contexts have grown clearer, oddly strengthening the echoes of work music and the blues. Hip-Hop’s New Wave of Lyricism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, this War of the Worlds is a flawed period piece, but one that remains suffused with an oddly endearing innocence. The War of the Worlds – review 2012-12-16T18:00:04Z

Not only was the “million-dollar smile” on Ms. Woods’s profile photo “true to form,” said Ms. Schafer, oddly enough she also had a good working Yiddish vocabulary. How Do You Say ‘Smitten’ in Yiddish? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t hard to picture dinosaurs in the surrealistic setting that we were trekking through, with its layers of purple and green rock and oddly shaped boulders that seemed to have fallen from the sky. In the Mountains of Bolivia, Encounters With Magic 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

These uncool degenerates are prone to reckless driving and, oddly, listening to Judas Priest’s 1980 hit “Breaking the Law.” ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ Review: Growing Pains 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The sight of a riverfront junkyard where scrapped cars are piled in oddly attractive patterns is offset by a kayaker enjoying a paddle in the distance. ‘Free Time’ Review: City Life as It Was, Today 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Part of what makes this headspinning story believable is the fact that it pans out in an oddly uncomplicated way. Argo – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z

Yet, from a certain perspective, it is oddly close to her spirit. Yoko Ono’s prophetic vision of self-care 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

And yet, in “The Vow,” he is oddly watchable, like a “Saturday Night Live” recurring character set loose in upstate New York. Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

The pirates fell silent as their Audio-Animatronic souls left their bodies, an oddly upsetting spectacle. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The men remember the oddly domestic scenes from the war — “dwellings where soldiers slept like tinned smelt on rubber sheets laid out over salvaged boards” and sharing rations in the trenches. ‘Tell,’ by Frances Itani 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Some viewers may find fault with this episode, especially the talky parts between Gus and vigilante vamp Quinlan, while the oddly suspended Ancients sleep/snore nearby. 'The Strain' recap: The Master, crispy around the edges, still lives 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

From there I turned back east, where suddenly the landscape became oddly familiar. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z

This makes for determinedly grim stories that consistently push their characters to extremes, and that feel oddly illustrative and didactic. Books of The Times: Tall Tales From Gifted Storytellers 2011-06-20T22:00:07Z

Dining in this town 13 miles from Paris oddly paid little tribute to its most famous attraction, the magnificent, mostly 17th-century Château de Versailles. Five Places to Eat in Versailles 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Say It With Money,” on the other hand, sounds oddly harsh. Davies’ album showcases rock, country and pop 2013-03-27T02:54:35Z

The two women have an oddly tender talk, even as Betty understands that she will not survive the conversation. 'The Americans' Recap: You Should Trust the Organization 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

The oddly gentle conclusion seems to suggest that we are all parts of a cosmic whole where borders mean little. Review: In ‘17 Border Crossings,’ Some Areas Are Left Unexplored 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Also, these words, which Duke reads to an older Allie from the notebook, sound oddly similar to the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me.” 9 Best Quotes from The Notebook 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

He also, rather oddly, launches us onto the "sea roads" of the Outer Hebrides for two long waterborne chapters. 'The Old Ways': Walking as a way of 'feeling, knowing and being' 2012-10-28T14:01:04Z

I find her appearances on our side porch oddly moving. Mourning the Letters That Will No Longer Be Written, and Remembering the Great Ones That Were 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

“Some of it’s inspiring, and some of it’s lonely. One thing about being in the city, it’s oddly hopeful when you watch how people can respond to adversity.” A photographer turned spy captures a city of sheltering-at-home artists 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

For her two-week engagement at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan, Dorrance has presented an oddly uneven experience, lethargic in its momentum. Review: Michelle Dorrance Returns to the Joyce. Where’s the Zip? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Although more restrained than her earlier work these paintings still felt oddly provocative and aggressive in the company of the minimalist works around them. Lee Lozano, Surely Defiant, Drops In 2011-01-09T03:00:04Z

Even the characters who seemed relatively well-adjusted had a touch of madness -- but there were times when that madness morphed into something oddly heroic. How "Treme" untangles the lessons of trauma 2011-04-25T13:26:00Z

"Page One: Inside the New York Times," Andrew Rossi's oddly exciting documentary about the august and struggling flagship of American journalism, is a movie without an ending. "Page One": Will the New York Times survive? 2011-06-14T21:30:00Z

It’s like going from private to general, from the mailroom to CEO, but oddly enough I’m less anxious than I was before. “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z

You exit for that intermission blinking back tears, only for the play soon after to reassert itself, most oddly, as a romp. Harold Pinter and Tracy Letts Revivals, and ISIS on Stage in London 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

When I rinsed off, my cheeks felt oddly sleek and smooth, as if I were wearing someone else’s skin. This region on New Zealand’s North Island is the Southern Hemisphere’s take on Yellowstone 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Compared to this ambient multimedia barrage, Dickens and his crew seemed oddly lifeless. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

There’s an oddly familiar glow to “Aria,” the auspicious debut album by the pianist Sullivan Fortner. Review: ‘Aria,’ by Sullivan Fortner, Full of Assurance 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

That was the point, presumably, but the romance Ms. Czernowin describes is oddly joyless. Music Review: Red Light New Music Plays Christopher Cerrone - Review 2011-10-08T00:56:13Z

It was revealing to see just how young Ryan really was and oddly moving that his one real desire was for a Big Mac. Line of Duty: series one, episode five 2012-07-24T21:00:00Z

But her letters are oddly healing, and a strange bond develops between us, the widow and the hijacker. Meeting my husband’s killer 2014-01-21T12:45:00Z

But it’s oddly reassuring, and obscurely enlivening, to know they exist. Perspective | These U.S. Agriculture Department paintings of fruits and nuts are actually stunning 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

The features look oddly edible, as if they were meat and candy and already being nibbled away at. A Nicole Eisenman Midcareer Survey in Philadelphia 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Election season is an odd time — or is it an oddly appropriate one? — to flood the concert scene with conductorless ensembles. Review: The Joys of a Conductorless Chamber Performance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

More oddly, though, among the show’s two dozen songs, none is a number that lets us inside Young Marie’s thoughts. ‘Little Dancer’ at the Kennedy Center, with the accent on ‘dancer’

Seattle Times reviewer David Laskin called it “stupendous… ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ is a beautiful, daring, heartbreaking, oddly joyous novel.” The children of World War II – Anthony Doerr's novel ‘All the Light We Cannot See' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Kells goes on a quest through the oddly perverse world of booksellers and bibliographers, in search of Shakespeare’s own tomes. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

