Sentences with phrase «did something peculiar»

It's a small thing, yes, but such oddities are pleasing to the eye, suggesting as they do that something peculiar is going on somewhere.

Watling: It will sort of, possibly, there are some sort of frameworks out there that make it very easy to write a program that links against [a] particular, if you've got an RSS feed, for example, that like, you have a news service that might provide headlines and stories; you can set up an application that — a custom application — that might do something peculiar.

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Most of them were not radicals on gender relations or household arrangements, and they most certainly did not establish segregation (it had started well before them and was in any case not something peculiar to them).

But Jonah does something very peculiar.

Do we really think that there is something peculiar or unique in the English psyche that makes our league stronger than tougher than the rest of the world?

«We have decided to do something different with a peculiar design to change the political conversation.

How do i start this:) I'm new on here and i think describing myself is going to be a very peculiar thing to do, I let people speak because everyone of us can give praises to ourselves but each one of us share something other people don't have.

How about the cast, led by the terrific Joaquin Phoenix, in a role that seems completely suited to his peculiar, outsidery sensibilities, and Scarlett Johannson as the voice of Her (and yes, it says something for storytelling confidence if you cast Scarlett and don't actually show her)?

«Do you want to see something really scary...» The horror anthology movie is a peculiar — some might think — imperfect beast.

Investing was something you had to learn how to do on your own, in your own peculiar way.

But they had done something far more peculiar: during the boom German bankers had gone out of their way to get dirty.

Perhaps it has something to do with the peculiar mixture of post-68 entropy and diasporic unravelling of mass political and social movements and the concomitant emergence of more radically elusive and secretive strains of resistance, unable or unwilling to be reduced to a defining form or identity.

Those are all things you can do at home — tasks like sweeping or ironing — it's just that in this case they're done to black canvases, paying tribute to grief and mourning, but not to something specific... It's a manifestation of an attitude, which is larger than one's own self... Right now it seems that in many parts of the world — or everywhere, even — there is a shroud of darkness... There is always a story under the surface, and those stories are often quite peculiar; they have a strange way of manifesting themselves.»

I find the global warming arguments extremely compelling, but I notice something peculiar — that we seem to forget that long before «AGW» became a common topic, we saw many causes for alarm over the downside of doing so little to hedge our bets about energy sources, and back then we had little concept of the potential of China, e.g., to match and raise our own carbon fuel appetite.

It seems peculiar that people who have the equivalent of doctorates in applied physics (which is what climate science is) would somehow be perfectly happy to do something they know is wrong.