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Sentence Examples A person can be successfully evil only if he or she can embody a peculiarly nasty blend of vicious evil and laudable good. He knew that if he could just stand back a little he could apply his peculiarly deterministic volition to the problem. Set against the mass of textured stone, the thin man-made planes of a rusted steel door and rusty faceted piling are peculiarly resonant. It was as if he was always wary of getting above himself, of giving himself airs and graces, a peculiarly Scottish trait. Others deploy stylised forms of that peculiarly Western origami, the paper dart. Some English people are familiar with that peculiarly Welsh communal emotional mood identified by the name hwyl. The want of mental strength rendering them so peculiarly suasible, they possess no powers of resistance. Certainly, that touring party was more than partial to a peculiarly Kiwi version of bacon and egg pie. Taking offence, making a show of it, is a peculiarly self-theatrical, melodramatic, histrionic gesture in the annals of criticism. Not long into the voyage, the ship is attacked by a peculiarly pacifistic band of pirates, who take the children on board their ship. The story itself, if efficacious, should give no inkling of the sweat of the author's peculiarly difficult task. The right in Switzerland has grown out of a peculiarly Swiss sensibility which is unlike any other in Europe. University education is a benefit that accrues peculiarly to the individual. He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated. They now have a most unusual friendship and she speaks affectingly of his story as a peculiarly American tragedy. In this peculiarly modern mood of social pessimism, the end is believed to be nigh but never comes. The seaboard of Capernaum in which Peter dwelt is said by travelers to be a peculiarly damp, marshy, aguish, feverish place. This is an issue of extradition which we say is peculiarly based on the exercise of the executive power. This book is perhaps the best introduction to the Pali texts, with their peculiarly meticulous and laconic style. However, this case does raise the moral and ethical issues in a peculiarly sharp form. Show More Sentences Scottish actors are a peculiarly reticent species, but he is the alpha male. Here the religious divisions that plagued English society, between churchmen, Dissenters, and papists, were presented in a peculiarly acute form. The impression is thereby given that an emphasis on revival is a peculiarly Welsh phenomenon. They are the ones who haven't shaved, who slouch in a peculiarly English manner, who are not dealing with the heatwave by wearing khaki shorts. However, they have to reverse out of a small, narrow and peculiarly shaped space and it's not going to be easy. The mania about guns emanating from America's white middle-class liberals seems peculiarly off-base to me. The valley of the Tay, from the source of that river in the west to its debouchment at Dundee, is peculiarly rich in historic memoirs. But for all the speeches, the acres of coverage and hours of TV footage, marking the anniversary proved a peculiarly difficult task. One was a peculiarly reclusive and dramatic fellow who preferred to sit in the darkness, wearing sunglasses and twirling his prayer beads. To be subject to such tyrants is, moreover, a peculiarly terrible fate, since one cannot escape servitude by running away. The poor schmo had a bad dose of noncomplainingitis, that peculiarly British ailment with symptoms which include chronic fear of causing a scene. Group participation is a peculiarly Chinese characteristic of the back-to-nature movement. This time, he was peculiarly flushed, leading a colleague to speculate whether he was on something. The industry's unpopularity makes its stocks peculiarly appealing now, particularly if we're on the cusp of a new bull market. And both locate the main action in a peculiarly stylised family home, isolated in an equally contrived semi-rural landscape. That a comparative tour de force on them should be written by a Swede is peculiarly appropriate. His prose can rise to majestic, biblical heights and his cast of mind has a peculiarly North American sadness. In my view, the relationship with Linda was so difficult and so peculiarly distressing upon him, that it heightened those personality weaknesses. But she seems peculiarly unconcerned about the distraction a fainting father might present to the midwife. The obligatory fish, curried on the bone, is served alongside the peculiarly fat rice common to the region. Show More Sentences He is a peculiarly ungraceful taker of the ball and too often does not gather it clearly. Talk of democracy, however, brings us back to November 5 and that peculiarly British tradition of Bonfire Night. It is a restaurant that has somehow fashioned for itself a peculiarly unironic atmosphere of decency. The result is a peculiarly U.S. hybrid of industrial boosterism which contributes to anti-environmentalism's decidedly sinister cast. One thing people may not realize about Arnold is that he is peculiarly unqualified for office even by Hollywood standards. If its soil is well drained, this little plant with its peculiarly shaped tubers will have no trouble naturalizing. Delightful though that is, it makes them peculiarly unsuited to expressing Scotland's place in the 21st century world. In person he is hugely entertaining, with that peculiarly American combination of self-confidence and impeccable