Documents, buttons, ribbons, porcelain — each has its own eccentricities.
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Like Mr Carrey, he occasionally plays up his own eccentricities.
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Its characters are enjoyably silly in their pretensions and eccentricities.
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I like to shoot people who share my tastes and eccentricities.
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Twisted eccentricities of the suburbs were psychedelic cartoons in his lyrics.
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After bringing analog eccentricities into the digital age, Everything is Terrible!
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It's our strengths, weaknesses, eccentricities and differences that define our humanity.
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Simple eccentricities were accentuated until they seemed definitive, perhaps even mystical.
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In fact, it's all the little eccentricities that make Toronto so special.
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"Handlebar mustaches, goatees, beards or eccentricities are not permitted," the policy states.
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"We know each other better and our quirks and eccentricities," she said.
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As is his way, Einhorn will confront the work's eccentricities head on.
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Sometimes I want to hold on to the eccentricities I have left.
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Even by the standards of the solitary writer, his eccentricities are manifest.
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From the architects of the Gherkin comes another glass skyscraper full of eccentricities.
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From there, you work on perfecting communication and adoration and appreciation of eccentricities.
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Among many, Stone is better known for his eccentricities than his political work.
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The eccentricities of my personality, on the other hand, only grew more obvious.
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And I decided I needed to make her more gifted in her eccentricities.
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As quirky as the crew seems, their eccentricities have nothing on the passengers.
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But the film's humor comes from the characters' eccentricities, not the lives they're living.
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"I treasure my circle of women, their humor, their wisdom, their eccentricities," she wrote.
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Does this architecture serve its user, or must the user adapt to its eccentricities?
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The eccentricities of the clock also tend to divide people in Xinjiang by ethnicity.
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Bill Murray is a man of many talents — and at least as many eccentricities.
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Yet there's something fundamentally generic about Newt, with his flapping feet and innocuous eccentricities.
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This clever circle was marked by eccentricities, disagreements and rivalries, and other more serious problems.
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He was highly intelligent with a brilliant sense of humor, very into taste and eccentricities.
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For all the witty jabs Lovesey takes at English eccentricities, this is a classic whodunit.
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India, the second most populous nation in the world, is full of quirks and eccentricities.
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Perhaps Trifonov's eccentricities will subside with time, or perhaps they will take on interpretive weight.
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Mofokeng seems to test how many eccentricities a picture can tolerate before it breaks apart.
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The Republican Party wishes to have no debate over Trump's style, character, actions or eccentricities.
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Sia doubles down on her vocal eccentricities, slurring the lyrics and reveling in the rough spots.
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Anthology's series pairs various Herzog films with other documentaries that highlight the eccentricities of his approach.
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Like any curious child, he has absorbed the lingo, patterns, attitude and eccentricities of his heroes.
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"I love that it points out some of her eccentricities," Mr. Cooper said of the film.
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He directed the original production of Williams's "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" on Broadway in 1976.
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It took someone interested enough to dig deeper to uncover the Beales's story, rather than their eccentricities.
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The group dynamic was so good that it was easy to overlook the guru's eccentricities at first.
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Even by the standards of brash start-up founders, Mr. Neumann's eccentricities became the stuff of legend.
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Drawn like Daddy Warbucks crossed with the Goodyear blimp, he's grotesque yet oddly endearing in his eccentricities.
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"In moderation, of course, everyone loves eccentricities, they lubricate life," Carlo says of his quirky ex-girlfriend.
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And as drolly embodied by the downtown veteran Emily Davis, Heidi glimmers shyly with sui generis eccentricities.
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One of the eccentricities of the N.H.L. is what happens when a team runs out of goalies.
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Use vivid or descriptive language to capture its eccentricities for someone who has never encountered it before.
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At college, Marianne's eccentricities and open brilliance, plus her wealth and privilege, make her sought after and admired.
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In the jousting-like confines of a political campaign, Trump's erratic behavior and other eccentricities were powerful weapons.
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"I'll put it this way: It's not exactly the D.N.C." To be sure, the weekend featured some eccentricities.
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I found myself deeply relating to her portrayal of dealing with her fictionalized family's myriad quirks and eccentricities.
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"Masseduction" (like Bowie's album "Let's Dance") clears away some of the musical eccentricities of St. Vincent's previous albums.
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Even in well-curated thrift and vintage stores, the eccentricities of the stock can feel arbitrary and unkempt.
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"Mofokeng seems to test how many eccentricities a picture can tolerate before it breaks apart," Mr. Cole wrote.
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The characters all revolved around Mary, whose naïveté and enthusiasm supplied a generous assist for the others' eccentricities.
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Subjectivity in all of its quirks and eccentricities is the coin of the realm in the Republic of Letters.
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Even the child actors begin to zero in on their very specific character eccentricities and add to the ensemble.
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Pence, by contrast, focused on making Mike Pence look good and happily left Trump's eccentricities on the cutting board.
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Like slavery in centuries past, these money havens are not eccentricities but structural instruments of the capitalist global economy.
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Undeterred by this and other eccentricities, Reichl peels away the layers of drama that arrive with her new job.
