How To Use Off-the-wall In A Sentence
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His mom bought him a cell phone to use in emergencies in case you pulled some off-the-wall stunt down in California.
BREACH OF DUTY
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Mongolian Taimen: They're the largest member of the salmonid family and to catch one, you need to be guided on camel back by a Sherpa or some such over Siberian peaks to rivers with names that sound like they're from the 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (gimme props for a severely off-the-wall movie reference!)
One Out of Five Ain't Bad
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The bureau got support in this endeavour not just from Hearst, but from other off-the-wall sensationalists as well.
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Expect off-the-wall antics from the Gemini and Scorpio team who has teamed up with Rubulad, the art collective for a night of funk music, absinthe and more.
Halloween 2010: Spooky New York Events For All Revelers
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Pity the poor lot of the journalist - having to grapple with a news story until they can mould a suitably attention-grabbing, off-the-wall headline for it.
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Sleep - stealing on -the- job stress has reached off-the-wall proportions, according to a Canadian health report.
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But he also has a hilarious description of what he calls vegetarian, teetotalers, saddle-wearers, bearded cranks; you know, these kind of off-the-wall Socialists that he used to see in Socialist summer camps or at Socialist magazines.
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation
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Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall.
Last Words
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It can be done without following some absurd, off-the-wall investment strategy.
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he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit
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This year's version of the off-the-wall argument moving into the mainstream is the argument that John Kerry is disqualified for the presidency (or, apparently, for the Senate position he currently holds), because of the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment imposing disqualification as a sanction for people who, having sworn an oath to support the Constitution (as soldiers -- and members of Congress -- do), gives aid and comfort to the nation's enemies.
Balkinization
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Singin' in the Rain: "Make 'Em Laugh" (Donald O'Connor, many pratfalls, also that whole backflipping-off-the-walls thing), "Moses Supposes" (O'Connor and Kelly harass a specialist in elocution), part of the "Broadway Melody" (not really my favorite ballet sequence, but I'll sometimes watch Kelly's pas de deux with Cyd Charisse)
Music
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He's always been a cryptic songwriter, fond of oblique references and catchy off-the-wall phrasings, but here his metaphors and jests are haunted with regret and suspicion.
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Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall.
Last Words
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It can be done without following some absurd, off-the-wall investment strategy.
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Each package includes the new "Diana Vignettes, More True Tales & Short Stories" book which has over 200 pages of Diana history, Diana+ images as well as truly off-the-wall fictional stories.
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Don't criticize awkwardness or off-the-wall suggestions.
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I'm sort of put off by people who make their livings--and I'm beginning to sound like my ancient mentor of the moment, Charles Ives--off of fiction and then claim to be reality philosophers and therefore the only observers able to fairly understand why multitudes of world folk follow the foolish and deadly biases and fears, off-the-wall platitudes, and alchemistic sciences of ancient imagination, an uneducated imagination.
Books Again
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Use it to create rapidly repeating musical phrases, grungy riffs, retro computer game effects, rolling basslines, off-the-wall rhythmic patterns, dub sirens, weird sci-fi effects, plus sounds yet undiscovered ....
MATRIXSYNTH
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his off-the-wall antics
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You're always good at coming up with the off-the-wall idea that nobody else gives house room to.
THE LAST TEMPTATION