But, oddly enough, it is the hotel industry that is taking the here-today-gone-tomorrow concept to a new extreme. Hotels That Hit the Road 2012-07-09T14:05:00Z

But all was done with conviction and seriousness and, if not always successful, was oddly sympathetic. Dido and Aeneas; Aurora Percussion Duo, Bartosz Glowacki; Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien – review 2013-01-13T00:06:16Z

But even on a bad day, Child gives the lie to the oddly persistent notion that literary novelists have the monopoly on technique. Crime fiction roundup - review 2012-12-21T08:00:01Z

And she’s clearly meant to be a bit off, with her uncouth spoon-licking gesture and the oddly unattractive cut of her pants. ‘Homeland’ Season 6, Episode 1: Carrie’s a Civilian — and a Brooklynite 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

My housemate – Sophie, 29, single for a year – deleted all her dating apps in June: they’re oddly quiet over the summer anyway, but she is resigned to having to download them again. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

Harris wrote 11 of the 13 tracks on "Hard Bargain," a disc that confronts head-on disappointment, death and loss with the oddly comforting, backward glance of middle age. Emmylou Harris' 'Hard Bargain' is an easy winner 2011-04-25T23:30:53Z

“I’ve gone back and watched some clips, and some of the stuff he says is oddly inspiring.” Bob Ross’s Strange Afterlife 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

So do the unemployed, the oddly employed, the controversially employed. Carolyn Hax: Her partner is a happy househusband. Let the mass judging begin. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

In fact, it does work and is oddly moving. 'I didn’t want to do an ITV drama': Matthew Macfadyen on making it big in the US 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Dripping with drama, supercharged with controversy, and populated by true-life characters — many of them unlikable yet oddly charismatic — it went beyond water-cooler fodder. Life after “Making a Murderer”: Defense attorneys — and unlikely TV stars — push conversation on criminal justice 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

She seemed oblivious to the nuances of human interaction, and, oddly, it was this obtuseness that permitted her to create images that force us to glare at them while taunting us to look away. A disturbing new image of photographer Diane Arbus 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

They're all also oddly cavalier about murder and corpses, which they frequently use as props, for laughs. 'Heart of Robin Hood' walks (and runs, and occasionally trips) along a new path in Sherwood Forest 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

A display about slavery in various areas of America oddly puts a year on the first conception of race: “Africans were ultimately defined as ‘enslaved for life,’ and the concept of whiteness began to develop.” The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

“They are mostly to be avoided or else kept at a prophylactic distance; they tend to lack social graces and have alarming food regimes; their clothes are oddly tailored.” Love the Smell of Old Books? This Bookseller Would Like You to Leave. 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

The artificial pieces he constructs sound oddly natural. 10 Artists to Watch in 2019 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

One oddly fudged historical detail involves the wondrous exotica resulting from Fischer’s widely heralded pursuit of the championship—the broadcast of the match from Reykjavik, which became an unexpected hit for PBS. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

One historical angle oddly absent from Murphy’s reconstruction is the Hollywood blacklist, first drawn up in 1947 after growing unrest in the industry about the corrupting influence of creatives with communist sympathies. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

I too was absorbed, as well as impressed and oddly moved. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z

For all its topicality, though, the novel is oddly of another era in its preoccupations with wealth and class. This Bleeding City by Alex Preston ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:02Z

Similarly, the 2008 Trio for horn, violin and piano, despite its more rambunctious surface and wide expressive range, is oddly diffident. Huw Watkins Day – review 2013-02-12T17:38:44Z

Rather than the investigation itself or the character of Ndekwe, who seems oddly page-bound, it is the unlikely friendship between the two suspects that is the emotional core of – subtle, moving and disturbing. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-04-25T07:00:01Z

In terms of narrative, the song is oddly wedged in, an obvious showcase, or perhaps exploitation. Sparkle: Whitney Houston's Last Picture Show and Jordin Sparks' First 2012-08-16T16:17:09Z

The posters for this romantic musical were oddly grim, and the trailers and TV spots remained way too bashful about selling Spielberg, the movie’s biggest name. The Oscars Want Crowd-Pleasers, but Where Are the Crowds? 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

“Saturday Night Live” returned last night from two weeks’ hiatus, cold-opening with an oddly specialized parody of CNN’s “At This Hour.” “As a full-blown nut job, I freakin’ love him”: “SNL” skewers Donald Trump defender Scottie Nell Hughes 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

The state doesn't currently have one, though it does have a state beverage — which is, oddly enough, milk. Kentucky Common beer: an all-American brew being resurrected from Prohibition-era oblivion 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Thank heavens, the universe, the spheres and these Danish musicians for the rest of the programme, which oddly segued between pieces and which included Ligeti, Tchaikovsky and, played with exuberant mannerisms, Sibelius's mighty fifth symphony. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

It felt odd at first, but also oddly luxurious if you’ve ever been vexed by the personal space afforded by seats in a concert hall. Review | Going to my first concert of the pandemic felt like preparing for battle. Then I got there. 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

The mac and cheese is nothing special, while the bowl of chicken and two huge, fluffy dumplings is oddly bland, despite the menu touting its “hen broth.” At Rock Creek Kitchen, the Southern food lacks some kick 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Fans of the band’s relatively modest indie releases may find the production oddly sparkly, layered with keyboards, wordless harmonies, and exotic little noisemakers and ear-catching details. Album review: The Shins, 'Port of Morrow' 2012-03-19T22:16:00Z

The Pacifico Dance Company, dressed as Day of the Dead skeletons, performed several charming numbers accompanied by enormous, oddly compelling puppets of the two presidential candidates. 'Vote or Die Laughing': Culture Clash fires off the jokes as fast as Hillary and Donald trade insults 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Not that the performance was in any way inadequate, though it didn’t help that the intimate production was oddly conceived as a sort of star vehicle for the tenor Rufus Müller. Review: American Classical Orchestra, With an Unseasonal ‘Passion’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

It was a superb concert, Nelsons bringing the best from his orchestra and from a programme which, were it not for his charisma and energy, might have seemed oddly contrived. The Proms 2011: week two in review 2011-08-04T11:04:34Z

I think, oddly enough for a modernist, he’s a universalist. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Like the movie, the series is peculiar, with an irregular rhythm and lots of black humor, and it is also oddly winning. Television Review: ‘Fargo,’ a TV Series Riffing on the Film, Begins on FX 2014-04-14T21:28:35Z