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She developed eccentricities and odd illnesses, engaged in passionate busywork (collecting, decorating, gardening); she made paintings and threw them away.
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Maddon, who had never managed in the majors before, would later thrive with Tampa Bay, where his eccentricities played better.
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His eccentricities on and off the track are well known in racing and have earned him the nickname Mad Genius.
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The straightforward story might not have seemed an obvious choice for an auteurist project, particularly given this one's cultivated eccentricities.
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No state can match its swagger or eccentricities; no state generates more loyalty within its borders, or more controversy beyond.
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We selected several ruthless leaders from the book and highlighted their favorite foods — and some of their horrifying dinnertime eccentricities.
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But the play's characters are defined exclusively by their eccentricities and flights of odd lyricism; they have no believable emotional pulse.
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He's got the eccentricities of Jack Dorsey, the frattiness of Evan Spiegel and the "change the world" delusions of Elizabeth Holmes.
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So he made his eccentricities, his heterodoxies, and his independence from the party's interest groups and leading politicians a selling point.
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Growing up with dogs, he recognizes pups have their own personalities and eccentricities, so the voices are an extension of that.
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He read about the fiddler's life and eccentricities: his dislike of playing with other musicians, his refusal to play for dancers.
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Interestingly, some prodigies may actually do better when their eccentricities are seen by loving adults as disabilities first — and talents second.
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There are certain lazy stories about the repressed quirks and eccentricities of Japanese society that consistently make Western news: declining birthrates.
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He works the crowd up into a frenzy, he bellows anti-Washington rhetoric, and he makes people laugh with his eccentricities.
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By the time Bell's affections turn to a married miliary officer (Damian Lewis), the movie has abandoned most of its eccentricities.
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With the more ambiguous iconography of the full moon and the snail shell, we garner some aspect of Swann's parapsychological eccentricities.
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Republican congressmen refer to his threatened assaults on the rule of law as if to the regrettable eccentricities of an elderly relative.
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Wiseau's bizarre accent and eccentricities keep him on the outside looking in, however, until Sestero suggests they just make their own movie.
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The Latin word "sic," when bracketed inside a quotation, indicates that the material comes straight from the source, mistakes or eccentricities included.
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People also compliment his staid managerial presence: He speaks evenly, holding steady eye contact, and lacks the eccentricities of other Google execs.
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Despite being a product of Hollywood, Fisher never lost her jaded view of the town's eccentricities, or the fleeting nature of fame.
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In it he records the many flaws, rivalries, vices and eccentricities that together create a family photograph of the Quattrocento and Cinquecento.
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Jane's parents — her father was a prominent doctor — fueled their children with stories of relatives both illustrious and outsize in their eccentricities.
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For better or worse, Henson was forced re-cut the movie after test audiences expressed distaste for the eccentricities of the film.
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"He's typically played for his eccentricities, but the part of Tracy that I hadn't seen examined is his humanity," Mr. Peele said.
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"Eccentricities" is an improvement, but "Summer and Smoke" is nevertheless Williams, with veins of rich pathos to be mined from its melodrama.
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Rather than wearing my political values, or my eccentricities of taste, on my sleeve, I was instead sandpapered into an innocuous cipher.
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At this point, the obvious eccentricities of his art, so contrary to the ideals of the High Renaissance, cease to be drawbacks.
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But once you get accustomed to the show's eccentricities, these kinds of imperfections actually make Dad of Light feel more earnest and endearing.
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But despite its eccentricities, the 'Bra has once again been placed first in a list of cities with the highest quality of living.
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Voters may want to check some of Trump's eccentricities, but why give control of the country to people who can't hate it enough?
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For all its eccentricities, Final Fantasy XV has some points in its favor, namely the fact that it's essentially a giant road trip.
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His commentary on the cultural eccentricities of pre-Trump middle-class America (the book is set in 2015) is astute and highly entertaining.
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"Unfinished" reached back to the Renaissance with often fabulous eccentricities and then flamed out in its area of concentration: modern and contemporary art.
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I spent the next hour or so reading all about Paul Jenkins, his influences, his mild eccentricities, and anything else I could find.
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I can hear echoes of the eccentricities of her mentor, footwork godfather RP BOO, who has made the most oblique cuts of the genre.
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Two of science's most prestigious journals have released a combined five articles in the past two days demonstrating entanglement's eccentricities in many-atom systems.
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That is to say, he's the kind of guy who seeks money, power, and wants to reshape the world around his own personal eccentricities.
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That film more precisely documented the singer's strangeness, and the way the self-mythologizing eccentricities of "Wacko Jacko" might have masked his deeper pathologies.
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It's when we're home alone — with no one watching what we're eating, how or where — that our quirks, eccentricities and guilty pleasures come out.
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For most of this century, Apple's eccentricities and deviations from the mainstream PC, smartphone, or tablet market have been greeted with a trusting optimism.
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His Everyman behavior and his eccentricities, which extended to his 22007s consignment-shop wardrobe and his hip-hop-infused vocabulary, made Lochte stand out.
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There's very little Acting, with a capital A, which means few of the flamboyant displays of the eccentricities for which Chekhov's characters are famed.
