offbeat

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

As editor of the A-hed, the offbeat story that’s been a fixture since 1941, I specialize in triviality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

This offbeat con-man comedy pairs the director with Nicolas Cage, an actor who turns out to be an unexpectedly good fit for him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

A chess player himself, Laucks liked to surround himself with other players, many of them offbeat and highly talented.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

“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