Donald J. Trump was “an oddly tinted compilation of psychiatric symptoms” and a “sentient Caps Lock button.” Review: Samantha Bee’s Fierce, Fiery Feminism Anchors ‘Full Frontal’ 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Britain, oddly for the world's supreme maritime nation, made very few of its own until war cut off supplies. First toys, then models and now works of art 2010-05-29T06:00:00Z

One letdown: "Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra," which has something oddly generic about its guitar sound. What our writers love this week 2011-04-27T22:30:06Z

Since TV news has increasingly shifted into a tabloid style of hype and fear, it is the satirists who have oddly become one of our main sources of critical reporting and insightful analysis. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

In one oddly mesmerizing skit, she acts on command for random Times Square tourists. TV listings: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Aside from their missteps, the early movies contain moments that ring oddly true in a pandemic. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

A Night in Louisiana Can Be Harrowing Utterly mad yet improbably fascinating, Ryuhei Kitamura’s “No One Lives” camouflages an oddly compelling central idea with the trashy trappings of the low-budget slasher movie. Movie Review: ‘No One Lives,’ by Ryuhei Kitamura 2013-05-10T02:17:26Z

I genuinely think, and this may sit oddly with the list you read out, that it is a humorous book. The old magic 2012-09-27T22:37:10Z

The punitive story is oddly, sometimes limply told. The House Where Winter Lives; Hansel and Gretel; Pinocchio – review 2012-12-30T00:06:25Z

Whereas Auster's books are written with a cool precision that creates an oddly dreamy atmosphere, Hustvedt's work in the reverse manner, the seemingly airy writing building up characters that are as clear as light. Siri Hustvedt 2011-03-25T07:00:00Z

“Catastrophe,” oddly enough for a work that is something of an outlier in the Beckett canon, made the biggest impression. 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

An oddly respectable bit of fluff, this film would never be mistaken for art, which typically explores something larger than itself. Jodi Arias film: a new case of fatal attraction 2013-06-19T17:00:15Z

This becomes “Filthy Rich’s” recurring theme — how one oddly captivating man lied his way into influence, amassed a dubious fortune and thereby reaped hideous degrees of privilege. Review | Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein docuseries honors his victims and their stories, but the creep still gets away 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

A woman who managed a decent invocation of Aretha Franklin justifiably won, but an oddly interesting ventriloquist was nearly howled off, and a few talentless performers won ecstatic plaudits. Back to the Apollo, Uptown?s Showbiz Incubator 2011-02-07T15:09:18Z

“The ice and gold is just a double code; it’s a metaphor,” frontman Damon Albarn sings in his deadpan way on the oddly titled “The Puritan.” Olympics theme songs: Still terrible 2012-07-19T16:40:00Z

And later, at Brook House's Brontë evening, Christa's historian presented us with a bit of stone from the actual Wuthering Heights, which, after a day immersed in the sisters and their work, was oddly moving. Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z

Oddly enough, or perhaps not oddly at all, he was speaking from the house on the country’s south coast that he bought some 15 years ago. Graham Norton Comes Around 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

Here it created space for Mr. Harris to deploy some oddly gleaming chord voicings and for Mr. Okegwo to abandon rote walking bass lines in favor of roving pointillism. Music Review: Honoring a Jazz Pianist and Mentor (Without Using a Single Jazz Piano) 2010-10-11T21:54:00Z

As in so many of Sendak’s books, the parents play a marginal role — Ida’s father is away at sea and her mother seems oddly absent, almost narcotized. Digging to the Roots of Maurice Sendak’s Vision 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

So it was only a matter of time before their kilts, macramé skirts, cheerleader pleats, Gibson-girl hairstyles, and oddly assorted grunge references would coalesce into a whole. New York Fashion Week: The Looks That Lingered 2011-02-19T00:28:42Z

Unfortunately, she's also rendered as bland, conservative and, oddly, a little frumpy. Review: `Playing for Keeps' one of year's worst 2012-12-05T19:49:17Z

Well, that’s unclear, especially after an oddly dismissive tweet the comedian fired off on Monday. Hannibal Buress gets combative about his show’s lack of gender diversity: “Good counting champ” 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

For example, in Anderson’s "if…" , the film switches between color and black-and-white stock, music is oddly interspersed, and the storyline contradicts itself: killed-off characters appear well again. School shootings and film shoots: What they do and don’t have in common 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

Kind of the Italian “Larousse Gastronomique” only better and published, oddly enough, by Readers Digest. The six cookbook titles this longtime food editor could not give up 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Louis Langrée, the music director of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted a brisk, crisp performance, stolid only in an oddly sleepy crowd scene at the start of Act 4. Elina Garanca Reprises Her Role in ‘Carmen’ 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Though wearing impeccably rendered period costumes by Marco Piemontese, these characters may sound oddly contemporary to you and not necessarily in the same ways. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z

But on a show like “Game of Thrones,” with its three-dimensional characters and their complicated motives, it was oddly comforting to have a guy like Joffrey around to loathe without mitigation. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: What a Wonderful Wedding 2014-04-14T02:00:12Z

By approaching parenting in this oddly intense manner, it seems that we are sucking the joy out of life’s most important relationship. Stop fetishising parenting - you’re sucking all the joy out of it! 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

And oddly enough, that might be on purpose. Perspective | Giuliani’s bumbling media blitz might be a calculation, not a mistake 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

She looked oddly amazing, with eyelash extensions, huge heels, Towie tan. Girl Least Likely To: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-10T14:00:01Z

But the electricity I associate with Fiasco is oddly lacking, as is the sense of unexpected revelation. Review: Finding Serenity in a Tempest-Tossed ‘Twelfth Night’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

It begins, oddly, with large “Communal” plates and segues to appetizer-size dishes gathered in a “Collection.” Provision No. 14 is a trip worth postponing 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Looking back at it, I remember it being the first fanbase who were mostly women, using it as a vehicle to be creative and identify themselves, oddly that impacted me. 'I cried a lot. My face was a mess' – young fans on Avengers: Endgame 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Often captured with feverish lighting and in oddly mesmerizing pastels, the film traces months of writing, workshops and rehearsals. 'Louder Than a Bomb': the power of a youth poetry slam 2011-05-05T23:55:05Z

But Liberace seems oddly inhibited, too reticent to explore the emotional depths and ambiguities. Critic’s Notebook: Liberace Examined, as a Piano Player 2013-05-27T21:40:53Z