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Some familiar faces return, including those of Charlie Day and Burn Gorman as eccentric scientists — one of whose eccentricities have grown pronouncedly more extreme.
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The squabbling Maggie and Jacob have been accoutered with those bright, jumbo-size neuroses and eccentricities that are often found in dysfunctional-family sitcoms.
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Written and directed by Noble Jones, "The Tomorrow Man" is a cloying, at times disturbing tale of two dotty seniors whose eccentricities unexpectedly mesh.
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While Venus is in this sign, then, we should strive to embrace eccentricities when it comes to love, sex, and relationships of all kinds.
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But the danger is that a leader's eccentricities and views become so embedded in the culture that they damage the business in the long run.
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Given all the eccentricities of voting in New Hampshire outlined thus far, do you really expect all polling places to close at the same time?
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In the literary world, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote both walked a clever line and played off their affectations as the eccentricities of brilliant minds.
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Besides all her little eccentricities, it's Zencirli's focus on the impact of her projects, rather than the aesthetic, that makes her and her work significant.
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Middle-aged couples from the Marais or recent graduates of Middlebury would have known nothing of Mr. Vassell, his eccentricities and patterns, the thinking goes.
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And the sui generis David Greenspan, luxury-cast as Landlorde, creates from his usual drawls and eccentricities a character that exists completely beyond those parameters.
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As I grew older, I became more conscious of the building's eccentricities and the fact that nobody else I knew lived in conditions like these.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The skyline of London's financial district abounds with architectural eccentricities of a culinary kind, including the Gherkin and the Cheesegrater.
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To get an idea of just how your pup thinks and feels, Dr. Brian Hare has dedicated his life to studying canine cognition and its eccentricities.
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I could see the scope of its wonders and eccentricities, unbound from me and indifferent to me: an infinite expanse to explore before time ran out.
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And when Kumail relies on the male niceties and eccentricities of rom-coms, women shut him down as his intellectual and comic equal — if not superior.
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The dark eccentricities curling along the edges of even Demme's sunnier comedies (1988's "Married to the Mob," for example) oozed to "Silence's" front-and-center.
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Peters said there were similarities between Neumann and Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, both in their inventiveness and in the ways their eccentricities could make investors bristle.
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The Room is the quintessential cult film, one whose excess and eccentricities become the cinematic equivalent of an alien trying and failing to assimilate among humans.
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"We chose the derelict tower block to contrast their eccentricities and followed them on a journey to 'the last place on earth left open,'" Rimmer continues.
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My parents were wonderfully accepting of these eccentricities, putting up with seeds scattered on kitchen countertops and bird droppings in the hall with great good grace.
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Amidst the media frenzy, "Comedian," was widely seen to be one big joke satirizing the foolish eccentricities of the art world and its ultra-rich collectors.
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It's often broadly funny but never mean or patronizing; it takes the Knights, their eccentricities and quixotic aspirations seriously, but not enough to squelch the fun.
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Yet, as political post-mortems suggested, Dr. Hayakawa, a conservative, was helped by his crowd-pleasing eccentricities in defeating Mr. Tunney, who ran as a moderate.
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Wilson delves into the artist's psyche in a quest to offer psychological and scholarly-based insights into the relation between Nevelson's art and her personal eccentricities.
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Being part of these groups is kind of being in on an extensive inside joke — if you understand each group's quirks and eccentricities, you're in the club.
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Mike Skrepnick's take on this new Chasmosaurine from Campanian Montana captures all the eccentricities of this group, while still convincing us that its appearance is completely plausible.
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The Brexit debate has been marked by particular British eccentricities, but the tendencies it appeals to—xenophobia, the belief in a lost, past greatness—cross many borders.
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Williams tried to solve these problems with massive rewriting; the result was "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale," which puts the main characters in a rather different framework.
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They had been close as children when Matthew was the fragile one, scarred by fire as a baby, isolated by his eccentricities, cosseted by an obsessive mother.
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"Clover" may or may not take place in the mind of a dying man named Joe Cronin (James B. Kennedy), a convenient scapegoat for any storytelling eccentricities.
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At the same time the energy trader exhibits eccentricities similar to those found in other private firms like HNA, which has also been an energetic foreign acquirer.
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That's a huge accomplishment in and of itself — but with the show's protagonist, Kaling was able to showcase a character, who despite her eccentricities, was oddly relatable.
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The bearded saunterer's enduring popularity has turned on a paring-down of his spiritual eccentricities in order to fit an increasingly reductionist conception of the natural world.
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I'd almost call the humor here a theme, but that in itself is a normalizing pigeonhole of the grid's eccentricities ("Don't label me!" it seems to cry).
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This is the type of album that's suited more for a melodramatic rock opera than a stingy punk basement, and Rønnenfelt's eccentricities are put on forthright display.
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Atlanta in the early 2000s was a hotbed for musical innovation, with artists like OutKast spinning their eccentricities and distinct Southern identity into record deals and national fame.
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Rectify, which ended in December, was brilliant and atmospheric and poignant, a tribute to small-town life, in all its pains and eccentricities, like TV had never seen.
