Word: oddly
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While the Lovelies call to mind bands like Ben Folds and OK Go, they bring a quirkiness and comfort in tickling the ivories that gives their songs a sly, operatic feel. It is just odd enough to entice, but not strange enough to frighten. Just listen to the single “You Don’t Love Me” for a taste of this eccentricity: a handful of funky chords coupled with an ironic, drawling delivery gives a standard-fare breakup song a touch of personality and psychodrama...
...first two periods, every odd-man rush, every body-to-body hit, every amazing display of stick handling was accompanied by gasps or noise from the crowd as deserved...
...decades she barely swam - just the odd dip with her kids in a lake or public pool - while her Olympic medals were consigned to a box in her wardrobe. Racked by bouts of restlessness and depression, she came to believe that swimming was part of who she was and denying it was dimming her spirit. She received, she says, no sympathy from her husband - "He never understood my motivations, my essence." After their marriage ended in 1997, it wasn't long before the pool lured her back. And by clocking a personal-best...
...Gareth, a typical Swain surrogate, finds it all a bit odd, but what the hell. The whole place is weird anyway. For instance, a reservoir created by a dam has been drying out, revealing a once-sunken village. Swain shows us the fish that have formed a churning mass, forced ever closer by the waning pool. The mystery of Ross - whether he's turned feral by choice or by circumstance or ill luck - remains unanswered. The reasons don't matter. For Swain the mystery of the world is what makes it interesting. You have to give in to her ambiguities...
Though most predict a low-scoring game because of the Crimson's stifling defense and the Golden Gophers’ tendency not to make mistakes, Wendell said she expects "a lot of odd-man rushes and a lot of up-and-down hockey...