Sentences with phrase «as peculiar»

Jim S. http / / www.straughan.ca Alan M. says: March 27, 2012 at 1:34 PM Hi Brian M., It strikes me as peculiar, when those not directly involved in professional Real Estate take it upon themselves and their time to make generalized derogatory statements about this industry.

It strikes me as peculiar, when those not directly involved in professional Real Estate take it upon themselves and their time to make generalized derogatory statements about this industry.

[124] In addition to the evidentiary difficulties of proving the elements of native title [125] Justice O'Loughlin in De Rose deals at some length with the evidentiary problems that are seen as peculiar to native title claims, particularly in what is normally regarded as hearsay evidence.

The judge dealt at some length with the evidentiary problems that are seen as peculiar to native title claims, particularly in what is normally regarded as hearsay evidence.31 He clearly stated that he would use the discretion in Section 82 to admit evidence to: 32

As peculiar as it may sound the difficulties facing a person wanting to make a career change are very similar to those of a recent graduate or someone seeking an entry level position.

Smartphone startup Xiaomi began life as a peculiar beast.

Of course, most of yesterday's cars that we now restore and treat with reverence aren't as peculiar as these two.

More obscurely, does it strike anyone else as peculiar that the question posed by the Legal Affairs Debate Club does not name an actor who would do the abolishing?

I believe in the end people will associate CAGW hysteria as a peculiar thing, something that will be studied by the sociologists and anthropologists and politics scientist, of the future.

The question isn't as peculiar as it seems, and the answer would determine the fate of the country's forests and the flow of millions of dollars in carbon finance.

Really, my electricity has a source nearly as peculiar; the co-op I live in has its own small powerplant (natural gas I think) that's a block from my apartment.

In the vein of surrealists like René Magritte, his non-sequitur paintings present the familiar as peculiar.

It is a way of noticing the sculptural qualities of our hands, as well as the peculiar connections between art, fashion and life.

Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard has reproduced a portrait of artist Kelley Walker from Interview magazine in two paintings and scrawled on one the words «Fuck me John Kelsey» — Mr. Kelsey being the artist - critic who is part of the Spaulings enterprise, which has shown Mr. Melgaard — as a peculiar celebration of the psychosexual tension between dealer (or writer) and artist.

As peculiar and unconventional as it was, Process art inevitably led its members towards the use of nontraditional, uncommon materials such as latex, wax, felt, grass, fire, broken glass.

Hearn was a writer who travelled widely and was obsessed with hauntings, and Doig shares those traits as well as a peculiar ability to soak up all the particularities of place, and sweat them out in painting.

The peninsula also has several notable highlights that are worth a stopover, such as peculiar old Balinese sea temples with shrines made of coral, as well as one of the island's oldest Chinese temples, with impressive adornments and architectural features.

Once viewed as a peculiar resource for the hippie set, holistic practitioners and natural spas now transcend the pet grooming world, serving all those who seek blissful treatments that benefit the whole body and mind.

All this talk of semidomestication, he says, simply dredges up centuries - old stereotypes of cats as peculiar beings.

Yet as peculiar as the metaphor first seemed, it has acquired meaning with the passage of time.

In purely practical terms, that struck me as peculiar on a bunch of levels.

It's not something I'm terribly surprised to see from Walden Media — but it's something that strikes me as peculiar coming from the gay - friendly Walt Disney Pictures, a studio currently «suffering» a boycott from Focus on the Family that aims, in part, to force Disney to explain their «Jekyll and Hyde» products and policies.

Few others in Hollywood have admirably dedicated themselves to being as consistently unique and offbeat as this peculiar filmmaker.

On the complete opposite end of the performance spectrum, the always - hilarious Keegan - Michael Key is absolutely fantastic as a peculiar baseball card collector named Procter, and appears to be having the time of his life in the role.

As peculiar and emotive in real life as the many characters that populate her work, Posey welcomed Indiewire for a chat at The New York Palace Hotel in ways both comfortable — she was lounging in a large white bathrobe and leisurely sprawled out on a big couch — and distinctly pensive.

It's a reconsideration of the instinct to venerate the outlaw (something embedded in the DNA of yanks and Kiwis alike, I reckon)-- particularly one as peculiar as Jesse James, who, in the last years of his life, became something of a doddering domestic.

He had a very good reason; in Cronenberg's unforgettable medical drama «Dead Ringers» (1988), he gave a stunning performance, or a pair of stunning performances, as the peculiar but prodigious twin gynecologists who are threatened by real emotions and then plunged into the self - destructive chaos where the only exit for them may be becoming one again, as they were conceived at first in their mother's womb.

Be sure to include all the details that matter to you, such as any peculiar desires or any preferences that you wish other couples to know about.

While searching for dating partners in the comfort of your home as peculiar with online dating, many things could be done wrong which possibly could make your search stressful and boring or worse, exposes you to awful online dating experience.

If suddenly, he starts visiting places you're sure he does not enjoy or will go to them at times regarded as peculiar to his standard demeanor, take particular note as this may be another sign of a cheating boyfriend.

This is Oxo Crater, which shows more of this intriguing bright material inside and out, as well as a peculiar shape.

Galaxies with irregular or unusual shapes are known as peculiar galaxies, and typically result from disruption by the gravitational pull of neighbouring galaxies.

The first call for alcohol, which was packaged along with a range of other changes to the law, came as a peculiar bookend to an agreement on how to deal with another addictive substance: heroin.

Does it not strike anyone as peculiar that we as humans are drinking another animals milk, meant for its young, who are to grow to a rather large size.

Your doctor or nurse will no longer gasp at the sounds of this name or be astonished by it as a peculiar choice however.

But in 10 - 15 years of following transfer rumours on the internet I can't remember coming across many that were quite as peculiar as this one.

Since the first Christian communities these «priestly» activities have nourished the spiritual identity of Christians as a peculiar people.

So I dismissed my snag as the peculiar problem of an escapist parson.

Israel did regard herself as the peculiar trustee of a unique faith and conceived the protection of that faith from contamination and the propagation of it to the world as her duty, and so, thinking of her religion as a greenhouse in which to grow priceless things for later transplanting to the larger field of the world, she endured indescribable suffering on behalf of her heritage.

I think the history of ideas is easily as peculiar as anything that exists on our planet, that its causalities are altogether whimsical.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

What this means for the study of religion is that we can no longer legitimately isolate it as a peculiar expression of the human mind or focus on it as though psychology and the social sciences, or even theology, were the privileged roads to a contemporary understanding of it.

One may express it as a further dimension in which his human character is set, or as a peculiar perspective in which that human character is seen.

Specific problems remain, but for the most part they are already raised by Whitehead's formulation and should not be regarded as peculiar difficulties of this interpretation.

Like the ancient dybbuk separated from its body and consigned to wander the world, modern man senses his detachment from life as the peculiar curse of his modernity, the price paid to Satan in return for distance.

But, for the contemporary world, it was heresy of the first order, such, in fact, as to set the Hebrews off as a peculiar people in a sense quite different from what their own thinkers boasted.

Nor are we justified in regarding this attitude as peculiar to Paul; in its essentials he obviously shared it with «those who had been apostles before him.»

Even if he is a Christian, for example, he can set aside all the particular beliefs about Jesus Christ, God, miracles, salvation, and eternal life that he recognizes as peculiar to that tradition.

What struck me as peculiar, though, was a demand in the original claim by the plaintiffs for a $ 100,000 ELCA «donation» to SNAP.

Amazon may be singular but perhaps not quite as peculiar as it claims.