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As many an English squire would attest, tolerating the eccentricities of the clergy is simply one of the obligations that flow from the ancient principle of noblesse oblige.
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It is notable that to break the ice with Stalin, Roosevelt found it necessary to make Churchill the butt of jokes -- referencing his cigar smoking and other eccentricities.
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"I have always been intrigued by and drawn to creative pursuits including fashion's eccentricities, a love for design, and visual displays of fashion," Santos wrote in the blurb.
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Just as Ms. Paltrow's Goop was fined $145,000 for claims about jade eggs, Mr. Woo cautions that even Silicon Valley's guru can let his eccentricities go beyond science.
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I mean those natural-born stage stars who are both inescapably odd and embraceably accessible, like Carol Channing and Zero Mostel, who make eccentricities more commanding than beauty.
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The Complete Tableau 10 Data Science Bundle This five-course bundle helps you uncover the eccentricities of Tableau, the tool companies use to inform their data-driven choices.
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However, she's responsible for so expertly crafting a bizarre, yet lovable, character whose eccentricities have not only endured for 25 years, but also still elicit cheers of recognition.
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The memoir offers an almost contemporary take on Delhi, but deftly weaves in events from the city's momentous history even as it details the eccentricities of daily life.
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The Frosts, for all their eccentricities, had an instinct for the kinds of creative people who might establish a community, maybe something approximating a family, even for them.
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Every cliché about young people is wrong because they are an infinitely diverse group, even more so than adults, whose eccentricities have often been socialized out of them.
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Alki David, the 50-year-old billionaire heir of a Greek Coca Cola bottling fortune, is defined by his eccentricities and the kinds of projects he throws his money.
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Though I continued to have massive respect for Prince, his music, his eccentricities, and above all his exemplary skill as a musician, I never again bought another Prince album.
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" But she's unconcerned with anyone trying to curb her eccentricities, posting the confident freestyle with an unrelated caption: "Can somebody tell Ludacris I really wanna go on Fear Factor??!!
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The show's purpose isn't to celebrate the pleasures of smoking weed, but rather to celebrate the eccentricities of a diverse band of New Yorkers, tenuously connected by marijuana use.
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So Boehme said that's just as plausible a theory as the more ghoulish tale that's more commonly spun, though all the home's eccentricities can sometimes be difficult to explain.
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It is easy to quickly grow protective of a place like this, which is at once a depository for New York's eccentricities and a showcase for its popular tendencies.
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The world of fiction has always rewarded the obsession, the fetish, and "Virgil Wander" is jam-packed with such eccentricities — baseball, surfing, beachcombing, fishing, classic films, taxidermy, Jeep Wagoneers.
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In contrast to other formerly quiet Northern California backwaters, Mendocino maintains its rural identity and eccentricities, including its longstanding status as one of the country's major marijuana-producing regions.
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She delivered its witty eccentricities with glowing elegance; Mr. Stearns, gorgeously understated throughout, wound up one multiple turn with a marvelously slow final revolution that ended as if hovering.
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The ones who are still in the phases of their lives where they're feeling rejected and alone, but within them lie idiosyncrasies, eccentricities, and genius that goes by unnoticed.
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In it, Sestero and his co-author Tom Bissell recount the bizarre, almost-unbelievable making of the film, recounting Wiseau's many eccentricities and noting his seemingly bottomless bank account.
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Every surface, shelf, and wall is covered in eclectic ornaments, posters, and eccentricities — from a gold cast skull to a Soundgarden poster, empty Champagne bottles to a decades-old radio.
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Where their already-released single "Sombra ou Dúvida" was anchored by muscular and atmospheric riffs, their new preview of the forthcoming LP "Invenção" finds its strength in its welcome eccentricities.
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As CEO of Amaya, he takes on the bizarre tropes and eccentricities of many Silicon Valley leaders, like an amalgamation of Elon Musk's faux-messiah and Mark Zuckerberg's dork everyman.
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What we might see from the outside as eccentricities, as mannerist flourishes without a foundational need, is really all function: Why think about what doesn't need to be thought about?
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Places like Eastern Flame feel like a metaphor for how I want to live my life — deep in my particularities and eccentricities, mostly uncaring to how the white gaze perceives me.
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Even though the Montana race may have consequences for evaluating the national political landscape, the outcome may be just as shaped by the personalities and personal eccentricities of the candidates themselves.
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The Yankees have long been a more staid and stable operation under Steinbrenner's son Hal, and there is less tolerance for drama and eccentricities — or, apparently, continued cranky rants from Gossage.
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The food is phenomenal, wine is fantastic, service is world-class, and my date is the cutest and funniest being alive who loves me for my eccentricities instead of despite them.
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But with all these modern eccentricities afloat, it really makes you miss the days of playing old-school Donkey Kong with your friends or smashing your siblings in Super Smash Bros.
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In past columns I urged him not to run — citing his unsuccessful previous presidential bids, his age, his eccentricities and his outright flaws — and doubted his ability to go the distance.
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Voice's tiny sports section, tucked in the back near the phone sex ads, already ran a regular column reviewing hockey fights and featured stories about bike messenger culture clashes, among other eccentricities.