That world is often a surreal and scary place, but oddly beautiful and bizarre, too: I'll never look at a Battenberg cake in the same way again. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – review 2013-03-13T13:17:50Z

And, oddly, the actor looks younger as the movie goes on, as if he and Bryan were energized by mortal danger. Taken 2: Liam Neeson Proves Age and Body Count Are Just Numbers 2012-10-05T14:00:18Z

Here is a passage in which his drama-queen mother notices young Preston entering their Manhattan apartment with an oddly shaped package under his arm. Review | What happened to the film career of Preston Sturges? His son investigates. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

These earnest conversations seem oddly less plausible than the stylized banter. Review: ‘Perfect Arrangement,’ a Comic Tale of Closeted Lives 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

“Hope Springs” is an oddly ambitious blend of bland humor and startling insight into the realities of married life. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z

Yet even in these ostensibly international forums Africa and its artists remain oddly set apart. An Art Critic In Africa: Salif Diabagat? and Other Artists Struggle in Africa 2012-04-15T04:10:00Z

It’s oddly suspenseful, a sequence that builds like a joke but isn’t merely played for laughs. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

This was an oddly lethargic “Silicon Valley,” though an occasionally funny one. 'Silicon Valley' Recap: How Will Pied Piper Be Any Different? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

The world — or at least the people in it — become oddly convergent. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Afterward, one man commented on his “oddly gentle” manner. Philip Roth Says He Has Given His Last Public Reading 2014-05-09T21:35:45Z

In the oddly mercurial way of Eastwood, he might actually have made a film that debunks Trump more brutally than the commentators quietly pointing out that most drugs enter the US in legal border crossings. Beautiful boys acting ugly: why cinema can't kick its drug habit 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Also, for such modernity, London, in this filming, had an oddly Gothic feel. Sherlock; Dispatches: Britain's Witch Children; Orchestra United 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

The oddly placed game rooms and monogrammed foyers, each one seemingly larger than the last. How ‘MTV Cribs’ Rewired My Brain, and Maybe Yours Too 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Jessica Lange and her partner, Sam Shepard — romantic couples often get oddly enmeshed in the production of “Streetcar” — believed it the equivalent of “Hamlet.” It Takes More Than the Kindness of Strangers 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

The Seattle Sound reflected the city’s gritty but wholesome, alienated yet oddly engaged, dynamic. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Wild donkey,” Nixon says, pointing to the cream-colored creature with a gray-brown face and enormous ears that stands oddly alone on the bone-dry pond. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent

His widow, Selena, is a classic femme fatale: beautiful, icily intelligent, yet oddly detached. ‘The Rim of Morning’ review: Two supernatural novels by William Sloane 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

At the moment, everyone is waiting, oddly flat-footed, to see who will be named next — or rather, which piece of common knowledge, masked as “rumor,” will be publicly confirmed. Perspective | Institutions raced to dump James Levine. They should look hard at themselves. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

The books that collect them, with titles devoted to “Rogues,” “Heroes and Adventurers,” “Naval Obituaries,” “Sports” and so on, are oddly uplifting, better than edibles, to tuck into before bed. A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

And, oddly enough, one of the most effective ways that I’ve found to let my daughter know I’m there for her in her darkest moments is by letting her swear. Why I Let My 8-Year-Old Use Swear Words 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps not so oddly, since the church service was an evangelical one. Pope's newspaper sings praises of The Blues Brothers 2012-06-20T17:04:22Z

“I am strong because of what I’ve dealt with. I am oddly fearless for a wimp with no upper-body strength,” she said. Lena Dunham Forced to Pull Out of 'Girls' Press Tour 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

The whole thing was oddly zoological yet also irresistible. Perspective | The Golden Globes red carpet showed it’s okay to delight in fashion rather than just tolerating it 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

It fairly bulges with facts, some of them oddly unnerving. Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review 2013-03-08T09:00:01Z

One of the last works you see is “My Non-Conceptual Object,” an oddly shaped sculpture that hangs from the ceiling. Drake LaBry creates his own fish stories at Museum as Retail Space 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Tower Hamlets, although it has mounted a brief public exhibition of the schemes, now closed, has gone oddly coy. Robin Hood Gardens: You're making a big mistake... 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Instead, the focus is on Camille’s fascination with self-injury both as a form of escape and as a kind of dark indulgence, which is portrayed as both oddly erotic as well as comforting. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

The production moves smoothly and briskly in short segments, bogging down only and oddly in the ostensibly tense moments just before the clock strikes 12. ‘Cinderella,’ Streamlined, by New York Theater Ballet 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

She has an oddly captivating presence, which I suppose is what possessed reality show producers to cast her in a role doing nothing in the first place. "Dancing with the Stars": Sarah Palin makes a cameo 2010-09-28T12:30:00Z

The idea of a body-shaking cleanse through projectile vomiting seems like an oddly appropriate response to a toxic year. Can You Poison Your Way to Good Health? 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

Many fans had found the second season oddly edited and padded with flashbacks. Does Andrea Arnold's experience on Big Little Lies suggest that auteurs are doomed? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Though written years before Donald J. Trump announced his candidacy, and first produced in London in the fall of 2015, the play may strike some as oddly prescient. Drama as Protest: ‘Our Complacency Is Dangerous’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

For works that are so purely abstract, they’re oddly full of personality. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

“When midgets,” he begins in a monotone, followed by an oddly dramatic pause, “play miniature golf, do they know?” ArtsBeat Blog: Senators and Congressmen, All Trying for a Laugh 2011-12-05T16:53:17Z

If you can get yourself to sit back and stop focusing on the destination, there are plenty of oddly charming incidents to enjoy. Review | As a novelist, David Duchovny is no Sean Penn 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

This is a novel of aggressive introspection, but Greenwell writes with such candor and psychological precision that the effect is oddly propulsive. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

He also offers plenty of unexpected, oddly beguiling factoids. The secret history of Wonderland in ‘The Story of Alice’ 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Invoking fellow early-80s chart denizens got a laugh, but it was an oddly dated jibe from someone who's remodelled himself into a vital, forward-looking artist. Paul Weller ? review 2010-12-12T22:00:00Z

In the second act of “Mean Girls” on Broadway, something oddly familiar happens. Ridiculous! Fabulous! On Broadway, Tapping in Quotation Marks 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