manners. Also, your slavish use of obsolete, twee and anglicised Hibernicisms is peculiarly un-Irish, not to mention unconvincing and uncouth. It never ceases to amaze me just how peculiarly idiotic the occasional individual can be. Rapidly, without my parents becoming aware of it, or my even knowing it, this peculiarly English territory, became my favourite hang-out spot. However, despite its very good intentions, the museum seems peculiarly ill-equipped to deal with the difficult questions raised by recent events. This is not a role for which Latin and Greek are unusually appropriate, but neither are they peculiarly inappropriate. He ended up in jail because he was peculiarly stubborn, and quite possibly also stupid, but mostly because he was unlucky. It does not tell us why or how a particular want can have, among all of a person's desires, the special property of being peculiarly his own. Be sure to look at the viewer comments section where numerous respondents challenged the BBC claim that hikikomori was a peculiarly Japanese phenomenon. We had an extremely nutritious soup and salad, and I gratefully devoured sliced and peculiarly tasty turnip greens with green kale, onions, tomatoes, and peppers. The dialogue, though, is chanted in a peculiarly laconic way. It's almost with a peculiarly larrikin pride we should wonder that a mere horse race holds our thrall in such complete surrender to its existence. But this is heroism of a peculiarly modern kind, not the ability to risk life and limb to achieve a particular result but the quiet acceptance of suffering. Show More Sentences There's a peculiarly English thing about French-bashing, but there's also a Little Englander thing in general about how the film industry actually works. Unfortunately, he's a runaway freight train of creativity, with no one in the brake room to slow down his torrent of hangdog, peculiarly American balladry. Gangs of youths sauntered along, yelling randomly at other pedestrians and dressed in peculiarly dandified clothes contrasting with a partiality for working-man's boots. In the tape, the bull looks bored, wearing that peculiarly vacuous expression that only cows and bulls can know. Nonetheless, this is a peculiarly British mess that reflects not just on the company but on the country. I find I am much less argumentative with people in person when I have the opportunity to work through vexations in the peculiarly public way blogging allows. There is a peculiarly haunting quality to the sound, and the rapport between oboist and cellist testifies to the time they have spent working together. While the other threads were developed and resolved, leaving one rather exhausted and peculiarly unsatisfied, this one remained outstanding, haunting the reader's memory. This is so peculiarly unfair and denies our legitimate free right of way, that we are not likely to be deterred from being taken to court to dispute your estimate. One day, when I was in my teens, I wanted something new to read, so I went into the study and looked around on my parents's bookshelves and found this peculiarly titled book. It was supposed to be a panacea for the jobless, founded on the peculiarly European notion that if more people work less lots of good jobs will be created. Instead she has chosen to gather a harvest more distinctively and peculiarly her own, a decision that sounds more sensible with each subsequent listen. It's taken me nearly thirty-two years, but I think that I have finally come to truly appreciate the peculiarly British institution that is the Bank Holiday. The British government is peculiarly unable to resist such finger-wagging. The kind of hip hop that he makes is called crunk, a peculiarly Southern variant that's molasses-thick and influenced by the local drug of choice, syrup. Not only was their empire a military despotism, it was also peculiarly distrustful of any form of self-help, much less self-government, on the part of its subjects. It must be allowed that Dryden would have been hard-pressed to find another episode from ancient epic which so peculiarly recalled recent history. There is a peculiarly comic awkwardness to his paintings, with self-deprecation balancing self-assertion. Democratic society is peculiarly dependent for its maintenance upon the use in forming a course of study of criteria which are broadly human. As such, the Growlery again frustrates what Doublass sees as a peculiarly American obsession with pigeonholing things in terms of race. Show More Sentences A young man of perhaps twenty had previously attracted the attention of all the passengers, from his peculiarly Daniel Lambertish proportions. Amis-Rage has become a near pathological, peculiarly British compulsion. But life has a peculiarly strict mathematical quality to it. Still, as a showcase for Cuban and other Latin American art, the biennial was, in its own peculiarly proud, gutsy cubano way, a triumph. The result is a peculiarly timeless melodic grooveathon suitable for space cadets and pop kids alike. One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified. Parkinson's Disease is a peculiarly horrid affliction for sufferers much saintlier than he was. Its tonic influence is peculiarly efficacious in arresting too excessive menstruation and lochia, when associated with laxity and depression. Unfortunately, there has never been in China acceptance of the peculiarly Anglophonic right to criticize one's rulers. Our soil and climate are peculiarly adapted to the culture of what has contributed