Sentences with phrase «of peculiar things»

From the book jacket: Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story — complete with violin, tobacco - filled Persian slipper, and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.

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«The other peculiar thing about this whole discussion is that the claim of privilege supports the accuracy of Comey's account,» he said.

Even to him, taking a part - time position to pay down more of his debt seemed like a peculiar thing to do as a Harvard MBA with a six - figure management job at a Fortune 50 company.

It is as a creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.

Don't feel like you have to attack peculiar things which you have no understanding of and is of no significance to you.

The consideration of these general limitations at the base of actual things, as distinct from the limitations peculiar to each actual occasion will be more fully resumed in the chapter on «God.»»

That's the thing: midtown partially aside, Manhattan is a collection of neighborhoods, and, peculiar as it seems to non — New Yorkers, those so inclined can know in their neighborhood an experience of community available to relatively few people elsewhere in the nation.

One thing does seem peculiar though, and I may be mistaken here, why would an organization that doesn't really buy into the miracles of Jesus, e.g. healings and resurrection, and by extension the divinity or prophetic nature of Jesus, e.g. Jesus as an «itinerant... sage», really be all that interested in determining exactly what Jesus said?

We are easily misled here by the following sort of reasoning: «If x can do A, B, and C, and nothing else can do C, but other things can do A and B, we might describe x's peculiar function either as «doing A, B, and C» or as «doing C»» (EAE 49).

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

But in its initial definition of the «point» and the «line,» it seems immediately to postulate certain ultimate physical things of a very peculiar character.

Besides, to treat a civilized society as purely the same as any other type of event in nature would be to downgrade the significance of one of those things Whitehead finds most peculiar to the human species, namely, civilization.

And if we assert that the Word of God was born of God in a peculiar manner, different from ordinary generation, let this... be no extraordinary thing to you, who say that Mercury is the angelic word of God.

But one should also compare the critical remarks of Theodoros in the Theaetetus, 179e f, about the attempts of the followers of Heraclitus to reflect the essence of the flux of all things by means of peculiar and mysterious expressions.

Perhaps the most direct prophetic reference involving these things was the peculiar warning of our Lord Jesus Himself: And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

There was, however, one thing the secular media thought peculiar, and definitely promising as a source of anti-papal copy, and they dived in, as some Christian observers — not necessarily Catholics — noted with some annoyance.

The things that we regard as virtues, as the highest achievements of man's peculiar and separate greatness, he would condemn as vices and defects; and contrariwise, vices and defects are exalted by him into high moral commandments....

The qualities of an individual, «however permanent [and peculiar] they may be, neither help nor hinder its individual existence... they are but accidents, that is to say, they are not involved in the mode of being of the thing; for the mode of being of the individual thing is existence; and existence lies in opposition merely» (1.458).

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.

Will not the bookseller say: My dear child, your toy is not worth anything; it is true that when you still had the money you could have bought the book instead of the toy, but a toy is a peculiar kind of thing, for once it is bought it loses all value.

«A family, no less than a State, is, as We have said, a true society, governed by an authority peculiar to itself... provided, therefore, the limits which are prescribed by the very purposes for which it exists be not transgressed, the family has at least equal rights with the State in the choice and pursuit of the things needful to its preservation and its just liberty.

The interesting, or perhaps peculiar, thing about these cookies is that the dough begins with a mix of both cooked and raw egg yolks.The eggs are the centerpiece of these rich, buttery cookies, and the result — if done right — is a cookie that's substantial while remaining tender and delicate.

The peculiar thing is that it's very simple, consisting of just five ingredients: olive oil, orange juice, herbs, and salt and pepper.

Because of his peculiar talent for doing the right thing as often, or more often, than the wrong thing, Paul Larson gets enough rope to hang himself.

Besides the affair of the tree, the USGA suffered some embarrassment at the hands of golfers who were not in the Open but did peculiar things on the course.

The thing that strikes me as a little peculiar about these comments is that both Diaby and Wenger appear to be steering clear of complaining about the tackle by Robinson, praising the physical nature of English football and in the process accepting it as part of the game.

«It's a very weird and peculiar thing for a one - on - one conversation without the attorney general, without warning between the president and me or any United States attorney who has been asked to investigate various things and is in a position hypothetically to investigate business interests and associates of the president,» Bharara said.

The source said, «They have lived with criminals, who thrive in drugs and all sorts of other things that are peculiar to criminals.

It's a peculiar wonder of the modern age that it's become this big thing.

Although cryovolcanoes probably exist on Pluto, and there are hints as well on Titan, this peculiar, 4 - kilometer - tall mountain on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is the real thing, say researchers with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in one of six papers published today in Science.

The worrisome bit: there are standards and practices to follow, which is not a bad thing in and of itself, but I do not want my peculiar voice to be compromised.

I should maybe add, I don't think Lawrence really said it, the most peculiar thing about this dark energy, is really the fact that there is so little of it.

«It's a peculiar thing to find particles enriched with silicon,» said lead author Hsiang - Wen Hsu, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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.

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.

21 years young, lover of all things spontaneous and peculiar.

The oddest thing about «The Peacemaker» is that DreamWorks appears to have cut corners on the production - a peculiar decision, given the importance of a rip - roaring success to inaugurate the studio.

The peculiar thing about «The Crying Game» is that this story outline, while true, hardly suggests the actual content of this film.

Instead of taking on the history of the «peculiar institution,» the film narrows to a single story and these scattered things.

, he him her, Hell Or High Water, Hello My Name is Doris, into the inferno, JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK, Jackie, keanu, la la land, lion, loving, manchester by the sea, midnight special, Miss Hokusai, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, moana, moonlight, neon demon, Rogue One, star wars, stranger things, suicide squad, Sully, Swiss Army Man, the lobster, The Music of Strangers, the nice guys, the witch

It's all played for laughs but in reality it's plum revolting, and while Vaughn and frequent collaborator Jane Goldman's (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) try to soften things by making Eggsy ambivalent about the task at hand, if anything this only acerbates that grotesque nastiness of the situation a substantial degree.

I enjoyed the opening hour of this period piece drama but things fell away with a peculiar finale that didn't ring true.

This man isn't looking for any particular thing; rather, it seems he's looking for every beautiful, peculiar, or haunting piece of art that has ever graced the pages of a book.

The 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid attests to Subaru's peculiar way of doing things.

Just this sort of thing happened to Keith from Nashville, who was in the market for a Ford Fiesta ST and came across a very peculiar example on a local dealer's website.

There is something even more peculiar about our species than all these things, and that is this: we are the only species on the planet that can not be fully explained by Charles Darwin's otherwise faultless theory of evolution by natural selection.

In search of healing, Mona decamps to Taos, New Mexico, where she finds a community of seekers and cast - offs, all of whom have one or two things to teach her — the pajama - wearing, blissed - out New Agers, the slightly creepy client with peculiar tastes in controlled substances, the psychic who might really be psychic.

They've got things in their heads like Kylie Minogue songs, which Ma has brought from the old civilization, but what they've come up with is a strange kind of island culture, island religion, and a peculiar (occasionally pidgin) form of English.

But the odd thing about Fujino is that his daydreams are starting to revolve around a peculiar fetish for hands — specifically, the sleek, beautiful hands of his classmate and tutor, Takie.

Through memoir, creative non-fiction, personal essays, articles, poetry and flash fiction, I write about the funny, the sad, the beautiful and the ugly; the heartening, annoying, and often peculiar things that happen during the course of an apparently normal day while navigating this thing called life.