By all accounts the author cut a strange figure and chose to dramatize rather than suppress his eccentricities. |
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It is three pages long and goes into quite a lot of detail covering all of James' little eccentricities and foibles. |
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At an eccentricity of exactly one you have a parabola, and for eccentricities greater than one the orbit traces a hyperbola. |
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I must admit, after reading his list, I'm almost inspired to cultivate a few eccentricities myself. |
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I'm taking two history classes, and I love it because history students are great at cultivating eccentricities. |
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He was a keen fisherman and shot and a naturalist, and his harmless eccentricities caused much amusement. |
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There is more diversity in Europe and, with that, a greater tolerance for any little foibles and eccentricities that a player may have. |
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When I knew him he was well into his eighties and actively cultivated the eccentricities of the very old. |
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In person, the Libertines charm rather than irritate, because all their eccentricities and affectations are clearly so deeply felt. |
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Slight eccentricities are curtailed with gentle mocking, and social aberrations are laughed off the set. |
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He admits, nonetheless, that other stories about his life, such as his actorly eccentricities, are not entirely fabricated. |
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They charm rather than irritate, because all their eccentricities and affectations are clearly so deeply felt. |
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In the midst of the public outcry about the team's expenditures and eccentricities, Joe stepped afoul of the law. |
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Swift's disturbing satiric vision and eccentricities have given rise to countless myths and legends about his life. |
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Despite the financial security an older man can offer younger women, their eccentricities can be the bane of her life. |
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Being with the older kids helped me to blend in and pick up attributes of normal behaviour that might somehow hide my eccentricities. |
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His eccentricities included a penchant for gigantic pith helmets and a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Python-esque. |
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College friends thought he could have had a brilliant legal career but for his eccentricities. |
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After midnight he bumbles along, but listened to at other times of the day his eccentricities merely irritate. |
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The void is full of potential, just like a clear mind free of eccentricities, prejudices and egos. |
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History is the process of immunizing us to the eccentricities of a specific milieu, the milieu of place in favor of ideology. |
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I think one reason that I find it so acceptable for him to assert his superiority and that I find his eccentricities amusing is that I am his boss. |
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We had our own eccentricities, but they weren't of the five-figure kind. |
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Despite his aesthetic eccentricities, Browne is adamant that he is a traditionalist at heart. |
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It discovered Americans find Britain easy to get to, the French see us as relaxed and the Germans are attracted by our eccentricities and sense of humour. |
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He had his oddities and eccentricities, but murder wasn't one of them. |
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Not everyone has been comfortable with the tendency to dwell on King's eccentricities. |
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You mention that the engineer always needs to consider eccentricities in their HSS truss design. |
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Should those eccentricities have been taken into account by the engineer at the design stage? |
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About the only things that change from one Plum novel to the other are the eccentricities of the skips and the dastardliness of the chief Bad Guy. |
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Nor did the bibulous eccentricities of Charles Stewart, one of Britain's representatives at the Congress, do anything to allay this impression. |
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This may have been his way of savaging those eccentricities that annoyed so many people. |
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We are saying that you should check the ranges of validity to verify whether you CAN ignore eccentricities. |
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People should I think try to laugh at their own eccentricities sometimes. |
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The result is a more emotionally accessible, less regimented film that should appeal to thriller lovers who don't usually cotton to his eccentricities. |
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This installation, by French designer Andrea Crews, sets the tone for the eccentricities of the Monstres de la Mode exhibition. |
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The account of this 'fire and smoke' remains powerfully in a reader's mind long after the whims and eccentricities of minor characters have receded in the memory. |
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Laurent Nottale and his collaborators calculated in particular predictions on the semi major-axes and the eccentricities of the orbits. |
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While they are willing to admit that some teenage eccentricities may be down to biological factors, they believe pressures imposed on them by modern society are also to blame. |
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He happily chats about his eccentricities but is not sure about his talent for insincerity, partly because he never watches himself in his films. |
