Sentences with phrase «only peculiar thing»

The only peculiar thing about the campsite was a rough - skinned newt that had crawled into the coffee pot.

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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.

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.

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.

All of us have peculiar habits that exist solely at home, the things only maybe our partners or very close friends have witnessed.

Martin Kippenberger, Copa und Ipa, 1986 The only thing better than a big, fat, major Kippenberger is a supremely peculiar minor one.