Sentences with phrase «by peculiar»

Since every profile is characterized by peculiar qualifications and responsibilities, it is vital to draft a resume that matches the particular needs of that profile.

But when he comes to the Athenians, he distinguishes them by the peculiar appellation of the PEOPLE [Footnote 19] of Athens.

A peculiar and explicit illustration of this is «Emotional Weather Report,» by the peculiar (and, in my view, excellent) Tom Waits, whose website has a free recording of the song along with the lyrics -LRB-... «Flash flood watches cover the southern portion of my disposition... «-RRB-

I got distracted by the peculiar threading format of this site.

For their part, the Couvreur brothers reportedly possessed a distinctive form of connoisseurship: they could always detect a fake van Gogh by its odor, insisting that the «majority of Vincent's works were characterized by a peculiar smell.»

Curated by Matteo Mottin, the installation explored friendship and death inspired by the peculiar link between the 16th Century Venetian masters Giorgione and Titian.

Venus, with her backside to the viewer, is dwarfed by the peculiar mass of cloth, thus subverting a traditionally piece of «high art» to the standards of «low art.»

Caroline Liu is an artist that is shaped by a peculiar concussed experience that involved her tiny head and a solid wood door.

The works presented here take many forms, including physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing methods, imagined biographies of fictitious persons, collections of found and anonymous photographs, film versions of photographic albums, and photomontages composed of historical photographs.

While the ostensible subjects of O peixe are the fish and fishermen depicted, the absence of language and text in the film generates a poignant ambiguity and invites a range of interpretations: one might feel empathy and grief in witnessing death, or heartened by an expression of solidarity with the natural world, or captivated by the peculiar sensuality of this animistic rite.

Accompanied by peculiar soundtracks, her characters appear to have gracefully landed on earth like sparkling molecules of a technicolor rainbow.

You'll experience the trials and tribulations of women as they live on the island of Bhikkhuni, a sanctuary for those afflicted by a peculiar condition called the V - virus.

A while back we took a look at an early demo of Concursion and were blown away by the peculiar mixture of genres that were mashed together.

★ ★ ★ One day Alice goes to the wonderland by following a strange rabbit.This is the place of dream created by peculiar imagination of Alice.However, someone was unpleasant about the existence of Alice..

This is the place of dream created by peculiar imagination of Alice.

Nothing was found within it, but beneath the centre was discovered a round saucer for burning incense, with a long handle, and a curious figurine in clay, whose face was covered by a peculiar grilled arrangement, more resembling a baseball mask than anything else, which was studded with rossettes.»

I was about to publish this post when I came by a peculiar rumor leak at gizmodo: they claim that Barnes & Noble eReader will run Google's Android OS.

A number of successful prosecutions were brought by the Peculiar Crimes Unit in the years that followed, with the result that the unit continued its work into peacetime.

With only a battered wall clock, her dead mother's gold ring, and a barnyard full of miserable animals to call her own, Bess is forced to make her way in a deceptively hostile world, tracing her father's path with arcane maps at the local subscription library and shrinking from the attentions paid to her and her aunt by their peculiar neighbor Elmer Jackson.

Restrained character aside, the brown - and - tan striped velour upholstery and the brown carpets and floor mats (held in place at the rear by some peculiar - looking orange screws) appeared durable in the best German tradition.

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

But our discussion of «implementation» is often marked by a peculiar, willful naivete.

Walking back to his car after leaving a frat party early, Brad (Ben Schnetzer) gets approached by a peculiar person asking for a ride.

The Little Girl agrees to knuckle down at first, but soon finds herself distracted by her peculiar elderly neighbour, The Aviator, who wishes to tell her the story of his encounter with The Little Prince - an other worldly being who lived on an astronaut before landing in the middle of a desert on Earth.

Twelve - year - old Jacob Felson (Luke Prael) is sent away by his stepfather to the mysterious school run by a peculiar couple, Dr. Sherman (Will Patton) and his dominating wife (Tammy Blanchard).

But as I entered, I was greeted by a peculiar calm.

Intricate montage and subtle colours, accommodated by a peculiar score, in the opening credit sequence, emphasise the tone for the entire movie: phoniness.

ntricate montage and subtle colours, accommodated by a peculiar score, in the opening credit sequence, emphasise the tone for the entire movie: phoniness.