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If that's not possible, you then will need to account for those eccentricities in your design. |
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I hadn't seen her in a while, and I was again reminded of her eccentricities as she showed up in a flowered dress over jeans, still tromping around in her big, army boots. |
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Thady can see nothing but good in the eccentricities of the various drunkards, rakehells and spendthrifts he serves down the years. |
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The curve below shows the maximum permitted eccentricities as a function of the shaft diameter. |
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Her childhood, eccentricities and determination are examined, as well as her passion for art and, later in life, her interest in writing. |
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Recently reported cases of striking eccentricities, with the explanations therefor, as recorded by the diligent press. |
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Grandma adored her son, understood his genius, and believed that, once he received recognition, all his quirks and eccentricities would be forgiven. |
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An hour of his pieces for wind instruments is extremely rewarding, for he handles their characteristic timbres, idiosyncrasies and eccentricities most attractively. |
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The book tells a spellbinding story of a man with eccentricities that went well beyond a fascination with rocketry and included a penchant for the occult. |
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Therefore, bearings of this design are able to accept minor eccentricities of the shaft with respect to the housing bore without any detrimental influence on bearing performance. |
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The contradictory nature of his forceful personality, as well as such eccentricities as his ability to catnap anywhere, contributed to his legendary status. |
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That said, underneath all the surface eccentricities, The King's Speech still manages to do the one thing necessary for any potential Oscar-winner to do, and that's pander to its audience. |
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The one who is a Social Anthropologist and wrote the book Watching the English about all our strange eccentricities and foibles. |
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They also have decidedly old-world eccentricities. |
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Some delight in parading their eccentricities. |
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Under the eccentricities of the British first past the post electoral system, Labour may come third in the popular vote and yet end up with the most seats in a hung parliament. |
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But those same eccentricities keep the membership loyal. |
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Mr Bush sometimes seems like a combination of Frat Boy and cowboy. Lastly and acting as a constant reminder that something does not quite add up about Mr Bush there are his verbal eccentricities. |
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The prediction of the major-axes and eccentricities of the orbits appears to be supported statistically by the observations, when are included together our solar system and all exoplanets discovered recently. |
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If he fools his world with this classic style, a bit dandy, a bit old-fashioned, he makes himself known as a free musician who has revolutionised French Pop music with elegant strokes of eccentricities and false innocence. |
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Characterized by a combination of discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships, and cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior. |
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Another of his eccentricities is that he chained his mug to the radiator pipes to prevent it being stolen. |
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The outsized passions and eccentricities of the Abstract Expressionists — enacted on a tiny, obscure, ragamuffin scene — seem exotic in our jaded age. |
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However, when I check the ranges of validity as proposed by Packer and Henderson, I end up needing either to provide a gap or an overlap with eccentricities at the joint to respect that wish. |
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From the Prime Minister and Governor Towers on down, Skelton was pardoned his eccentricities out of respect for his enormous energy and abilities. |
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Whatever the view of Khrushchev's personal eccentricities, his boisterousness, his vulgarity, and his bewildering shifts, he was accounted a man of stature. |
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Yet this was to underrate Mr Clarke's consistency. Like the jazz saxophonists he reveres, his improvisations and eccentricities have always conformed to a deceptively tight form, in two ways. |
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Business Insider selected several ruthless leaders from the book and highlighted their favorite foods — and some of their horrifying dinnertime eccentricities. |
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The author skillfully weaves a fictional account, based on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, into a sometimes humorous story, capturing the great composer's mannerisms and eccentricities. |
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Faced with the imminent end, Walser works imperturbably on, often even with a kind of wry amusement, and — apart from a few eccentricities which he permits himself for the fun of it — with an unerringly steady hand. |
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Memorable partnerships flourish when one member of the duo looks deeply into the artistry of the other and embraces his or her style, musicianship, and eccentricities. |
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We're likely to encounter six species of them on our trip, all with their own amusing eccentricities, but one of the most entertaining has to be the spiky-haired rockhopper. |
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Readers will appreciate the creative eccentricities of William Congreve and Robert Goddard, and enjoy learning about the different rocket motors and how they work. |
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