offbeat
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Their last film together was 2018's "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", an offbeat Oscar-nominated Western starring Tim Blake Nelson, which followed the 1950s Hollywood-set satirical comedy "Hail, Caesar!" in 2016.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
A bold and offbeat move, it draws upon notions of art and its place in the human psyche.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Together, these places offer a distinctly Boulder mix: a little historic, a little offbeat and very independent—qualities that should serve Sundance well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
To me, the most evocative Aztec sites are the offbeat relics that now lie underground along Guatemala Street near the Templo Mayor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It’s like when a song changes key, or starts on the offbeat, or shifts its meter halfway through.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
“I’m so sorry, so sorry,” Verlaine sings, offering a desperate apology amid a crossfire of guitars and drums — knife-edged single notes, barbed lines, implacable offbeats — that don’t promise any forgiveness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
Danalogue uses 1980s synthesizers for plump bass tones and upward swoops; Betamax mixes drums and drum machines, constantly accenting different offbeats.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
They had a taste for the kind of syncopation that perpetually discovers new offbeats in tracks like Negoleiros do Ritmo’s “Lemba” and Elias Dia Kimuezo’s “Chamavo.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2013
Bass lines lope and skulk, the drums sputter with offbeats, and rhythm guitar and keyboards share a flippant, cackling cross talk, like wiseguys in the back of a high school classroom.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2013
Cycling rhythm is pace of life Beats in peace, offbeats facing strife.
From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by A. R. Narayanan
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