And it's all topped off by Maple's oddly characterless voice, its very blankness being the quality that allows it to fit seamlessly into this softly sultry setting. New band of the day - George Maple (No 1,422) 2013-01-02T15:16:34Z

And oddly, because of how their family is, I ended up with all their most precious things: all those cards, all their pictures, the couple from their wedding cake 62 years ago. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z

It ends very oddly with the stage crew assembling blossom trees for a scene that never transpires. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-07-03T17:04:12Z

It’s an honorable book but also a slight, frictionless and oddly subdued one, unlikely to jump-start new popular or critical interest in Updike’s vast oeuvre. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z

The experience changed Mike, who is oddly the series’ moral center: He does his job, however dirty, but he doesn’t steal or double dip. Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Welcome, but also oddly timed, seeing as how none of the debates will even be held until October. TCAs 2012: NBC’s Monkey Business 2012-07-24T17:45:46Z

Sand Lake historian Bob Moore notes of “Twin Peaks,” “The logging industry, the Great Northern Hotel, and the isolated hunting camps seem oddly related to Sand Lake in the late 1800s and early 1900s.” Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

There’s Brian Stokes Mitchell as Scott, in an oddly similar place of devastation and dread, sobbing and begging for forgiveness one moment, exploding in a graphically brutal assault the next. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Throughout his tenure, Mr. Leno was both friendly and oddly impersonal: he was a skilled joke teller who didn’t let down his guard or his hair. The TV Watch: An Emotional Jay Leno Bids Goodbye to ‘Tonight’ 2014-02-07T07:54:10Z

In Travels with My Aunt, Catholicism sometimes seems to be oddly shoehorned in, as if Greene couldn't stop himself mentioning it. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z

It’s a scene that is both oddly natural and preposterously bizarre. Critic’s Notebook: Maria Bamford’s ‘Special Special Special!’ Online 2012-12-17T05:09:03Z

Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court has surfaced its share of Gen X ephemera—including, perhaps most oddly, the British reggae band UB40, in connection with a New Haven bar fight. “Revenge of the Nerds” Enters the Brett Kavanaugh Culture War 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Still, these books oddly complement each other — one is a casebook of symptoms, the other a cultural diagnosis. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

It shows a dreamscape version of the rich and oddly festive funerary traditions of southern Vietnam. Is It an Art Collective or a Vietnamese Ad Agency? Yes and Yes 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Seymour was oddly serene, unhurried, as if moving through still water, as she fiddled with a pink cellphone. Celebrity Divorce: Stephanie Seymour and Peter Brant 2010-08-20T22:15:00Z

The gag that kept on running throughout the night, oddly enough, and seldom paused for breath, was the hallowed enmity between Kimmel and Matt Damon. A Shambolic, Kind of Fabulous Oscars Ceremony 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Mute” is an oddly messy and occasionally alienating movie, but a real movie nonetheless. Chipping Away at the Huge Block of Netflix Originals 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Her casual conversations with Tony Blair – "babe, it's fine" – and her flashing her knickers at David Trimble are oddly endearing, showing Mo's lack of inhibition. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

Maybe it's because nobody really knows how things will pan out, or make money for news again, that the atmosphere was oddly tense and entertainingly freewheeling, all at the same time. The Media Show 2010-05-20T07:00:00Z

The result was an oddly hypnotic and quite extraordinary evening. Miloš – review 2012-09-26T17:51:41Z

It also seems oddly punctilious that an outlaw is always addressed as Señor Zorro and shocking that a Franciscan monk would be whipped in a public square for supposedly swindling a merchant. Review | Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

Faith and guilt, love and jealousy — Ruhl sets them all in motion against the rich but oddly recessive backdrop of church and state. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Yet, while lavish and illuminating, the show is also oddly listless, even hollow. Art Review: Reflections on the Self and the Wider World 2010-12-16T23:33:38Z

There’s a darker edge to the oddly down-home, gas station philosopher Joseph within Kentucky Route Zero, the horrifying feeling of being controlled in The Stanley Parable or the two devastating science-fiction endings of The Swapper. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Year of the Indie 2013-12-25T13:01:28Z

“The Convert,” briskly translated from the Dutch by David McKay, is an imaginative flight, full of darkness and light, lively characters, life-altering conflicts, violence and kindness, birth, death and, oddly, a lot of snakes. The True Story of a Medieval Romeo and Juliet 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

We can all agree that the imagery in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” is oddly erotic. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

For such a violent process, the works are oddly soft and feminine, the roiling fissures reminiscent of blooming flower petals and bringing to mind Moses' '60s rose drawings. Ed Moses, 90, prepares nonstop for a new survey at Bergamot Station 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

The implications of the cube on sex habits, online and off, are oddly omitted. In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

"My confidence was zapped," he told a Mandel, who was oddly chill about the whole thing. What "Vanderpump Rules" cad Tom Sandoval and incels have in common 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Even the cynical structure of “It’s Always Sunny” — which resets after every episode, releasing its misanthropic bar staff to pinball around the pub again — feels oddly better suited to the moment. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

For the goddess Huppert has in fact delivered us a holy trinity of hits; it’s just that one got oddly ignored. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

Although oddly enough, I did joke in one studio meeting that it was a dead cert for best sound editing. Edgar Wright: ‘With Baby Driver, my oldest idea became my biggest hit’ 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

When the lines between reality and virtuality dissolve, both sides of such debates are left looking oddly anachronistic. SXSW 2011: The internet is over 2011-03-15T08:00:03Z

The list is long, although, oddly enough, there is no evidence of a Manhattan cocktail in the lost 1928 film “Manhattan Cocktail.” Hollywood and Booze: An Enduring Marriage 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Theirs was, oddly enough, the most appropriate response to the sweet, dull performance of Chanticleer, the genial San Francisco men’s a cappella choir. Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z

Last month, he told an audience that it was an error to mistake cultural power for real power, adding: “I, being a part of that machine and mechanism, do feel oddly culpable.” If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Much of the new work is oddly stark, raw and hermetic. Siah Armajani: ‘The Tomb Series’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Like, even before the grotesque button of the sketch was revealed, it was still doomed by the couple’s oddly muted cha cha. Cleveland Cavaliers hastily pull video that shows fan body-slamming woman for wearing other team’s gear 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The most violent playing across the series, oddly, comes in the first movement of Mendelssohn’s A minor quartet on “Prism II,” as a young disciple rages at a master’s death. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

After a recent visit to the library, several reporters posted snapshots of some of the books at gitmobooks.tumblr.com, and some readers said they found the photo collection oddly engrossing. Photo Essay: Prison Library at Guantánamo 2013-06-11T15:28:38Z