so much to the comfort and welfare of the Native Californian. This is one of the methods of procedure. The other is through man to God. The second is peculiarly Aryan, and the first is peculiarly Semitic. It takes a peculiarly memorious scholar to notice that the dates given throughout the work are not in ascending order. More peculiarly, among those bodhisattvas who do appear in these earliest scriptures, Avalokitesvara seldom receives much in the way of attention. In such a context the will to ironize can be peculiarly strong. Washington tried his hand at raising cayenne pepper, guinea grass, and such peculiarly named plants as bird pepper, birding grass, and painted lady pea. However, he already gave strong indication of the peculiarly Russian genius for naturalness or realism, and was a true Russian in his simplicity of style. Such hedonistically engrossing, overripe colors contrast with Kelly's puritan tidiness and Louis's calculated intricacy, his peculiarly discreet sensuousness. The latest edition does end on a peculiarly Haligonian note of ambivalence, hinting that Metro Halifax in 2009 was drifting into an uncertain future. Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted. Show More Sentences The skins make a peculiarly strong, soft leather, known as buckskin. Examples from Classical Literature Francia, originally a goldsmith, is well known to have been peculiarly skilled in executing larger compositions in niello. This is a peculiarly happy and condensed expression of the relative position of women during our androcentric culture. In the practical and applicatory parts of his discourse he was peculiarly striking. The miner has a gait as peculiarly his own as Tommy's measured pace or the bluejacket's roll. He had no difficulty in recognizing Susy's peculiarly Brobdingnagian school-girl hand. Its flowers have a peculiarly clean, brilliant, alert look, and may usually be known by the brown spot at the base of the petals. The wonderful delicacy of Norden's work makes these maps peculiarly appreciated by students of London cartography. It is a catechol tan of peculiarly mellow quality and great practical value. He must express himself in chaldee, in a half obscure language, peculiarly fit for secrets, and sounding as if from another world. So true and impressive is this that reflection upon it makes the last year of Lee's commandership seem peculiarly glorious. No doubt the country church has a peculiarly rich and inviting field for community service. Was ever man selected for a great public duty so peculiarly and consummately fitted for it? There is something peculiarly pathetic in the lot of these small Danubian states. A preparation from the choicest Oriental Herbs, of peculiarly mild and detersive properties. As the wealthy bishopric of jaen lay immediately at hand, it suffered more peculiarly from these marauders. His enunciation was peculiarly pure, and I doubt not that he was a gentleman born. The patient is now peculiarly liable to what are called congestive seizures or epileptiform attacks. In winter there is as good sport with the namaycush, and it is managed peculiarly. Either the frontal sinus was very large, or his observant faculties were peculiarly developed. Jaques is only sketched in with light strokes, but all his traits are peculiarly hamlet's traits. Show More Sentences The subjects of hebephrenia are peculiarly liable to tubercular infection and many die of phthisis. Indeed, the concluding lines of that verse are peculiarly appropriate to the hebridean. He considered it peculiarly adapted to all such cases if they were attended by strangury, or painful and difficult urination. It was a most inelegant attitude, and peculiarly exasperating to Mrs. Caldwell. Those who were initiated were supposed to be peculiarly under the protection of the gods. And this was strange, since the Italian restaurant is such a peculiarly British institution. He bore the stamp of suburbia all over him, and his accent was peculiarly that of London. The promise of jimmies appreciation and powers was to him peculiarly delightful. Two of the latter, Titicaca and Koati, were peculiarly venerated in Inca days. Bachofen, who has written voluminously upon the matriarchate, recognizes it as peculiarly characteristic of womans government. Party journalism in the Province of Quebec is peculiarly bitter and mendacious. Modern democracy is often looked upon as something peculiarly secular, unreligious, or even irreligious in its origin. The dread of want in a country destitute of natural resource is ever peculiarly terrible. The case of the Nazirite is peculiarly instructive, for the point to be considered is seen here entirely free from complications. Therefore his presence in the Panhellenic temple was peculiarly appropriate and awe-inspiring. A small model of a temple is peculiarly Phnician, like that repeated upon Paphian coins. He commenced war upon the schoolmen, and was peculiarly hostile to Thomas Aquinas, whom he accused of pelagianism. In Phrygia it was peculiarly prominent, as we know from classical references. Gummy exudations of this pitch pine make it peculiarly liable to running fires. The Rat occurs in the arms of ratton, which is a peculiarly good example of a canting coat. Show More Sentences The case of this woman is peculiarly affecting, from other considerations. He sat and looked at us so peculiarly that I got gooseflesh all over. The saloon keeper was a short, broad-shouldered man with peculiarly marked hands. Mr. willey was peculiarly