oddballs
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The Italian feature is a droll, Coen brothers-style exercise in deadpan absurdity, with a zigzag plot that caroms off a pleasingly demented cast of oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The period has been the subject of many other nostalgia pieces, though usually without chittering little oddballs at the center of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
These oddballs have little in common besides their defiance of village norms and their families’ mutual disapproval.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Comedy nerds and oddballs of all stripes embraced the show, especially its singularly off-putting heroine, a woman with a garish overbite, a sordid past and a strangely infectious nasal drawl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
Geeks, nerds, and oddballs have the right to attend school in safety.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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