However, the anthemic songs fall flat: On the fist-pumping "A Little Bit Stronger" and the spiritually inclined "Desperately," Evans sounds oddly detached and the arrangements sound overly dramatic. Review: Evans struggles on new CD 'Stronger' 2011-03-08T17:26:08Z

We want to feel like we’re inside the same room as the characters we watch on the screen, even, oddly, when it comes to representational entertainment, like cartoons. Don’t call him the Walt Disney of Japan: How animator Hayao Miyazaki became a cultural icon by doing everything Pixar doesn’t 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

It was an oddly formatted specimen — printed in all caps. How Yoko Ono and a publishing temp saved the Beatles' Holy Grail from the scrap heap 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

The rest of the facade is oddly inert and largely opaque, with little of the lightness or translucency suggested by the word "veil." The new Broad museum, though efficiently designed, really only comes alive on the periphery 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

That includes Friday's opening ceremony, which is oddly being aired via tape delay despite Rio being only one hour ahead of Eastern time in the U.S. NBC gears up for Olympics with exhaustive coverage plan 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The clever ending Mr. Gonzales has come up with for “Lucy” marks a complete departure from the “Frankenstein” template, and it’s oddly satisfying on an emotional level. Books of The Times: In ?Lucy? by Laurence Gonzales, a New Species 2010-07-05T21:57:00Z

Embassy, watches the show — a real-time image of commandos blasting into the compound of a mid-level narco — he finds “the images oddly endearing, a child’s action toys brought to life.” Review | In ‘Missionaries,’ Phil Klay paints a grim picture of Colombia’s drug war 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Which means that the most disgusting and offensive video ever to go viral was ultimately, oddly, a force of togetherness. Riff: Reaction Videos as Anthropological Study of America 2011-11-27T04:00:09Z

"A beautiful time to be alive," he said between sets, which certainly must be true for the independent-minded, oddly magnetic rapper, producer and marketing genius. Coachella 2015: Rapper Lil B baffles, overjoys Outdoor Theatre stage 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

But, oddly, the more he talks about loss, in that hushed, melancholy voice, the more I begin to suspect he is one of life’s unlikely optimists. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

Chow’s controlled chaos can, at times, produce oddly affecting moments. The God of Funny: Stephen Chow Comes to Brooklyn 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

“Most of them love it, oddly. I think there are a lot of people telling themselves, with varying levels of accuracy, ‘They’re satirizing those annoying tech people—not me.’” How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

As someone who asks questions for a living, I found the whole process oddly stressful. Bill Drummond: 'The creative urge is in us all' 2012-05-28T19:30:01Z

They squawk and leave a lot of droppings, but oddly it is Ms. Fleiss who does all the talking. The TV Watch: A Madam?s New Consorts 2011-07-28T21:50:57Z

The sequence involving Boyd and the hijacked truck was oddly moving. 'Justified' Recap: Then I Have Already Won 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

And the show’s charm, oddly enough, lies in the main characters’ lack of charm. ‘Transparent,’ With Jeffrey Tambor, Begins on Amazon 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

But the show is oddly paced, and in some places almost comically lurid and hammy: At times it seems as if it were made in the 1980s. Television Review: ‘The Assets,’ a Mini-Series About Aldrich Ames on ABC 2014-01-01T21:59:51Z

There’s a singular spot on the bank; a hollow that fits my oddly assembled body better than the very expensive orthopedic chair that now gathers dust in my storage unit. For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Latest Thing: To underscore what he believes is the absurdity of some oddly shaped congressional districts, Mr. Sheehan is selling jewelry in the shape of those gerrymandered districts. Splaining How Government Works to Young Voters 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

But, oddly enough, they also didn’t agree on what the answer is — and promoted starkly different approaches. The spin instructor’s ‘love yourself’ approach didn’t motivate her. So what would? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

“Something oddly uplifting about it,” he said, a little puzzled. Walking Through the Whitney Museum with Rami Malek 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Paul Hunter's revival, which relocates the play to a 1960s Moscow oddly in thrall to decadent western pop culture, may not draw upon the circus, but it is no less strenuous. Too Clever by Half – review 2013-07-18T16:53:53Z

Speaking in different languages, dressing oddly, believing in strange gods, motivated by shadowy purposes and desires, they threaten everything we hold dear. Art Review: ?Muntadas: Information Space Control? in Bronx ? Review 2011-12-08T21:11:01Z

It's a disconcerting, oddly captivating experience that does away with the music rulebook in favour of creating various sonic textures that seem to be almost working against each other. New music: BTU – Swordbeerfish 2013-02-28T11:54:00Z

Sung with confident agility and womanly fullness rather than vulnerability, Sierra’s Lucia, though, spends much of the performance oddly unperturbed and sane, even happy. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

Rugby springs up as if oddly energized by all the boisterous action surrounding him, but immediately buckles. All We Can Do: a short story by T.M. Shine

In turns funny, exciting, oddly moving, and, with Phoenix Jones in the headlines, perhaps even a little relevant. Simply the best of the rest 2010: films the critics forgot to mention 2011-01-10T16:45:33Z

Although his intentions are noble, in attempting a conversational tone, he alternates between pedantic lecturing, unnecessary personal asides and oddly amateurish declarations as though he were submitting a doctoral thesis. ‘Gay Directors, Gay Films?’ review: Onscreen depiction of sexuality 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Listening to a political memoir read by the main player is an oddly gripping experience. Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion 2013-01-06T00:08:26Z

Yet oddly, in all the failings hurled at Mrs. Clinton at the Republican National Convention during the past week — venality, murder and reckless disregard for national security — there was no mention of her internet ignorance. Hillary, Me and the Digital Divide 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

The setting: The long, thin bar is an odd shape for a restaurant and does not fit that many patrons, but oddly it works. Cure on Capitol Hill — meats, cheeses, libations and fun 2012-08-09T20:23:04Z

It was as steamy as you would expect, but also haunting, an oddly sad portrait of two damaged souls, some passages of which have lingered in my mind ever since. Perspective | Elizabeth Wurtzel was right all along 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

A jumble of discarded loafers and strappy sandals had been glued to an oddly shaped slab of cardboard mounted on the bricks and spray-painted blue and red. In Rwanda, Looking to Art to Soothe 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The roster was a starry assemblage of chamber music players, including two venerable quartets and three-fourths of another, though, oddly, only the individual musicians — not the ensemble names — were listed in the program. Music Review: Bowing and Plucking to Honor a Festival 2011-01-16T22:09:24Z