The special effects are only distinguished by a peculiar concern for verisimilitude — the initially snowy George gets really dirty on his way to Chicago, while the unnamed giant wolf appears to be suffering from mange.

However, one still wonders why on (Middle) Earth Jackson chose to shoot his new trilogy in this way and not allow the detailed world to be shown off in all its cinematic glory instead of it being masked by this peculiar effect (of course this won't matter in regular 24 fps 2D).

Most people walk by this peculiar vegetable as a result of not knowing what to do with it.

Having their interest drawn by the peculiar crab, lead author Chao Huang managed to persuade the fish dealer to let them survey the collection site located in northern Guangdong, southern China.

The centre of our Galaxy, 27 000 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, is marked by a peculiar source of radio waves named Sagittarius A * (pronounced «ay star»).

Fixed above Saturn's north pole is something as beguiling as Jupiter's Great Red Spot: a hexagonal storm kept in place by a peculiar jet stream.

Their calculations were motivated by the peculiar distribution of the orbits found for the trans - Neptunian objects (TNO) of the Kuiper belt, which apparently revealed the presence of a Planet Nine or X in the confines of the Solar System.

In proper season, somewhere in the grass or rubble, the visitor may come upon Harold (Sonny) Henderson, a genial 46 - year - old Scots - English - Polynesian whose eminence as a hunter is well established but is — as is the case with many active Hawaiians — rather obscured by peculiar distinctions in several sports.

A «Gringo,» as they call all Americans or foreigners, would find great difficulty in making any kind of a meal out of the meat thus prepared; but the Mexicans, by their peculiar style of treating it, are able to make a very palatable dish, of which I have frequently partaken with great relish.

Jaffna sheep are exceedingly small, having hair instead of wool, and a horny covering on their knees, caused by a peculiar habit of kneeling down when eating short herbage.

Men convinced of the sin of slavery could not be persuaded by the peculiar Southern Biblical arguments.

In other words, Banerjea wants to attest to the Divine mission of Jesus by pointing to the miracles that «the unblemished character» performed, which in turn are «proved facts» because they have been «attested by strongest possible testimony» by «witnesses whose competence has been proved by peculiar ordeal.»

(28) Increasingly, church leaders are questioning how a demanding gospel can be communicated on a medium such as television, which is characterized by the peculiar qualities of being entertaining, relaxing, and un-demanding of personal effort or exertion by its viewers.

He writes «if there be any doubt as to whether the congregation be indigenous or foreign, such doubts ought to be set aside by the peculiar customs found among them.»

Therefore, no system of material objects may serve as a frame of reference and be completely suitable for the purpose of analyzing in terms of laws the motions of material objects; for such laws of motion should be stated in such a manner that they are unaffected by the peculiar absence or presence of inertial forces in particular physical frames of reference.

He gave up his project of marriage, became a priest, founded at Jerusalem, where he went to dwell, a mission of nuns for the conversion of the Jews, showed no tendency to use for egotistic purposes the notoriety given him by the peculiar circumstances of his conversion — which, for the rest, he could seldom refer to without tears — and in short remained an exemplary son of the Church until he died, late in the 80's, if I remember rightly.

Unfortunately, Whitehead did not adequately develop what he meant by peculiar completeness, and the theory of personal identity that follows goes beyond his explicit statements.

Process theism need not dissolve these particularities into symbolic manifestations of universal truth, since it can proclaim a God vitally interested in precisely these particularities whose activity is shaped by their peculiar character.

It is also shown by the peculiar phenomena which accompanied every revelation of the Qur» an, according to the testimony of the true tradition.

The crisis is overcome by changing nothing and yet everything, by a peculiar, willful amor fati.

Furthermore, I reflect on these matters as a Protestant Christian whose theological views have been most deeply shaped by the Reformed theological current within the Protestant river, as that was channeled by nineteenth - century theological liberalism and then intersected first by that peculiar eddy in liberalism called «neo-orthodoxy» and then by various other theological eddies still swirling in the last half of the twentieth century.

The way to crimes against humanity was prepared by peculiar ways of thinking about humanity.