“But the People ever remain, tendencies continue, and all the idiocratic transfers in unbroken chain go on.”

“In my case, they sent a skiing, winter-loving New England Jew to upstate Alabama, a mere taste of the idiocratic business to come.”

“Greer has remained determinedly controversial, often earning the ire of feminists for her idiosyncratic stance on women's issues.”

“Francis Towne was a landscape painter whose idiosyncratic style relied on economic and careful pen outlines and flat muted washes of colour.”

“I had an English lecturer once, a bizarre and idiosyncratic Canadian with a PhD from Johns Hopkins and a bushy blond walrus moustache.”