adapted to such circumstances as these. It was peculiarly the age of egg-bearing animals, winged and wingless. The occasion and the day are more peculiarly devoted to them, and let it never be dishonored with a contracted and exclusive spirit. They are peculiarly of my mind, my humanness, and they are useful therein. He was peculiarly named Hues, and his priests were the Hyades and Hyautes. It is peculiarly valuable as a fertilizer and as an improver of soils. I will now refer you to Langsdorff's Voyages for a little circumstance in point, peculiarly interesting to the writer hereof. What are we entitled to speak of as peculiarly and primitively Swiss? Topsy always made great capital of her own sins and enormities, evidently considering them as something peculiarly distinguishing. The columnar structure is not peculiarly characteristic of basalt. Our man of letters, therefore, was peculiarly happy in the smiles of all the country damsels. That shot of yours, whether by instinct or intention, of the hawk and the pigeon was peculiarly apposite. Consider that you are usurping what is peculiarly the King's prerogative. I don't know how pig iron affects you, but with me it acts peculiarly. The clothes of Heyward, which rendered him peculiarly conspicuous, were repeatedly cut, and once blood was drawn from a slight wound in his arm. The topic of female costume is peculiarly difficult and disputable. I then walked slowly down the garden path, which happened to be composed of a clay soil, peculiarly suitable for taking impressions. Show More Sentences The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns. My boys are all dear to me, but Durand and Gordon peculiarly so. Nicholas bell is a good deal the worst one that has been contrived yet, and is peculiarly maddening in its operation. It is common, however, to abbreviate them in a manner peculiarly Malay. He was dressed in dark-blue serge, and had peculiarly thick, coarse, black hair. Ireland is peculiarly rich in these forgivable vagaries about birds. The flora of the oolite was peculiarly a flora of intermediate forms. Garnache went about sounding the man with a wiliness peculiarly his own. He drank and relapsed into his peculiarly close manner of silence. Here Goethe's little parable, as he calls it, is peculiarly applicable. He pulled his cigarette spiritlessly, and his voice was peculiarly dead and monotonous. Most people know Salvador Dali as the peculiarly mustached surrealist painter of drooping clocks. Neuroses and psychoses are peculiarly frequent in childhood and youth. The lamination of a glacier is a peculiarly interesting case of cleavage. The result is an effect of syncopation which is peculiarly forceful. Against the ebony background of his skin they blazed out with a peculiarly accentuated effulgence. One outlined in a peculiarly lucid manner all the plans of the commanding general. This style of locomotion is peculiarly adapted to Parisians. Sentiment is seldom in place, but on a bookplate it is peculiarly odious. He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to a half-baked mind. Show More Sentences Of the peculiarly Marcan words, some prove nothing in this connection. Neither has the Council stated that cacodylate is peculiarly dangerous. This was peculiarly the case in the northeastern or trunk line territory. The bond between Paul and the church at Philippi was peculiarly close. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. And then, of course, he had known people, many people, known them in a peculiarly intimate way that was different from the way in which you and I know people. The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings they have of their whaling scenes. So Quasimodo was the ringer of the chimes of Notre-Dame.In the course of time there had been formed a certain peculiarly intimate bond which united the ringer to the church. In connection with this, there is one circumstance which makes your recollections peculiarly valuable, and renders your early insight the more remarkable. The want of his animating influence appeared to be peculiarly felt one day that he had been summoned to Millcote on business, and was not likely to return till late. I was extremely tired, in a peculiarly intimate way, by the strain of stealthiness, by the effort of whispering and the general secrecy of this excitement. Micawber's manners peculiarly qualify him for the Banking business. At half-past eleven, Maria Antoinette was placed in a tumbril, or dung cart, with her back towards the horses, a mode of conveyance considered as peculiarly infamous. When you arrived we were in for a peculiarly mauvais quart d'heure. At the end of what might be called each verse he made a pause, by raising a note louder and longer than common, that was peculiarly suited to the sentiment just expressed. Then, with a judgment peculiarly antic, then take hold of opposite ends of that grasshopper leg a nd begin to tug with all their might in opposite directions. I may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, a peculiarly ingratiating way with women, and that he very readily established terms of confidence with them. In spite of the gloominess of nature around him, he felt peculiarly eager. In order to appreciate the sufferings of the negroes sold south, it must be remembered that all the instinctive affections of that race are peculiarly strong. Hopkins, so Booker Washington became a peculiarly receptive pupil of his. Find more words! 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