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Through the diversity of photo locations featured in their project, Woods and Galimberti make the judicious point that tax havens are not tropical eccentricities, but rather structural instruments of the globalized economy.
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KATE Listen, many of us have eccentricities about people coming into our homes — whether it's shoes off at the door, hands washed on entry or mandatory greetings to Fido and Princess Kitty.
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I've watched enough biopics to feel I possess some of the eccentricities—issues with shirt tags and sock seams and eye contact, repetitive food habits—that are the mark of singular achievers.
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Even though the Montana race may have consequences for evaluating the national political landscape, the outcome may have been just as shaped by the personalities and personal eccentricities of the candidates themselves.
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That's a rare and valuable political opportunity that the GOP's elected officials have decided they would like to seize, even if it means ignoring or downplaying some of Trump's other problems or eccentricities.
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He toyed with sexuality and gender fluidity at a time much less welcoming to such things than our own, making his space-obsessed eccentricities and multiple identities seem like an elevated human state.
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This sketch sees John Cena and Aidy Bryant live out some erotic fantasies behind the bookshelf at an "adult literature" shop, while Kenan Thompson's unflappable store clerk deflects their eccentricities as customers approach.
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These divisions, such as over the proper role of the state, aren't simply the result of Trump's eccentricities, they reflect very grave disputes among elected officials and the voters who put them there.
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Yet Poitras' long-gestating and evolving "Risk" invites almost as many questions as it answers, providing insight into Assange's eccentricities but shedding little light on the most pressing issues that currently surround him.
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And it's becoming more and more apparent that there's not just straight parties and gay parties—people want this mixture of sexualities, experiences, eccentricities and abnormalities that's more encapsulated by a "queer" audience.
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" Buried beneath all of its eccentricities are lines that reveal the project to be as confident as its creator: "They cannot take away what I worked for / I know I am worth more.
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"Deep Six Textbook" is a gorgeous slow-burner of a track, embracing the pat-a-cake eccentricities that make the band's live sets so disturbing and adding layers of breathy harmonies on top.
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Harron often uses dissolves to further blur past and present; as things fall apart on the ranch and Charlie's eccentricities grow progressively more frenzied, the interiors grow dimmer and seemingly smaller, more claustrophobic.
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Ultimately, the wage slaves of Berry's register as the sums of their financial problems, fitted out with eccentricities that might show up in anecdotes of someone who had worked there for a summer.
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Among Mr. Celibidache's many eccentricities was a near-manic demand for rehearsal time, even in standard repertory, that essentially priced him out of the guest-conducting market, at least in the United States.
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Mr. Kendall, a young actor to watch, is especially persuasive as a lost, unsophisticated country boy who, a few sweet eccentricities aside, is as normal as blueberry pie until he very clearly isn't.
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First, Sanders is clearly able to transcend the unpopularity of "socialism" as a label and get people to think of him as a good guy who they want to vote for despite some eccentricities.
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The image of thousands of trays filled with neat rows of ramrod limp croissants—Tesco sells 1m pieces a week—brings to mind the eccentricities of that great oddball of English fiction: Hercule Poirot.
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Over the course of the next 10 years, the eccentricities of my gait became less pronounced, and only the most observant person could tell that I moved a little differently than the average person.
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Given Sarah's gentle eccentricities, Horse Girl at first feels like just another quirky indie comedy — an impression that the fact it premiered at Sundance, which famously favors quirky indie comedies, did nothing to dispel.
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As stirring as Sarsgaard is in conveying Peter's eccentricities, he can't quite transcend the well-worn narrative trope of the obsessive oddball (usually a white man) who is unable to connect deeply with others.
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But while it is populated by some sharply drawn characters dangling eccentricities and pathologies (addiction foremost among them), and features some passages of biting humor, this darkish comedy-drama lacks focus and narrative drive.
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Spencer Harrington Brooklyn, N.Y. Co-Op Culture Reading Alexandra Schwartz's article about the eccentricities of the Park Slope Food Co-op, I found myself thinking that some things never change ("Bounty Hunters," November 25th).
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Electric Wizard were, from the outset, a product of their peculiar surroundings—of being a band that channelled Oborn's obsessions while being steeped in the ancient occult folklore and anarchic eccentricities of rural British life.
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Outside of the office, Goldblum takes part in meme re-creation, has shown he's game for a round (or five) of Would You Rather, consistently recognizes his own eccentricities and chooses to revel in them.
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Before it reached screens, Ms Andem spent months interviewing young people around Norway, learning about their anxieties and eccentricities, and the universal truths and idiosyncrasies of growing up in one of the world's happiest countries.
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But Mr. Redstone's eccentricities — he once boasted that he shaved poolside in the nude — and the recent disclosure of his sexual exploits seem out of step with the airbrushed culture of 21st-century Los Angeles.
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But we also knew that the boldness of the project, the eccentricities of the central characters, and the challenges of hacking together a homebuilt spacecraft on a shoestring budget would make for a compelling read.
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"Blanchett succeeds in a performance that is delightful and yet touching; mannered and tomboyish, delighting in saying exactly what she means, she shrewdly sizes up Hughes and is quick to be concerned about his eccentricities."