Mr. Cumming’s delivery of the major soliloquies is forthright and lucid but oddly weightless: the character’s descent into depravity has been sketched in brisk, light strokes that dissipate quickly, as if drawn in invisible ink. Theater Review: ‘Macbeth,’ With Alan Cumming at the Barrymore Theater 2013-04-22T02:00:49Z

There may, however, be those who find themselves oddly energised by all the commotion and listen to all-out noise such as Iceage. New band of the day ? No 1,081: A Winged Victory for the Sullen 2011-08-10T16:36:06Z

It is a lovely and oddly heartbreaking moment: a lazy, tactile revel en route to the gallows. Cannes 2013: Fruitvale Station – review 2013-05-17T09:53:09Z

The problem is nobody in American political life has facial hair, but I think it oddly works. Paul Giamatti Had a Busy Year of Mad Guys and Bad Hair 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

They are dressed in clownish fashion, with brightly painted faces and wigs, and they add a fanciful element that sits oddly with the somewhat sardonic tone of the rest of the ballet. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z

The result was an oddly disjointed evening that felt less than the sum of its estimable parts. Music Review: Amphion String Quartet Performs at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-01T20:53:09Z

I was therefore surprised when I felt oddly nostalgic while watching this Facebook-made video. From Robin Williams, to Ferguson: This was 2014 according to social media 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

She is a waif, silent and oddly detached, that no one quite knows what to do with. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

Unlike Wright's elevated subjects, the successful business people captured here are oddly anonymous, their ordinariness punctured by absurdly mannered poses and Griffin's cinematic lighting. Format international photography festival – review 2013-03-10T00:05:49Z

Like Chip's Vilnius adventure in The Corrections, the Paraguay trip sits oddly with the rest. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

Zeta-Jones saunters elegantly through the film with her oddly retro allure; she always seems a bit misplaced in the present, as if she was born for ’40s-style glamour. ‘Playing for Keeps’: Gerard Butler’s hair scores, film falls flat | Movie review 2012-12-06T22:08:43Z

I suppose this fits into the theme of the dangers of analyzing the past, but mostly this oddly humorless dialogue comes off haphazardly. | 'Our Lot': When What?s Left of a Man Is Found in His Collections 2011-06-14T22:30:35Z

The other scuttles around furtively somewhere far beneath, poking its oddly shaped head up for public consideration only rarely. ‘King John’ and ‘King Lear’ at the Stratford Festival 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Riding a bike by the mine site, on the Mineral Belt Trail, was oddly moving, the setting’s isolation underlining the outlandishness of the whole Tabor story. A Hidden Trove Gives a Glimpse of Opera in the Wild West 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Bidart’s poems float and swerve, at once cinematic and oddly intimate. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

It's brutal in its particulars — with dreary streets, bleak houses and grim faces — yet the film is also marked with oddly funny, touching exchanges that waver between the ridiculous and the tragic. 'Aurora': quietly tracking a shadowy figure 2011-10-06T21:05:04Z

The crude but striking work was made by scratching into thick paint – creating a graphic and expressionist effect that looks oddly modern. Witches fly high in major summer show 2013-03-22T13:00:59Z

After so much electrifying interplay Mr. Adams provides a contrastingly relaxed section that seemed oddly diffuse. Music Review: One Fresh Score in Place of Another 2011-03-09T22:30:16Z

One of the oddly tricky things about making a movie is where to put the camera. Director Marc Webb: Why I'm a student of the Graduate 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z

IT is oddly satisfying to discover that, without question, you would be the first person to die in the Hunger Games. Urban Athlete: Archery Tag Offers a Tame Version of ‘The Hunger Games’ 2014-05-08T22:15:54Z

What brought on this early attention to the geography of living things was, oddly enough, a shift from allegorical to literal interpretations of the Bible. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z

Moss is a Scientologist, and has been from birth, a biographical nugget about her that tends to surprise and oddly sadden people. Elisabeth Moss: 'We're not saving the world here' 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z

An oddly familiar glimpse of an American south Eggleston would go on to redefine in the most dramatic way. 2010's best books 2010-12-10T14:14:00Z

He posted a letter on his website, saying that watching the film made him “very uncomfortable”; that he’d found it “oddly intrusive and melancholy.” SXSW: Russell Brand a no-show for a documentary about him 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

Even when you questioned Mr. Heggie’s choices — the oddly seductive rhythm that accompanied Ahab’s last tango with the whale, for example — you could still acknowledge its effect. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z

The slick smell of popcorn butter — the oddly comforting aroma of Hollywood itself — hasn’t returned so far. The Zombie-Mall Weirdness of Going to the Movies Again 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

The resulting book is in equal measure disorienting, surprising and at times even oddly touching. Review | ‘Howard Stern Comes Again’ gives a glimpse of a kinder, gentler shock jock 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

He’s a Marine, expert in the killing arts, but he rather oddly arms himself with, among other things, a switchblade knife and a poisoned dart laced with curare. ‘Killer, Come Hither,’ a legal thriller set amid New York’s upper crust 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

There’s the one J. M. Barrie described as “oddly cocky,” of course. 'Peter Pan Live!' on NBC, With Allison Williams and Christopher Walken, Mostly Succeeds 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Well, it didn’t show in the hair and makeup, oddly enough — that’s always an obsession for her. Fashion Review: Review of Couture Fashion Week: Raf Simons, Dior, Versace and More 2013-07-03T19:39:15Z

Well-chosen clips from films like “Adaptation” and “Barton Fink” relieve the gossiping, but it’s a wistful attachment to much older movies that lends the proceedings an oddly nostalgic air. Movie Review | 'Tales From the Script': Peter Hanson?s Dishy Documentary on Screenwriters 2010-03-12T06:25:00Z

A rock hyrax, an animal the size and shape of a beaver but, oddly enough, a relative of the elephant, was sunning itself on a rock by the front gate. Journeys: An Israeli Oasis as a Passage to Ancient Times 2010-09-12T08:01:00Z

For most of its running time, it's a tripartite character study, dry but oddly alluring. 'In the Name of My Daughter' a frustrating, would-be thriller 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Even viewers who've never seen a frame of the source may intuit that a lot of essential things are missing -- that this story is just the finely buffed tip of an immense, oddly shaped iceberg. The dark side of America's first reality show 2011-04-21T14:05:00Z

