| Those who treat animals in the same way they treat their friends or family are generally seen as eccentrics, or even social misfits. |
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| Creative eccentrics will spend hours happily contented with their various projects and hobbies. |
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| Some, but not all of these creators were social isolates, eccentrics, and obsessives. |
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| It is full of absurd would-be lovers, quick-witted opportunists, cold-hearted villains and crackpot eccentrics. |
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| Admittedly, dictatorships do not encourage the cultivation of colourful eccentrics such as Montgomery or Patton. |
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| God forbid the eccentrics should start eating the mushrooms because then the strangeness really gets out of hand. |
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| This creates a bond between the two of them, both of whom are viewed as eccentrics by the community. |
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| Hall is fascinated with the ordinary person's philosophy of life and society, and his songs display sympathy for eccentrics and non-conformists. |
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| Social life, as usual with Dickens, is just a bewildering assortment of eccentrics, grotesques, amiable idiots and moral monstrosities. |
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| Only eccentrics and proselytising zealots can welcome such advances without trepidation. |
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| Following Coleridge's death the second editor was Frederick Furnivall, a fantastic eccentric in an age of eccentrics. |
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| In 1970, when I first started rock climbing, I thought it was a sport for renegades and eccentrics, maybe like tree climbing is today. |
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| She evokes a broadcasting company that was different from that of today, full of stuffed shirts and bibulous eccentrics. |
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| On the one hand the medium devours eccentrics because viewers find their strangeness exciting. |
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| He's aged just eight, is owned by a charming Brummie and stabled with two eccentrics, and in 2003, he was confirmed as racing's new superstar. |
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| Mostly the book's given over to the impossibly quaint eccentrics Edwin encounters in London. |
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| Between there and the mainland were only a few scattered fishermen, renegades, loners and eccentrics. |
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| The place is populated by endearing eccentrics who eat seal-flipper pie and brood darkly on the sea's malign nature. |
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| Chaos greets a group of misfits and eccentrics as they return for a new term at a private girls' school. |
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| This non-mainstream art includes the work produced by visionaries, spiritualists under trance, eccentrics, and psychiatric patients. |
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| The two aunts, originally meant to be stodgy and throwbacks to the Victorian age, come across immediately as warm, lovable eccentrics. |
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| Some are eccentrics, such as Lone Eagle Woman, who hikes the woods every summer, communing with the beasts and the trees. |
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| Harr excels, however, at anatomizing the minds of his sleuths, and gets good mileage out of the various eccentrics encountered along the way. |
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| As a result, South Korea suffers from a shortage of happy mediocrities, countercultural rebels, slackers, dropouts and eccentrics. |
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| Think of British inventors and you picture lone eccentrics toiling away in a shed at the bottom of the garden, seeking to make discoveries of genius. |
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| This totalising world had a levelling effect on individuals, even if there were always strong personalities and eccentrics. |
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| At last there's a movie for anyone who's ever looked at the eccentrics and oddballs in his or her family and wondered: Who are these people? |
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| The movie would rather be a quirky pseudo-comedy, in which a stranger appears in a small town packed solid with eccentrics and changes their lives forever. |
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| Some trikes more modern and more eccentrics with dream motorizations also makes their appearance. |
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| On the edge of a cliff, three dead eccentrics cling to their grave during a storm. |
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| They tend to be lone wolves who suffer marginalisation, branded eccentrics, accused of being traitors in order to demean and degrade what they write and broadcast. |
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| Revolutionary works, when by chance they come t o hand, seem but the sour grapes of a few eccentrics. |
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| Talented and creative eccentrics have given way to jobbing professionals, arguably to the industry's detriment. |
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| Although a far from usual setting for a comedy series, the inmates were not too problematic or insane but merely a ragtag of eccentrics who had opted out of life. |
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| They are not the scruffy eccentrics or crazed egotists that one reads about in fiction and in the Sunday newspapers. |
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| In America they would have tossed me in the looney bin, but the English indulge their eccentrics. |
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| The two upper eccentrics must be adjusted in the same way to achieve a regular performance. |
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| By means of the lower eccentrics it is possible to block the support bars and thus to shift the weight of the roller to the harrow. |
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| Lift the machine until the upper eccentrics are no longer in contact with the support bars. |
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| During double jump, the drum's eccentrics course the whole drum to be in the air a whole period with no contact to the ground every other period. |
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| Persons with higher intellectual ability and special skills in certain areas may simply be considered eccentrics for most of their lives. |
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| Barnaby, the detective you just want to hug, gently investigates the killing and pacifies the village eccentrics. |
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| Detach the locking screws of the lower eccentrics. |
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| Like all grassroots movements, the first generation of Anabaptists struggled to reach agreement on the principles that would distinguish the group's core membership from the fringe teachings of a few inspired eccentrics. |
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| Neither man is embarrassed by this lack, but, while it has helped to unbridle Bay and send him galloping into bombast, Herzog has been left to browse among the eccentrics and daydreamers who populate his films. |
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| Written in the stones, then, is this portrait: of an ingenious island country, most prosperous when most open to the world, and with a mysterious concentration of eccentrics. |
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| English eccentrics with an ear for a tune, hilarious wordage and a twinkle in the eye. |
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| While he clearly empathises with the brilliant eccentrics at the fringes of the scientific community, this does nothing to detract from the pertinence of Smolin's ideas and observations. |
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| A tiny, feisty woman who always spoke her mind, Charlotte was an eccentric in the wonderful way that some women from the last century were natural eccentrics. |
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| Gatecrashing a hedonistic world of pill-popping eccentrics and mad-for-it DJs, Carl and Sunny become unwitting pawns in a deadly game of blackmail and deceit. |
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| Reece is at his best when he essays psychological portraits of the Rajahs, the Ranees, and the many lesser actors, such as MacBryan, all of them eccentrics. |
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| Eccentrics live longer, happier, and healthier lives than conformist normal citizens, according to the neuropsychologist David Weeks. |
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