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America's most revered character actors have largely been white, as such a mantle has often required a level of indulgence for eccentricities that black actors, who carry the burden of respectability, have thus far not enjoyed.
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While slight eccentricities in the Moon's position relative to the Earth mean that slightly more than half its surface can be seen during the course of a year, most of the far side is never visible.
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Their inquiry is in part an act of implicitly homophobic persecution — among the "eccentricities" that concern the authorities is Ludwig's taste for the company of gorgeous young men — and in part a symptom of encroaching modernity.
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Walk into a Whole Foods Market, like the SoMa store I worked in, and there's fresh, artisanal food presented by employees who are allowed to show off their eccentricities: tattoos, piercings, or whatever style they prefer.
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It's fascinating to hear Mr. Petty and his bandmates adjusting to the eccentricities of the alternative-rock era, notably on their cover of an unprintably titled deep cut of Beck, as well as on this gorgeous psychedelic ballad.
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Minor visual eccentricities aside, Luna Display also performs very well in terms of touch response and interaction, which is something that Mac users interested in touchscreen notebooks have been looking for since it became the norm on PC rivals.
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Other Korean celebrities have been admitting to their own eccentricities: fans now affectionately refer to Shim Hyung-tak as "Shimdakhu" after the actor disclosed a passion for Doraemon, a Japanese robot-cat cartoon character beloved of East Asian children.
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Our child would understand who we were by everything we did and how we lived, our tones, our values, our random eccentricities, not just by what we said parent-to-child, but by how we lived in the world.
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He criticized what he called quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's "owner's mentality" and chastised Tomlin for disciplining him in Week 17, no matter that Tomlin and the rest of the organization had spent years playing down Brown's off-the-field eccentricities.
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In Texas, which prided itself on larger-than-life stories, the eccentricities of the Hunt family — the oilman H. L. Hunt fathered 22005 children with three women over 22007 years — had been a high-stakes soap opera for decades.
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The most abject figure in this universe is the queen herself, whose illnesses, eccentricities and neuroses make her seem helpless and pathetic, easy prey for opportunists like Abigail and Sarah, who push her wheelchair and tend to her moods.
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Long before America was entertained by reality TV clans, Sedaris's readers were amused and moved by the eccentricities of the intellectual version of the Kardashians: his mother, father, sisters Lisa, Gretchen, Amy (yes, the famous comedian) and Tiffany, and brother Paul.
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And just as they did so memorably for the Christopher Guest mockumentaries Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, they come together in Schitt's Creek to play a couple whose eccentricities are underlined by a real, deep affection for each other.
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The pleasures and pitfalls of millennial Jewish women have never been so hilariously relatable through the eyes of Abbi and Ilana, and I've loved watching them celebrate our eccentricities in ways that breathe new life into one of comedy's oldest tropes.
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The new Nine-Nine is very much the old Nine-Nine: It's a celebration of a workplace community in which individual neuroses, flaws and eccentricities — problems that should hobble any office into dysfunction — somehow add up to a happy whole.
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When Paul Simon wrote that he had "squandered [his] resistance for a pocket full of mumbles", or when Bruce Springsteen recalled "soul engines running through a night so tender in a bedroom locked in whispers", they were mimicking Mr Dylan's eccentricities.
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They are among the south's lineage of rappers whose styles and eccentricities form the contemporary blueprint; their company is the likes of Gucci Mane, Boosie, Andre 3000, 2 Chainz, and Lil Wayne (who released their own Collegrove project last year).
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Yet there is also something in this regulation that goes beyond defense against the worst possibilities, toward a discouragement of all the benign irregularities — the unruly felicities, creative improvisations, leisurely inefficiencies and insouciant eccentricities — that are the heart of urban life.
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In the time since Young Thug released early, genre-shaking mixtapes like "I Came From Nothing 2" and "1017 Thug," hip-hop has absorbed his patterns, his tones and his eccentricities — they're embedded in rising stars like Gunna and Lil Baby.
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The butter and the Vegemite are personal eccentricities I happen to find exceptionally delicious, and I reason that if you are already into Worcestershire sauce, then the intense umami of the Vegemite is not such a reach for your palate.
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"Tokyo Drifter" (21980), a gangster film with a musical number shot from under a dance floor and a theme song that its hero repeatedly hums, was Mr. Suzuki's impudent answer to a command by Nikkatsu to rein in his eccentricities.
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While his investors were willing to entertain his eccentricities over the decade he led WeWork since its founding in 2010, his free-whiling ways and party-heavy lifestyle came into focus once he failed to get the company's IPO underway.
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Perhaps because of Gambia's size and poverty — it is home to two million people and has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world — Mr. Jammeh's abuses and eccentricities have not commanded as much attention as those of other tyrants.
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The case for ousting Rohrabacher, as it is being made by the handful of Democrats and Republicans who have crowded into the race to challenge him, is that these eccentricities, like his vocal affinity for Russia, aren't just fun character quirks — they're distractions.