But that's the least of their worries when they spy him behaving very oddly through the window. Tonight's TV highlights: Asian Gracefully 2011-03-04T00:05:02Z

When Vassilopoulos finally puts her characters in a squeeze, the tension remains oddly vaporous, as though she has tried to trap a thundercloud in a vice. ‘Superior’ Review: Double Fantasy 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

New crew members come to realize that on the frequent “away missions,” some lowly ensign always seems to die a horrible and oddly hackneyed death. In ‘Redshirts,’ John Scalzi Gives Expendables a Life 2012-07-06T22:52:40Z

The show was ridiculous, but it was also funny, ecstatic, oddly sensual, and all-enveloping. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

But there’s an oddly muted quality to these declarations, though they’re certainly heartfelt. Review: David Attenborough Is Back, and He Brought the Walruses 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

After poring over some of the more exciting cookbooks published in recent years in search of simple ways to use my spices, I found several oddly healthful options that were profoundly delicious. What to Do With All the Spices That Have Piled Up in Your Kitchen 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

When you think of Netflix, you might think of immovable cultural artefacts like Friends, or beloved original productions like Stranger Things, or oddly ratified lockdown staples like Tiger King. Cocomelon: the unsettling kids show that's breaking Netflix records 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

There's the oddly sprawling narrative, wildly uneven in the picaresque tradition, beginning in media res before pulling back, taking tonally unexpected turns. Comedies in serious clothing: an introduction to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Ida, oddly enough, is the one to persuade Bill to interview Lester, invoking a bit of her husband’s wisdom, Take Control of the Facts. ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Boots on the Ground 2014-04-23T03:22:49Z

Which, oddly, was the most interesting thing about it. A Biden-Obama Reunion Pitches a Campaign as Comfort-Food TV 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

While other Ming notables were being murdered or committing suicide, Bada entered a monastery and started behaving oddly: going mute for long periods; laughing, screaming or weeping randomly; spinning in circles in the marketplace. Three years and $56 million later, Seattle Asian Art Museum is reinvented and set to reopen 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

The same can be said of this ungainly and oddly unforgettable film, which will screen at 12:15 p.m. both days. Movie Listings for Aug. 29-Sept. 4 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

“This next song, oddly enough, was written by Chuck Lorre, the producer of television,” she said. Uptown Rapture: Debbie Harry at the Carlyle 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

And I was, in hindsight, oddly empowered by this: He may not have loved me, but he needed me, and there was more security in being needed than in being adored. Curse of my birthing hips 2012-12-20T01:00:00Z

In Trollope's oeuvre it is certainly unique, but also oddly relevant to some of our own current social, economic and ethical concerns. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z

Yes, I know a guy won it: Matt with the smoke alarm vocals, and such an oddly truncated neck that the week he took his top off he resembled a medium plaited loaf. So girls are not all as nice as pie. And your point is? 2011-01-02T00:07:17Z

But within the daisy-chaining brawls that ensue, there’s also something oddly grounded, even meditative: yeoman’s work by a decent, deadly hero. Movie Review: In ‘The Raid 2,’ a Police Officer Goes Undercover 2014-03-27T23:33:08Z

As they do, a 15ft inflatable blows up behind them; it has the face of a phoenix, which is oddly purple and veiny. Tenacious D; Poliça – review 2012-06-09T23:05:54Z

Physically, too, Mr. Keaton is oddly distant from his audience, because Kurt Johns’s direction moves him frequently and for no apparent reason around the wide stage. Review: ‘Churchill,’ a One-Man Show at New World Stages 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

But the Land of Sweets is, oddly, a club in 1985. ‘The Hip Hop Nutcracker’ at United Palace 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

The most distinctive aspect of Purdum’s portrait is his attention to the oddly distant relations between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, despite the united front they presented to the world. Review | The secret to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s remarkable partnership 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

She took a picture of the oddly colored piece of meat, which appears to be green underneath the fried coating. Woman claims KFC gave her green chicken: 'I’ll probably be avoiding KFC for a while after this' 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

Something about the blend of consensus and compromise made the cobbled approximation of applause oddly touching. Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Stripped-down and sparse, Skeff Anselm’s production leaves the funk and jazz samples detonating oddly in space. The 12 greatest albums of the ’90s 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z

His gesture reaches across the oddly lobbed, slanting piece of cardboard — possibly from shirt packaging — on which the scene is drawn. Art Review: Bill Traylor Finally Gets a Spotlight in New York 2013-07-04T23:46:01Z

Sound enveloped her, an A in chords and octaves, a ringing that made every nerve end in her body vibrate in a state that wasn’t painful, was oddly pleasurable but curiously distracting. Dragonsong: The Unforgettable Anne McCaffrey 2011-11-30T16:30:35Z

Then, when the recession happened, a lot of the songs dealing with wealth and poverty became oddly relevant in this way that they hadn't been before. Anais Mitchell's folk opera ambitions 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Even when her sister Beatrice is afflicted with cholera and it seems like she might die, Margaret remains oddly detached, regarding this lamentable event as “interesting as well as sad.” Books of The Times: In Jane Smiley?s ?Private Life,? a Marriage With No Sparks 2010-05-24T21:21:00Z

And one mark of originality on television these days is, oddly enough, unfaithful imitation. Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the Dead Return as if Nothing Happened 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Having watched Janice age 10 years over the course of two volumes and 600 pages, the ending of All Made Up seems oddly truncated. All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

She tends to be verbose, oddly theatrical, preposterously can-do, the kind of person described as a bit much. Now Playing Nightly on Instagram: Sketch Comedy’s Newest Star 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

And that's what ended up happening oddly in England of all places. Lisa Marie Presley returns with rootsy third album 2012-05-23T11:45:18Z

For a show that splits the difference, try IFC’s “Brockmire”: a sharp-tongued baseball comedy that, in its fourth and final season, takes an odd and oddly prescient dystopian turn. Review: ‘Brockmire’ Is the Dystopian Baseball Comedy We Need 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

She is friendly and co-operative, even exuberant at times, but I get the sense all this sits oddly on her young but slightly weary shoulders. Maisie Williams: ‘I was covered in blood and gnawing on pizza’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

It seems that an amalgam of these real-life pitfalls confronted Conant in the telling of her tale, and the effect is a discursive and oddly bifurcated book. War — What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

How oddly holiness situated itself among the things of the world, how endlessly creation wrenched and strained under the burden of its own significance.” How well do you know your Orange prize trivia? 2012-05-30T13:52:59Z