Eberstadt recounts her experience avidly perusing parenting manuals until, over time, they became «profoundly irritating» because of their «peculiar combination of joylessness and self - congratulation.» (firstthings.com)
Surely it is a waste to toss my life away on the peculiar combination of my own experiences — unexpected conversations and mountain - top exhilaration, mixed with periodic headaches and a tablespoon of robin - song at dawn. (firstthings.com)
A mystical conception of God can be dualistic or pantheistic, or even both in some peculiar combination. (religion-online.org)