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A quick walker with a firm handshake, Nijman stands out for his endearing eccentricities: He styles his shoulder-length curly hair like Kenny G's, continues to use a Nokia brick phone from the mid-2000s, and loves singing Dutch-accented ABBA at karaoke.
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The granddaddy of "surreal-ity TV" is back, as "Twin Peaks" returned with a two-hour premiere that laid the groundwork for this 18-episode revival -- again defined more by director David Lynch's trademark eccentricities than its tangled web of a plot.
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The Rooster of the title is actually Sedaris' youngest sibling, little brother Paul, who was born in North Carolina (unlike the rest of the kids) and grew to possess some unique Southern eccentricities, both sweet and profane, that Sedaris revels in sharing.
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"It is about passion and gambling and a whole lot of drinking," said Michael Dickinson, now a successful thoroughbred trainer in the United States known as the Mad Englishman for his eccentricities, who comes each year for a taste of his heritage.
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They're surprising, touching and thoroughly delightful company distinguished by witty vocalizations, expressive eccentricities and too many heartbreaking markers of abuse — matted fur, open wounds, painfully knobby legs and that anxious, mournful look of devotion that dogs retain for even the most unworthy humans.
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The couple share a mutual professional acumen — with Ms. Griffin-Black, 75, being more an Earth mother-type and Mr. Black, 55, the one who keeps a tight, "Shark Tank"-like rein on things — as well as a raft of personal eccentricities.
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Right or wrong, Ms. Argento has been tagged with a "live fast" mentality, and the eccentricities that peg her male counterparts as charismatic or unconventional are regularly used against her as "nails with which to crucify a disorderly career," Ms. Perina wrote.
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It was the latest in a long line of eccentricities from a leader who had said only Allah can remove him from office, claimed to have a herbal cure for AIDS that only works on Thursdays and threatened to slit the throats of homosexuals.
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I'm more accepting of the show's eccentricities and rough spots, more willing to follow it over the cliff of cheesy dialogue and baffling character beats, simply because I love having a show this open-hearted, yet still boasting this many car chases, on the air.
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The unique eccentricities of the sports industry — where the focus has typically been on improving the performance of the athletes and the size of sponsorship deals — have held back progress as the broader business world has benefited from a wave of tech-enabled productivity gains.
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So while we all pack up and fly off to our calmer and quieter homes, it's time to reflect on the dozens of game demos we've played, as well as the oddities and eccentricities we experienced while covering a large expo dedicated to gaming.
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He had plenty of eccentricities: his fondness for the color purple, using "U" for "you" and a drawn eye for "I" long before textspeak, his vigilant policing of his music online, his penchant for releasing troves of music at once, his intensely private persona.
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In Peele's work with Key (and with their fellow MadTV co-star Bobby Lee) he explores the eccentricities and hallmarks of the fight-loving lifestyle that the uninitiated either don't grasp or haven't even considered and satirizes them without ever condemning or dismissing them.
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There was a moment in 2010 when it felt like every pop star was singing the Song of Female Empowerment, which could conveniently also be marketed as a gay anthem: a super-catchy track about celebrating your eccentricities and showing your haters to the door.
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" "The scripts leave intact some of the most charming elements of the book's verbal eccentricities, including Snicket's macabre letters to his now dead lover Beatrice at the outset of each episode, as well as plenty of sly dictionary talk from narrator Lemony Snicket (Patrick Warburton).
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Cruise's dogged persistence and legendary intensity—at one point in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, a teenage girl tells him point blank "you're very intense"—has led to his spot as one of longest-lasting movie stars in the world, despite his public embarrassments and eccentricities.
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During the anniversary special, host Ryan Seacrest focused on the moments that made the family stand out for their eccentricities: Kylie knowing how to work a stripper pole at nine years old, for instance, or Kim snapping a selfie when Khloe was on her way to jail.
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Legere has served as CEO since September 2012 and was compensated $66.5 million last year, making him one of the highest-paid executives in the US.Legere, 61, is known for his eccentricities, including sporting T-Mobile's bright magenta branded gear and hosting cooking livestreams on Facebook.
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At times ridiculed for their eccentricities, such as printing their own passports and ID cards, insisting on place names more than a century out of date and some showing fealty to the last German emperor, some members of the group are armed and willing to use violence.
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"Abe is one of the few Asian leaders who has been able to pretty deftly navigate the unpredictability and eccentricities of Trump to his substantial advantage," said Evan S. Medeiros, who served as senior director on Asia in the National Security Council during the Obama administration.
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But the group — Johnny, Taeyong, Doyoung, Jaehyun, Taeil, Yuta, Jungwoo, Mark, and Haechan are the members who performed — wear their eccentricities with confidence, whether that means singing sultrily on a jungle gym on stage or giving their all as they dance to a song with "queso" in the lyrics.
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Graham's recollection hints that such amusing eccentricities reflected a kind of behavioral alternating current, in which Calder, as he made his way through everyday life, was somehow keenly aware of his unusual actions and their impact on others even as, somehow, he remained lost in his own ruminations.
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For all his oddities and eccentricities, he was a blank slate — a businessman to those who wanted a businessman, a culture warrior to those who wanted a culture warrior, a pragmatist to those who wanted a pragmatist, a conservative to those who wanted a conservative, and so on.
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Gilbert is a good man doing his best to make his way in a racist community, and Mr. Eustache movingly communicates someone at ease with such London eccentricities as fish and chips but not with the obstacles that await him, a postal worker who dreams of becoming a lawyer.
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As he travels east and showcases Japanese devotion to craftsmanship, particularly highlighted in that country's manufacture of precise timepieces, he reminds us of the beauty of imperfections as seen in bamboo handicrafts and handmade lacquerware, the inexactness of nature adding subtle eccentricities to our creations and, with them, charm.
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In her review of the film, Janet Maslin of The Times noted the mélange of Mr. Demme's filmmaking eccentricities — not just the music, "which drifts mischievously through the film," but the details of costume, language and performance that are pitched to a particular note of fond, giggly amusement.
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Timofey Pnin should be grateful for the opportunities that have come upon his way as a Russian exile in a prosperous postwar United States, and he sometimes is, and yet his eccentricities and abilities are all too often at odds with the institution providing him with a living.
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Ocasek was also renowned as a producer, having collaborated over the years with a number of artier underground bands (Suicide, Romeo Void, Bad Brains, Guided By Voices, Le Tigre, Brazilian Girls) — whose eccentricities the Cars shared, albeit in more sublimated ways — as well as other pop bands (Weezer, No Doubt).
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In fact, there are several elements of Carr's unraveling of the Blancharde murder that rival S-Town in their uniquely Southern true-life eccentricities — above all, the tried and true Southern gothic tropes of keeping up appearances despite building unrest, and a town's communal complicity in the keeping of dark secrets.
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They and their two children had lived in the house for the better part of a decade, long enough for its awkward eccentricities to lose their charm and for renovation wish-list items to become imperatives — especially an out-of-commission upstairs bath that forced the family to share another one.
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It even includes one painting — the relatively small, odd "Dust Tracks" — to show where the drawings were headed: toward works full of formal and physical eccentricities, psychological tensions as well as legible images, including in this case a keyhole peeking through what seems to be a jagged break in some ice.
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He'd identified five parameters with respect to which to do his series expansions (eccentricities, inclinations, and ratios of orbit sizes)—and in the end he generated about 1800 pages like this (yes, he really needed Mathematica!): But the sad fact was that despite all this effort, he didn't get terribly good answers.
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Jones' youthful eccentricities threw him into trouble on a couple of occasions, willingly giving up his back to Rua, but his top notch wrestling and the fact that he had obviously prepared for the drop to leg entanglement that Rua had shown a dozen times before this meant he was never in danger.
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Following a rather uninspired- Q&A in which the audience drank up Ashanti's eccentricities while barely probing the intricacies of his craft, Diggs presented a rustic sequence of non-linearly mixed emotive house music, which unfortunately served as an adequate post-recital coolant instead of inspiring further engagement with a modern form of audio sculpting.
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Absolutely. With Rosalie Craig, a veteran of musicals, on hand as an entirely winning Rosalind, who seems buoyantly matched with her adored Orlando (Joe Bannister), this "As You Like It" manages to charm and bemuse in turn, and once its quartet of couplings converge for the closing festivities, the eccentricities of the production have long been absorbed into an essential component of it.
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With their unhinged music—the pair was known for eccentricities like ending shows with silent encores, second-long micro-songs, and Jang's penchant for performing in a helmet that he says proclaims "kill all communists"—the Pirates became the inadvertent voice of various protest movements solely by being some of the ones to sing—or scream—about what was wrong.
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Civic historians generally give Mr. Stern high marks for his stewardship, although his eccentricities sometimes overshadowed his accomplishments, and in his last year in office a lawsuit accused him of discriminating against thousands of black and Hispanic employees — a case that the city settled years later for $20 million and sweeping changes in the parks department's salary and promotion practices.
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This is not to say that Steve Novak was off-base about the ball back at the NBA rookie shoot; by the time the league announced that it would phase out the new balls, on December 11, players like Nash complained that they had already begun to adjust to the Cross Traxxion™'s eccentricities and would rather the league stay with it.
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Meanwhile, his parents, Frankie (Patricia Heaton) and Mike (Neil Flynn), struggle to put a cap on their long years with Axl living under their roof, while both Sue and youngest son Brick (Atticus Shaffer), whose unusual behavior and eccentricities have driven much of the series without the show mocking him for his atypicality, look for a fond farewell from their brother — in very different ways.
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For Grace Notes, a column that is supposed to capture the essence and eccentricities of New York, I have sat in the driver's seat of the Batmobile, banged on the door of the house where Walt Whitman lived when he wrote "Leaves of Grass," flipped through filing cabinets loaded with jokes that Joan Rivers left behind and visited the grave of the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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Now, with the publication of The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler, by Brett Ingram (Blast Books), a first-ever account of the life and career of an autodidact who died in North Carolina in 2013, at the age of 81, fans of this kind of art may become familiar with a distinctive oeuvre that is as cohesive as it is ambitious, and with the intriguing eccentricities of the talented draftsman and storyteller who concocted it.
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